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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Editor:
Residents in our area have be-
come greatly concerned over
headlines which have appeared in
your paper for the past two
weeks. Last weeks headline
which claimed a split in Damas-
Gus in regard to up-County zon-
ing was certainly far from the
truth. We feel that you are at.
tempting to mislead the public
and one trip to Damascus would
certainly convince you that there
is no split on that issue.
Again this week one of your
headlines attempted to convey
that the coming hearing before the
County Council last Tuesday
night showed a preference for
the Root plan. If you had re-
porter at that meeting, he must
have not been paying attention
to the proceedings.
We have always considered
your paper to present things fair
ly. We hope that these two items
are just honest mistakes and that
the people in Damascus will not
lose confidence in the integrity
of your paper.
Very truly YOURS.
II. S. HYATT,
Damascus
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

$l1 million in increased assistance
to the counties and Baltimore
City for the public school sys.
TENS. Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties would each re.
ceiye about one-tenth of the total
distribution.
A stream of witnesses, repre-.
senting the Teachers Association,
the PTA Congress, the Farm Blu.
reau, the Grange, the AFL-CIO
and other groups, told us they ia
vored the bill and would support
any reasonable tax" that the
proper authorities" might pro.
pose to finance it.
The salary bill itself is one OF
those tricky jobs where you are
supposed to. sneak up on the gov
ernor and slug him from behind
The pay increases would not GO
into effect until September, 1857,
which means that McKeldin
would be stuck with the duty OF
proposing the necessary tax in
crease in his budget next Janu-
airy. This crude device is sup.
posed to appeal to the low poll
tical cunning of the legislators, !
assume.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee, in one of its better moments
Of real craftsmanship, decided
that If the assembly wanted to
take the pleasant responsibility
for increasing teachers salaries
1t should also take the onerous
responsibility for the accompany.
ing tax program.
1t also concluded, with one or
two dissenting votes, that the
sales tax was the most appropri.
ate source of funds to finance a
program of such broad public
benefit. If the sales tax is raised
from two to three per cent, the
new yield will be enough to pay
for the teachers salaries and the
new school construction aid pro.
gram and the cost of placing all
State employees and school teach
ers and University of Maryland
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Cantor, AL Jolson, Will Rogers.
But, strangely enough, it was the
Palace itself that probably killed
off vaudeville.
Late in the 1920s the film bust
ness was competing for the lime
light, and the Palace began to
offer astronomical salaries to
entertainers in order to get the
biggest names in show business.
But it failed to make a profit.
and other vaudeville houses Suf-
fered, and gradually this memor-
able phase of show business fell
from the publics fancy.
1t was Judy Garland, just few
weeks ago, who brought the Pal.
ace back to life again with her
memorable comeback perform.
ance. For many years the Palace
had been merely another movie
theatre.
You can see why there were
many old showmen who felt a
lump in the throat when they saw
the Palace once again alive with
vaudeville.
Ann Pennington's act called for
her to dance on top of an electric
piano. In the afternoon, the cur
rent was strong in the theatre and
the rhythm was fast. But at
night, when the big signs went on
outside, the current weakened.
Then the pianos rhythm slowed,
and this bothered Ann, to, say the
least. After all, the effect of her
act on the audience depended, in
part, on a fast-moving rhythm.
So l took to playing for her
with my banjo, adding comments.
and she did her act.
This turned out to be another
way of opening the door to more
success on Broadway, and an
other example of how old Lady
Luck was watching over me.
I'll tell you more next week in
this space.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Academic Freedom
Subject to Talk

Academic freedom will be dis
cussed by George Morrison, direc-
tor of the department of chemis.
try at Montgomery Junior Col.
lege, at the monthly chapter
meeting of the American Asso.
citation of University Professors
in the home of James Harmon,
Bethesda, Friday night.
Mr.. Morrison's discussion will
be based on a recent journal
article entitled Some Msconcep-
tons Concerning Academic Free.
dom" by Fritz Machlup, of Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

only knows four chords on the
banjo, you can see why / consider
myself lucky.
/ mentioned last week that a
benefit show in Miami led me to
Broadway. A group of top pro.
ducers happened to catch the
show, among them earle Garlic
ton, who offered me a spot in the
new musical "Tangerine."
1t was 1921 and show business
was in full bloom. Another big
musical of that year was sally,
which earned almost two million
dollars. THE Perfect Foop was
a big success, with Ed Wynn in
the starring role.
Starring in "Tangerine" were
two of the greatest of all time,
Frank Crumit and Julia Sander
son. Being associated with this
experienced and popular team
was a sure-fire formula for sue
cess.
After "Tangerine" came an en-.
gagement in the Ted Lewis Room,
a night spot on 47th Street.
1 was far from being familiar
with the night club life, but 1 had
an idea that seemed to catch on.
l thought that the room should be
decorated like a tent, with cheese.
cloth walls, balloons, peanuts, and
SaWdust.
This became so popular that
night clubs all over the country
were soon copying the idea. And
it put the Ted Lewis Room
over. In 10 weeks we had taken
in $4,000, which in those days
was good money.
Still is today, come to think of
it.
We had fun at the Ted Lewis
Room, but night clubs didn't bold
the fascination for me that l felt
with Broadway, SO l welcomed
the chance to return to the Great
White Way with open arms.
The chance came with a produc.
ton called oklahoma Cole
gians." 1t was in this show that
l met Ann Pennington, who was
already well established as a
Hollywood silent star, and who
was now becoming a smash hit
on Broadway.
Showmen said that she had the
most beautiful legs in the world,
and they were insured for
$250,000. Emmy thing is that.
although l was her partner,
couldn't even get an insurance
company to look at my legs,
Win Rogers nemed her Penny
Ante, and she soon became the
belle of Broadway.
oklahoma Collegians" played
at the Palace, which as you prob.
ably know, is to this day known
as the center of show business.
II was at the Palace in 1913 that
Sarah Bernhard made one of her
many farewell appearances.
She made a career out of saying
farewell. but she also put the
Palace on the map. From that
day on the Palace was the focal
point of all vaudeville. 1t was
here that Oscar Hammerstein
staged some Of his lavish, spectac
ular productions.
BY 1915 the Palace had arrived
The MANAGEMENT believed in keep
ing the show moving at a furious
and breathless pace-no dull
spots, no stalling. For a time
thew even tried TO limit each act
to lust two bows. but that didn't
work.
All of the greats played the
Palace. George M. Cohan, Eddie
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Editor:
Several years ago my husband
and l decided that we should take
root but the question was where
Virginia or Maryland? After
several sets of tires and many
pairs of shoes, we settled on
Montgomery County and the nice
little town of Rockville. Some
how, somewhere, we got wind of
fashionable Glen Hills, looked
it over and said, That's for US.
We scraped the bottom of the
barrel (Which wasn't very fulD,
bought our land and in due time
built our "palace"-all on a prom
Use from very personable de-
veloper that we would have paved
roads and a country club. The
club we can do without and ii
was a developers dream in the
first place but the question is
how much longer can we do with
out roads? A portion of the mon
ely we paid for the land was to
go into a road fund to be used
for paving but after this length
of time, I'm skeptical.
For one and a half years we
had no maintenance at all and
we might as well have none now
for all we get is scraper and
then gravel dust dumped on.
That's maintenance? How we
wish the wind that whispered
Glen Hills" to us had been blow
ing the other way.
My heart aches when | see PEG.
pie digging their Easements be.
cause ] know what they're dream
ing and / know what heartaches
they have ahead of them.
Why don't we sell? Who could
get down the roads to look al
our house except when the
ground is frozen or the sun has
baked them? Our friends won't
come TO visit us even for a free
meal because they're tired OF
running their cars in the muck
and ruts-that is if they don't
get stuck before they get to our
house. l don't blame them.
I Drive out, folks, and see fash
ionable" Glen Hills but be sure
you come equipped with boots
and shovel or you may spend
the rest of your days with the
rest of us that are stuck.
Name Withheld
Upon Request
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
BY Jane Anderson
SIP. 1926

The annual reading of the An
nails of Sandy Spring will take
place Wednesday evening at $3.50
p. m. at Sandy Springs Commun-
ity Library. This written record
of community life, kept by
friends, was begun in 1863 by
William Henry Farquhar.
AS far as is known these are
the only continuous records of a
community ever to be kept in the
United States. The annals this
year have been written and will be
read by Mrs. Robert H. Miller, Jr.
The public is invited to attend.
The Key Club of Sherwood
High School is looking forward
to participating in two-day con-
vention of Key Clubs of Mont
gomery County high schools.
The convention will be held at
the ShorehamN Hotel in Washing
ton March 10 and II and the dance
which will be held on Saturday
night and will involve some 300
students will be sponsored by
Sherwood and Wheaton'S clubs.
These high school clubs are inter.
national in scope and are sponsor
ed by Kiwanis clubs. The Whea-
ton Kiwanis sponsor both Sher-
wood and Wheaton's Key Clubs.
They are service organizations.
Sherwood's club is newly formed
and has several projects under
discussion. Forty-six boys from
Sherwood were chosen for the or
ganization on records of good cit
izenship. Phil King is their presi-
dent, Doug Blackburn, vice-presi-
dent, Tom Massie, secretary, and
Dick Martin, treasurer.
Mrs. Catherine Carr, Miss Judy
Johnson, Carl Seidel of Takoma
Park, Mrs. Fred Young, Francis
Thomas, and Miss Florence John
son starred in a one-act play at
Orndorff Hall last Thursday
night. The play was directed by
Melvin Scheidt.
On March Is the group will put
on a repeat of this play and an
other, "Moon-Up" plus the movie
in which many of them starred
Warning Red" The public is
invited - March IS, Orndorff Hall
in Brookeville at $50 p. m.
Professor Rudolph Kirk, orig.
inally of Fair Hill Sandy Spring,
professor at Rutgers University
will be remembered by many
readers of this column. 1t has
been learned that Professor Kirk
has temporarily deserted Rutgers
for the University of Liege in Bel
GUM where he is a Fulbright lee.
turer in American literature and
civilization. His wife Clara is
a Fulbright research scholar in
fine arts. The Kinks have a daugh.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
The Letter Box

Editor:
May we take this opportunity
to express our thanks to your pa
per for the complete coverage
you have allowed our Community
Center Committee of the Junior
Woman's Club of Rockville.
1t has been this committees
desire to stimulate and arouse the
interest of our citizens for the
great need of a local community
scenter. We feel that the Sentinel
has done a public service by its
willingness to publicize all mat
ter that will bring us a little
closer to our common goal of
community center for Rockville.
We would like to publicly ex.
tend our thanks to Mrs. Dorothy
Waleski for her coverage in our
interest. She. as a busy career
woman and mother, has also
found time to act as a judge in
our recent essay contest on "Why
! Want Rockville to Have a Com
munity Center"
The Sentinel has done an ex-
cellent job throughout the year of
publuicizing the many and varied
activities of the Junior Woman's
Club of Rockville and we are
pleased to take this means of
expressing our gratitude.
Sincerely,
ALICE M. WYCKOFF,
Mrs. James M. Wyckoff,
President
LORRAINE NEARMAN,
Mrs. Richard E. Nearman,
Chairman Community
Center Committee. Junior
Woman's Club of Rock
Willie.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

personnel under social security.
So, folks, do you want the
package or not? Kindly advise.
This session may or may not
pass a bill to reorganize the State
Roads Commission.
There is a strong movement
afoot to centralize authority in
one man. AS chairman of the
House members on the joint sub
committee, I have been making it
my business to see that this idea
is not carried too far.
The house subcommittee is will
ing to go along with the current
bill by Sen. James 3D., Harford) =,
which provides a five-member, UNI
paid, policy-making board repre-
senting the several geographic
sections of the State.
One member, appointed at
large, would be both chairman
and director of highways. He
would be full-time, well-paid and
thoroughly equipped with author
ity to administer the policies laid
down by the board.
He would not, however, be a
one-man highway car, as is the
case in some IA states that prefer
to have a highway department
with a single administrator and
no policy board. We believe that
a single administrator can be-
come too obsessed with theories
of his own and that he should be
subject to the restraining influ-
ence of a policy board to which
the people may appeal when they
need to.
The three bills to increase the
personal property tax exemption
for farm implements have been
killed in the Ways and Means
Committee.
And a strange and wonderful
sight it was. The vigorous oppo-
sition came off from the city and
suburban delegates but from the
rural counties themselves. APP
parently their county commissions
ers discovered that the exemption
would take big bite out of the
tax base, which would have to be
made up by other kinds of prop
erty, such as real estate. The
rural county commissioners
passed the word to Annapolis in
no uncertain terms.
Meanwhile, the house has
passed my resolution calling upon
the Legislative Council to make a
study of Maryland's hodgepodge
of personal property taxes, in.
Guiding farm implements, retail
ers' inventory, manufacturers
machinery, etc. No aspect of tax
alton in Maryland is more thor
oughly fouled up.
My hope is that the Legislative
Council will refer the matter to
the Northrop Commission next
summer, if we are still in business
at that time.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
ROckvillians Asked
To Give Blood

Rockville's Mayor Dickran Y.
Hovsepian has appealed to the re-
sidents of the city to contribute
to the blood drive program. A
city of RockWlle's size, he said,
should provide IA pints to keep
the blood program working.
The bloodmobile will visit
Rockville March %, from 2 to 8
p. m. Mrs. j. Alfred Kay, 10S
w. Argyle Street, Pc. 2-2475, and
Mrs. Thomas Kelley, Pleasant
Hills Farm, Gaithersburg 55S.W,
are recruitment chairmen. They
may be called for reservations to
give blood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

you were "agin" us on the zoning
matter so, of course, last weeks
headline sort of clinched the idea.
This is not the kind of report
ing that the Sentinel has given
in the past so we are wondering
what has happened.
Don't you want us of the upper
county to continue taking the
Sentinel?
Respectfully yours
t7c j. ERNEST HAWKINS
Editors note: The whole
thing was horrible mistake.
Please see correction on page
~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

We had pre-
vi 0 u sly sat
through a pub
lie. hearing on
the bill to raise
the State mini
m u m salary
for teachers,
which would
cost the State
a n a n n u a !
amount of APP
prox kim ately
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Editor:

Editor:
We of up-county are wondering
where you got the headline on up
county coming last week.
Did you have a reporter there
or did you get your information
from the down-county civic
groups?
We were there with the show
of hands that We're from upper.
county and it was for the
Jannison and not the Root plan.
have read quite a few things
recently that made me feel that
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Art Exhibit Open
At Junior College

An art exhibit showing the
work of students in Art 103 for
the first semester at Montgomery
Junior College is on display in
the campus library, according to
Francis Grubar, Instructor.
The art will be open for view
ing until Tuesday. Library hours
are until 8 pm. each evening ex-
cept for Friday when the doors
are closed at pm. for the
weekend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Editor:
The hundreds of friends made
by Harold Taubin in the five
years he has lived in the County
Join me, am sure, in apprecia.
ton for your fine editorial. You
have said what many of us have
felt in the departure of this ex-
cellent member Of the county's
civil service.
Sincerely,
Frederick Gutheim,
Dickerson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

and / start to
complaining, 1
sit back a mo-
ment and start
to realize just
how lucky 1
am.
All that l
have goes back
to those golden
days in show
business. And
for a guy that
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
-lMina5.
| RE M E M B Err

We've been enjoying some nice
weather out here in Olney the
last week or SO. But whenever
the weather is little unpleasant
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Listen each day to Brooke
Johns oper WIDOW $50 on
AM in Wheaton or WASH
1911 on FM) in Washington
on the BROOKE Johns Shoao,"
at 9:05 am, and on Saturdays
at 9 am. for Breakfast With
Brooke" broadcast direct from
the Brooke Manor Farms
Country Club in Olney.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
BLAIR LEE, M
CHAIRMAN
Montgomery County Delegation
Reports on the
MaEyland General Assembly

Last Saturday the House Ways
and Means committee struck a
blow for honest, straightforward
o0vnrnt,nnpf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13
--1o THE EVENING STAR

K Washington, D. G.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1885
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13
A. WORD
TO THE WISE

We learned yesterday that in
English the word route has two
sanctioned pronunciations: Root
and rout, the latter prevailing
among the people as a whole and
being universally heard in COM
mercial and railroad usage.
Now why is it that most Amer
leans feel more comfortable in
saying trout" than "root?" 1t is
a simple matter Of word associa-
ton.
The connotation or suggestive
significance Of a word strongly
influences its pronunciation. and
vice versa. 1t is so with the pro
nunciation root" for route. fol-
root" suggests the root Of q
plant: 10 take root in the soil;
to root in the ground, as q hog;
a mathematical factor. as the
cube root. and other things.
On the other hand, the pro-
nunciation trout" has but two
other associations: % to rout
or scoop out with a gouge: 90
to put to rout. as in repulsing ar
enemy.
Now we see that the pronun-
citation root" has stronger and
many more associations to dis
turb us than has the pronuncia-
ton trout"
For example. If one should say
1.-THE railroad rooted US to New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13
BOY AND GIRL

York by way Of Chicago" q
grotesque image pops into ones
mind. Not so with THE rail-
road routed us :"
This, / believe, is the chief
reason why the root" pronun-
citation acts as a stoplight OF
speech.
An certainly "ou" when fol-
lowed by IT" suggests the sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13
BACK TO SCHOOL,
A Modern School

modern choohouse pleasant place. 1t large bright
and clean with big windows good furniture
porant the teachers of today well trained interested in
their jobs.
One important of modern school is cafeteria which
provides food for pupils who lunch
Patty and Peter waiting to fill their plates
On the table there veal outlets and potatoes bees and
carrots for vegetables with bread and butter beside hem
Color this picture with crayons paste
cardboard Cut out the carefully the Sits
trays and plates Fold the lower panel forward
then the picture will stand and Patty will
steam table ready to select their Patty
chose carrots for her second vegetable
Fasen the plates and the glasses of milk place by putting
the tabs down in the indicated openings folding
Jeanni Faust sent this in first
Vioet NeWs
Tomorrow Making Things Grow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13
OUR PRESIDENTS
BY HONORE M. CATUDEL

1-"I find that I am being
made so much a citizen Of Scot
land it will become q serious
question where I shall go to
vote" said an ex-President upon
oeing presented with the freedom
Of the city of Glasgow. 10 years
ago today. Which President2
To-day is the 1O5th anniver-
sary of the birth of a great Army
doctor, who proved that yellow
fever was transmitted by the
mosquito. Who was he and who
was President when he was born.
3-What famous general was
named by President Wilson to
head the American Expedition
airy Forces in France during
World War I? Today is the 96th
anniversary of his birth.
ANSWERS on Next Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-13

Mrs. Keen opened the four of
spades and the ace in the closed
hand killed Mr.. Muzzy's king.
1t appeared that Mrs. Keen had
led her fourth highest spade
and, since the trey and deuce
were showing in dummy, 1t also
appeared that she had exactly
four cards in the suit.
There was little doubt that she
had the queen and probably the
ten as well, so that a spade lead
from Mr.. Muzzy's side of the
table might be fatal to the con-
tract.
On the other hand, a second
spade lead from Mrs. Keen
would give Mr.. Masters another
trick in the suit with his guard
ed jack. Of course. If Mr.. Muzzy
had the ace of hearts there
would be no way to shut him out.
But If he did not have that
card it was possible that he
could be kept out of the lead
even If he held the king of clubs.
At trick two Mr.. Masters led
q small diamond. intending to
win with dummy's king and
finesse the jack on the way back.
But as you see the queen showed
up at once and the whole suit
was set up.
However. he still had only
eight sure tricks in sight and
even that count was based on
Mrs. Keen's having the ace Of
hearts.
At this point Mr.. Masters gave
some thought to Mrs. Keen's
distribution. She had chosen a
spade for her opening lead. The
lead indicated she had four
spades. 1t was reasonable to as
sumo that she had no suit longer
than four cards. else she would
have opened that suit instead
of the spade. 1t was known that
she had a singleton in her hand.
Based on these considerations,
it was almost certain that her
original distribution was 4-4-4-1.
And, if so. Mr.. Muzzy held a
singleton club.
Just in case that singleton
happened to be the king Mr..
Masters decided to forgo the
obvious but dangerous club
finesse. At trick three he cashed
dummy's ace Of clubs. He could
afford to lose a club to Mrs.
Keen but not to Mr.. Muzzy. and
he did not need to bring in the
entire club suit to make his
contract.
Hey. quit peeking," protested
Mr.. Muzzy as he dropped his
king under the ace.
To make this play, which seemed
so sensational to Mr.. Muzzy, he
had not used his eyes. but his
brain.
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