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Trees Yield to Cars

A case in point with re-
gard to destruction of our
lovely trees and construction
of death-dealing raceways is
the widening of New Hamp-
shire avenue from Grant
circle to the District line.
This avenue is bordered by
lovely large trees about 80
years old. The avenue is four
lanes wide at present-ample
for traffic, even during the
rush period. Never in 80 years
has any congestion in traffic
occurred except in cases Of
accident or fire. Parking is
permitted on the east side
Of this avenue during the
morning rush hours. Parking
is permitted on the west side
Of this avenue during the
evening rush hours.
If parking were prohibited
on both sides during the
morning and evening rush
hours one additional lane
would be available to the
motorists, although as here
tofore stated there is no tie
up in traffic during rush
hours.
For no other apparent rea-
son than to satisfy the whim
Of a group Of persons who
certainly are not concerned
about the beauty of Wash
ington, hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars Of the poor
D. c. taxpayer (who can do
nothing about it since he is
in the category Of criminals,
idiots and mentally incom-
petents-he has no vote) are
being thrown away.
Taxation without
RanrAaaVnfo fian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Nation of 'Softies'

What has happened in
America? A few years ago it
was the practice to put forth
real effort in an endeavor
to do any kind Of job we'll
and thereby enjoy pride Of
achievement. Today most
everyone seems to have the
idea that the proper thing to
do is to avoid doing his best
but at the same time to de-
mand everything he can get
by hook or crook from the
other fellow, especially from
his employer and the public
which he serves.
Some Of us who have had
to drop out Of strenuous &C
tivity due to age and have to
suffer the terrible pangs of
monotony are astounded
when we observe the wasted
opportunities of the young
and strong. They seem to feel
that they should have a holi-
day just about every other
day and get overtime pay for
their sleeping hours, some Of
which are spent on the en-
ployer'S time while he is
striving to raise the money
to meet the payroll.
This lack of individual eff
fort accounts largely for the
licking we are taking from
Russia and China, which are
progressing fast toward ma
terial and technical superior
ity. Are we approaching the
time when we will succumb
to the wiles of some dema-
gogue like Mussolini, Hitler
or Stain, who will offer us a
Utopia and will end up by
putting us into a form Of
slavery? Or, shall we continue
on our splurge for luxury
shorter hours Of work, more
pay for doing less, and the
like-and turn into a nation
of "softies" and allow the
butchers Of the Peoples Re-
public Of China to take us
over? While I am at the age
when / may "kick the bucket"
at any moment, I shudder
for the condition my Is
grandchildren will be in in
the not distant future unless
our masses wake up to the
teachings Of the Good Book
that man shall live by the
sweat of his brow"
OId-Timer.
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10Y in Cuba

I constantly get letters
from my friends in Cuba full
of joy and enthusiasm. They
say, you can't know what it
means to be able to walk the
streets without fear, to speak
in a loud voice, to know that
the government is really in
terested in the needs Of the
Cuban people. and not in
their own pocket. :" Why,
with complete freedom for all
reporters, do we not see in
our press the reports and
analysis of new laws and new
projects in their relation to
the majority Of the people in
Cuba? Here we get only
doubts, half truths and SLAM
ders against Castro. Why?
]. NJ. d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

is where He lived. That was
His address in His earthly
ministry-it is His address
now.
The stupendous message Of
the Resurrection is that we
may live now in the power
of an endless life. A great
deal is being written these
days about space, and about
the possibility of getting of
the earth and into the sky.
Man dreams Of crossing some
earthly frontier into the sap
phire realms up above the
world so high. But when
would we reach the sky-we
whose address is the earth?
The answer is we are a part
of it now. The sky begins not
in the clouds above our heads.
but at the clods beneath our
feet. Our present address is.
the sky.
Casters most startling mes
sage is that the sky Of the
eternal is not off somewhere
in the blurred blue Of far dis
tances in the sweet by and
by, but bends down to touch
the stern here and now. The
decisive Christian question is.
do you really live in the
truth of the Resurrection"
Does it flood what we call life
with the sense of a new di-
mension? Is it a purple plume
for today's battle? For, in its
effulgent light, life suddenly
reveals itself in a glory that
takes ones breath away and
smites us to our knees in awe
and rapture. 1t is infinitely
more than q sublime fact in
the past. 1t is more than q
glorious event in the future.
It is a Transforming expert
ence in the present. 1t is a
sublime something in which
we take up our residence now.
st. Paul sends the fervent
exhortation to the early
Christians. "If you are risen
then rise" He is urging
them to actually move into
the house which is theirs.
The question as to living
quarters is really answered by
whether you are a denizen OF
the mental slums or whether
your habitual habitat is in
the splendor of soaring medi-
tationS.
1t is a reminder Of the
House of Thinking and Being
which is available as the
home sweet home of Resur-
rection now in the hymn that
the boys at one Of Americas
greatest schools sing always
in their chapel services, and
which was adopted long ago
as their school song. 1t is ever
asking the pertinent question
of these questing youths.
Where do you live?" And
here is its answer:
Jesus I Nue to Thee
The loUelieSt and best
M life in Thee-Thy life In
In Thy blest lone ! rest.
Living or dying Lord
/ ask but to be Thine
MY life in Thee, Thy life IN
me
Makes He1Uen forever
mine.
Another great hymn sung
by the church universal an
swers the question, What is
your address," in one rap
turous line where echoes the
very essence of Christianity,
And non ! HUe in Him.
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Jesus Mission

DR.. Frederick Brown Har-
ris is a master of prose, and
certainly is well acquainted
with the Scriptures. Whether
or not he accepts them as
literally true and divinely in
spired. he knows better than
the 20th-century social Scien-
fist whom he quotes as saying
that Jesus came to widen
mans horizons, to break down
all barriers. to bring men out
of their little selfish back
yards and to teach them the
ideals Of brotherhood and
!oVe."
Christ did state that the
second great commandment
is Love thy neighbor as thy
self" But did He not first
declare the great command
ment, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind, and
with all thy strength?
Let social scientists who do
not place their trust in Christ
or who accept only those por-
tons Of the Bible which they
prefer thus misstate Christ'S
purpose. But if He is worth
honoring and quoting chow
much more If we believe in
Him?), let us accept His own
stated reasons for coming:
For the Son Of Man is come
20 seek and to save that
which was lost duke xix,
10). 1 came mo- to judge the
world but to save the world
John xii, 40. DR.. Harris can
tell the social scientist what
save" means. Instead of
quoting the other. DR.. Harris
can tell him about Jesus as
the Lamb Of God who taketh
away the sins Of the world;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
SO Years AGO

A plan to cut off the sale
of weapons for South Amer
lean revolutionaries was de-
veloped so years ago. The
Star, on April IA, 1909, said:
mo more will cheap revolu-
tons in neighboring coun-
tries be encouraged by the
easy manner in which it was
possible to purchase the old
arms Of the United States in
the past. Orders have been
issued at the War Depart
ment stopping the practice of
selling the discarded arms Of
the United States. These g..
may be sold to patriotic Or
CARNATIONS only. :"
A monument to Boss"
Shepherd was about to be
unveiled so years ago. The
Star, on April 7, 1909, report
ed: Impressive ceremonies
are to mark the unwilling of
the statue of Alexander r.
Shepherd. former governor Of
the District Of Columbia, on a
site near the new District
buildings in a small reserya-
ton at the intersection Of
Fourteenth street at Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The represen-
tstives Of the Shepherd ne
mortal committee held a pre-
liminary conference with the
Commissioners this morning
in respect to the arrange
ments for the unwilling.
which is to take place at the
end Of this month or the
first Of next. :"
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Montgomery Airport

Your papers editorial sup
port last year for a small air.
port to serve Montgomery
County was appreciated by
this family and many of our
friends. We hope that you
will continue the good fight
this year. We want to be part
Of an air travel conscious
community.
With $3.50 Federal aid
clearly earmarked last year
for an airport. why did the
County Council fail to give
us access to the airways?
The councils Altos vote
against any airport project
in 1858 needs a lot of ex-
planning to taxpayers who
place a high priority on the
need for a modest airport or
airpark.
We have heard much about
county master planning" to
enable our citizens to Give
happily ever after" But, so
far, about all we have to show
for it is the Washington
National pike u. s. 240) cut
ting right through the center
Of the county's beautiful
acres with a high percentage
of smoky diesel truck traf-
f1c making more noise than a
similar number of modern
executive-type or taxi air
craft could make during any
mum Der of quick takeoffs
from a half-mile-long run
way.
We are told that any good
plan for a community deals
with adequate transportation
and intercity or intercounty
lines Of communication. Can't
we have some modern trans
portation-air transportation
in and out Of Montgomery
County?
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Bravo!

With the concluding concert
of the season, I want to take
this occasion to extend to the
sincere congratulations on a
National Symphony Orchestra
season Of great and inspiring
music.
We were thrilled beyond
measure each week as we at
tended the concerts in the
Tuesday evening series. I
know that such perfection
could come only through
great and devoted leadership,
such as DR.. Howard Mitchell
so notably offered, and
through conscientious and
hard work on the part Of the
members Of the orchestra.
An orchestra such as the
National Symphony cannot
function properly without the
efficient work Of its manager.
Ralph Black is to be COM
mended on the part he has
played in making the year a
success, as well as are others
who have in any way contrib
uted to the progress Of the
orchestra.
They all are deserving OF
q vote Of thanks from q
grateful community for rails
ing the cultural standards Of
this, our beloved Capital OF
the United States.
George d. Nelson,
Judge, Municipal Court.
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100 Years AGO

The state Of the United
States Navy was not good,
compared with other powers,
100 years ago. The Star, on
April IL, 1859, reported: "At
the close Of the present sum-
mer the American Navy will
comprise 10 ships Of the line,
10 frigates, 81 sloops of war.
three brigS, one schooner, 81
screw steamers of different
grades, plus nine side-wheel
steamers Of different grades,
three store ships and five
receiving ships: total, 80 YES
sells. This is about one
seventh as many as are in
the English, one-flfth as
many as in the French and
Austrian, and a little more
than one-fourth as many as
in the Spanish navies. :"
The convenience of extend
ed round-trip rail tickets was
put forth by The Star 100
years ago. On April Is, 1859,
The Star said: THE Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad
Company proposes. at an
early period, to issue round
trip tickets between this city
and Baltimore, which shall
be good for "a hours ire
spective of the intervention
of night. 1t has been sug-
gested to us that business
men and mercenaries in
Washington are frequently
DESTROYS Of spending the Sab
bath in Baltimore, and that
If round trip tickets were
issued on Saturday after
noon. good until Monday
morning. it would be a great
public convenience as well as
a source Of increased business
and profit to the railroad
company. viii not the COM
pany take the matter into
considerations"
The auxiliary watch had
been warned to enforce
Washington's curfew a CEN
fury ago, and on April IA.
1859. The Star said: 1.-THE
Auxiliary Guard are having
no little fun over the recent
discovery made by a trio Of
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Dog Control

1t is gratifying to learn that
the Montgomery County
Council has passed a dog
control law and that vaga-
bond CANNES face impound-
ing. Such a law is needed for
Washington and all of the
nearby counties. to protect
children and others.
Mrs. ID. M. Reiser.
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FROM THE STARS FILES

justices that it is their duty.
whenever they find a juve-
nile under 81 years of age
out after 10 o'clock at night,
and in any diSorderly gather
ing, to take the child to his
parents or guardians to be
corrected. Hereafter we
may expect to see the edify-
ing spectacle Of a group of
watchmen with some luckless
babe of 20 years and IL
months struggling upon the
streets, the guardians of the
night trying to get the in
FAINT home so as to enforce
the law by telling his IA
Their on him."
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as the Lord Of glory; as
Redeemer. and as Mediator.
Is all Of this to be ignored
while we say merely that
Jesus mission was to teach
men brotherhood?
Il0vd buchanan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Frozen German Assets

A sore point in German
American relations is the fail
ure Of the United States to
return German private prop
erty conf1scated at the out
set Of World War II. Is it not
inconsistent to pay billions
Of dollars in grants and low
interest loans to doubtful
neutrals and Communists like
Tito and Gomulka. while re-
fusing to return private Ger
man assets worth scarcely
more than 5000 million?
Reader.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriter'S correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
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Is Years AGO

A former Red leader was
having trouble a quarter Of
a century ago. From Barbi-
zon, France, on April 16.
1884, The Star reported:
Leon Trotsky, fearing an
attack on his life by white
Russians, fled today from his
newly uncovered hiding place
in Barbizon. Neighbors said
the Communist leader, ex-
lied from Soviet Russia. and
his wife left the secluded
villa here where they had
been hiding for three months.
shortly before daybreak in a
black automobile. Their des-
tination was not revealed -"
The Washington baseball
club, with its opener rained
out Is years ago. began the
season in Boston the follow
ing day with a victory over
the Red Sox. The Star, on
April 10, 1884. reported:
"Washington's Americ an
League champion ball club
got of on it's best foot yes
terday as it took the meas
ure Of the Red Sox in Bos-
tons seasonal inaugural, but
as played the game indicated
Joe Cronin's curving corps
probably will have to con-
tinue its training well into
the championship season.
Nothing to be alarmed about
perhaps, but certainly some
thing to cause concern :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

A couple Of widely known
youngsters added to the ex-
element Of the annual egg
roll on the White House lawn
Is years ago. On April 2,
1884, The Star reporteds
Ideal weather and the popU.
larity of the PresidenN
grandchildren resulted today
in one Of the largest crowds
in the history Of the tradi-
tional White House egg roll.
The Presidents grand
children, 'Sistie' and 'Buzzie'
Dali, we're much in evidence
this morning. Although but
recently recovered from the
measles"
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Rhode Island .

may proceed in the same manner
and with the same powers as pro-
vided in the general laws :.
and the provisions (therein) as to
the powers, duties and rights of
the commission, its members,
hearing examiners, the complain
ant, interviewer, respondent and
the court shall apply in any pro-
ceedings under this section"
Now, if all that sounds to you
like something dreamed up by
one of those civil rightists with
an imagination as big as Orson
Wells, you're plumb mistaken.
This is no joke, son. This is for
real. It's actually IN the legisla-
ture, introduced by all Is of the
floor leaders and deputy floor
leaders of both branches, and the
Big Wheels there think it will
probably pass without much, if
any, change.
But when we say, standing on
the firm reputation for honesty
Of THE PETAL PAPER, that it
is YOUR OWN legislature that
will probably pass this law soon,
we've just got to break down and
admit that this article is really
being addressed directly to few
of our subscribers who live IN
Rhode Island. The rest of our
readers are only being let in an
a s'sneak preview" in much the
same manner as the listeners-in
on the rural party-line telephone.
They'll have to wait until some
time after this year to see such
law passed by their own legis-
latures. These Rhode Islanders
tell us that only year ago the
idea of writing fair practices into
housing law and into their Com
MISSIONS educational program,
under such a strongly Worded
act, was sheer fantasy, cloud
nine" dream. Well soon see
whether CLOUD nine" will actu-
ally support the dreams of the
liberal leadership in that State of
100000 people.
-(JOHN r. KELLAM)
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when it suited his convenience
and to ignore it when it suited
his convenience.
He by-passed Proxmire for the
Senate Finance Committee. In
stead of Proxrnire, he put two
freshmen senators on the COM
mittee, one from Minnesota and
one from Indiana. If Johnson had
been consistent about the senior
ity custom he might still be the
unchallenged political boss of the
Senate.
But it's clear to many observ-
ers here that Johnson's fidelity
lis first to conservative business
interests, rather than blind adj
herence to the custom of SEN
iority.
The nations big banking in
terests have looked -suspiciously
at Proxmire, even though he did
a stint at J. P. Morgan and Co.
after leaving Harvard Business
School. They would not be happy
with him on the committee.
They are suspicious of him be-
cause he is suspicious of t h G
tight money" policy. He is ask
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Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. G.. Spivack

THE BIG TEST FOR 'LBJ"-
The best thing TO 90, Lyndon B.
Johnson's worried friends were
saying, is to pretend it didn't
happen. Act as if there is no Sen
ator William Proxmire from Wis
consin. At all costs don't get into
name-calling contest.
In the first week after Prox-
mire brought out in the open the
undercurrent of re e n m n t
against the Texans leadership
that's TIL e course Johnson's
friends followed. There has been
only one serious answer to Prox-
mire's demand for more democ-
racy and less autocracy" by the
Democratic eader. 1t came from
Sen. Richard Neuberger of Ore
gon.
Many people were surprised,
but they need not have been.
Neuberger has long admired
Johnson's skill as a politician. It
was Neuberger who set the theme
since repeated by Johnson's po-
litical friends, namely, that Prox-
mire is something of an migrate
for voicing his feelings in public
X X X
But is that really the issue?
There are those who like Prox-
mire and those who do not. Prox-
mire may be in the independent
libral tradition of Wisconsin's
Bob LaFollette. Or he may be a
brash young man who wants to
project himself into the national
limelight in a hurry. Too little is
still known of the man to be sure
into what category he fits.
But Proxmire isn't the issue,
either.
The question is who determines
Democratic policy in the Senate
and what is that policy going to
be? Is it going to be Senators
from states with less than 10 per
cent Of the population of the
country many of whom are be-
holden to big oil companies, Wall
Street banks and the giant in
surance combines?
Or will the men who come from
California, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
New York, Massachusetts, Mich
igan and other populous areas at
least be given a look-in?
Of the entire Southern senate
contingent only handful san be
said not to represent some spe--
cial interest.
X X X
SENIORITY WHEN CONVEN-
IENT-So far as the Proxnlire IN
cident was concerned Johnson's
big mistake was to employ the
seniority system in the Senate
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Letters

through vague and similar feel
ings exerted by music, alcohol, or
SEX Although it may be difficult
to explain the genesis of this
sense which has been called a
sense of sublimity, think the
G erman Theologian, Friedrich
Schleirmacher explained it we'll.
He said, Religion belongs neither
to the domain of science nor NOR
ais, is essentially neither know
ledge nor conduct, but emotion
and sentiment only
The two characters in your
Two-Headed Boy story could be
classed as Optimist and Pessi-
mist. An Optimist is one who sees
a light where there is none, and
Pessimist is one who puts that
light out. A note by Edwin Law
renee in Webster's reads "The
Pessimist has generally a bad
name but there is good deal to
be said for him"
eyes, slowly but surely the
Pessimist will come into his own
and his own shall know him. I
will say that Rector Quincy Off
brand should be elected Homo
rary Member to the National Or
der of Pessimists.
Henry Thos. Buckle of 1921
1862 said knowledge must be
preceded by a love of inquiry,
and, therefore a spirit of doubt.
Because, without doubt, there
will be no inquiry, and without
inquiry, there will be no know
ledge"
About the time that this coun-
try abolished Chattel slavery
with four years of bloody war
and hundred years of hatred
the italian Liberals cooped the
Pope up in the Vatican and alb
sorbed his papal states in united
Italy. Almost at the same time
serfdom was abolished in Rus
sit by ucase of the Car.
There was a time when it was
taught that man was just some
thing out of this world, but in the
year 1928 when the Russian, DR..
Van Baer discovered the Human
egg, the gods started tunbling
down. 1t was twenty years after
DR.. Van Baer's discovery Darwin
published the Origin of Species
and Descent of Man" Whenever
there was freedom of expression
the gods were tumbling from
their thrones and the tn logians
were fighting desperately to hold
to the old Bible traditions while
Tyndall, Huxley, Wallace and
Haeckle were demolishing them.
""Fear not that the tyrants shall
rule forever
Or the priests of the bloody
faith;
They stand on the brink of the
mighty river,
Whose waves, they have tainted
with death;
1t is fed from the depths of a
thousand dells,
Around them it foams and RACES,
and swells,
And their swords and their scep-
tiers, I floating see,
Like wrecks on the surge of
eternity"
Up. B. Shelley = 1892, 1892
ISL o. c. Marthaler
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