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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
ST GAZING
By FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS

MARRIAGE AND THE
ECONOMY-n the current re-
cession continues. q slide in the
population growth the Nation
has been experiencing probably
will start next year.
This opinion on a factor Of
tremendous Importance to the
economy comes from Pascal
K. WhelpSon, director Of the
Scripps Foundation for Re-
search in Population Problems
at Miami University.
If the economy makes a
speedy recovery. however, the
United States may ride the
crest of the present population
wave until 1865 or 1870, Mr..
Whelpton said in a speech pre-
pared for a meeting Of the Ma
tional Industrial Conference
Board in New York.
Continuation Of the present
population trend means the
formation Of many more fam
lilies who must have homes
and furniture. Il means more
mouths to feed and ultimately
more people In the labor force.
Slide Coming-Mr. Whelpton
sees the population curve as a
wave with crests and troughs.
He believes that even If the
present population wave is
maintained to 1865 or 1870, a
slide into another trough merely
will be postponed. The trend
toward younger marriages and
earlier childbearing cannot
continue indefinitely.
Even If the proportion who
marry and have babies rela-
lively young stabilizes at q new
normal there will be q SUBJ
stantial decline in marriage
rates and birth rates." he OBJ
serves.
UNLESS the present recession
is checked there may not even
be sterilization at q new nor
NAL but rather q movement
part way back to the former
pattern Of older age at mar
riage and slower timing Of
children after marriage. This
will cause a large drop in the
rates Of births and population
growth"
EIGHTHS vs.. TENTHS -
Many have wondered why the
stock exchanges buy and sell
shares in fractions Of an eighth
rather than in fractions more
easily handled by the decimal
system.
The why" is not apparent.
It may go back to when the
dollar was informally divided
into eighths or "bits." But the
practice Is an old one. Fifty
years ago the stock quotations
in The Star we're in eighths.
According to the New York
Stock Exchange the question
Of q change has come UP many
times. In 1851 it was explored
at length. The upshot was that
a change would involve sub
stantial practical problems.
The feeling then was that the
advantages Of a system more
easily handled with decimals
were outweighed by the con-
siderable expense involved in
converting the mechanical
equipment Of the industry.
More recently the subject
came up with q complete sur
vey of New York Stock Ex-
change facilities by Ebasc
Services. But a. the years hs/
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
John Wells Is Promoted
BY Johnson g. Adams

John Wells has been elected q
vice president and life and PEN
sion department manager for
Johnson g. Adams. insurance
underwriting firm.
A native Of Washington. he
has been in the life insurance
business eight years and Joined
the firm five years ago. He be-
came life department super
visor i'm 1857.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
Britain and Italy
Sturt Impressively

LONDON, May Is (P:-Brit'
ain. Italy and Denmark. three
strong contenders for the Euro
pean Zone Davis Cup title, took
20 leads yesterday in second
round matches, Britain ovel
Brazil. Italy over India anc
Denmark against Czechoslova.
kia.
Poland led Switzerland, 10
before rain halted play anc
France and Chile we're tied al
Ii.
Britain and Italy we're most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16

passed. greater mechanization
Of bookkeeping has made it
harder to change the system to
which the machines are gear
ed. It is not difficult for the
machines to translate 105s
into $10.621a or $l0.625e
The machines do the .figur-
ing. One broker remarked that
there are good reasons for
quotations in tenths. but
equally good reasons for not
making the change.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
'' 3 BUSINESS
Woodward 8 Lothrop
Profits Up l5.3 Pct.
BY DONALD u. HArLEY
star Financial Editor

An interim report from Woodward Lohrop today showed
that net profit has increased at more than twice the rate Of
highly satisfactory sales
Unaudited earnings for So weeks ended May rose 10
S2iO234e an Of 1873 per from 81 s2eess
IN So weeks ended April o. 1887 reported c. Robert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
ABA and League Differ
On Loan Guarantee

The American Bankers AS
ISOLATION and the United States
Savings and Loan League took
opposing views. yesterday on a
proposal to create a privately
financed Federal Home Mort
gage Guarantee Corp, as part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
d. C. Bank Debts Down
ga Per Cent From 1857

Washington banks debts
Jagged ga per cent behind a
year ago In the first -four
months Of this year. the Fed
eral Reserve Board disclosed
today.
The four months total OF
IS, TOT. 796, 900 compared with
$6.196.1 10000 in the same 1851
period.
April debts Of 81. 470,2 03. 00C
were UP seasonally from $1,450
488 in the previous month, but
were down 8.4 per cent from
$1,605. $4,000 in April last year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
Capital Bankers See
Reserve Bank Operations

Reserve Bank Operations
Eleven Washington bank Of
f1cers are visiting the Federal
Reserve Bank Of Richmond
this month to study its oper-
atoms.
The first session was held
Tuesday and Wednesday Of thi;
week and a second has been
scheduled for the same days
next week.
Attending the sessions are:
Donald e. Doyle and Raymond
E. Sparks, Lincoln National;
Raymond Hoffman, Munsey
Trust: Arlo Sheldahl and Mil
lard s. Yeatman, National Bank
Of Washington: w. Z. williams
McLachlen Banking; Douglas
r. Smith and J. Russell Boil
ton. National Savings 81 Trust;
Harry M. Schoenly, Riggs Ma
tional; Fulton H. Dixon, Sc
curity Bank; Chester B. Selner,
American Security.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27

THE SLOW STEADY PULL -
Progress in race relations may
at times be slow and at other
times there may be spurts for
ward. but on the whole the dlrec-
ton is upward.
Just recall these facts:
After recent bombings, GA
ministers in Tennessee comment
ed in an open letter:
"The bombers in their frenzy,
have sensed a truth-that tn e
church and the synagogue are
the ultimate enemies of evil and
hatred. Our faith is built upon
the rock of conviction that all
men are created equal because
thew are created in the image OF
God"
When men will risk their ca
reers to say such things, there IS
reason to rejoice.
And north of the Mason-DlX-
on line, when violence broke Out
in a suburb of Pittsburgh recent
w. white men also gave an al
firmative answer to the race
baiters. The new home Of Negro
Charles Miller was smeared ana
smashed by racists. Immediately
the American Legion, Lions Cluo
the Board of Trade and other
groups in nearby BeechvieW
bought materials and helped 40
repaint job.
MANY A TRUTH SPOKEN LIN
JEST-Did it ever occur to you
that Cows. Faubus of Arkansas
and Almond of Virginia may
really want to keep the schools
closed? Why? Well it could be
they figure it's a sure way to
get themselves reelected for
life? If they can keep the. voters
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27
Potomac

such reactions are irrational and
based on lack of knowledge. But
when community will punish
itself. as so per cent of the Nor
folk voters did, YOU cannot quite
write it off with such simple OBJ
Servations.
Make no mistake about it, the
Norfolk vote has given the die
hard hackers of segregation a
new lease on life, just as the Lit
tie Rock defeat of Congressman
Brooks Hays likewise encourag-
ed the extremists. But to those
Southern moderates who may
feel discouraged and regard the
situation as hopeless, | pass on a
comment recently made by Ne
gro friend of mine.
Don't you feel pretty down
hearted when you watch what's
happening in this country" l
asked.
F.Not at ALL" he answered. "You
must realize that we Negroes
have lived in this country as sec
ond class citizens, or worse, for
some 800 years. It's less than a
hundred years ago that there was
any recognition of the fact that
we have any rights.
Nowadays, when / walk down
the street and white man looks
at my dark skin ! think to my
self, That man is thinking about
me- That's the big result of the
Supreme Court decision. 1t has
made that white man think about
me-"
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27

already caused me trouble Ny working title was courtesy OF
Onin Alfred You Can't Get There From Here And now Joe
ups and says il won't do that last year Ogden Nash had
book of by that title Just think And we haven't even
started suspect the title will be The Magnolia Jungle.
but am not sUre
But alas the seepIess nights 90 on and on and can
March, 1889 rushing up with disgusting speed And I've
vision of court room and side Joe and on the
other side sit explaining that didn't think they were SER
ous about that date And its always such nasty business
when friends 90 10 coUr keep wondering whose side Mark
Ethdge will be on. Fact u.s. think the whole thing his
fault
In all sincerely I'm most grateful TO those of you who have
paid your three bucks for this lousy paper and haven't com
planned And to those of you who have complained 10 hell
One can only hope the manuscript will be better written
than this column!
AT Keeser Air Force Base there is young man. Rabbi
Frederick Esenberg, who is friend OF NINE Recently IN
the base paper the Rabbi wrote the following, titled: ARE
YOU ALONE? To be sUre don't understand if, but liked II
Just the same. Perhaps you will, too.
am alone learned this Locke the philosopher
am alone learned this from Adam learned this from
all the teachers rugged ndvdua crossed the ocean and
pathway in the wilderness with my own muscles
and my self reliance need else am alone elt II
first Mister my mother began to love little sister,
then felt alone also when was sixteen years oo
Mister My and mother understood my language
tell you lie that people speak to each other and
understand The talk about love glbberls we
are al alone -
happen however Mister truth in solitary
prison in his solitary prison behind walls
and behind bars blind the truth am
alone know that people and run to all
kinds things to drink to pomlscuy to SEX TO all xmas
of false and deceptive fellowship the fellowship of the miserable
and the unhappy who trying to gam some wa11
around the cold hearth their isolation don't like people,
Mister. they the truth? ! am alone.
am alone God somewhere, don't quite know
where 1t may when walking down the street
past that where they making steel ana IRON 1or
Or walked past those laboratories All
know lost somewhere and the fog IS COM
ing in dark everywhere used to love the sun as
bright mirror of that mirror longer Men
and women everywhere running running to neon signs
lost Him don't have hand to cling to any
more lost am lost without God You are lost we are
all lost.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27

lea?
| v. p: am sorry. sir. was re-
lying on the Richmond News
Leader of July 4, 1858. But read
the rest of your own paragraph,
Mr.. Jefferson. You declared that
'as free and independent states,
they" - note the plural - chad
full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, estab-
lish commerce and to do all other
acts and things which indepen-
dent States may of right do"
Was it not in your mind that
Virginia, or Massachusetts,, had
the sovereign power of making
treaties?
Jefferson: The same thing was
in my mind that ! caused to be
placed in my instructions as min
lister to France: That these United
States be considered in all such
treaties and in every case arising
under them as one Nation, upon
the principles of the Federal Con-
stitution.
V.P.: But there was no Federal
Constitution at that time.
jefferson: We thought there
was - the Articles of Confedera-
ton.
V. p: Gen. Washington, you
surely do not agree with this.
How were the states regarded in
other countries during the Revo-
luton?
Washington: We were known
/ bv no other character among ma
lions than as the United States.
Massachusetts or Virginia was no
better defined nor any more
thought of by foreign powers than
the county of Worcester in Massa-
chusetts was by Virginia, or
Gloucester county in Virginia was
by Massachusetts.
v. P: Do you mean, sir, that
nobody agreed with the interpre-
tation l have made?
Washington: On the contrary,
there were very distinguished SUI
pporters of your contention both
| in Europe and America.
v. P: / thought so. Who were
they?
Washington: The most disting-
ushed was King George III, VINO
issued proclamation decrying
"the present rebellion within the
said colonies respectively" On
this side of the ocean, the British
commanders chief addressed a
letter ito George Washington, Es-
uuire." l deemed it duty to my
country and my appointment to
sent it back unopened. Lord
Howe thereafter addressed me as
Gen. Washington, etc. etc. etc., "
explaining that the ampersands
were intended to indicate my po-
sition in the Army of the United
States.
". P: All, but that concerned
your military leadership of COM
bined forces. Mr.. Madison, did
YOU as a civilian regard yourself
during the Revolution as cltl-
zen of the United States or of the
sovereign and independent State
of Virginia in which you were
born?
Madison: / was born in a Bril-
fish colony. Do you know any
thing about Henry Laurens?
! V. P: Who doesn't? The dying
hero who cried, Don't give up
the ship"
Madison: That was James Law
renee. Henry Laurens was a
South Carolinian, former Presl-
dent of the Continental Congress,
appointed American Minister to
Holland but captured at sea and
imprisoned in the Tower of Lon
don. He petitioned the House of
] Commons for his release. This
petition was stated as coming not
from citizen of the = United
States but native of South Caro-
lima
v. P: Exactly my idea.
A
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27
Virginia Speaks

the feelings of those unhappy
people by a separation OF man
and wife, or of families.
". P: Mr.. Madison, you wrote
that protection of property rights
was the strongest motive IN pol
tics. How did you look upon
your slaves?
Madison: I regarded them as
members of the family.
V. p: Did you call them that?
Madison: Certainly. l recall
writing once to my father: The
family have been pretty well
since you left us except Anthony
". p have read that letter
in your collected writings. There
is an editors foot note saying;
Ellis brother Anthony"
Madison: l had no brother An
thony.
V. P: If black men were really
encompassed in the theoretical
principles of American indepen-
dence, why did the establish
ment of it have no effect on their
situation in Virginia?
Madison: Oh, but it did. A hall
century later their actual condl-
ton was better beyond comparl-
son than it was before the Rev
olution. They were better fed,
better clad, better lodged and
better treated in every respect.
V. P: Are you ascribing that
TO the establishment of indepen-
dence?
Madison: One cause was Mr.
Jefferson's breaking up OF great
estates through abolition of en-
tail and primogeniture, but i
should set down, first, the sensl-
bility to human rights and SYM
pathy with human sufferlngs ex-
cited and cherished by the dis
cussions preceding the establish
ment of independence, and the
spirit of the institutions growing
out of that event.
Washington: After the Revolu-
ton I never meant (unless some
particular circumstance should
compel me to iD to possess an
other slave by purchase.
V. P: This is all very inter
esting, but I'd like to shift to
much more important aspect OF
the Declaration of independence
its bearing on the lndepen-
dence and sovereignty of the
sovereign and independent State
of Virginia. I'm sure you all Will
agree-you, Gen. Washington, as
commander-in chief of the arm
les of independence; you -Mr,
Jefferson, as author of the Dec
laration, and you, Mr.. Madison,
as Father of the Constitution -
that there was no such thing in
1776 as the United States Of Am
erica.
ashin gton, Jefferson and
Madison in chorus: What are you
saying?
V. P: Merely what you must be
we'll aware of, that your immor-
tai Declaration of independence,
Mr.. Jefferson, did not hail the
birth of a sovereign nation. 1t
asserted the existence of ID IN
dependent sovereign states which
were combined into nation by
the Constitution of 1887.
Madison: To be sure, that doc
ument established national SUI
premacy which had been lacking
before, but what leads you to say
that there was no United States
of America in 1776?
v. P: l say so on the authority
of Thomas Jefferson.
jefferson: This is interesting.
Please go on.
". P: You no doubt will recall,
sir. that in the original manu-
script of your Declaration OF IN
dependence, the members Of
CONGRESS are termed ''represen-
tatives of the United States OF
America" The word united" as
If appears there in your own
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27
v. P: Did you say so at the


private citizen of the United
States but coming from a man
commissioned to represent the
sovereignty of these United States
the effect was TO deny the SOW
ereignty Of the country he was
appointed to represent.
". p: That was fine, high
sounding language, but -
Madison: Exactly what the
South Carolina delegates in Con-
gress replied.
v.P.: All ha! Trust South Caro-
linai
Madison: II was true. they said,
that Laurens did not call him.
self a citizen of the free and in
dependent states of America. but
what member of Congress would
have done better after Ia months
of Imprisonment. illness, solitude
and deprivation?
". p: Your language seems TO
make him a citizen of IS states.
Madison: OF course. The 3
United States of America.
V. p: That. gentlemen. elinches
my argument. The IS United
States are not the name of ma
ton.
Washington: Do you not refer
today TO the 4a United States?
jefferson: 40.
V. p: That is different and 7
will prove il. Look at the word
ing of the 1888 peace treaty with
England and what do you find?
1t is declared TO be a treaty en-
tered into by the United States OF
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, and so on, right
down to and beyond the inde-
pendent and sovereign State OF
Virginia. How do you explain
that if we were one nation?
Madison: My dear fellow, how
else could our commissioners
combat the doctrine of uti posi-
detis?
V. p: Uti - you think that en-
tered into il?
Madison: think IT, Why, Geor-
gia and South Carolina were in a
panic over il after the battle of
Camden. when they heard that
Catherine of Russia proposed
American independence on that
basis.
v. P: What is the doctrine, ex-
actly?
Jefferson: It means that each
side keeps the territory that is IN
its possession.
Washington: Failure TO name
the states might have cost us
parts of Georgia, South Carolina,
New York. Maine and the North
west Territory.
Madison: Congress met the
danger, right at the outset, by
giving notice of the utter imprac-
ticability of our acceding to any
treaty of peace on the principles
of a uti possidetis, or on any 9TH
er terms than an express or taclt
acknowledgment of the sovereign
ty of each and every part OF the
10 states. We authorized the sign
ing of treaties consistent with the
dignity and sovereignty of the
United States as a free and IN
dependent nation.
V. P: Admitting all this, what
power did the Continental Con-
gress have at that time? What
power did it ever have, except to
beg from the states?
Madison: You take no account
of the depreciation of the Cont
mental currency between 1878
and 1880. When I entered Con-
gress in 1880, it was to be OBJ
served that the situation of Con-
gress had undergone a total
change from what it originally
was. Whilst they exercised the
indefinite power of emitting
money, they had the whole
wealth and resources of the con-
tinent within their command, and
could cso IN with fboiy, affairs in
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27

in their states ignorant enough
couldn't that be the result?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20

STEVE LEISHMAN. 16, Northwestern
High juniOr-"Sacks are a waste OF mate
rial. They look like loose bolt OF mate
rial walking with two arms and less
and q head. II my date wore one. I'd tell
her on the next date not to wear sack
with me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
Scholastic Grunt

A North Garden Cva) youth
who made the highest grade
among senior boys in Virginia
in a competitive exam. has won
q $500 williams scholarship
TO the University Of Richmond.
Richard Gordon Senter. vale
dictorian of his senior class at
Albemarle High School. also
won a $3.50 scholarship in q
radio quiz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE THINK
Chemise Strikes Out
With Teen-Age Set

Kaplan. a freshman at New
York's Barnard College. who
declined to say whether she
had included chemises IN her
collegiate wardrobe.
At Atlanta. Ga. Jouann
Bates was equally peTturbed
over the sack fad. but earnestly
wondered what one southern
belle could do against pha-
lanx of Partisan designers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20

Of a decade ago has definitely
struck out with the pony tail
and blue denim set.
The boys. in particular. re-
gard it as an abomination. OF
those we polled in a nation
wide survey. Sc per cent roared
abuse at this throw back to
the Roaring '20s. Only 8 per
cent said they liked it. and the
rest hadn't seen it yet.
Girls were almost as vehe-
ment in their denunciation Of
the sack dress but did not al
ways practice what they i'm
peached. When asked If they
like it. IS per cent Of the
bobby-soxers answered with a
definite no"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
But They Buy

But not all had the courage
Of their convictions. Almost
three out Of every 10 sheep
ishly admitted that. as slaves
to fashion. they already had
bought one or more chemise
dresses. even though 66 per
cent Of the boys and girls
especially the boys - say it
never will last.
Boys were outspokenly con-
cerned about the camouflage
Job that the new sack dresses
perform on the feminine
figure. Il want my girl TO look
like a girl, not q potential but
terfiy wrapped in a cocoon.
complained a Chicago teen
ager.
Girls, however, were quick
TO see the advantages in this
formleSS, shapeless attire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
Talking 1t Over

The oduIt world debons the chemise end the sock
style dress for This week get into the dis
CUSTOM Eugene Gilbert surveys teen-ogers notionoIy and
TEEN asks five oee boys their opinion of the cheme
Their below Next week the girls will hove their soy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20

GRAHAM MILLER, 16, Northwestern
High juniOr-"Sacks . they look like
two toothpicks stuck in an olive No sacks
for me. If asked a girl for a date and
she showed up in a sack, / doubt If I'd
ask her out again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
Parents Divided

But junior misses who didn't
like it were hardly less re-
strained in their invective than
the boys.
THE chemise is the most
chastity thing I've ever seen
women wear" said Patricia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-20
By EUGENE GILBERT
Gilbert Youth Research Co.

The chemise. known in the
vulgate as the sack dress. is
strictly for sad sacks. as far
as the Nations teen-agers are
concerned.
PICKLE fashions most contro-
versial item since the new look
For local reaction to the
chemiSe. read Talking 1t
OUer" on this page.