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figures weren't conclusive be-
cause intelligence tests are af-
lfected by background and en-
vironment.
A number of school admins
traitors also testified that eco
nomic status and learning abil-
ity go hand in hand. Miss
Margaret Moore, principal of
one school. H. D. Cooke Ele-
mentary at Seventeenth and
Euclid streets NV, testified
there was no real difference be-
tween the scholastic perform
ance of her pupils when they
were all white the year before
indignation and somewhat over
SO per cent Negro last year.
White achievement has been de-
Ginning with the neighborhood,
she said.
A substantial proportion of
the witnesses-the count was a
dozen out of the 53-said they
felt the impact of Indignation
would have been eased if it had
moved more slowly. The range
of opinions as to how much too
quickly it was carried out ranged
from "a little" suggested by
Principal Wilmer F. Bennett of
Hine Junior High School, to
very precipitate" by Miss Edith
Kelleher, who recently retired
because of age (70) and arthritis
from teaching at the Blair Ele-
mentary School, I street near
Sixth Sc.
Preparation Lack Cited
Most of these witnesses said
they felt there should have been
more advance preparation. But
several volunteered that they
accepted the Supreme Courts
anti-segregation ruling as
right"
DR.. Corning and other top Of
f1cials. as well as several princi-
pals. testified they didn't know
how indignation could have been
STAYED off. because of crowding
in colored schools and relative
under-enrollment in white, and
resulting community tensions.
DR.. Corning pointed out that 20
white schools had been trans
ferred to colored children in the
period just prior to the Supreme
Court ruling. and that more
transfers would have had to &C.
cur except for indignation.
Several principals. although
not DR.. Corning, predicted it
might take five to 10 years to
get the school system back to
normal" DR.. Corning said it
wouldn't take that long, provided
the schools were given enough
money.
There was much testimony to
the effect that heavy indignation
and a white exodus from the
affected neighborhoods seem to
be going hand in hand. Some
witnesses indicated, under ques-
tioning, that they wouldn't be
surprised if this trend eventually
restored segregation to some
schools again.
] Influx From South Blamed
I Some witnesses blamed part of
the city's scholastic problems on
an influx of poorly prepared
youngsters from the South. Miss
Helen Mason, veteran counselor
at the recently integrated Taft
Junior High School, Eighteenth
and Perry streets NE, said this
was one of the few problems at
her Smooth-running school. DR..
Corning and Miss Edith A. Lyons.
assistant superintendent in
charge of elementary schools and
former official of the colored
division. also cited this factor.
Under persistent questioning.
Continued on Page BIO, Col. 1
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Higher Federal Payment
Urged at Budget Hearing
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
minimum calculated by the de-
partment as essential for health
and decency."
Such payments now, he said,
are % per cent below that level,
Mr., Halves said recent House
hearings indicate that "penury'
in public assistance grants will
act as a drag on public school
teaching, affecting not only the
recipients OF public assistance
but their classmates as WE'LL"
Pleas for Handicapped
Victor j. Orsinger, president
United Cerebral Palsy of Wash
ington, backed requests of the
school board and the Recreation
Department for funds to aid
orthopedically handicapped chill
dren.
Milton c. Denho Of the Dis
trict Mental Health Association
backed all budget requests
from the Board Of Education
the Welfare Department ano
the Health Experimentation in.
creases in mental health services
] Mrs. Henry Munroe of the
League Of Women Voters sup.
ported requests Of the Recrea.
ton and Welfare Departments
She gave special backing Il
Board Of Education plans fol
decreasing class sizes and urgec
adoption Of a program Of loan:
to finance public school con.
Istruction.
\ Mrs. Munroe also suggested
wiping out the special SIG mil
lion motor vehicle parking func
set UP to finance off-street park.
ing facilities. and turn the money
over to the Districts genera
fund, which finances the bull
OF city needs.
ADA Backs Requests
Mrs. Doris Foster Of American.
for Democratic Action support.
ed requests OF the schools and
the Health and Welfare Depart
ments. and commended that re.
cent House school hearings dis
closed the price" Of school over
crowding and segregation.
Three witnesses. including for.
ner District Commissioner Renal
F. camalier. urged the present
Commissioners TO earmark si9,-
685 for the National Capita
Wing OF the Civil Air Patrol.
Col. Daniel F. Boone. adviser
10 the national commander. pre-.
sented a letter requesting the
funds from CAP Wing Comdr
r. Joseph Donohue. another for
mer District Commissioner.
They were supported BY Mai
Ivan Wise, USAF. liaison ofilcer
70 Col. Donohue.
George o. Butler. president Of
the Federation Of CIVIC Associa-
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tions, urged the Commissioners
to devote a greater portion Of
our revenues" to health. educa-
ton, housing, civil protection and
welfare programs.
Mr.. Butler also urged con-
struction Of a new District
Teachers College, a replacement
for the initial M. M. Washington
Vocational High School and an
addition to Phelps Vocational
High School. all of which we're
Ideleted from school requests by
the city Budget Office.
Mr.. Butler commended needs
In vocational training areas are
substantial" and affect the
health Of students and the
scholastic "drop-out rate He
backed demands of the Congress
of Parents and Teachers for more
teachers, school clerks and assist
ant principals to save money
in future corrections and welfare
expenditures"
Hits Health Cuts
He charged the Budget ONCE
"has cut the heart out Of the
Health Department program"
Mr.. Butler also called for estab-
llishment Of Central Relocation
Service to find new housing for
persons displaced by Govern
ment construction and slum
clearance. and urged that the
Housing Division Of the Depart
ment OF Licenses and Inspec-
tons have 26 more employees
next year rather than the II
recommended by the Budget
Office.
Meanwhile. the District Urban
Renewal Council yesterday led
of with a demand for an in
crease in spending for the city's
housing division in the Depart
ment Of Licenses and Inspec-
lions.
The council recommended that
the Commissioners grant the
housing division the full s12S.l37
increase requested in It's annual
budget TO permit employment Of
% more housing inspectors.
three statistical clerks and FIVE
clerk typistS.
Requests Pared
The District Budget Office, in
pairing departmental requests 10
match available revenues, cut the
increase in the divisions operat-
ing budget 70 t53,334 10 permit
the employment OF ~ additional
inspectors.
The council also received from
Col. Robert Z. Mathe. Assistant
Engineer Commissioner, a break
down Of capital outlay projects
scheduled for the coming fiscal
year that would tie into the
city's overall urban renewal
program.
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School Loan Plan
For D. c. Urged
Poy-us- You-Go Financing Called
Nonsense by PTA Spokesman

District Parent Teachers Association spokesman today
launched major campaign to sell the at their
budget hearing longerm borrowing program finance
school needs.
The city heads told that the pay-as-you-go method OF
financing current school requirements fiscal
John b. Giiland president Of the District
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School Probe Hearings
Not Likely to Resume
Report Muy Be Based on So Witnesses,
Plus Undisclosed Number of interviews
BY JAMES G. DEANE

Congress get report District school Indignation
based the public testimony of just SO witnesses plus an
undiscosed number of interviews
Indications that House hearings adjourned Monday
Will not be resumed but the possibility always exists they
might Key committee members, including Chairman Davis
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Local Request

Miss Shull made her remark
about a possible outside study Of
the Washington schools in an
swer 70 a question. She said
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FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

LOAN: For some time, Tai
lulah Bankhead could not under
stand why her friends raved SO
about the cartoons of humorist
James Thurber. The humor COM
Ipletely eluded her.
On day she was captivated by
ia Thurber cartoon in a maya
zine and she became q Thurber
fan, she relates in her book
"Tallulah."
introduced to Thurber by
Robert Benchley, I confessed my
long bewilderent. Thurber was
gallant. He said he'd give me
the drawing which had pene-
trated my coma.
"Agog at the prospect of own
ing a Thurber original. reck-
Ioned without the Thurber vague
ness. Years went by and nc
drawing. I'd call Thurber and
remind him of his promise. Once
acting real subtle, I called him to
ask how I should frame his draw
ing.
What drawing?' he asked
1.-The one you promised and
never sent
at think a black frame would
be best he said. and hung up.
Five years later, the drawing
appeared in an exhibition of
Thurber cartoons. Under it was
a caption. which read Loaned by
Miss Tallulah Bankhead.
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Ijority of people do not go in for
yearly physical checkups, and
that is the gist of it all. You gam
BILE with your life when you don't
know. Exercise is poison for the
sick heart if taken in large doses.
found some interesting sta
tistics written by DR.. Louis H.
Dublin in his book, THE Facts
Iof Life: 1T is a common but
Erroneous belief that strenuous
physical activity can damage the
heart. The healthy heart can
stand almost any physical exer-
ton without being impaired.
However. over-exertioh can prove
fatal to the person with the
diseased heart.
Common examples are per-
sons who die suddenly while
playing tennis or running after
trains. This is not to say that
Icardiacs should avoid all exer-
else. They should, however, ad-
Just their activity according to
their personal limitations"
Early Recognition Vital
Therefore, the problem boils
down to one of "early recogni-
ton" Do you-or don't YOU
have a normal heart? If you do,
you may exercise moderately. If
you don't, you may kill yourself.
Inspite of these definite state
Iments. I expect to continue to
be a target Gas in the past) for
"exercise-conscious" readers.
They will be saying "he said
exercise is bad for the heart"
Nevertheless, I hope that so
many of you will come over to
my side, that these dissenters
will be a minority group. Some
day, they, too, will wake up to
the need for giving their heart
"a break before it breaks them.
Release by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Tomorrow: How should people be
worned Of dangers Of eoncer?
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economy might be swinging into
an upturn.
June IL, 1854. Cabinet meet
ing: DR.. Burns presented def
mite evidence that recovery was
under way but said the posi-
Ibility remained that it would
f1zzle out. The President said,
Arthur, you'd have been a fine
chief of staff during the war"
July %, 1854. DR.. Burns an
nounced that the midyear AGO.
Inomic indicators showed def
Initely the decline had come to
an end. To have passed from the
Korean War economy to a peace
time economy without a far
more serious drop, he said, was
"a tremendous accomplishment.
With congressional elections ap-
preaching, the cabinet cheer
fully turned to a discussion of
ways Of making all this clear to
the public; especially the now
favorable comparison between
1854 and 1852. the last year of
Democratic rule.
copyright, 1855. New York Herald
Tribune, Inc)
Tomorrow: How the President deoIt
with the Rosenberg cose.
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Planned Purenthood
Leader Elected

Mrs. Maurice A. Selinger, 27Os
Thirty-six street NV, yester-
dey was elected to the national
board Of directors Of the Planned
P arenthood Federation of
America, at a meeting iu New
York.
Mrs. Selinger is a graduate of
the Garfield Hospital School of
Nursing and has been active in
TIE Planned Parenthood Associa-
bn Of the District since le45.
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Council Of Economic Advisers
was moving ahead rapidly with
projects II need should arise for
them. he said.
March 20, 1854. Cabinet meet
ing: The sense of mounting ur-
lgency continued. DR.. Burns Of
fered a list Of actions that could
be taken-modifying Federal
Reserve requirements, liberaliz-
ing mortgage requirements, al
tering Interpretation policy,
fastening domestic procurement.
Mr.. Eisenhower asked him to
prepare an outline of useful
legislation.
Auto Upturn Noted
April 2, 1854. Cabinet meet
ing: DR.. Burns said that con-
Itinuing economic troubles called
for actions he had suggested.
The President said they should
be done without delay, but not
in a way to jolt public conf
dence. Secretary Of Defense
Wilson noted an upturn in the
automobile industry. DR.. Burns
said he had discovered that
plant expansion and building
contracts had surprisingly con-
tinued at a very high rate
through the whole nine months
Iof the general decline.
April 8, 1854. Cabinet meeting:
DR.. Burns reported a sharp and
significant division between the
industrial situation, which was
poor, and the financial situation,
which was strong. He said the
two trends must be reconciled
either in a general decline or
in general advance. He pre-
dicted the latter.
April 80, 1854. Cabinet meet
ing: DR.. Burns optimistically
noted that contrary to expecta-
tons, the economies of foreign
countries had remained strong
during the sag in the American
economy.
con May II, 1854, the Ma
tional Full Employment Confer
ence of CLIO leaders met in
Washington and heard Mr.. Reu-
ther assail the administration
for doing nothing" to relieve
unemployment. Two days later,
Harry S. Truman told the CIO
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
that the economy was suffering
from Creeping McKinleyism"
and proposed a So billion in
crease for public works and well
fare).
Green Light For Projects
May IA, 1854. Cabinet meeting:
DR.. Burns said that even with
out new legislation, funds were,
probably available for military
purchases. repair and moderni-
cation Of Federal buildings, con-
struction of atomic energy in
stallations, small bridges and
forest roads. Mr.. Eisenhower
answered that departments hav-
ing money available for worth
while projects should start them
now.
May FL, 1854. Cabinet meeting:
DR.. Burns reported that for the
third consecutive month in
creases in orders and production
surpassed decreases: that the
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The FomiIy Council consists Of q Judge,
q psyehiotrist, q newspaper editor. q
women's poee editor and two news
paper writers. These consult with
elergymen Of all foiths and denomino-
lions. All letters ore held in complete
confidence.
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How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Give Your Heart a Break
By DR.. PETER J. SIEINcRoHN

Thomas Hardy, the English
novelist, said: THE man who
writes stands up to be shot at
You don't have to dig too far
down into that sentence to
recognize what he meant. How
ever, one can read into 1t more
reasons than one. For instance
the doctor who expresses medi-
cal opinions easily available to
millions of readers is an invit-
ing target for pot shots from
persons who disagree Oaymen
and doctors alike). He gets
letters of appreciation: but also
his share of letters of mild or
bitter disagreement.
But / hope to have, Hardy's
good fortune: although he stood
up in full view. no arrow OF
acknowledgements ever found a
vital spot: he lived to be So
years old.
Any number of subjects will
especially irk readers. For ex-
ample. If I write that I do not
advise everybody to stop smok-
ling (even though I have en-
lphasized that many should stop
I am sure to get protesting let
tiers against this bad medical
advice" Some persons have
said that I'm instrumental in
spreading cancer of the lung by
such dangerous suggestions.
Alcohol Stirs Controversy
If / mention that alcohol is
occasionally of value in medical
treatment, the arrows whiz by
thick and dangerously close.
The readers skip my explanatory
sentences which emphasize the
dangers of chronic alcoholism.
All they believe is that I am
advocating that we become a
nation of topers.
But these well-meant recrim-
Iinations are as nothing COM
pared to what / have been hear
ing for years in answer to my
convictions against exercise.
From all over the globe I have
been getting shot at by the
arrows of exercise-zealots.
If they could lay hands on me,
they would throw away their
bows and arrows and tear me
apart with their superbly mus
cled arms. Although I never held
up a bank. they call me Public
Enemy No. /. Simply because 1
had the temerity Is years ago
ito write book-and many ar
Iticles for the national magazines
saying that you don't have to
exercise!
What long memories these peo-
Iple have. And. frankly, I am glad
of it. / relish being their target.
Especially since the arrows they
sling are not really poison
dipped.
Doctor Has Attack
I have been writing for years
that OyereXerciSe can kill Won.
And I write about it again today
because, / have just heard that
lone of my doctor friends twho
should have known better was
recently carried off the tennis
courts with a "coronary." When
he RECEIVERS. I shall have another
convert. Il can't talk people into
being on my side; it seems they
need to be in a near-tragedy
Ifirst.)
Until now. my friend the doc
tor has disagreed that exercise
will hurt the normal heart. will
suggest that he continue with
that disbelief. What needs en-
Iphasizing again, however, is this:
when you go out on tennis court
Ior engage in SO holes of golf on
"a week end, are you sure that you
have a normal heart?
The odds are at least 10 to l
that you don't know. Because it is
10 to l that you go to your doctor
only when you are sick. The ma
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Mrs. BAN. - Our daughter
Bertha has upset us terribly and
shamed us by taking job as a
housemaid. She is 20 years old
and has had business school
training. but she would rather
disgrace us all than find job
that would be congenial and give
her opportunity.
She is not, as a matter of fact,
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Tomorrow: How should people be
worned Of dangers Of eoncer?
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Unemployment WOrsens
March IL, 1854. Cabinet meet
ing: The President was in deadly
serious mood. The unemployment
situation had worsened. The fig
ure in March was 3,725, 900 un-
employed, or So per cent of the
entire civilian labor force. (The
fact that unemployment was
then at the crest was not known
on this date.) Mr.. Eisenhower
complained that plans were
ready but when one came to look
for recommendations as to when
to put the plans into effect, one
looked in vain.
Secretary Humphrey reminded
the President that Senator Doug
las had warned that drastic ac-
ton should not be taken before
unemployment reached the level
OF s or 8 per cent Of the labor
force. Mr.. Eisenhower replied
that timely action would forestall
the need for drastic action: he
insisted at least on preparedness
to act at any moment.
March 10. 1854. Cabinet meet
Ing: DR.. Burns reported that
some favorable trends were APP
p1kHns but urged that judgment
% suspended for q while. The
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T he FAMILY
COUNCIL
THE PROBLEM
DEN I HWY pdTtl
THE DETAILS

MRS B. MWe object to daughter taking housemaids
ob
BERTHAMy parents drove from home by their naggng
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Associate Dean Named

/ DR.. Calvin D Linton, assistant
dean of the Columbian College
of George Washington Univer-
sity. has been promoted to the
post of associate dean.
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IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Nation Has Recession,
Finally Pulls Through
By ROBERT J. DONOVAN

The Nations brush with the 1884 recession viewed
vantage point inside the Eisenhower administration
comparisons with sckbed vigil and medical consultation
The Republican administration just beginning to live
down the depression Of quarter Of century before
patient began show worrsome symptoms Nobody
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under any compulsion to work
My husband does not earn a
large salary, but he has always
worked steady and we have q
son who contributes. She GER
tainly does not have to become
a servant to earn her daily
bread.
My husband is furious. . He
says she is doing it just to spite
and humiliate us, and he says
we have a right to force her to
live at home. since she is under
ri. I am reluctant to go that fal
because we would then be MAX
ing a spectacle of our whole fam
lily, but l agree with him that
my daughter is probably doing
this to punish us because we
have tried to stop her from MAX
ing a bad marriage.
Bertha-My parents do not
even try to understand me. j
am interested in a young man
who has been very good to me
and wants me to marry him. 1t
is true that he is not rich OF
brilliant, but I am 20 and ]
can't say that am being pur-
sued by any army of suitors.
My parents have nagged me
to the point where I cannot
stand living at home. If I were
the adventurous type, probably
would find a room downtown
and live by myself, but 1 am
very much afraid of what would
happen to me if I did so. The
fact is that I would very much
want my parents to keep watch
over me and control me, if only
they could do it without hound
ing me and driving me crazy.
l am working in a fine home
and am learning a lot about
housekeeping that my mother
never taught me. am not doing
this to spite anybody, but I am
desperate to have a place to live
where I am safe and not too
lonesome. If my parents feel
shamed, all they have to do is
to ignore the situation and no
one will know that am working
as a housemaid. It is they, not
l. VINO are advertising the situa-
ton.
THE COUNCILS VIEWS
The parents of this girl are
very fortunate people in having
a careful and sensible daughter
but they are unfortunate in that
they do not realize this.
Bertha is getting valuable
training for the role she wants
to play for the rest of her life
that Of homemaker. And She
is being paid for learning. She
says she is doing it because she
lacks courage to live alone. but
1t is TO be regretted that more
girls do not have the positive
courage to seek that kind of
training. y
There is only one Objectionable
aspect OF this situation-the fact
that Bertha will have to meet
young men and will not have a
normal social life on this lob
That is all the more reason for
the parents to be calm and ia
relax their attitude. If all SEM
blance of nagging and pressure
should stop, this girl will prob
ably have a strong desire to 90
PACK home. BY being over
anxious the parents have crossed
up their own good intentions.
Instead Of arguing, the parents
should show appreciation for
Bertha's very sober and safe So
luton Of her problem and make
her feel they are beginning to
understand and trust her.
(copyright 1855, General Features coyn
Tomorrow: Womon's second morioos
going on rocks.
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This is the fourth Of series Of articles
bosed on Mr.. Donovon's book, "Eisen-
hower-The Inside Story" q behind
the-seenes account Of the odminis-
trotion TO be published in June by
Horper 8 Brothers.
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LANGLEY PARK-4g loan; $50
monthly payments brick semidet
. bedrmr ~ baths. full bsmt.
OWNER HF 4 -RlG6