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Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Roger F0rquh0r

and he can speak with authority not shared by
the appointed office holder The campaigner
learned the hard way.
Montgomery County traditionally has elected
its circuit court judges. And the current Judge
ship campaign has created quite a stir. Some
have expressed dismay that the incumbent judge
has been reduced to actively campaigning, shak-
ing hands, passing out campaign literature and
talking to voters Is this bad? Why is it wrong
for him to be acutely aware-a as he assuredly is
at this point-that it's the people who are the
boss? If the judge must be elected, how can
he be blamed for campaigning? To do so is
being naive and again, unrealistlc
AS for school board members, the county fol-
lowed the appontive method until 1852. Then
it began to elect them. So far r. in three cam
paigns ~ the system has worked we'll The two
big parties have kept hands off and there is every
reason to believe they will continue to do so The
campaigns have been non-partisan in every sense
of the word. Only one of the 19 candidates in
the current race is an active political partisan
The rest are individuals with strong ideas on
how the school system should be run
Some saying the system we now follow
in selecting our circuit court judges and school
board members that is the elective system
is on trial. Judges shouldn't have to campaign
they say and they argue that appointed school
board members of higher caliber than those
who are willing to submit to politicatype cam
pagn. Both arguments have little merit. Let's
keep on electing them. That way they're a whole
lot more responsive and better informed
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Ripe, Juicy Plum

In the current race for Judge
for the Circuit Court of Mont
gomery County, the opponent of
the sitting Judge appears to be
using a demogogic tactic that
flies in the face of the very fun
damental principles of our repre-
sentative form of government. 1t
has been a maxim, since the very
be ginnings S of representative
forms of government that:
'If you want representa-
ton, you ELECT; if you want
technical knowledge or spe-
cial ability, you APPOINT"
This principle has been ad-
vanced by all of the Bar Associa-
tions regarding judgeships, they
advocating the appointment rath-
er than the election of judges.
Judge Reeves, the sitting Judge,
is being opposed by man who
is acting in direct contradiction
to the Bar Association in these
efforts. He has been attempting
to blind the voters with a slogan
of Elect your own Judge, do
not accept political appointees,
alluding to the fact that Judge
Reeves was appointed to office
by the Governor, after full consid-
Grafton of his qualifications.
Judge Reeves high order OF
legal and judicial ability is borne
out by the fact that only one
other Judge in the entire State
of Maryland, Judge Thomas M.
Anderson, has a better record,
based on the number of decisions
upheld in higher courts.
Judge Reeves opponent has
cited, or at least others have
cited in his behalf, that the op-
ponent has vast experience in
handling State Roads Commits
sion condemnation cases. This is
very true. The reason for this is
that zoning cases 60 almost ex-
clusively to Democratic attorneys.
The decision as to which attor-
neys will be given these cases IS
decided by the Attorney General.
Maryland has not had a Republi-
can Attorney General since 1895.
The ripe, juicy plums from this
tree, in the form of fat fees paid
by the State, are dropped to the
party faithful from a tree fertil-
lied exclusively by donkeys.
w. A. DUNCAN.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Lila Thomson

since BoZell then was laboring under more than
an impression he was to be fed to the wolves.
The letter of party support for BOzelI
went out to Mrs. Allen and others but failed
to mention the possibility of interim appoint
ment and later seating. II merely said seat
ing would be in the hands of the General
Assembly. No telephone call was made to
Candidate BOzell.
AS some party members see II, Sculps letter
condemned with faint praise and left party work
ers dangling and without enthusiasm for a candi-
date who might not be able to take his seat, IL
elected Still others saw the Scull action and the
snubbing Of Bozell as the kiss Of death for can
ddate who never had been too pleasing to the
chairman.
Scull also is in the hot seat with the State
Party. Even the starryeyed among Scull follow
asking why the chairman was conspicuous
by his absence during the anything but triumphant
tour made by State COP brass here last week.
His only appearance was on the platform at the
so-called COP rally No arrangements were made
to provide dinner for the touring Republicans
and Mrs. Dorothy Aubnoe finally saved the day
by taking them home to dinner. Scull did not
attend. u S. Senator Beall and gubernatoral cam
ddate Devereux made secret of the fact they
were teed off at Sculls sights and downright
annoyed at Sculls failure to contact them prior
to their entering the County.
1t should be added that the 10 persons pres
ent at the Big COP rally which followed Mrs
Aubinoe's hasty dinner party-an attendance fig
ure which included candidates, wives, relatives
and party workers did nothing to redeem Mr..
Scull to State COP brass and less than nothing
to raise the begged spirit Of the unorganized Re-
publican workers.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Homework Needed

A NYONE who has ever taken a cursory
~ interest in the county school board cam
paign to date should know by this time that
a principal point in the whole thing seems
to be this:
Should the present system be continued
pretty much along the same lines with i'm
provements here and there where they can
be accomplished or should there be major
working over of the whole system?
There is nothing particularly surprising
about this. The school board campaign has
followed the classic political pattern with the
"ins" and like-minded candidates, defending
the record and the "outs," including in this
case two incumbents who have been consist
emily voted down by the five-member major
ity, attacking the record as strongly as they
can.
The label of liberal" has been given to
the present majority bloc of the school board
and its supporters. And the tag of "con-
servative" has been pinned on the two rebel
incumbents along with several challengers
who consider themselves as conservatives"
There has been ample opportunity for
the voter to see in almost all cases which
candidate deserves which label If he hasn't
yet done so there is still time.
The liberal camp must try to counter
long-smouldering resentment on the part of
many parents who feel that our professional
educators have, in some courses, lost sight
of all-important fundamentals.
The conservatives have lost prestige in
the eyes of those parents who don't want
the educational clock turned back 80 or more
years.
In some cases the labels of liberal" and
conservative" are deserved but in others the
candidate is closer to the middle than he is
to the extremes and this places an additional
burden on the voter to find out which is
which so he can vote accordingly.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
School Elections

In recent weeks quite few per-
sons on both sides of the Potomac
have expressed themselves in such
a manner as to imply that ap.
pointed school boards were much
more common than elected"
boards.
/ have been intrigued by these
questions so did little research.
/ found that literally hundreds of
articles have appeared in the
popular and scholarly magazines
in recent years on our public
schools. The two that dealt most
authoritatively on the methods of
selection of school boards were
one published last year by the
u. S. Office Of Education entitled
Provisions Governing the Mem
bership on Local Boards of Edu-
cation" and the April 1916 Bull
letin of the Research Division Cl
the National Education Associa-
ton entitled Status and Practices
of Boards of Education"
The Office of Education Report
summarizes the subject in this
fashion: "The most common
method of selecting local school
board members is by popular elec.
ton. This method is used either
exclusively or in certain districts
in AZ states. In 33 of these states
all school board members covered
by the general statutes are elected
by popular vote. In the other nine
states most boards are chosen by
this method. In comparing the
widespread use of this method
with the number of districts in
the 4S states, it can be reliably
estimated that more than 50 per-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Letters to the Editor

wrote in the October 16, 1858
Sentinel:
Reeves name was among
those included in a list sent
by the Montgomery County
Bar Association to the Cover
nor when he requested such
list of lawyers qualified for
the judgeship when that post
was vacated by Judge Wood
ward"
Mr.. Reeves was not on that list.
Mr.. Pugh was top man on that
list. None of those four best law
yers were appointed by politician
McKeldin. And what happened to
Mr.. Reeves? Tar Baby McKeldin,
with a flourish of his wand,
turned Brer Rabbit Reeves into a
photogenic sitting judge.
MT. Reeves never even took the
Md. Bar Examinations but came
to Maryland IN 1889 to practice
law and play politics, chiefly for
Davis and McKeldin. Mr.. Pugh
worked by day to help support his
widowed mother and family, at
tended law school at night, passed
the d. c. bar exams in 1880,
passed the Md. bar exams in 1882,
and practiced law in Maryland to
become top man on the first list
of qualified lawyers sent by the
Montgomery County Bar Associa-
ton to the Governor.
Sumner Wool
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
Letter from Lutes

shall always be grateful to
my fellow bankers of Montgom-
cry County for their support of
the United States Savings Stamp
program by defraying expens-
es of the large advertisement,
which will appear in each of the
Montgomery County newspapers.
1t is heartening to note that DR..
c. Taylor Whittier, Superintend-
ent of School of Montgomery
County, has appointed Miss Ellen
Schwartz as Thrift Chairman for
the asury Departments
Stamp Program in the county
schools. 1t is likewise encourag-
ing to learn that Mr.. Pat Holt,
President of the Montgomery
County Council of PTA's, has
agreed to bring the matter of sell
ing saving stamps throughout
the school system to the attention
of the Council, with a view to en-
couraging regular thrift habits in
the children of the county.
The Treasury Department has
a job of keeping the Savings
Bond Program before all of our
people. The reasons of this are,
of course, obvious, but l feel that
everyone who takes part in reg.
ular thrift program is first of all
helping himself, and secondly, he
is helping our country. ! am
pleased to see you and your news
papers lending your support to
all phases of the Savings Bond
Program.
Fred Lutes,
Chairman, Montgomery
County Savings Bond
Program
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23

cent Of all local school boards are
elected by popular vote. School
board members are appointed in
some or all districts in - states.
In six of these states Georgia,
Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
all (schooD district boards are ap.
pointed, excepting those where
special legislation provides other.
wise" (Montgomery County is
one where special Legislation put
our school board on an elective
basis.J
The Research Bulletin of the
National Education Association
reported in 1916: approximately
s. percent of the school boards
covered by this study are elected
by popular vote. This is true for
both city and non-city boards"
From these studies it is clear
that the big majority Of the school
boards of all 48 states are Sc
lected by popular vote and that
percentagewise they increased
from 50 to more than % in the
IL years from 1916 TO 1857.
don't think this means that elec.
ton of school boards by popular
vote automatically guarantees the
best kind Of a public school sys.
tenn. On the other hand, IL Is
pretty difficult TO imagine a good
school system where the public
is apathetic, indifferent. Appar.
emily, then, speaking generally,
public education Is so much the
concern Of the average American
community that it has become the
almost universal practice to select
our school boards by popular
vote.
Roy c. jacobson
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
County Plans
Parkway Study

County police and traffic en-.
gineers from the Department of
Public Works one day soon will
stop motorists briefly in a 12-hour
test on Little Falls Parkway at
Dorset ave, Bethesda, TO deter
mine future traffic needs for the
area.
Motorists will be asked the fol
lowing questions: Where did your
trip begin, where will it end, its
purpose Ito work, from work,
shopping or other), and is this
a daily trip?
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23

The Reeves camp shouts: tell
the whole truth What truth?
About that first list OF our four
best lawyers? It grieves me to
retell what Reeves supporter
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-23
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08

dian Police and Mrs. Ashley
were hosts st dinner Tues
day for the Mayhews. The
inspector is the Royal Cana
dian Police representative on
the Embassy staff here. Their
other guests were chiefs Of
the United States Army,
Navy and Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Robert A. Schow,
assistant chief of the United
States Army, and Mrs. Schow
win give the final party for
Col. and Mrs. Mayhem en-
tertaining at dinner June 81
in the Officers Club at Fort
Lesley j. McNair. Col. and
Mrs. Allan will share honors
with the Mayhews.
Colleagues of Col. Mayhem
among the foreign attaches
here who are honoring them
before they leave include the
Indian Military and Naval
Attache and Mrs. r. N. Batra
who will give a dinner for
them June Is. The Chinese
Military Attache and Mrs.
Fu-Ning Lu also are enter
tanning at dinner for them
and will be hosts Thursday.
Mrs. r. A. Hay. wife of the
Australian Military Attache,
is to be hostess at a luncheon
for Mrs. Mayhem June l8.
E. M. d.
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AUTOMATICALLY SPEAKING
Former Envoy, Vito
Are Back in Town
BY AMELIA YOUNG
star stan writer

One Of Australia's most
distinguished couples. the
Chief Justice. Sir owen Dix
on. and Lady Dixon are Wis
iting in Washington this
week end after an absence
Of i've years.
Sir Owen, who has been a
member of Australians High
Court since 1929. took a leave
of absence from 1912 to 1914
to serve as Chief of the Aus
tralian Mission here. He then
returned to the bench and
in 1852 became the Chief
Justice.
In 1850 he was appointed
United Nations mediator in
the Kashmir dispute between
India and Pakistan and in
1855. "for services to the adj
vancement of mankind" Sir
Owen was awarded the Henry
Rowland Memorial Prize by
Yale University.
The Chief Justice will be
paid further tribute on this
trip. He leaves tomorrow for
Boston, Mass, and Harvard
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hostess at a sherry party
for Mrs. Mayhem.
Fellow countrymen Of the
Mayhews in Washington have
clamored for dates to enter
tain them but time is too
short for all. However, wives
Of members Of the Canadian
army staff here are planning
a luncheon Thursday for Mrs.
Mayhem to be given in the
Officers Club at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital. And the AS
sistant Military Attache at
the Embassy and Mrs. r. J.
Graham have set June 20 for
a dinner party for the May
hews.
More Fetes
The Chairman of the Ca
madam Joint Staff and Mrs.
H. Alan Sparkling are having
a reception for the Mayhews
June l6 in their home on
Forest lane. Inspector George
Ashley Of the Royal Cana
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oxford University, ana there
receive an honorary Doctor
of Civil Law degree.
The Dixons arrived in
Washington Friday evening.
Last night they were hon
ored by their hosts. the Aus
tralian Ambassador and Mrs.
Beale. at a black-tie dinner
party in the Embassy.
The guests included the
Chief Justice and Mrs. War
rem. the New Zealand Am
bassador and Lady Munro.
Justice Frankfurter, Justice
and Mrs. Douglas, the Attor-
ney General and Mrs. Rogers.
the Director Of the Central
Intelligence Agency and Mrs.
Allen Dulles and former
Ambassador to Australia and
Mrs. Amos Peaslee.
The Beales have invited
IL or IA more guests for a
luncheon today, also in Chief
Justice and Lady Dixon's
honor.
ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC
DINNER last night was that
given by the Indian Charge
d'Affaires and Mrs. Dayal in
their Woodland-dri resi-
dence.
Justice and Mrs. Brennan
attended this black-tie party
and other guests were the
Yugoslav Ambassador and
Nine. Mates, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus Ching, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Deane, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs and Mrs.
Glenn Emmons, the Deputy
Director of the Office of
South Asian Affairs, State
Department, and Mrs. Armin
Meyer and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ferdinand Kuhn.
4 y 4 4
KAMIL ABDUL RAHIM,
who was the Egyptian AM
baSsador here from 1948 to
1858 and is now the Ambas-
sador of the League of Arab
States to the United Nations,
will be coming to town a week
from Tuesday for the OPEN
ing of the Arab Information
Center in Washington.
He and DR.. Hussein Kamel
Selim will be hosts at a
party to mark the occasion
in the Sheraton-Park Hotel
that evening.
DR.. Selim, an outstanding
Egyptian educator and
former Vice President of
Cairo University, will be the
director of the center. His
last post at home was Under
Secretary in the Ministry of
National Guidance. For the
past two months, he has been
making a goodwill lecture
tour of the United States
as a representative of the
Arab League.
The League already has in
formation centers in New
York and Chicago. The
center here will be an Office
in the Dupont Building at
Dupont circle NV.
4 4 X 4
THE MER CON-
WANDER IN CHIEF of the
Nepalese army, General Sir
Behadur Shumshere Rama,
G. B. E., and Mrs. Rama will
be paying their first call on
America, and Washington,
later this month.
General Rama, the son of
| the late Maharaja Jooda and
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grandfather of the Queen
of Nepal, and his wife are ex-
pected in New York on the
oath. They will then come
here to spend two weeks as
the house guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Scott of Rock
vile, Md, who are good
friends and fellow tiger
hunters.
The SCOTS will give a re-
ception for the Ranas on
their first Sunday here (the
29th) and also plan to take
them sightseeing. The gen.
eral has expressed a desire to
see as much as possible, in
GLIDING the President-Mrs.
Scott said she wonders how
she'll swing that!
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NeighbOrhOOd Party

Another n Gig h borho o d
party is set for June 81 when
Col. and Mrs. Cullen will be
hosts in their home at dinner
followed by bridge for Col.
and Mrs. Mayhem.
Time is too short to permit
the Mayhews accepting all
the invitations for farewell
fetes which started as far
back as May "a when the
Netherlands Military Attache
and Nine. Rothuizen were
hosts at dinner for them.
June 10 will be a very full
day for Mrs. Mayhem, what
with packing, etc. There is
a luncheon for her to be given
by Nine. van den Hout, wife
of the assistant Military At
tache of the Netherlands
Embassy and later that day
Mrs. Arthur Halpin will be
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DIX OWIIN DINOIN
:. back in town.
University, where he will re-
ceive an honorary doctor of
laws degree. Later in his
world tour, he will stop at
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SERVICE NOTES
Party Circuit Is Busy
For the Mayhews
SERVICE NOTES

Col. Earle c. Mayhem,
Military Attache of the Cana
dian Embassy, has been
transferred to duty in OF
tawa and with Mrs. May
hew and their family will
leave Washington June 28.
Coming to replace Col. May
hew is Col. John B. Allan;
in fact the two men are ex-
changing posts. Col. and Mrs.
Allan are expected in WASH
ington from Ottawa on June
rs.
The day after their arrival
Col. and Mrs. Mayhem are
giving a reception from $50
TO $3.50 pm. in the head
quarters of the Canadian
Joint STAFF at 2450 Massa-
chusetts avenue. The party
is ito say goodbye and intro
duce" Col. and Mrs. Allan.
The Mayhews live in
Ravenwood, Falls Church.
Va, and are very popular
with all their neighbors, so
much so that five of the
ladies there-Mrs. Paul s.
Cullen. Mrs. o. w. Lunde,
Mrs. Samuel Daniels, Mrs.
Robert George and Mrs.
Joseph M. Creed-gave a
luncheon Tuesday for Mrs.
Mayhem in the Hotel WASH
ington. Only Ravenwood
residents were in the COM
pany.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-15

eWhence is it that SO many
people, together with their iistie
children. should be delivered TO
death eternal through the fail OF
ADAM. unless it should please
Cod. So what?
The Founder Of Methodism,
John Wesley said: Giving up
witchcraft is, in effect, giving up
the Bible"
The Founder of the Protestant
branch of Christianity. Martin
Luther, taught, "In my own
country. upon a high mountain
called Poltersberg, there is
pool. If one throws stone into
it. Instantly, a strom arises and
the whole surrounding country
side is. overwhelmed by it. There
the Devil gives himself up to all
kinds. of infamous practices.
Snakes and monkeys are subject
ed to the demon more than other
animals. Satan lives in them and
possesses them" What Great
Men think of Religion by Ira D.
Cardiff)
Well. it Just boils down to this:
Religion is like an old violin.
You can play any kind OF a tune
on it that anyone wants to hear.
and il has not improved too
much since Seneca. The Roman
Philosopher. BIC. TO A.D. IS.
wrote: Religion is regarded by
the common people as true. by
the wise as false. and by the
rulers sas useful"
There are two things that not
even God can afford to be truth
full about: Himself and the
church.
Robert Ingersoll once said:
s'Nothing has the same prospect
of longevity as a good religious
lie" He must have been reading
Saint Paul-Romans 81; For III
the truth hath more abounded
through my lie unto his glory,
why yet am I also judged as
sinner"
When PauPs partner in the
cloth Fetus said: paul thou art
beside myself, too much learn
ing hath made thee mad Paul
had to brag on his trade in stock
said he - End Cor. 12:16; being
crafty I caught you with guile.
Just what would Christianity
be without this Paul?
There are, those who have call
ed such people of higher learning
as Spencer, Darwin and Huxley
fools, but this only places them
on a par with Blessed Paul who
said. tst Cor. 90; For | deter
mined not to know anything
among you, save Jesus and him
crucified." They too, could be
ignorant from the same cause.
O. C. Marthaler
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And dom there amt audience (as well as
gold in them thar religious hills pardner Cecil B. De-
Miles religious movies have reached audience of 35
billion people, To do this I'm afraid he had to throw IN
several hundred thousand extras of elephants
carnels and dancing girls rebuild the Pyramids and in
undae Claudette Colbert in bathtub of asses milk
"Once you have the and the asses milk there's
really nothing to it, suppose.
"Just to get the spirit, of the broadcasters
supplied the following list of Biblical quotations for
program managers:
Summer slump: "All was vexation OF spirit and
there was no profit under the SUM-. (Ecces. 2ll)
"The boss relatives 'There those who walk a.
mong YOU working not at ALL" (Thessaonans 3:lI "7
"Office party: "Who has wounds without cause? Who
has redness eyes? They that tarry long at the wne
proverbs 23:29)
"Saff meeting "Many shall run to and fro but shall
knowledge be increased" Daniel 12D
"For passing the buck: Friend, go up higher. Quke