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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-11-15
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est Road, Rockville. New mem
bers are welcome.
For League Calendars, so cents
call Garden 4-8898.
If you're in a holiday tJudy)
mood you'll be interested in Mary
McCarthy's announcement at
Mondays PTA meeting that the
billboard sponsored by Civitan
for the benefit of a high school
stadium has space left, and pri-
vate citizens are invited to lad
vertise." For SIS you can have
top billing, or if you prefer anon
unity, for the same price, they
will leave your name off.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-11-15
exclusively
for YOUNG Moderns

THE YOUNG COLONY SHOP which has been designed
pecy for you Preeens and Teens opens in Rockville Court
House Square, Thursday November 18th
When say exclusively for you. say with consider
able PRIDE We have believed foroh Ione-hat smart
shop which has only your kind Of coihnewheher be for
evedayfor those important datesor schooo for very spe
cisl party afars-was sadly lacking and sOeY needed.
5000 have assembled have created such shop
and think you'll love it. The styles the fashions
the accessories those which you have featured such
magazines Seventeen.
And for your shopping browsing fun added
phere gay informal kind Of atmosphere where you may
your friends and select the things you know give you that diff
erent" look HAT right look the YOUNG COLONY" look
Because we know proof in the puddine-we invite you to
stop opening day-have coke and find how really yours
shop be Pre-Teen sizes TO H. Junior sizes TO 5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21

representing the local community, should
be assisting in It's passage.
Many State and city historical socie-
ties do receive support through appro-
priations of public funds. The Columbia
Historical Society has never asked for
penny of public funds. Operating on slim
resources for more than so years, how
ever, 1t has collected, as a labor of love
for Washington, unique body of source
notwithstanding its own printed and
bound volumes of records, exceeding 49
which is unduplicated. Scholars every
where make frequent use of this material.
1t is invaluable. Real estate tax exemp-
ton, in this city where such exemptions
are so widely granted for so many less
worthy purposes, is merely part of the
help the society should receive from
local government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
To Assure Justice

1t is reported that the decision of
the United States Court of Appeals ques-
tioning the fairness of condemnation
award to Southwest resident may mean
an increase in the cost of redevelopment.
But, whatever the added cost, Federal
and District authorities have a duty to
see to it that property owners in the areas
to be taken over and rebuilt are Justly
treated. And we agree with the majority
In the Riley case that justice requires a
retrial of the condemnation suit by which
the District Redevelopment Land Agency
acquired title to home for substantially
less than the owner paid for it.
The home at issue was located in
Area B, the first part of the broad slum-
clearance and redevelopment program in
Southwest Washington. The owner, Mrs.
Mayme Riley, had bought the brick
dwelling in 1851 for $9,950 She had i'm
proved 1t at a cost of 1887, making the
total cost about $4,000. She still owed
S8,SO2 on the property when the agency
seized 1t In 1854, paying her only $1,000.
Thus, Mrs. Riley not only lost her home
but some $4,000, representing the differ
CAASS NCCWCCAl CllC dWdIQ anu W1ldG Sic
had paid for her home only three years
before. The seizure left her still owing
$1,000 on her purchase money notes.
The jurys award was based on testi-
mony by expert realty appraisers as to
flair market value" of the home in 1854.
But, as Appellate Judges Prettyman and
Miller Judge Washington dissenting)
pointed out, the Supreme Court has held
that such compensation (for property
taken for public use) means the full and
perfect equivalent In money of the
property taken. The owner is to be put
In as good position pecuniarily as he
would have occupied If his property had
not been taken" And the appellate ma
jority said: "This is not an ordinary
litigation between person and the Gov
eminent. The citizen is not seeking some
thing. The Government is here taking
a persons private property. 1t is taking
the highest form of property known to
law-the persons own home" We share
the courts view that under such circum-
stances great care should be taken to
protect the citizens property rights. The
court evidenced justified concern for
those rights when it ordered a retrial of
the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
Rockville and the Pike

Citizens of Rockville are understand
ably concerned over the traffic problem
posed by the opening of new $7-million,
8-mile section of the new National Pike,
north of their town. State authorities
should make every reasonable effort to
divert as much of the traffic as possible
to the present bypass for cars using the
old Route 240. This would be in the
interest of all through traffic, as well
as of residents of Rockville.
However, it would not have been in
the public interest to bar traffic from the
latest extension of the new Superhighway
to Frederick until the next section of the
highway southwark is built. It may be
another year or two before this additional
work is completed, especially In view of
RockvilleS objections to State engineers
plans for blocking off access to the road
at certain points. Furthermore, difficult
ties encountered by the State Roads Com
mission in its right-of-way program and
In settling disputes over the approaches
to Washington may further delay COM
pletion of the lower links. It would have
been a waste of public money it, in the
meantime, the Germantown to- Rockville
stretch had been allowed to lie idle
Indefinitely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
1t Serves Woshinoton

The Columbia Historical Society re-
Gently inherited, from the late Mrs.
Christian Heurich, the old Heurich home
at 1907 New Hampshire avenue. 1t in
tends to make this property It's head
quarters, and depository for the wealth
of historical material relating to the
Nations Capital which it has gathered
and preserved since the society was in
corporated in 1894. 1t has requested that
the property be tax exempt. Under the
District Interpretation Of the law, the
exemption would require special legiSla-
tion Senator Nicely and Representative
Howard Smith of Virginia have intro
duced the legislation. But instead Of
supporting 1t, the District Building
authorities are opposing it.
In our opinion, such opposition is
untenable. A broader Interpretation OF
the law might exempt the property on
the ground that the society is an edu-
cational institution mot operated for
private GAIN But If the District Build
ing's Interpretation is correct, and special
legislation is required, our Commissioners,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
Oreqon Votes Heavily

The voters of Oregon recorded some
interesting, and perhaps significant,
preferences last Friday.
First of these was their clear choice
of Adlai Stevenson over Senator Kefauver
of Tennessee for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination. In 1852, Mr.. Kefau-
yer won the Oregon primary-although
Mr.. Stevenson was not entered in that
year-and had the State delegations
solid vote on the first two convention
ballots. In fact, on the conclusive third
ballot in 1852, all but one of the Oregon
votes still were cast for the Tennessee
Senator. But by better than a to
margin Mr.. Stevenson rolled over Mr.
Kefauver this time in an impressive
demonstration of the winning momentum
the former Illinois governor has shown
ever since his embarrassing setback in
Minnesota two months ago. Although
only Is votes we're at stake in Oregon,
the deciSiveness of the Stevenson victory
may have an influence on the Florida
primary next week and the showdown
test in California on June S.
As far as the Republicans are con-
cerned, the Oregon vote may have been
not only an Endorsement of President
Eisenhower and his administration as
Sociates but of policies as well. The
President picked up the largest vote of
the day--about 2l8,00O-and a large
write-in vote for Vice President Nixon
indicated further that the G. O. p ticket
of 1852 still has great appeal in 1856
Former Secretary of Interior Mckay won
the Republican Senatorial nomination
although three party rivals poled among
them slightly more than half of the vote.
Mr.. Mckay has been a principal target
for Democratic attack over administra-
ton public power and natural resources
policies But post-primary pledges of har-
mony among the G. o. p. Senatorial
candidates, plus an unexpected protest
vote of 10000 against Senator Wayne
Morse, the Democratic winner, encour-
aged Republican officials to believe they
will make a good showing this fall.
Democratic registrations were slightly
higher, however. The Oregon primaries
brought out higher than average
number of eligible voters indicating an
interest that is likely to result in one
Of the toughest state campaigns Of the
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Motrimony Starts in Strange Wuys
BY THOMAS r. HENRI

after him. that he has never
seen the bride before, that he
doesn't know who she is. The
chances are they have played
together as children. But it
all must be done that way to
make the marriage legal, &C.
cording to San Bias customs.
Still there has been no
courtship. When a girl be-
comes Is or 16 years old her
father starts looking for a suit
able husband. When he sets
his eyes on one he starts nego-
tiations with the fellows par
entS and a deal is arranged.
Neither boy nor girl necessarily
knows anything about it. The
chances are. of course. that
they do, and either one could
make a strenuous protest if the
match were really objection
able. That his is a good Sys-
tenn, the San Bias say, is at
tested by the fact that there
are few broken marriages. The
husband can be consoled by
the fact that divorce is easy.
He can always pack up and go
home to his mother. The
father of the bride usually will
follow and urge him to return.
There is, however. nothing to
compel him to do so, and no
nonsupport laws among the
San Bias, where support is a
very slight problem. It's Just
a matter of picking coconuts,
which are money.
Some Consultations
San Bias society is matri-
archal. The new bridegroom
goes to live with his brides
family. He works in his
father-in-law's fields, and all
the fish he catches he must
bring to his wife'S kinfolks.
The brides father is the boss.
Even brotherS-in-law can boss
the poor fellow around. He is
conSoled by the fact that as
soon as they are married they
will suffer the same fate.
There are some consultations.
Probably nowhere in the New
World are the girls lovelier
than among the San Bias
especially when decked out in
their multicolored "molaS" and
head shawls and with their
abundance of gold and silver
ornaments. These some Of
them wear even when engaged
in the heavy labor of Coco
nut packing plant. All are
scrupulouSly clean.
The bride also has her diff
ficulties before marriage. In
one of the numerous ceremo-
MES she is painted purple, all
over.
Husband and wife have their
household chores pretty we'll
divided. He, for example, must
be good with a needle and
make the clothes of any sons
born of the union. Even for
a little boy baby to wear
clothes made by a woman
would be unthinkable and he
doubtless would come to no
good end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
Viroinio's School Problem

The real nature of the basic conflict
in Virginia over the school segregation
issue has become clearer since the meet
ing last week of the Gray Commissions
executive committee. Essentially, the
clash is between those who would oppose
any indignation at all costs, and those
who think that the requirements of the
Supreme Court decision can best be met
by permitting indignation in localities
where public sentiment will accept It,
This problem has been brought close
to home by the suit filed in Arlington
County by the NAACP on behalf of IA
parents. A speedy hearing" has been
requested, with a view to achieving inte-
grafton there this coming September.
The Arlington suit is, in sense, a
reflection of Virginia's problem. At least
two of the participating parents are not
seeking to have their children transferred
from one school to another. They say
they want their children to stay in the
schools they are now attending, but that
they want them to attend an integrated
school system as matter of principle.
Whether they would have any standing
position. At the other extreme are
parents in Prince Edward County, where
a court hearing has been set for July 9.
At this hearing the school authorities
will be expected to prove that they have
made satisfactory progress toward COM
plying with the Supreme Court ruling.
But the fact is that no progress has been
made, and none is going to be made. The
county authorities have urged the Gov
ernor not to call a special session of the
Legislature to enact the Gray plan pro-
gram. They say they would prefer to
close their schools if ordered to integrate,
and popular sentiment In the county
seems to support them.
So there it is. In those areas of
the State which have large Negro popu-
lationS, the controlling sentiment seems
to be in favor of continued segregation
or abandonment of the public schools. In
other areas public sentiment will not
accept shutdown of the school system.
In these areas indignation would be
feasible, especially If the Gray plans
pupil assignment and tuition plans were
in effect.
This clash of sentiment apparently
has produced something akin to dead
lock in Richmond The full Gray Com
mission is to meet within two weeks to
review the situation, and presumably
Governor Stanley will be guided by its
recommendations in deciding whether to
call the Legislature into special session
to act on whatever proposals may be
forthcoming. For our part, we do not
see how Virginia can hope to meet this
problem unless there is at least will
ingnesS to permit start on indignation
in those communities where this is
practicable and in which the people will
not tolerate the closing of the public
schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
Parents and Homework

Parents perhaps expect the
teacher to do part of the
bringing up of the children,
because the teacher expects
the parents to do part of the
JOB of teaching the basic
skillS. This unnatural arrange
ment via the institution called
homework" leads to dis
respect for authority.
ID The child laughs at the
incongruity of the teacher
without authority trying to
discipline, and the parent
without a class trying to teach.
C"You don't do it the way my
teacher says-you don't know
anything about it,
90 The teacher feels right
fully frustrated when. having
been trained to do a particu-
lar job of teaching, she finds
the only things left are dis
ciplinary problems and the
right to assign homework
(Which often isn't done.
80 The parents are forced to
lay aside the technique of
parenthood and their facet of
discipline because discipline"
means teaching, in all its as
pects) in order to supervise
homework. In a family of
five children. suppose five
hours of homework, not CO.
incident. leaves the parent no
time to inculcate respect for
authority
The parents are unable to
provide the enrichments and
experiences of trips giving ex-
amples of respect TO national
shrineS, civic enterprises. art
galleries and museums: or arts.
crafts, dancing, music, and
hospitality
Homework is admittedly dis
tasteful to all three principals
involved. but of course the
child learns more with a parent
as private tutor. Homework is
source Of at least some disre-
spect in all directions. A sem
sitive child. unable to face the
teacher with uncompleted as
signment. becomes i'll and
misses a day at school. and
the show-off will use undone
homework as very special
device to fiout the teachers
authority. The parent. be-
leaguered with conflicting ideas
as to what is desired at school,
hardly respects the teacher:
and the teacher scarcely re-
spects the parent who doesn't
"see that it's done" or who
completes 1t for the child. with
wrong answers.
A more harmonious solution
would be for the teacher to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

ITS pretty big" says the
driver.
Il know" says she, but the
sun got in my eyes"
You never can tell what any
one is thinking about. in this
strange world.
This applies particularly to
wives at the breakfast table.
and to ladies getting on and
off buses.
They may seem occupied
with omelet or fare, as the
case may be. but they may be
thinking about something else.
what they read last week, or
intend to do next week.
If people don't hear or see
something, it may not be at all
because their ears or eyes are
not good.
The ears may be fine, the
eyes excellent: maybe they
have other fish to fry, as the
old saying put it.
1t is easy enough to stare
at something without seeing it.
Without the ability to refuse
to hear, people might be bored
to extinction by radio and tele-
vision.
The flood of print to which
We are all exposed every day
could result in raging maniacs
if it were not for the precious
ability to look directly at
something without seeing too
much of it.
ODtuSeneSs, some call it.
We call it fine, and hope the
world never changes in this
respect. The only thing is be
sure that what seems careless
ness and indifference is not
lack of ability TO see or hear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
OTC Bill
Parent.

Ill your issue OF May If you
printed a letter from Mrs.
Henry Munroe. president OF
the League of Women Voters
of the District. Her subject
was the OTC bill now before
Congress.
This bill (H.R. $500 proposes
United States membership in
the Organization for Trade
Cooperation, which would be
headquartered in Geneva. The
United States, though carry
ing roughly 20 per cent of the
worlds trade, would have one
vote in the organization. Pres
ent membership is 35.
Mrs. Munroe bemoans the
Slowness of the bill in Congress
and attributes the delay to the
opposition of "a few business
groups
This is about as accurate as
it would be to say that OTC
support comes largely from a
few ladies societies such as
the women's League of Voters,
whose knowledge of the legis-
lation is strictly indirect and
mostly academic and theoret-
ical in character. These groups
have been consciously courted
and coaXed by the Department
of State to do its bidding: and
from the results it is easy to
see that the department has
succeeded.
The statements issued by the
league on matters of trade
carry the departments finger
prints and it requires no great
acumen to detect them. Miss
ing from the pamphlets and
the surveys is the obiectivity
that the league processes. The
conclusions are more in the
form of ex cathedra pro-
nouncements from on high. to
be dutifully adopted and prop
agated by the various chap
tiers throughout the country.
The chapters have shown
themselves very pliable, and
thus the State Department
has developed far flung
propaganda machine in sup
port of its program to wrest
from Congress its function Of
regulating our foreign COM
merce. The orc is but the
last of the departments many
and persistent moves in this
direction, The leagues have
moved into action all over the
United States as valiant hand
maidens of the diplomats.
q. X. Stackbein,
Chairman. Nation Wide
Committee Of Industry,
Agriculture and Labor
on Import Export Policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
A Correction

Your May IL story of the
Fairfax Board of Supervisors
public hearings on proposed
amendments to the coming
ordinance stated that !
favored keeping minimum lot
sizes down TO one-half acre in
the western part of the county
as a method of preventing
confiScatory real estate taxa
ton. The record shows that
your report was quite in
accurate, and l would appre-
ciate your publishing the
following correction.
l read a prepared statement
favoring large lots for resi-
dental land use, in which l
said the following about taxa
ton:
THE more land that is built
up in high-density housing the
greater will be the tax burden
on other types of property
owners under our present
archaic property tax system.
Residents of high-density
housing simply create more
need for schools and other
governmental services than
they pay for in taxes, and be-
cause of their numbers have
the political power to pass the
tax burden on to others. Check
the Arlington record and you
will find there has been a
property tax increase every
single year since 1945. and
they are faced with a Ascent
tax rate increase again this
year.
Retired people and others
on small fixed incomes are
bound to have their homes
confiscated by a long series of
tax increases. From here on
out the profits of the land
speculators--the unearned in
crements--are not going to
come out Of the new people
moving in, but out of the hides
Of existing homeowners and
taxpayers
At the conclusion of the
statement the record shows
that l had the following
colloquy with Supervisor De-
Bell about size of lots
DeBell--"Do you think, Mr..
Williams. that one acre would
serve. one-acre lot size would
be what you think should be
done?"
Williams-"Mr. DeBell. all
things are relative, and /
think that what constitutes a
large lot in one section of the
county may not constitute a
large lot in another section Of
the county"
DeBell-"Well. what do you
think a large lot should be in
the western two-thirds then.
half acre, like it's been since
t941?
Williams-"No sir. think
with the growth Of the county
II should be considerably larger
than that"
Harley NJ. Williams.
Fairfax. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-21
Lithoorophic Art

A letter by E. V. Robey in
your May IL issue stated that
a Sunday Star Magazine inter-
view with Artist Jack Perlmut-
ter gave the reader the i'm
preston that art printing from
zinc plates was recently lin
vented" by Mr.. Perlmutter.
1 saw no place in the article
where any claim was made
that Mr.. Perlmutter was the
first zinc plate f1ne-art lithog-
rapher. What 1 read was the
story of a fine local artist who
has raised the level and quality
of f1ne-art zinc lithography to
that of stone TYPOGRAPHY.
Actually, all one has to do
is to study Jack Perlmutters
prints at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, the Library of
Congress, the Smithsonian
Institution, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York,
and many other galleries and
museums throughout I'll lie
country, to realize that he has
succeeded in developing zinc
plate fine-art photography up
to. and perhaps beyond, stone
lithography. The latest recog-
milton of Jack PerlmutterS
works is a one-man show of
paintings and prints to be
held. beginning next month,
at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
E. v. Robey wrote that the
photographic stone lis an in
strument of vastly greater lat
ltude for the artist" AS he
hastens to add. it does depend
on ones standards. Mr.. PERL
mutter has done a tremendous
amount of work on stone. but
he has found zinc to be more
flexible.
James V. Herring,
Professor of Art, Emeri-
tus. Howard University.