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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-12
Thieves Snatch
Court Funds in
Sunday Break-In

Approximately S113 was stol-
EN- from the Peoples Court pro-
baton office in Rockville some
time Sunday night according
to the detective bureau.
One or more persons entered
the Court House, broke the glass
pane to the door leading to the
records room and smashed an
other glass door leading to the
probation office. A small cabi-
net safe was ransacked and pa
pers were strewn over the floor,
police said.
They reported that a check of
all doors leading into the court
house failed to reveal any dam
age to locks and it was assumed
one of the doors may have been
accidentally left ajar.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-12
Efficiency Saluted

Brooke Hall, son of Mrs. A.
Perry Hall, of COOS Poindexter
Road, Rockville, was the winner
of a military efficiency award
at the close of the Valley Forge
Militar Academy summer
camp program, held annually at
the schools camp in Wayne, Pa.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-12
Lions Sponsoring
Call Me Madam

The Gaithersburg Lions Club
will sponsor the Sept. IS per.
Torrance of Call Me Madam"
starring Matha Raye, at Shady
Grove Music Fair.
Tickets may be purchased
from any club member or bv
calling WI. 8-5757 or WA. $1,000
Funds from the benefit will be
used by the club for its charity
work in the community.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07

Kenton Methodist
Monday, The Official Board
will meet at 1880 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
THE POWER OF CON-
VICTIONS


VlCTIONS
1t is the lesson of all his
tory that the success of men and
women In all walks of life has
been according to the character
and degree of their convictions.
Whatever convictions you
may have must of necess sity be
personal. Your conviction is
yours. Into the warp and woof of
your life this great dominating
element must needs be woven
until 1t is a part of your every
being.
Conviction is not instinct, but
is the product of earnest,
Individual investigation.
The above statements are
automatic. Mental laziness is
the cause of the mushroom
growth of the cults, and the blind
acceptance of political and reli-
gious foolery which has cursed
humanity In every century.
The Christian, to be effective,
must be gripped with powerful
conviction that cannot be thrust
aside without doing violence to
the whole personality.
The abiding conviction of the
Church In all the years of her
history Is to exalt the Lord Je-
sus Christ, the Goldman who
made reconciliation by the sac
rifice of Himself.
Fringe emphasis may change,
but throughout our history the
consuming. solidifying con-
vicuon has been that we are
obliged to get the Gospel out.
What do you expect of the
church, Simply to maintain its
local institutions; or to win the
world for CHRISTI To accurately
pronounce our shibboleths; or to
go out after the lost and seek
until they are found2 To build
high our walls of exclusion; or
to batter down the ramparts of
sin, and blast open the prison
of iniquity7
AS for me, expect the Church
to change the moral atmosphere
of the community In which 1t
exists; to challenge every
form of human slavery; to stand
up and speak out against law
lessness, against popular sins,
against compromise, against
anything and everything that
would rob the Lord Jesus Christ
of His rightful glory.
expect the Church to main
tain positive witness for
holiness In doctrine and In prac-
tice. To stand against world
conformity In custom and
ethics. To proclaim the great
cardinal doctrines of justi-
fication by faith, entire sancu-
fication through the power of the
Holy Spirit, the Bible as the
inerrant voice of God.
The above are convictions.
Upon them | must stand, what
ever the result in personal loss
or gain.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
73LIIIi12!E3s

Asbury Methodist
Mount Vernon Street
Rev. j. Howard Link, Minister
Sunday Services:
9:45 am, Church School.
11:00 am. Worship Ser
vice.
1915 pm. Sacrament of
Baptism.
$50 PM, M.Y.F.
First Presbyterian
West Commerce Street
Rev. Charles L. CuretOn iii,
Minister
Sunday Services:
9:45 am. Sunday Church
School.
HOO am, Morning Wor-
ship; Stewardship Commit
ment Sunday.
$3.50 PM, Senior High
Youth Fellowship.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
Christian Science
Dover, Delaware
Cnndnn Cn,.1rinnc

The subject of the Lesson
Sermon in all Christian Sci
ence churches in Delaware,
Sunday, will be Adam and
Fallen Man"
Morning Service and Sun
day School are at 11:00 am.
Wednesday Evening Testi-
mony Meetings at 8'0n nm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
SPECIAL CHURCH
MEETINGS
.AsburY Methodist

~
Thursday, 500 pm, Har-
vey c. Jones Bible Class
at the home of Miss
Ruth Jones.
Friday, $50 pm, Junior
Choir Rehearsal.
Sunday, 1880 pm, Final
session of W.S.C.S. Study
Course.
Monday, $50 pm, Y.A.F.
serving Lions Club; ZOO pm.
Finance Commission.
Wednesday, 7,30 pm, Sen
ior Choir Rehearsal; 500 p.
M, Bible Study at the Par
sonage: the Book of The
Revelations.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
Holiness Christian
Millington, Maryland
Rev. Paul S. Taylor, Pastor

Sunday SERVICES
Sunday School, 9:45 am.
Morning Worship Service,
10:45 am.
Young Peoples Meet, 700
p. m.
Evening Worship Service,
7.30 o. m.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07

st. Joseph's Church
Daily Mass: at 7:3O am.
Confessions; Saturday, 4:3O
to $50: and Z to 8 pm.
Baptisms: Sunday at pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
EweIl,s-St. Paul

1h a . ~ ~A
Wednesday, Prayer Hour at
6:30f7:30 pm.
Thursday. Prayer Hour, ,2:3O
p.m.; Junior Choir. 700 pm. /;
Senior Choir, 500 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07

SaZarene Church
Thursday Prayer Service,
80 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07
FIRST WESLEYAN

First wesleyan
Wednesday Mid-Week Pray
er and Bible Study, 7.45 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-11-07

FreewilI Baptist
Wednesday evening Bible
Study, 1880 pm.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
From The National Observer

The unfortunate thing about the de-
bate over foreign aid is that it tends
to dabble in peripheral issues and sell
dom gets down to essentials.
David Bell, administrator Of the Agen-
cy for International Development (AID),
gives a good illustration of this on Page
IL of today's National Observer. In a de-
tense against foreign aid cutbacks, he
argues that 80 per cent Of the $2.4 bill
lion of economic aid committed in this
fiscal year will be spent in the United
States for American goods and services.
Thurs, he maintains, the real beneficiar-
les of aid are American export indus
tries and their workers. Supposedly,
this makes the foreign aid program all
right.
1t doesn't, Of course, because the argu-
ment is beside the point. Mr.. Bells
pitch simply amounts to an argument for
Federal Subsidization of the export in
dustries. Why they or anyone else should
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

to tailor its operations to suit
governmental whims.
The Commercials" which sus-
tain a radio or television pro-
gram furnish the money to pay
for the overall cost of the
talent, the cost of the various
stations and their personnel, and
the cost Of the services Of the
many individuals employed in
the actual production of shows.
The whole operation involves
the delicate question of price
making by the broadcasting
companies.
The American people have
steered clear of price control
except in wartime. To tell the
radio or TV station how many
commercials" they can carry
Is in reality to fix prices. 1t
means that, instead of the cost
being spread over several adj
vertiserS, it will have to be
borne by a smaller number who
will have less frequency and
less time on the air and pay a
higher price. This may force
TV and radio advertisers to
turn to other media which may
become more economical.
This constitutes governmental
interference with price-making
by a private enterprise. 1t ne
gates the principle back Of the
whole free-enterprise system. 1t
is argued, of course, that radio
and TV are different, because
the air waves are controlled by
the government. But this is tan
tamount to saying that, because
the government builds the high
ways, it may determine how Of
ten certain cars can use such
thoroughfares or at what prices
the goods transported thereon
are to be sold. 1t implies that,
because the government con-
trolls the air waves, it can de-
eide whether they shall be used
for music or drama or comedy
and to what extent each form
of entertainment shall be allow
able.
IF the government is to take
over everything connected with
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Risky Reconstruction

Thus it behooves every person
who is honest with himself to
acknowledge that it is risky bust
ness to put off doing what is good
and right until tomorrow or until
that time he has a second chance.
He might not have that second
chance-or pass that way again
or, even if he did, he might not
perform differently. Therefore it
is all the more important that the
individual live every waking hour
as he reckons God would have him
live it. And what would God have
him do? Micah put it thusly: "He
hath Showed thee, 0 man, what is
good; and what doth the Lord re-
quire of thee, but to do justly, and
to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God" Many centuries
later John Ruskin, the English
critic, said it in this fashion: "You
may ~assuredly find perfect peace,
if you are resolved to do that
which your Lord has plainly re-
quired - and content that He
should indeed require no more Of
you - than to do justice, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with
Him"
In this, as in everything con-
nected with obeying God and liv-
ing a Cody life, there is a reward,
as attested by the Psalmist: IT
have been young, and now am old;
yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging
bread"
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

A persistently haunting pas
sage always provoking new
thoughts, is the one attributed to
several notable figures in litera-
ture: II expect to pass through
this world but once; any good
thing, therefore, that I can do, or
any kindness that | can show to
my fellow-creatures, let me do it
now; let me not deter or neglect
it, for I shall not pass this way
again"
There are many points of no
return in every life. But if one
could go back to those points -
actually pass that way again -
would he do or act any different
ly? That's a question each person
must ask himself, and answer
himself. Surprisingly, many might
answer in the negative. How does
anyone know he would do better
a second time? Of this Sir Thomas
Browne said: "For my own part, I
would not live over my past hours
nor begin again the thread of my
days; not upon Cicero's ground
that I have lived them well, but
for fear I should live them worse.
I find my growing judgment daily
instructs me how to be better, but
my untamed affections and con-
firmed vices make me daily do
worse. l find in my confirmed age
the same sins I discovered in my
youth: I committed them because
] was a child; and because I COM
NIT them still, l am yet an infant"
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Still Burning

Cambodia isn't going Commu-
mist after all, as Western nations
feared, when the country's ruling
prince staged the unheard of act
of asking the United States to end
military and economic aid to his
land. Instead the country will turn
to France for assistance.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the
Chief of State, was quoted as say
ing Communist aid was "particu-
larly dangerous" and declaring
that France is the most capable
power to represent the Western
world in this part of Asia"
The prince was further quoted
as saying "the Americans have
erased themselves from this coun-
try. The Communist powers are
eraSing themselves"
The rejection of $50 million
yearly in U. S. aid so dumbfound-
ed many that they could have
knocked a pygmy over with a
sledge hammer. That money paid
for 20 per cent of Cambodia's stra-
tegic imports and 40 per cent of
its army salaries. And with this
thrown out the window, Western
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

fastened.
Reports said the injured person
waiting for an ambulance kept
saying over and over that he
wouldn't have been hurt if the
seat belt had been fastened.
Too many people only fasten
seat belts while on the highways.
We know one man who says he
fastens his belt if he's only driving
around the block or to a grocery
a short distance away.
It seems like a good idea to-
make fastening seat belts a habit
every time the car is started.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

the air waves just because it
was originally given the power
to prevent collision Of frequen-
cieS or to regulate mechanical
operations on the air due to the
limited number of wave lengths,
then in the end government con-
troll can be envisaged for every
form Of publication - including
the printed word - on the theo-
ry that the government trans
ports the publications in tn
mails. Public Indifference is the
usual reason why government
gets deeper and deeper in
control Of private enterprise.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Where The Dollars Go

be singled out for such Government ben
eficence at the taxpayers expense is be-
yond us. And the implication that this
country loses nothing if foreign aid
money is spent here rather than abroad
is absurd. There has been a loss Of
the goods exported, for which the ma
tons overseas pay almost nothing; 1--WE
have paid ~overselves" and given
away the goods.
And that gets close to the heart Of
the real issue on foreign aid as an
everlasting institution. All the econom-
ic pre~stidigitation is based on the fact
that American taxpayers, who have long
shouted their objections, are continually
dunned to pay sums that are given to
foreign nations and which wind up, both
here and abroad, in someone else's poe
ketS.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Sylvia Porter
Job Security

on this point, IA worker who
invests a lot Of time and energy
in learning a job is inclined to
keep that job once he gets It.
We find the greatest degree OF
job stability among persons in
occupations which demand the
most training, financial invest
ment or experience, and the big
geSt expansion in employment is
taking place in the professional
and technical occupations.
"The shortest job tenure is
among laborers and the semi
skilled who require little or no
training and are more likely to
be adversely affected by BUSH
ness downturns or seasonal fIuc-
tuationS."
Incidentally, HameI down.
grades the impact Of good or bad
times on job stability. There
are plenty of reasons a man
may want to change his job in
good times when he is optimiS-
tic and looking for advance
ment. Attenuation may Law off
as many workers in prosperi-
ty as declining profits lay
off in recessions."
Will the trend toward great
er job security continue? Yes,
for each force behind it is grow
ing in Importance. Pension pri-
vilegeS are still expanding. Our
so-called peace continues. EN-
ployment in America is requir-
ing increasing investment by
management and workers in ed
ucation and expensive training.
This trend could become too
much Of a good thing = if it
led to cautious conformity and
dreary rightly in our labor
force. But I take comfort from
the finding that in the under
Is age group, the average stay
on the job is a scant eight
months. It's only when we reach
As that we really get set in our
jobs, and by then we should be
having and showing a high
degree of stability in all phases
Of life.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Auto Safety Seat Belts

A rather startling news report
come to attention the other day in
a statement that roughly three out
of four fatal automobile accidents
happen within Is miles of the VIC
TINS home.
Since safety authorities have
been stressing the value of auto
safety seat belts this thought tied
in with a recent accident we heard
about where the victim was near
home. The tie-in, however, came
with the report hat while this
wreck resulted only in injury and
not in death, the seat belt was not
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

officials had immediate visions of
Communist China or Russia filling
in the great vacuum left.
But nay, say reports now. The
prince is "going back home," as it
were. For Cambodia was a protec-
torate of France 100 years until the
French made it independent 10
years ago. And fty been on the
bum ever since, with the u. S. be-
ing its biggest Uncle Dollars.
Then came the high and mighty
attitude recently when the prince
acted up and Cambodia's ambas-
sador to the U. S. said his county
wanted to be left alone with its
own affairs. But the princes re-
ported plan ~contradicts that and
Cambodia is still cumming. 1t mat
tiers not who it buns from.
All of this adds up to a glowing
example of the truth told by SEN
ator Ellender, Louisiana Democrat,
months ago when he said that not
a single one of the newly freed
African nations could go it alone
and survive without white help.
Now it is shown again in Asia they
just can't stand on their w feet,
big and flat as they might be.
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

siSting the majority leader in
every form Of problem in the
Senate and later every problem
in the Vice Presidency; keep
ing in some touch with the pri-
vate property affairs which the
JohnsonS have now put in trust
so that there can be no sugges-
ton Of conflict-of-interest
jenkins was "chief Of staff"
to use a not very descriptive
term to denote an indispensable
man.
Now, this is what he is to
Mr.. Johnson as President ~ or,
In the old c~olloquial expression,
he is chief cook and bottle
washer. He attends the super
secret National Security Coun-
Gil. He is at the same time far
from inattentive to all domestic
political and legislative prob
lens. And if Mrs. Johnson needs
help or advice, and her own as
Sistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Carpent-
er, feels the need Of conSulta-
ton a small summit meeting
may ensue with jenkins as
Mrs. Carpenters opposite numb
er. He is, in short, the man
about whom the peculiarly tel
ling prhase is this: "See Walter
about it,"
Well, what manner Of man is
jenkins? The answer coming
first to mind is that he is simp-
ly the kind of man who is
and in memory seems always
to have been - there. He is as
quiet as Sorenson. He is as ex-
ecutive-minded as was Sherm-
an Adams but never gives the
impression he is either running
things or trying to.
He works at a furious pace
The chronicle., 1963-12-13

The tens Of millions Of us who
are employed In the United
States today are now staying
with our same employers an av-
erage Of 4.6 years, a full one
third longer than we stuck to our
same jobs in 1851. Despite the
persistently high rate Of unem-
ployment, job stability in our
country never has been so mark
ed ~ and the reasons for this
60 far beyond the obviously
stabilizing influence Of pension
privileges.
Think for a moment how long
you have held your present
job. Now see how you COM
pare with the averages:
Ii you are Is to "A years old,
you're average if you've been
on the same job for AZ years.
If you are as years or older,
you're average if you've held
your current job 1914 years.
If you are a s~elf-employed
man with money or time invest
ed in your business or learning
your profession, you've b
consistently employed for n n
years on average, almost twice
as long as wage and salary
workers.
These few statistics picked out
Of hundreds in a new study by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
underline the increasing job sta
bility of the American labor
force a seeming paradox in
the face Of our continuing high
unemployment. Why?
A first obvious force is the
spectacular growth of pension
plans, fringe benefits and re-
tirement programs for older
workers. Of course these tend to
hold workers to their jobs.
A second force, which be-
comes obvious only after it's
mentioned, is that we have had
an extended period that we now
call peace, and thus we have
been able to stay on the 0
without interruption. When h
BIS last made a study on job
tenure in 1851, World War II
had been over only a few years.
At that time only IS per cent
of us had held the same job
for more than a decade. It's up
to 80 per cent now.
A third force, which isn't OBJ
viouS at all, is that job attach
ment increases as the level Of
training, education and skill re-
quired for employment rises. AS
Harvey r. Hamel, author of the
BIS study, put it when queried
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
Williom S. White
Ibis Adviser Jenkins

WASHINGTON. - Franklin
Roosevelt had his Harry Hop
kinS, Dwight Eisenhower h j s
Sherman Adams and John F.
Kennedy his Theodore Sorensen.
Each = Hopkins, Adams. Soren-
sen was the man-closest-to
the President Of his time.
Lyndon Johnson will not pre-
cisely have a Hopkins, an Adj
ans, a Sorensen, because while
he will take more advice from
more people and more kinds
of people than any President Of
recent times, both ultimate de-
cision and ultimate action will
be his personal products to a
degree also not seen in recent
times.
But President Johnson will
have the presently untitled -
and possibly never to be fully
titled - Walter jenkins.
When Mr.. johnson was Sem
ate majority leader and later
Vice President, Walter jenkins
the President often call him
thus, as though his Christian
and family names were COM
pressed and subjoined ~ was
principal administrative assist
ant. The job covered everything:
keeping an eye on johnson po-
ltical interests everywhere; as
The chronicle., 1963-12-13
David Lawrence
Government And Commercials
David Lawrence

WASHINGTON, - One of the
most dangerous tendencies now
adays is the inclination to deal
with any inconvenience in the
life Of the nation by saying,
'let the government take care
of it." Yet this is the way in
difference builds up that can
lead eventually to destruction of
individual initiative and enter
prise in the community.
The latest example Of this
trend is the announced determi-
nation Of the Federal Communi-
cations Commission to regulate
what shall be presented to the
people on radio or television.
No such power is really grant
ed under the Constitution to any
governmental agency. The FEC
insists it is not applying CEN
Sorship but merely fixing "stan-
dards," yet the very word fur
nishes a device for government
al intrusion whenever it pleas
es. A subcommittee Of the House
Commerce Committee has just
approved a bill to prohibit the
commission from welding any
such power, but the FEC is
holding hearings nevertheless in
the belief that it does have this
authority.
Just now the controversy is
centering on how many "com-
mercials" can be used in con-
nection with a given program.
Offhand, this might seem a
plausible regulation. The aver
age person doesn't like to have
his radio or TV programs inter-
rupted so much and, on the
surface, it would appear logical
that the FEC should have con-
troll over Commercials" But
those who acquiesce in the use
of such authority haven't stop
ped to examine just what is in
volved, especially the possible
ty that television and radio
can be materially weakened by
governmental Intervention.
If there are too many "com-
m%ercials," for instance. the pub
Lie has the right to decline to
listen to them, and the adver-
Users could soon discover that
they are not getting the sales
results they anticipated. This
is the natural way for the SUBJ
ject to be dealt with under a
free-enterprise system. Newspa-
pers and other publications have
sometimes been faced with COM
plants about too much adver.
Using and too little reading mat
ter, but have found their own
solutions on the basis Of what
makes for effective advertising
as well as what makes for con-
sistent reading of the publica-
tons themselves.
If, however, the government
Is to step in and regulate media
of expression, the responsibility
for a business failure that may
ensue is not going to be as
sumed by the government. It is
the business itself which will
have to bear the expense and.
the losses when it finds itself
with reduced profits and dimin-
ished opportunities adequately to
compensate its employees. A
business that has to adjust its
operations to the response Of
the public is likely in the long
run to be better able to serve
the people than one which has