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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
The
Rambler
-. Costs on Eye.
On New Subway
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

When he worked on the
Hill, one of the pleasures of
the Rambler's day was a ride
on the subway between the
Capitol and the Senate Office
Building.
The little open cars with
their wicker seats are rem
iniscent of the gala spirit OF
the good old summertime,
when city traction companies
used to change their rolling
stock to enable passengers to
enjoy the out-of-doors.
Crowding into the cars at
the terminals would be Sena-
tors, newspapermen, stenog-
raphers and messengers
American claSSleSsnesS at its
best. If there was not room,
a Senator would wait for the
next car-only a matter Of q
minute or two.
The cars did not 60 so fast
that, as they passed each
other in midrun, girls could
not recognize friends going
in the other direction and
wave to them. And the trip
was so short-700 feet-that
1t did not take up an ap-
preciable portion Of the
working day.
So when he heard that a
new railway tunnel was
under construction to the
new Senate office Building,
he hurried to the Capitol.
BY descending q couple Of
flights of stairs, he entered
the office of the Architect
of the Capitol, ]. George
Stewart, and came upon his
executive assistant, Philip
Roof, who was very helpful.
Mr.. Roof got out a map.
mo, you can't walk through
the tunnel yet" he said. 1--WE
are just sinking footings."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11

IN late 1871, the year the CEN
ter was first occupied.
Il ordered 1t opened on Tues
day." James A. Blaser, director
Of buildings and grounds. said
today. because I simply wanted
to know what was behind the
wood" This is Mr.. Blaser's
first year in his job here.
But I'll tell you frankly"
Mr.. Blaser said, Il don't know
what it's supposed to stand
for"
The work is on the west
side of the Central Plaza
at the Center, adjacent to
where the projected West Ad-
ministration Building will be
built IL the District ever gets
the needed funds.
The woman in the center is
pouring water out of a pitcher
into a basin held by the one on
her right. The others are just
looking away.
Veteran observers at the Gen.
ter believe the sculpture was
boarded UP in l94l when the
sculptor's drill cut through the
base Of the work. and set off
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
WHEN THE EAST FRONT

WHEN THE EAST FRONT
Is completed, it is hoped to
bring the four tracks of the
main line right into the
basement of the Capitol.
Until then, commuters will
have to walk more than so
feet to get to the elevator.
The new cars will be open
and will carry 10 passengers;
the same as the old. But we
will have four cars instead
of two. You see, we will
have two distinct railway
systems, electric with over
head trolleys, one to each
of the office buildings. And,
remember this, we laid 1t out
in a manner that caused the
telling OF only one tree, q
17-inch pin oak"
The Rambler went out to
watch the excavation for the
main line. Men were making
temporary walls on each side
Of the excavation by fitting
oak planking-"lagging," 1t
is called-between steel H
beams driven into the earth
for the purpose. When the
Job is finished, they will be
removed.
He encountered Stafford
Kelly, an engineer.
I'VE were lucky about the
railroad tunnel" Mr.. Kelly
said. You see, all north
south and vice versa pas
senger trains pass the Capitol
In a two-track tunnel under
First street, east.
"The top Of the railroad
tunnel is all Of 30 feet below
the surface OF the street.
That leaves plenty of room
for our tunnel which is only
IA feet in diameter.
Our tunnel will be a bridge
over the railroad tunnel, be-
cause we can't rest any
weight on 1t. We will lower
4la-foot caisSons So feet on
each side Of the railroad
tunnel to make reinforced
concrete piles to support our
tunnel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
Jail Urged for All
In Teen Gang Fight
Stute's Attorney
In County Asks
Stern Action

States Attorney Blair H.
Smith of Prince Georges
County would Jail every youth
connected with Tuesdays teen
age gang rumble in which one
boy was wounded by a shotgun.
He proposed sending them to
the training school ito jar them
into realization that they can't
get away with this sort of
thing. I don't believe in pam
pering them" he said.
Two teen-agers, have been
held in custody as a result of
the Tuesday night melee at
Falkland. Md, and about 10
others have been charged and
released to their parents.
Juvenile Court Judge Emmett
H. Mamma yesterday ordered
George Doonis,, II. of the 400
block Of Sixty-flrst street, Cap
itol Heights, turned over to
authorities for prosecution in
an adult court. The boy, who
has a juvenile record, is.
charged with intent to kill and
simple assault. He denies firing
the shotgun charge which
wounded Donald Schlosser, II,
of 6315 Grenada avenue, South
Lawn, in the leg. Another boy,
aged 16, was ordered held under
81. 600 bond on a disorderly
conduct charge.
Varying Reactions
Meantime, Prince Georges
County's juvenile situation was
being looked upon. with varying
degrees of reaction.
States Attorney Smith urged
stern measures. He is consid-
ering taking young Doonis de
rectly to the grand jury and by
passing Police Court; wants es-
Enlistment Of a police juven-
lie squad and has renewed his
two-year plea for an antiloiter-
ing ordinance in the county.
College Park has one. but the
m e assure had never been
brought to a legal test.
THE problem is not out Of
hand" he said. 1T can be
curbed and curbed fast without
much difficulty"
In rejecting proposals for .
juvenile squad yesterday, Her
bert w. Reichelt, president Of
the County Commissioners.
said: II don't think we have .
special problem. I don't see
anything unusual about the So
called rumble except that 10
went to an extreme" He added
that he believed regular police
can handle the juvenile prob
lem"
2 Policemen on Loan
Two Metropolitan juvenile
policemen have been assigned
to Prince Georges on a To-day
loan and cruised with Prince
Georges County police last
night.
Prince Georges Police Chief
George j. Panagoulis, Judge
Mama and Walter Liebert,
head of the Parole and Proba-
tons Department. repeatedly
have sought a special juvenile
squad and a grand jury last fall
recommended one.
A request for IL more police
men was eliminated from the
county budget only recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
Psychidtrisfs
Hold Williams
Mentally III
Attorneys Granted
Time to Arrange
For Private Tests

The case of Dallas o. Will
liams was delayed again today
after q psychiatric report to
Municipal Court indicated 1.-THE
bad man Of Swampoodle" is
mentally i'll.
Judge Thomas c. Scalley
gave williams attorneys, VIII
liam Bachrach and Richard
Arens. until April 10 to submit
another mental report by a pri-
vate psychiatrist and a psychol-
ogist.
The question Of Williams
sanity was raised February 10
when Judge Scalley sent him
to District General Hospital for
q mental examination. VIII
liams was arrested February 2
on q drunk charge and is now
being held in $1,000 bond.
Impulses "HOmicidal"
In his report to the court
today DR.. John D. Schultz,
chief psychiatrist at the hos
pital, said williams mental
condition sis manifested by I'M
comfortable impulsive behavior
Of q recurring dangerous ma
ture.
The danger to others is such
that he must be considered
homicidal," DR.. Schultz added
THE danger to himself is OF
almost equally serious signifi-
canoe in that one Of the prod
ucts Of his mental illness is
behavior which has frequently
brought about assault upon his
own person"
DR.. Schultz stressed that
conclusions by the hospital
pSychiatristS ARE not derived
from this mans horrendous
record" williams has been
arrested more than 100 times
since 1888.
His behavior is not the basis
Il for his mental condition. but
rather a manifestation symp-
tomato of his mental state.
the psychiatrist said.
Litigation Since 1949
The long legal Skirmishing
over Williams involved his eff
forts to beat . charge Of shoot
ing Q man here in 1949. The
litigation included three con-
victions and two mistrials. The
final conviction u956 was re-
versed November / on grounds
he did not receive a speedy
trial.
The court blamed the delay
on Government efforts to OBJ
struct determination Of Will
liams' sanity at the time Of the
crime. However, the appellate
court suggested a possible civil
commitment Of Williams to st.
Elizabeths Hospital.
This failed when two hos
pital psychiatrists reported in
December that Williams was
sane. Chief District Judge b.
litha J. Laws sent williams
back to the hospital for an
other examination. but his at
torneys had him released by
habeas corpus. His release was
approved by the appellate court
January II, and Williams was
rearrested about two weeks
later on the drunk charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
Full ReheorsoIs Begun
For 'Cosi Fan lutte

"Cos fan lutte" the Washington Opera Societys final
production Of the went into full rehearsas at Lsner
Auditorium this week.
The Mozart comic opera play three performances-nex
Monday Tuesday and Thursday Because takes three hours
and 20 minutes, curtain time will be pm each night
The society believes this will be 1.-THE FIRST time 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11

T HE SHOWED THE MAIN
LINE, a four-track stretch
of 400 feet from a point
near the basement of the
Senate wing of the Capitol
to a point under the center
of Constitution avenue.
This stretch of ConStitu-
tion avenue will be torn up
for about four months this
year." he said cheerfully.
They are digging the
mainline tunnel now" he
said. THE green fence
around a portion of the
northeast grounds of the
Capitol is to enclose the
contractors tools. They are
not excavating behind 1t.
Here's the present sub
way tunnel" he said trac-
ing it on the map. ut will
be aban d o n e d-used for
storage space.
las you know, our present
traction system is mono
rail. The new system will be
the conventional double rail.
THE commuter from the
new Senate Office Building
will board a car in the base
ment of that building, zip
undef Constitution avenue
for 800 feet and then make
an exciting turn to the left.
Now he will be coming into
the terminal. Perhaps he will
be abreast of a car making
the run from the old Senate
Office Building. No racing,
mind you, but fun"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
School Board to Submit
SO Million Raise Plan

Major pay District teachers the package
totals about 50 million probably will be their to the
District Building next week.
full District Board of Education again will examine
pay scale - 50 million above the present and
several other items yesterday by board committees
Troubling board the danger that the admittedly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
Proposal Holds Parents
Of DeIinquents Liable
Citizens Advisory Council Debates
Seeking Law on Juvenile Dumuqes

Citizens Advisory Council members today debated pro-
posal seek law holding parents liable for damages resulting
from the acts Of juvenile delinquents.
Herbert Borchardt who offered the proposal complained
caused youthful offenders have to be borne
by the innocent"
He charged that parents Of denquents hrug off, respon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11

substantial increase in salaries
might "jeopardize" any num-
Der Of school projects now UNI
der the inspection Of Congress.
DR.. Rowland F. Kinks. a
board member and chairman
of the Legislative Committee,
bridled once again at the pros
pect Of giving extra pay to
teachers who are engaged In
after hours work.
Two Against Three
DIR. Kinks. Joined by Carl
Smuck. another board men,
Der. voted against the extra
pay plan yesterday. But they
found themselves in the minor
ity as the three members OF
the personnel committee once
again approved the plan. It
will cost $4,000.
DR.. Kinks said that to ask
Congress for extra pay at this
time-a time when the new
pay scale will be presented
was Impractical" and an "un-
sound POLITICAL strategy" He
added the plan will open
"Pandora'S box" allowing all
types of teachers to get extra
pay.
But the full board is ap-
parently in favor of the plan
and the new pay scale. and
both are expected to be finally
approved on Wednesday.
No Action on Minimum
An expected attempt to raise
the minimum for beginning
teachers from the one called
for In the new scale, $4,000. to
5000. backed by the local
Education Association, failed to
materialize at yesterdays meet
ings.
One change was made. The
presidency Of District Teach
ers College was moved into
the Class 2 position in the
scale. It calls for Q starting
salary Of $4,000.
Also approved yesterday.
items which will be included in
the new pay scale, was q $685.
900 item to correct inequities
In the present pay scale: $75,-
900 to raise the per diem rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-11
Sculpture Boarded Up
II Years Is Unveiled

mysterious 1o-foot piece of sculpture that has been
boarded at the Municipal Center for almost II years.
unveiled this week. but it puzzlng out in the open
as 1t was hidden.
Consisting Of two women. a and child dressed in
classical garh the SCULPTURE unfinished
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10
A Brief Note On The -
Meanings Of Brotherhood

subtle, quiet change in the pat
terms Of our everyday life. View
ed over a few decades, the pro-
gress in America seems miracu-
lous.
Any person past 40 years re-
members the patterns of fear,
disgust, hatred and tension that
criss -crossed American social life
in our childhood days. Well, they
are still with us, but they are
disappearing. Neighbors act more
as neighbors should.
This has come about, in part,
because America is better in-
formed, more urbane, m ore
widely travelled than in the past.
Actually, tho, the progress has
deeper meaning than this. Mil
lions of Americans have been re-
examining the ideals they say
they believe. They've had to, be-
cause all ideals, all faiths have
been under violent intellectual
assault in this century of war;
ring ideologies.
The result of such self-exarni-
nation has been a strengthening
of ideals and of faith in the most
essential things. How can the re-
ligious man love God and hate
his brother? The answer is: He
can't if he once stops to think
about the truth he processes.
Wichita (Kan.) Beacon
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10

TO. THE ADVANTAGE OF ALL
An Honest Price Tao

to Senate subcommittee headed
by Senator Mahoney of Okla
homa that while the practice UNI
dermined confidence and FOSTER
ed new-car bootlegging to used
car dealers he had been forced
to condone it in order to enable
his dealers to meet competition
at local levels. One company a.
lone was powerless to correct
the evil, he said.
Perhaps the easiest and quick
est way to break up the racket is
through a law, proposed by Sem
ator Mahoney, requiring every
new car to bear a label showing
the manufacturers suggested
price. A dealer who is not will
ing to show his customer what
the manufactures thinks the pro-
duct is worth does not deserve
the customers business. The
Mahoney bill would make COM
cealment Of the essential fact
conspicuous enough to be UNI
profitable. - St Louis Post-pis-
fn0&chA ~ .s.,se .ss.. 80.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10

All civilized people today talk
in terms of brotherhood And
yet, our society is a long way
from establishing in fact the j.
deal most of US say we believe.
Why is this?
To understand the irrational
hatreds and fears, the discrimina-
tions, the prejudices that become
-FOUR way of life" one needs to
take a look at the basic pattern
of human society =.
Sometimes the thoughtful man,
contemplating the kind of world
he lives in, yields to despair.
Have the centuries taught us
nothing except more expert ways
of killing? The guilt and hoEror
of the Twentieth Century Weighs
heavily in the conscience I hui
mainly.
And yet, progress has been
made toward the ideal of broth
erhood. It is a kind of progress
that men no longer seek to es-
tablish the nature of the Trinity
on the battlefield. It is also a
kind of progress that Americas
wars are fought, not for loot and
slaves, but to protect and extend
the concepts of liberty for all
men.
Mostly, the progress toward
brotherhood can be found in a
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10

People who live in glass houses
are proverbially disadvantaged
for stone throwing contests. This
might have bothered the cave
men if they had discovered how
to make glass. They might have
gone in for contemporary archi-
lecture before perfecting inter-
national safeguards against the
dropping of stone hammers on
one another.
But in these more civilized
times, when atom bombs have
taken the place of paleodthic
persuasion, glass houses may be
just the thing for folk who insist
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10
THOUGH IRRESPONSIBLE
How 10 Be Happy

on throwing their nuclear weight
around. The British Home Office
is reported to have assured a
beverage company that when
sealed in bottles the beverage is
not subject to radioactivity.
This is the best news since the
discovery of golliwollogy. No
need now to worry about the
megaton measurements of the
latest bombs. Just build a little
glass nest, a la Edgar Guest, and
snuggle down while the rest OF
the world goes bang.
sP.S. But don't forget to put
The cork in.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10

A customer ought to be able to
know the actual price of the au-
tomobile he is buying. That is
surely asking little enough. Yet
it is asking more than many au-
tomobile buyers nowadays re-
ceive. To stop deciet about car
prices is the purpose of a grand
jury Investigation which the
United States Department of
Justice has just opened at Wash
ington. The grand jurors are
looking into the practice known
as price packing"
"Price packing" is simplicity
itself. The dealer lies to the Gus
toner about the manufacturers
suggested list price, adding sew
eral hundred dollars so he can
seem to give an excessively high
trade-in on the old car without
actually giving it.
The price packing dodge is
a headache to reputable automo-
bile deaiers and manufa cturers
as It is < customers. Harlow =.
Curtice, president q General
Motors, tSstfied two y64f5 -
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10
IA Book
Review
THE GERMAN PEOPLE OF
NEW ORLEANS, l850-l900

N6W O1lA6kAxN0s lou. lSVU
BY John Fredrick Nau.
E. J. Brill. Leiden. ls4 PIP. $3.50
Like a cross-Section of muscle
tissue, neatly mounted on a slide
for microscopic study, this care
full review of a racial minority in
one American city ties in with
the historic migrations of a VEN
turesome race, whose "Voelker-
wandering" dates to the second
millennium B. c.
Obviously the book was con-
ceived ID the matrix of univer-
sity graduate scholarship. It has
Eau the characteristic formal, in
c1uding the parade Of chapters,
1.-The cnpious footnotes at the bot
tom Of every page, and the COM
EprehensiYe photography at the
end.
The story begins in the middle
of the 10Th century, century in
which five million Germans eros
sed the Atlantic to escape from
Europe, to find in America the
opportunities we now so calmly
take fersgranted. Statistically we
are reminded that in those days
New Orleans was the second
largest port of entry for immi-
grafton. We. are shown graphical
" that the great Mississippi river
system provided "Fine Voelker-
strasse mach dem Weston" So, in
New Orleans they landed = of
tentimes with less than dollar
in their pockets - to 60 and
build cities in America: st. Louis,
Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and the
rest. But some remained in poly
glut New Orleans.
For one generation the culture
Of the old country flourished -
but not too cohesively. There
were Jews and Catholics and
Protestants of all the splinter
varieties. No true spirit of ecu
menity existed among them.
yet loving sociability, they es-
tabiished and supported a wide
range Of singing groups, dramatic
|c1ubs, lodge organizations, and
such like. There were plenty OF
churches, theatres, opera houses,
beer gardens, and newspapers -
all highly articulate in the Ger
man language.
The reader quickly notes that
the German press in New Or
leans would provide material Tor
whole dissertation in itself.
Some papers were of short dura-
ton. Yet there was the "Deu-
tsche Zeitung," founded in l848
and continued for more than half
a century.
Tulane University has not
overlooked the Importance OF the
German colony in New Orleans
during the 10th century. In 1910
two masters theses sketched
over the field. jeanette K. Lagu-
aites wrote on 'The German Ele-
ment in New Orleans, 182O-186O"
and Robinson Conrad traced
1.-THE Diminishing Influences OF
German Culture in New Orleans
Life since 1865" Other theses
are listed.
Dr.. Nau is a minister OF the
Lutheran Church, born OF mis-
sionary parents in 1910 in Mayer
coil. British India. From the age
Of four until 1921 he was q resi-
dent Of Germany, where his
formal schooling began. Then
with his parents and three broth
ers and three sisters he came to
he United States. After q brief
Sfay. q Ohio the family moved to
New Orleans. John attended st.
d61m kntheran Parochial School,
- - =
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10
From San Francisco comes the following story:
Cross on fhe Lawn

Gross on the Lawn
It was 8:35 a. m when little 6year-od Patty Poole
walked outside, waiting for her father to take her TO lo-
modern soat school for another pleasant day her friends
But moment later she rushed back in and said in beWlder
ment: Daddy there's cross on our lawn, all burned
Her father, Havardeducated Assistant District Attor
ney Of San Francisco Cecil Poole, Negro was shocked
Poole, who moved to his nineroom $4,000 home in the
weLtodo white nqesde Terrace neghborhood last Nove-
Der, had had no such trouble before. A
Why is the cross there?" asked Patty.
Said Poole Some Christian has lost his way
Sort Of hate to be one Of those Y told you So persons,
but I've said repeady that the South will rise again have
admit, however, didn't know it would be way out West.
story making the rounds now is about Mr.. Esenhow-
e HAVING been told by his doctors now to read more than
quarerhour each day The reason is that more reading
than that might cause strain on his lips.
When Mr. Roosevelt was President it was said that
American Mothers told their that if they worked hard
and were good boys they might someday grow up TO De
vicepresident After the Ike administration, wonder what
possible excuse American Mothers can give for wanting their
sons to be President
Il was an unkind remark but accurate observation
made the other day by fellow HaesbUrg when he said
TO Friends Wed better watch out here in Mississippi The
first tno anyone knows the whole state is going to be taken
over by Baptsts and bitter weeds"
Actually, was never quite there was difference
.
rmake very few public addresses primarily suppose,
because I'm not asked to make many Also. don't like to
make them don't especially to 90 to the trouble Of
wTno Speech either. But think I've found the key to
on thai score I've decided my greatest trouble has been
trpo 10 stick to the subject at hand but I've come 70
te conclusion that my attitude and idea is qve out Of ds
IL vsslp June congressman named Jamie I Written
.Aassed 4 foilef Fesst4 at Forest Mississppi Moe IS
fContineed Raae y - ne -.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-07-10

While haven't seen this, was told about it by afHend
in New Merit seems the subways carry pacards Carrying
advertising, and they often provide limited amounts
white spaceand riders take the opportunity to write word
or two expressing certain views they hold. 80
Obviously made with rubber stamp, one card Carried
the message several times: Jesus Saves" -,
Directly under the two words, in ink, some heathefn
had written: Green Stamps"
The review by DR.. W W. Stout of Dr. John Nau's book,
THE German People Of New Orleans brings to mind the
fact that Dr. Nav book be purchased locally at Hahons
Book Store Hattiesburg The price is $3.50 Personally t
think its we'll worth the price, DR.. Nau quite scholars.