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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20

me what to do. I am a grand
mother in love with a grand
father. He is a fine gentle
man, in good health, and
we are of the same faith.
I know he cares for me, but
he keeps telling me that I'VE
are too old for marriage"
He has no family obligations
as his children are married
and well off. I am in the
same situation. He doesn't
need my money, and I don't
need his. We like the same
things, and have a wonder
full time together. Should I
propose?
BLUE FUTURE
Yes. If you are young
enough for "love" you aren't
too old for marriage.
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Silver Spring Club
Show Attended
By Over 1,400

H. B. Hartung of Arlington,
Va, won a silver bowl for the
best horticultural award In the
Silver Spring Garden Club
show held recently. His win
ner was a giant Betsy Ross
chrysanthemum.
Second best horticultural
specimen was a japanese
anemone mum entered by w.
M. Klima.
More than 1,400 people at
tended the two-day show.
Other results included:
Best hybrid tea rose-charles T.
| Williams tBurnaby variety.
A. PsrFs 5 RsS' c HHa T Fra icnAfe'
Best grandiflora roSe-Charles A.
Park. Jr. (Moutezumal.
Second best grandiflors rose
Charles T, williams (Garnet).
Most points in horticulture-Charle
7. Williams. Second-Mrs. A. H.
Best dahua from a Maryland resi-
dent1Mr. and Mrs. Harry zieE.
Junior blue ribbons-SandrA Edel-
man, Gordon jenkins
Flower ARRANGEMENT best in show
Mrs. c. NJ. Beaver ("1SO3-LouisianA
Purchaser. Second best in show-Mrs.
| W. NJ. Hurst C"1961-The Space
Age'D. Other blue ribbon winners-
Mrs. H. W. Muhly go. Mrs. David A.
White (2l. Mrs. lola Barber, Mrs.
Mary II. Rothrock and Mrs. Mary A.
Ellis. James A. Beales, president of
the club, won q second place ribbon.
Top educational exhibits-Brian
Finger, assistant MONTGOMERY County
agent Ground covers) and Mrs. James
A. Beales CtechniQues Of drying flowers
Tor artistic arrangements.
Two theme gardens, Yesterday" and
Today"-Designed by Ben Williams;
staged by Chester Kowalczyk.
EntrieS-More than 400 in horticul-
ture; 5S in arrangements.
Chairman of Show-Mrs. Warren
Seaton. ARRANGEMENTS chairman-Mrs
J. Martin Emerson. Music-Edna
Schofer. Presentations-Dr. John R.
Steelman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
SHOWS

Falls Church Garden Club, chrysan-
themum show. today and tomorrow.
Lansburgh'S store. ShirlinRoon. Theme:
Autumn"
sunny Acres Garden Club. tomor-
row, MaSonville School, Annandale.
Va, $3.50 70 . pm. Ceramic exhibit.
Original paintings Theme: Living
AvondaIe Garden Club. tomorrow.
230 to pm. Chillum Elementary
School, Longfellow street and Chillum
Heights drive. Theme: Song In Your
warren County Flower show and
House Tour, tomorrow, IL am. to 5
p m. EST. Block ticket TO five homes,
Sl.5O. at Front Royal Chamber OF
Bethesda Community Garden Club,
next wednesday. Battery Park Club
house. 1908 Glennbrook road: to
> pm. Theme: Washington Land
marks" Public invited
Metropolitan African Violet Society,
October 20. four homes tour. Tickets
90 cents; For information call CT.
Potomac Chrysanthemum Society,
October 28-November 3, USDA, South
Building Patio. Viewing hours: First
day. 4 to 8 pm; second day, 8 am.
to 8 pm; other days. $50 a m. to 8
pm. Glasses open. (WH. 2-7576D
Falls Church Garden Club, Christ
-, s PM Falls Church Presbyterian
Frederick Lang Of Kensington. Christ
mas Throughout the Home"
National Capital Garden Club
Leagues Christmas greens show. De-
cember $40. United States Botanic
Garden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
Webb Is Winner
In Club Show

Winning 10 blue ribbons
William Webb won the sweep
stakes award in horticulture In
the Neighborhood Garden Clubs
annual flower show recently.
A Nightingale spider mum
won best bloom merit award for
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Rudolph
Benjamin j. Stong won second
best plus a blue ribbon with a
Lula Pattie dahlia bloom which
was large, white and IL inches
in diameter.
Other results included:
Artistic design division-Mrs., Robert
A. Kaye, Falls Church, tricolor for best
design in show and also sweepstakes
for most points. Blue ribbons won By
Mrs. Curtis Werner, Mrs. Kaye, Mrs
J: J. Dryer, Mrs. NJ N. Allmendinger
worth. and Mrs. VIM. s. Iiiff. ' "'''S
Interclub Invitational-Rock Spring
Garden Club, ribbon for best design
plus S5 Rift certificate. Mrs. lift
made design: MIS- AllmendinSer also
Section B OF Invitational-Mrs. Joe
*. Bailey, Mrs. w. Lloyd George, Mrs
Elmer Higgins, and Mrs. Arthur p
Striker won green ribbons.
Division Ill, junior exhibitS-Mike
Kampe won two blue ribbons and an
award Of distinction for perennials and
ribbon for exhibit Of fruit. Junior
Artistic Designs-Peggv Kays won q
blue, Julia Krebs red. and Susan
Werner q yellow.
Mrs Harold L. Parsons. general
Chairman Of show and Mrs. E. L
Gates. president OF club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20

New York. Today. at Broad
and Market streets, one can
barely see the sun at high
noon. The neon signs of the
shops appear to be extra
bright because the city is
covered with SCOT. Once, there
were beautiful homes on High
street and around Weequahic
Park and up in the Roseville
section.
Today, some are boarded
up. some are rooming houses,
many of them need something
to cover the cracked paint on
sagging porches. The Iron
bound section was always
the poorest. 1t also had the
livelieSt crime rate. It squatS,
peeling in its own decay,
beside the PaSsaic River.
The dumps on the east
side are exposed. 1t is I'M
fortunate that the only
glimpse millions of tran
SientS get of Newark are the
dumps, the rats, and the con-
comitant assault on the nose
and the eyes. It makes no
friends for the city, and any
municipality which deliber-
ately exposes its worst side
to visitors is remiSs in the
field of public relations, as
we'll as in cleanliness.
Once, the area around
Newark Bay had many picnic
grounds and boating facili-
ties. The water became I'M
safe for bathing in the 1920s
and has become worse. This
is also true of all the inner
harbor waters in the New
York area. All the old picnic
grounds and the old Ger
man scheutzens are gone.
Other cities in the area
share responsibility for max
ing the tidal waters of New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
UPRIGHT Plants

The two "D's"-the draceans
and dieffenbachia varieties
make excellent self-supporting
upright house plants for fall
and winter. Both are available
at your florists in a variety OF
medium to large leafed selec-
tons that are suitable for all
types of interior decorative
schemes and furnishings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20

1neSe days medicine is
really a mixture of art and
science. The doctor still needs
to be aware of the human
needs Of his patient; he needs
to understand his emotional
problems. his fears and anx-
ieties and to bear constantly
in mind he is treating a hu-
man and not a guinea pig.
BUT HE also must know
the value of the new scien-
tific procedures and the i'm
portance Of various labora-
tory tests. For that reason
the doctor must insist on &C
curate clinical laboratory re-
ports.
Many laboratory operators
have sprung up who are not
qualified to give such exam
nations. Your doctor should
be chooSy before he sends
you to a laboratory to have
some tests made. What good
is a report on a blood sugar
or a choleSterol reading I'M
less it is trustworthy.
Lately, ! have been hearing
that some patients, to save
a doctors fee, go directly to
some laboratory for a blood
test which requires expert de-
Examinations. When you do
so on you own, you may not
only be throwing away your
money; you may get a report
which labels you as a dia-
bette when you're not or tells
you that your blood sugar is
normal when you are really
suffering from diabetes.
And likewise with the doz-
ems of other examinations
you may have. Let your doc
tor decide. Even he has
trouble these days in finding
a reputable laboratory which
makes dependable examina-
tions. Don't rely upon cut
rate laboratories which ad-
vertise their services.
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Many readers wonder if it
is true that caStration is of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Laboratory Choice Is Important
By DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

some help to the patient suf-
fering from cancer Of the
prostate. Many studies of
case histories prove this is
true, especially when the
doctor also prescribes female
hormones.
I have told some patients
who simply can't lose" to
buy an expensive suit or
gown a size or two below
their present figure require
ments, then hang it in the
closet and diet down to it.
Whenever they get the urge
to overeat it is Immediately
overcome. The thought Of
that beautiful garment
hanging there just waiting
to be worn straightens their
backbone and strengthens
their will power. Try it.
Do you think you can hold
your liquor? That you can
get behind the wheel of your
car and still be the expert
and careful driver you pride
yourself on being: It Just
can't be done. Alcohol is a
depresSant that reduces re-
action time.
If you take three or four
bottles of beer or two mar
TINS, your driving perform
ance deteriorates anywhere
from rs per cent to 80 per
cent. If you don't believe it,
that makes you even more
OF a danger to yourself and
to others on the road.
THE PENDULUM
swings too far. Lately, people
have become too fearful
about taking an X-ray for
diagnostic reasons. Although
1t is still true that excess
radiation can be harmful,
better remember that refus-
ing X-rayS when diagnosis
may be overlooked can be
more causing loss
of health or life.
Doctors are now quite
aware of the potential dan
gers of too much radiation.
Therefore, if your doctor
suggests the yearly routine
X-ray of the chest, or other
X-ray Investigations, better
accept his advice without
fear of terrible consequences.
Chances are that his X-ray
equipment is in good shape
and that he will be especially
careful not to expose you to
excess radiation.
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DR.. Steincrohn'S ledtlet,
when to Suspect Your Gall
Bladder" will be mailed on
receipt of a stamped, SELF
addressed envelope and 10
cents in coin for handling
charges. Address DR.. Stein
crohn in care OF The Eue-
ming Star.
Bell Syndicate Featured
Monday: Human nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
FAMOUS FABLES
By E. E. EDGAR

PERSONAL: One day In
the White House. President
Theodore Roosevelt dictated
a letter to his secretary.
When she brought it to him,
neatly typed for signature,
he penciled in several cor
rections and returned it to
her.
"All right, send it off now"
he said.
Eyes, Mr.. President, I'll re-
type it at once and"
mo, no, send it as u.s." said
T. R. Then. observing her ex-
preston, he added, 1T adds
a personal touch, and it
makes the President appear
more human"
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REGRET: The poet Heine
was a caustic wit who spared
the feelings of neither his
friends nor his nagging wife.
When you die" he was
told, nobody will regret your
passing"
"One man will" retorted
Heine. 1.-THE man who mar
rieS my widow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
YOUR MIDDLE YEARS
Lure of Last FIinq
Is Symptom of Fear

Is still a young buck, what
can he expect but some dis
NAL confirmation Of the fact
that he is middle-aged af-
ter all-and everybody knows
it?
One man Of As, who had
been taking his secretary to
lunch with a rather fanciful
notion Of where the relation
ship might lead, confided,
Everything was going fine
until I asked her If she
would call me by my first
name, and she said, "Oh, I
couldn't do that-but I'd be
glad to call you Uncle"
Many a middle-aged man
or woman could be spared
grief and hurt by recogniz-
ing the temptation toward
one last fling for what 1t
really is: A symptom of mid
dle-age fear, an unwilling
ness to let go of the past
because one has not yet made
his peace with the future.
Those who succumb to the
fear and go off on the fling
are taking what Psychiatrist
Frederick Weiss of the Karen
Horney Clinic calls a mar
cotic against anxiety" The
use Of this narcotic In an
attempt to escape life is as
ineffective as alcohol or
heroin. And it. too. can be
devastatingly harmful.
Mrs. T. was in her early
40's. She was bored with
repetitive Homework; the ex-
element Of rearing her four
children had waned, now
that they we're well up in
school; her husband had
fallen into the doldrums
where life's boundaries were
the office and TV.
She felt unwanted, not
needed, and the creeping
dread Of losing her attrac-
tiveness and becoming a
dull old woman" assailed
her every time she looked in
the mirror. She decided to do
something about 1t before
life escaped her altogether.
She began to pay more at
tention to other men. At
cocktail parties. she revived
her teen-age techniques of
playing up" to men, Of
making coquettish and sug-
gestive remarks. She engaged
in q few sly flirtations.
For a few weeks it seemed
to work beautifully. Men
paid attention to her, gath
cred around her. There were
compliments and blandish-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
Fatal Phone Call

Then one Monday after
noon a strange man phoned,
told her he had been given
her number, and suggested,
after a circuitouS build-up,
that the two of them might
slip off together for a few
hours-and he mentioned a
motel.
The last fling went down
in flames. The woman
quietly hung up the phone
in a stupor of unbelief.
Here she had thought she
was becoming attractive to
men all over again; now she
realized that she had created
not so much the picture Of
a desirable woman as the
portrait Of a tramp.
Mr.. r., age 81, went over
board. He had the last fling
at least until he himself
was flung. The redhead Of
%, shortly after he had
given her a $500 mink stole.
eloped with a pro football
player.
1t took a psychiatriSt and
dozens of hours Of patient
treatment, to help Mr.. r.
see that his real happiness
was in his marriage and the
home he had built for 80
years. He eventually per-
ceived the pattern Of Self-de-
feat and self humiliation in
his attempt to defraud life.
He could have learned his
lesson much more quickly
land less extensively from
the Book of Proverbs
(6:27-26):
Can a man take fire in
his bosom, and his clothes
not be burned?"
Can one go upon hot
Goals, and his feet not be
burned?"
Last fling" is really a
double fallacy.
The word fling suggests
that there is something much
more exciting to be sought
outside Of marriage than can
be found in it, once middle
age has arrived. The word
last" suggests that the end
is at hand-the end of pas
sion, the end Of proves, the
end of exciting love. Both
propositions are dead wrong.
Sunday: Mature love con be the
best.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
Newark, City on the Downgrode

No city in America looks
as bad, and smells as bad,
as Newark, New Jersey. It
sits astride five railroads and
a half dozen main highways
only eight miles west of New
York. On the New Jersey
turnpike, many drivers roll
the car windows up when
they smell Newark around
the bend.
This city. only a handful
Of years ago, was one of the
most progressive in the East.
1t is the home of 10 large
insurance and casualty COM
panies. Newark Airport is
one of the busiest in America.
1t is a paint and varnish CEN
ter, has big breweries, bakery
plants, chemical works and
meat packing.
IN THE DECADE after the
turn of the century, the pop
ulation of Newark jumped
IL per cent. In the last dec
ade. it dropped from 49,
900 people to 100000 and is
still falling. Why? Newark has
fine colleges, good hotels, a
library with an annual cir
culation of almost 3 million
books. 300 churches, a mu-
scum, two daily newspapers,
and a cultural history which
goes back to 1866, when the
city was founded by Capt.
Robert Treat and 80 Puri-
tanS.
What happened to Newark
is worth time and study by
any municipal planning COM
mittee. AS a complex of in
dustries, it is thriving. It's
dollar volume is high. So is
the decay.
In the 1920s, the intersec-
ton of Broad and Market
streets carried more traffic
each day than Times Square,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20

York disease laden and dam
gerous. To draw attention
away from Newark for a
moment, consider the case of
New York City which plans
a big world fair in 1864. One
of the newspapers chose a
time like this to publicize its
kill-a-rat campaign.
Some of the friendliest rats
are to be found in city hall.
These are the proponents of
status quo; the gentlemen
who are afraid that any
movement toward cleaning up
the city is bound to set up
an opposite motion from
plant owners and industrial
lists and will reflect itself in
campaign solicitations and
votes.
In Newark, the county
courthouse is imposing. 1t
should be. It was designed by
CaSs Gilbert. In front of it
is a bronze statue of Abra-
ham Lincoln, seated. This was
executed by GutZon Borglum
and is, next to the heroic
statue in the Lincoln Memo
rial at Washington, the
finest in the land. 1t is i'm
possible to study this statue
without being touched by
the eternal sorrow of the 18th
president.
1 STOOD AROUND the
courthouse looking down
Market street and chatting
with some oldtimers. Newark,
at one time, was a fine res
idential area. I asked what
had happened to the rich
families. Almost all of them
have moved out to the
Oranges, to Montclair, to
Short Hills.
The question was asked of
one old hanger-on from the
Briedenbach administration
of the late 1920s. Whats the
matter?" he said. You been
asleep like Rip Van Winkle?"
Maybe I was, I said.
Still, municipal cleanliness
is not a matter of one era or
another. It's a timeleSs COM
pulsion, like personal clean
illness. Newark, N. j., was
once a beautiful city. 1t can
be again, but what it needs
first is a lot of community
outrage.
Copyright, 1851, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
HOUSE PLANTS NOW NEED
SOME SPECIAL ATTENTION

Now that the house plants back in their winter
quarters it is well to establish routine that will keep
them clean. vigorous growing and productive Humidity
Is of the most needed conditions their growth
It be supplied by pans Of water trays which the
pots rest, and even moist peatmoSs will help.
Regular watering, depending upon the needs Of the
plants, varies with every pot and every in the
house. 1t must be worked out by the gardener Over
watering be injurious than UNDERWRITING
Dormant plants, and many of them are in a
or less dormant stage in December January need
much less water and fertizng. Insect control can
be had through weekly less frequent Swinging with
cold water.-WHY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20
Ferns More Popular

In keeping with trends to
early American furnishings and
decor, table ferns, such as
pteris, aspidium and hollyfern
are staging a remarkable come
back as house plants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-20

ments-and she even had a
few telephone calls when her
husband was at work.
Evening star., 1961-09-13
Senate Passes
Bill 10 Lessen
Hiss Act Effect
By the Associated Press

The Senate last night passed
by voice vote and sent to the
President a bill to restore the
pension rights of Federal en-
ployes convicted of crimes other
than those involving the ma
tional security.
The measure amends what
has come to be known as the
Hiss Act, passed in 1854.
The 1854 act was aimed at
Alger Hiss, former State, De-
partment official who was con-
victed of perjury after denying
he had passed secret documents
to a pre-World War II Soviet
spy ring.
The effect was to deny him a
pension for which his years of
service in the State Department
would have entitled him. But it
also denied annuity benefits to
other Federal employees con-
victed Of a long list of crimes.
The bill sent to the President
would not restore Hiss pension
rights, but it would restore
civilian annuity benefits and
military retirement pay, in
cluding survivorship benefits,
to persons denied them since
1854 because of conviction of
crimes unrelated to National
security.
Sponsors of the bill said the
1854 act had worked unfair
hardships on persons convicted
of minor offenses and
amounted to the assessment of
an additional penalty.
Senator Williams, Republi-
can of Delaware. protested,
however, that the bill would
Testore retroactively the an
uuity rights of "every crook
and scoundrel who ever worked
for the United States Govern
ment."
Among others, he said, this
would include Internal Rev.
3nue agents who accepted
bribes to fix tax cases of some
of the Nations biggest racke-
teerS.
Evening star., 1961-09-13
Ex-senator Green
Still Critically Ill

PROVIDENCE, r. l.. Sept. 13
(AP).-Former United States
Senator Theodore Francis
Green, SO, was described as
fairly comfortable at Jane
Brown Hospital today, although
a spokesman said his condition
remains critical. Mr.. Green is
suffering from a heart block
discovered Friday when he en-
tered the hospital for a checkup.
The former Senator received
a bouquet of peach gladioli,
rust chrysanthemums and yel-
low carnations yesterday from
President Kennedy and relayed
word through his secretary, Ed
ward j. Higgins, that he was
highly pleased.
Other cards and messages
have come from Vice President
johnson, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee whic h
Senator Green headed, and
from Army and Navy officers.
The Arizona post., 1961-10-13
Women'S Wear Daily.

Women's Wear Daily.
The body-conscious CO t
silhouette combines lightly
shaped bodice with gently
fared skirt. Variety is pre-
sented in the skirt, which de-
velops flare with pleats, gath
cred or dirndl fullness, low
cred Wristbands and low
The Arizona post., 1961-10-13
Long And Slender By Night

belts. Skirt flare also is free
and easy, low and ripPled or
stifened and controlled.
In faH suing are the coats
that are more cape than coat.
These uninhibited faring sill
houettes exaggerate fullness
with low armholes, dropped
shoulder lines and bell-Shap-
ed sleeves.
The demi-ftted suit with
the shaped front and the
eased back continues to get
most of the attention. The
news this season is in the long
and short of jacket lengths,
Women'S Wear Daily finds.
The cropped jacket that levels
off at the waistline and the
elongated to the thigh and
the cutaway jacket are cutting
into the still popular hip-top
jacket territory. The nodded
suit jacket signifies the i'm
portance of the newly arrived
body-conscious silhouette.
Skirts contribute to much
of the excitement in suits.
Cone-shaped skirts, gathered
skirts and skirts with control
led flare now compete with
the firmly entrenched slim
line skirts. The demi- fitted
or nodded jacket plus the
flared skirt is a winning suit
combination.
The Arizona post., 1961-10-13

scious silhouette is here to
stay for while. This lightly
or demi- fitted coat with far
ing hemline emerges as a
popular fashion leader. The
tapered coat, depending up
on the degree of front fit,
also falls into this up-to-the-
minute category, according to