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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14

The following is a list of
births at Suburban Hospital, Be-
theSda:
March 3I-Mr. and Mrs Robert Ken
meth Hodges, 1880 Falkland dr.. Rock
vile, a daughter. Deborah Anne; Mr..
and Mrs. Hazen Bristol Kennedy. 1857
Andrew st, Wheaton, a daughter, Jean
Dorothea: Mr. and Mrs. James NJ Fill
filan. 1922 Edward ave, Bethesda.
daughter. Elizabeth Anne; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick John Cassidy, 1712 Gruenther
ave. Rockville, a son, Patrick John;
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Ted Morgan. Ri. /,
Dickerson, a daughter, Devonda Kay.
April Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Harold
Doggett ir.. SD Southampton dr.. Sill
yer Spring, a SON. Ralph Harold III Mr..
and Mrs. Timtohy William Lucey. S90S
Connecticut ave, Chevy Chase, a son,
jamie: Mr. and Mrs. James Wilmur
Custer. 108 Schuyler rd., Silver Spring,
a daughter Janet Louise; Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Crosser. 5S03 Wyngate dr., Be-
thesda, a son. Robert William,
April 2-Mr. and Mrs. Michael Charles
Mathews. 10204 Greenfield ST., Kensing-
ton, a son, Stephen Charles; Mr.. and
Mrs Robert Walter Domino. 1905 Toledo
ter, Hyattsville, a son. James Paul.
Henney. 4617 w. Virginia ave-, Bethes-
da. a son, Charles Thomas. jr.; Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Leo Rooney, 4421
Dresden St, Kensngton, a son, Terence
Leo: Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Alan Clark,
9712 Montauk ave. Bethesda, a son.
Michael David; Mr.. and Mrs. John Allen
Wassill. 1902 Coral Sea dr., Rockville,
a son, David Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. An
thony Hess, 507 Fletcher pl., Rockville,
son, Kelly Elizabeth; Mr.. and Mrs
Warren Blain Smith, 107-A N. Summit
ave. Gaithersburg. a son. Gerald Wayne
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Warren Sturges,
l0l4 Carson ST., Silver Spring, daugh-
ter, Linda Carol,
April MIR. and Mrs. William Edgar
Whitessel, RI. /. Box 229A, Boyds. a
daughter, Deborah Lorraine Mr.. and
Mrs, Garnette Sylvester Plummber Box
124A, Clarksburg, a daughter. Gretchen
Rita Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Richard
Rogers. 1906 Spruell dr., Kensington. a
daughter, Andrea Lynne.
April 5-Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mar
shall 1905 Garrett Park, a son; Mr..
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
Cedars of Lebanon

The national leader of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon,
Masonic fraternal organization,
has designated the period from
April 10 to 16 as Tall Cedars
of Lebanon Week"
In calling for the observance
c. Burnett Freas, Supreme Tall
Cedar of the United States, said
its purpose is to enable non
members to become familiar
with the organization, its pur-
poses and detectives.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
New Law Weighed
Should Parents Pay
When Kids Burn Barn?

Four boys, aged 10 to u,
shared the adventure of smok-
ing their first cigarette last
Wednesday and as a result. a
barn, II tons of baled hay, and
expensive farm machinery were
destroyed by fire.
Firemen set total damages at
$4,000 The barn was owned
by DR.. Margaret T. Snow, of
9013 Flower ave-, Silver Spring,
and was leased by Robert Hill
ton, dairyman.
The hay, a combine worth
$4,000, a hay rake valued at $500
and a field chopper worth $25O0
owned by Hilton were among
machinery lost. Les Thompson,
Damascus Volunteer Fire De.
partment chief, said the barn
was all but destroyed by the
time his men and others from
the Mt. Airy fire department
arrived shortly after 4 pm.
A report involving the boys
in the fire was turned over to
Juvenile Court for considera-
ton. Looming over the boys
parents heads is a new county
law that could hold them re.
sponsible for up to $500 each
for damage inflicted by their
sons.
The boys repeatedly admitted
smoking in the barn and said
that when they left, they be.
lieved their cigarette butts were
extinguished.
EAround 4 pm, calls began
to come in to the Gaithersburg
fire board from residents near
the blaze. There was no tele-
phone at the barn and the
closest one was about one mile
away, Thompson said.
He also commented that the
barn stood in a hollow off Bell
son I'd. and that flames were
not visible from the nearest
road He added that many up
county homeowners start burn
ing trash and leaves at about
the same time the fire started
and therefore smoke from the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
Montgomery General

The following is list of
births at Montgomery County
General Hospital, Olney:
March 3O--Mr and Mrs. Carl Ray
Hopkins. Woodbine son, Richard
Wayne
March 3i--AIr. and Mrs. Leo Lynn
Taylor, Route /, Gaithersburg, a daugh-
ter Sharon Faye; Mr.. and Mrs Charles
James Martin, Boyds, a daughter, Rhon-
da Dale
April Mr.. and Mrs James Aloysius
Mills. Route /. Clarksburg. a son,
Michael Patrick: Mr.. and Mrs. John
Benjamin Bowman, Olney. twin daugh-
ters Brenda Marie and Linda Lee.
April 2--Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Bracket
Owne, Old Orchard rd, Ednor a daugh-
ter. Nancy Gwen; Mr.. and Mrs James
Wright. Route 3, Gaithersburg, a daugh-
ter. Ruby; Mr.. and Mrs. Coy James
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
Jewish Center
To Hear Frank

Murray Frank, author and
radio commentator, will be the
guest speaker at the service of
the Montgomery County Jew.
ish Community, Inc, tomorrow
at $3.50 pm. at its sanctuary,
2901 East-West hwy.
Frank will speak on 1.-THE
Life and Times of Sholom
Aleichem," whose centennial
anniversary is being observed
this year. He also will read
from the works of Sholom Alei-
chem in Yiddish and English.
Rabbi Tzvi H. Porath will con-
duct the service and Cantor
Louis D. FEEDER will chant.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
Births

The following is a list of
births at Suburban Hospital, Be-
theSda:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14
|Neighbors
Raise $1,000
For Hospital

A group of Montgomery Lane
neighbors has joined in a fund.
raising drive to provide the
furnishings for a room in the
new wing of Suburban Hospital.
William N. Morell, 1924 Mont
gomery dr., is heading up the
campaign which already has
netted nearly $1,000 through
contributions from Is residents
Of the area. According to pres.
ent plans, plaque will be
placed in the newly.furnished
room acknowledging the aid of
the Montgomery Lane Neigh
bors."
"The Montg om cry Lane
Neighbors want to participate
in the community effort to raise
funds for the Stage 2 expansion
program of Suburban Hospital, ("
SAID Morell, land we hope that
others will follow our example"
mot all of us are financially
able to make individual con-
tributions of sufficient size to
sponsor a specific area in Sub.
urban Hospital" he added, "but
united we can achieve a sizeable
contribution"
A longtime member of the
Board of Trustees of the hos
pital Morell has been chairman
of the building committee for
both Stage / of the develop.
ment program, carried out in
1856, and the current Stage 2
phase, which will be completed
by the end of this year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14

Flanary, ST., 300 Howard aye, Rock
vile, a son, Coy James jr.; Mr. and
Mrs. Robert James Lewis, Brookeville,
daughter. Kathy Marie.
April 3--Mr and Mrs Larry Benjamin
Martin, Gaithersburg, a son. Anthony
Glenn.
April 4-Mr. and Mrs. Warren Leroy
George, Cookesville, a son, Ricky Lee.
April 5-Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Delano
Conway. Sykesvie a daughter Denise
Joan: Mr. and Mrs. George Barry
Lucey. TIA Takoma ave. Takoma Park,
a daughter. Kathleen Agnes; Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Ray Anderson, Westchester
ave, Ellicott City. a daughter. Patricia
Ann
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-04-14

burning barn may have been
dlsregarded at first.
thompson said that Hilton
carried insurance on much of
his equipment in the barn and
IN an adjoining dairy structure
that also suffered damage when
the main barn collapsed on top
OF 1t. Firemen had already re.
moved equipment from the
smaller structure, he said.
Evening star., 1960-07-03
American Slang: As photographer Tries to Define 1t

DICTIONARY OF AMERI-
CAN SLANG. Compiled and
Edited by Harold Went
worth and Stuart Berg
Flexner. (Thomas Y. Crow
ell Company. $3.50
The universal fascination
of slang, its color, it's accu-
racy, its vitality, does much
to make the Dictionary of
American Slang" a very good
book; the volumes compilers,
by what appears to be hasty
and slipshod work and by a
dull and cloudy view of their
job, have done much to make
it a very bad one. Eight thou
sand slang words and express
sions, alphabetically ar
ranged, are well worth the
price Of the book, but the
reader will have to find a
more painstaking and per-
ceptive photographer to learn
what Stuart Flexner vainly
prom iSeS to tell - what
American slang is, and how
and why slang is created and
used.
American slang" accord
ing to Mr.. Flexner, lis the
body of words and express
sions frequently used by or
ineligible to a rather large
portion of the general Amer
lean public. but not accepted
as good, formal usage by the
majority"
Evening star., 1960-07-03

Very we'll; but thereupon
Mr.. Flexner tries to differen-
tiate slang, colloquialismS,
cant, jargon, dialect and ar
got. In standard English one
might say "Sir, you speak
English we'll" Colloquially,
according to Mr.. Flexner, but
not Slangily, this comes out
Friend, you talk plain and
hit the nail right on the
head" Where would you &C
tually hear that stilted SEN
tence? In slang, says Mr..
Flexner, the original English
becomes Buster, your line is
the cats pajamas" or Doll,
you come on with the straight
jazz, real cool like" Either
of these two prime examples
of Mr.. Flexner, in addition to
not conveying the original
meaning, is an insult to the
vividness and point of genu-
inc slang.
Slang as a whole is more
common in speech than in
writing, says Mr.. Flexner,
thus, very few slang words
(hence very few of the en-
tries in this dictionary ap-
pear in standard dictionar-
les" 1t is hard to understand
what he is talking about
when we find that almost all
the entries in American
Slang" have citations from
written sources.
Evening star., 1960-07-03

Furthermore, the assertion
that the dictionary is based
on "the classical principle of
historical sequence - wher-
ever possible three dates are
given: when the slang word
was first used, when its
meaning changed substan-
TALLY, and when it went out
of fashion" is simply a joke.
The value of the book is
greatly damaged by this slo-
venly research. Opening at
random. one finds these first
citations-"nix, 1912" no
dice, 1882" "noggin, 1943,"
"no-good, noun, 1851, adj,
1896" "no-hitter, 1882" and
so on, page after page. The
definitions are often vague
or not quite exact, as mo kid
dlng-A somewhat doubling
response to a statement that
seems not entirely credible"
There is no mention that it
is also frequently an excla-
nation of pleasure. A Nip is a
japanese, but there is no
reference to the swallow one
takes from a flask. Every die
tionary has faults, but this
one has more than absolutely
necessary.
Its great value and interest
lie in its extensive collection
and explanation of the dirty
word. Ubiquitous as people,
useful as pockets, the dirty
Evening star., 1960-07-03
Journal of q Romantic
Migration UndersoiI

MERGERS BELLIES. BY
Roger COnant. Edited by
Lenna A. Deutsch. CUni-
verSity Of Wa s. ingtOn
Press. $4.75.)
A year after the Civil War
no one had heard of a popu-
lation explosion, and in the
Pacific Northwest there was
an acute need for more set
tlers-female types preferred.
An enterprising entrepre-
neur named Asa Mercer tried
to remedy this deficit by
sailing some so women and
girls from New York to Seat
tie where they were to marry
bachelor woodsmen and thus
assure the growth of Wash
ington Territory.
Like many other imagina-
tive leaders, Mercer dis
dained mundane m a tiers,
and was constantly in 11nan-
cial distress. Creditors har-
ried him, and the cash he
had collected from husbands
and wiveS-to-be trickle d
away. While the S. S. Con-
tinental cleared Manhattan,
the promoter hid himself in
the coalhole.
The subsequent adventures
and miSadventures of "Mer-
Evening star., 1960-07-03
In Coney Island
THE BREAKWATER. 3

THE BREAKWATER. BY
George Mandel. (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston;
$4.95.)
The setting of this novel
OF youth is Coney Island
during the depression years.
The chief f;gure is zale
Rakusin, whom we meet in
1888 at the age of IA and
last see six years later, when
he has grown into a troubled,
ill-adjuSted manhood. There
is his friend, Fishie, a year
younger, who kills himself at
the beginning of the long
story. There are other trag-
edies, all concerned with the
confused life of several Jew
iSh families torn between
orthodoxy and modern dilem-
mas. zale's kid brother,
Doodle, and others are i'm
portant in the story. Mr..
Mandel, author of Flee the
Angry Strangers" is a sensi-
tive, often poetic writer.
But THE Breakwater" is so
determinedly literary that
the earthly problems of the
characters often are smoth-
cred in gaudy images. Ap-
parently the author has tried
to get away from the natu-
ralistic approach. Perhaps
he has tried too hard.
&C. b. j.
Evening star., 1960-07-03
Happy Books

The gay, carefree feeling
of vacation is captured by
Aileen Fisher, the children's
poet, in a happy picture book
called GOING BAREFOOT
(Crowell; So. The allustra-
tions by Adrienne Adams are
as spontaneous and imagina-
tive as the rollicking, intui-
tive text.
Other happy books about
a child's joy, outdoors in
summer, watching bugs and
beetles and butterflies, can
be shared by parent and
child. LIKE BUTTERFLIES
by Gladys Conklin and Bar
bara Latham Holiday House;
$2.95) is the perfect COM
panion to l Like Caterpillars
by the same authors artist
team. In QUICK AS A WINK
(PutnamS; $2.75) Dorothy
Adds alternates gay little
poems about dragonflies, lady
bugs, and other small crea-
lures with short informa-
tional sections. Surprisingly
this difficult combination of
prose and poetry has artistic
unity.
Evening star., 1960-07-03

word is usually denied the
printed page even in diction-
aries, where prudery should
be only an entry with a long
and shameful history. Per-
haps the dirty word should
stay as it is and never be
cleaned up. Psychiatry may
know that the words of por-
biography and scatology and
race-hatred and the others OF
four letters, however long,
should be kept taboo to act as
necessary safety-valves. But
if it should ever be decided
that these words be made in
ocuous. that it is puerile to
not admit what everybody
knows, the job can be done by
dictionaries such as this.
Scholarship takes the curse
on lndecency. You don't
blush at any word in a die
tionary.
The spicy and otherwise
naughty words are the most
engaging. I suppose, and the
great number of opprobrious
and derogatory racial epi-
thets is perhaps the great
est surprise, in regard both
to quantity and venom. But
the most bewildering retiec-
ton on slang is to consider
how amorphous, how unclas-
sifiable it is. and yet how
unquestionably strong and
durable. There are few valid
Evening star., 1960-07-03
In the Woods

Most children are naturally
curious about small insects
and animals. In summer
especially, they are ready to
explore in woods, field, or
stream, by day or night. The
right books can answer queS.
tions and suggest activities
which will make outdoor ex-
plorationS more satisfying.
CREATURES OF THE
NIGHT by Dorothy Sterling
doubleday; $2.95) is a more
comprehensive treatment of
the subject SO well introduced
by Glenn Blough in When the
Sun Goes Down. Other valu-
able books for the young
naturalist are:
UNDER A GREEN ROOF
by Anne Marie Jauss Lip
pincott; $2.95).
SMALL PETS FROM
WOODS AND FIELDS by
Margaret Waring Buck (Ab-
lngdon; So.
HERE COME THE BEES
by Alice E. Goudey (Scrib-
ners; $3.50.
SHELLS ARE WHERE
YOU FIND THEM by Eliza
beth Clemons (Knopf; $2.75).
SCIENCE ON THE
SHORES AND BANKS by
Elizabeth K. Cooper CHar-
court. S325)
Evening star., 1960-07-03
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Books and Vacations
Belong Together
By BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

If you want to know how
children's books are doing
these days, don't ask a Ii
brarian or a bookseller. Just
read THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL. About 10 days
ago, this financial newspaper
reported as frontage news
that sales of children's books
have increased 124 er cent in
the last seven years. This is
a greater increase than any
other type of book, though
textbooks, technical, scien-
tiflc, and reference books are
not far behind. All of these
types are way ahead of adult
fiction, both bareback and
paperb ack. What's more,
these figures are for juveniles
costing at least 81, not for
the masses of less expensive
books which also help to de-
velop the reading habit.
These figures prove sta
tistically that every child to-
day has a better chance to
read than his parents, or his
Evening star., 1960-07-03

GERS Bellies" were recorded by
Roger Conant, a 31-year-old
bachelor reporter for the
New York Times who went
along in line of duty.
Once at Sea, Mercer tried
to regain his lost prestige. He
preached a Sunday sermon,
barred card playing, forbade
his girls from flirting with the
ships officers and ordered all
abed by 10 o'clock.
Such male faulty was
roundly rebuffed. His girls,
when they weren't seasick,
blithely ignored him. They
giggled at his preaching,
stayed up late, strolled the
decks with the officers and
went on excursions ashore
with them.
Finally, catching the spirit
OF his own venture, Mercer
selected an amiable widow,
wooed and married her when
the ship reached Seattle after
a 3-months cruise.
Laura A. Deutsch, who
edited the Conant journal,
lists the weddings of many
other Mercer Bellies in an
appendix, by way of affirming
the success of the romantic
migration.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Evening star., 1960-07-03
Other Books in Brief

Of the rich new life they
built together.
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:
FIGHTER FOR FREE
DOM. By Rudolph Steiner.
Rudolph Steiner, $4.75).
THE NEGRO IN AMERI-
CAN CIVILIZATION. BY
Nathaniel Weyl. (Publit
Affairs Press, $6.)
The author, a Washington
resident and former Govern
ment employe, discusses the
racial issue.
EARLY MODERN EUROPE
FROM ABOUT 1850 TO
ABOUT 172O.- BY Sir
George Clark. (Oxford,
$l.50) The story of Euro
pean civilization. Western
and Eastern, in the period
which followed the Middle
Ages. (Reprint)
NINETEENTH CENTURY
E UROPEAN CIVILIZA-
TON: 1815-1914. BY Geof-
frey Brunn. (Oxford,
$l.50.) (Reprint.J
Evening star., 1960-07-03
A PORTRAIT IN FULL LENGTH
PouICezonne ModeHis
Detroctors Look SiIIy
MORTAL YICTnRy

MORTAL VICTORY: A BIZ
Ography Of Paul Cezanne.
BY Lawrence Hanson.
Holt, Rinehart & Win
stOn, $4.50.)
Mr.. Hanson is certainly our
most prolific and versatile
biographer. No fewer than
nine lives already bear his
name, ranging from Chi
nese" Gordon to the four
Brontes. In most of these
his wife, Elisabeth Hanson, is
co-author.
This book is about that un-
understandable, unlovable
artist, Paul Cezanne. Be-
cause Cezanne is hard to un-
derstand both as a man and
as an artist it should be said
at once that his newest BIZ
ographer accepts much and
forgiveS more. He has been
able, thus, to achieve a bal
anced position of tolerance
and even admiration for the
strange moody little man
who was the despair of his
friends and who has had the
good luck to make his de-
tractors look silly. as for his
art, Mr.. Hanson nas, of
course, taken the position
that nothing can detract
from his vigor and original
ity, qualities which made him
one of the two or three most
influential painters of his
time.
Cezanne played a trick on
all his future biographers oy
being born rich. No starving
Evening star., 1960-07-03

generalities about slang.
Sometimes it dies overnight,
sometimes 1t lasts a century.
Sometimes it is embarrass-
ingly vulgar and revolving
(e.g. intestinal fortitude"),
sometimes it it true litera-
ture (e.g. boob" and "gob-
bledegookD. Sometimes, it
may be, it springs from the
soil, but sometimes it has
illustrious authors, like w. C.
Fields or Maury Maverick.
Finally, we never can be sure
what it is, for, unlike the
French language, English has
no governmental arbiter of
good and bad usage.
There may be things that
cannot be learned from a
large dictionary, of Kings
English or Of slang, but the
books are good things for
every household to have
handy. DAY THORPE.
Evening star., 1960-07-03
SPAIN IN AMERICA, 'OLEr
Into the Happy Heart
Of q Migrant Land

For an unpretentious and
wholly engaging book which
will take you into the heart of
another world, you will find
none better than Prudencio
De Pereda's WINDMILLS
IN BROOKLYN (Atheneum;
$500.
Mr.. De Pereda grew up in
the Spanish colony of Brook
lyn. He is the first chronicler
Of Spanish immigrants we can
remember. and he's awfully
good. Unlike others who try
to bring home the unspeak-
able picturesqueness Of life
in a foreign land-the en-
claves of tranSplanted Euro
peans-he does not belabor
the local color. There are
minimal details about food,
drink and customs in his
fictionized account. His
book. in the best Spanish
manner, is uncluttered. 1t
is heavy in character.
Mr.. De Pereda concen-
trateS on a handful OF
powerful personalities: The
boy : narrator's grandfather,
a noble old gentleman, mild
and sad; his imperious, beau
tiful grandmother; his un-
suitable friend, Agapito, and
finally, a generous Spanish
widow who looked like zone
Of those La Chaise statues" "
Cigar Smoke
The existence of these peo-
pie is literally blue with
smoke. All first-generation
Spaniards were in the cigar
business. 1t has its own
hierarchy. At the bottom
were the "teverianos"- s"-the
Junk dealers. who sold the
vile sweepings, fantastically
Evening star., 1960-07-03

In a Paris garret for him. His
father supported him during
all the years he was studying
and painting and not selling
in Paris. He made the Salon
only after 19 years of steady
rejection. But, he kept on:
". a man with a rage to
create =. but he didn't know
what to create" Working be-
tween the new impressionism
and his own brand of real
ism, he finally hit upon one
of the magic formulas in all
the history of art.
But what of him as a man?
He was difficult. He never
got over childhood hurts and
imagined shortcomings. He
didn't like or trust people.
He was at his best painting
things, not people. when he
paints one of his friends it
looks as if he were reveng-
ing himself for some secret
injury" said one of them.
But he kept on fighting for
eXpreSSion-his own express
Sion-on canvas. When he
got it, he worked harder than
ever and left one of the
greatest legacies of his time.
Mr.. Hanson's book is work.
manlike and professional in
every respect. 1t breathes
more, perhaps, of the FASH
ionable portrait painter than
of the shy, inscrutable little
bourgeois from AK who
never really adjusted to the
world. but time has made
him fashionable, too.
EDWIN TREBLE
Evening star., 1960-07-03

the refuge Of the intelligent
man and woman of today
and that not because hi-1i
has enabled him to crafty
his tastes, but because those
tastes have produced the
market for hi-1l."
Talent Or Genius?
But "a lot Of harm is done
when a great popular sue
cess like South Pacific or
My Fair Lady is puffed up
until the distinction between
talent and genius is lost sight
Of, between the work to which
one may give the adjective
immortal with no pedantic
scruple and commercial pro-
ductions Of high amusement
value that are extremely un-
likely to survive the genera
tion that welcomes them i.
My Fair Lady is not The
Marriage of Figaro BY
Love Possessed is not War
and Peace or The Ambas-
sadors.'"