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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
Bed Shawl
Mrs. B. D., Washington

Mrs. b. d., washington
Do you have or know where
I could obtain a pattern for
a bedshawl that is made in
the following. manner: very
large knitting needs are used,
heavy yarn wool, and two
colors of wool.
1t is knit in a relatively sim
pie manner or stitch and the
pattern is obtained by act
ually ripping parts or coll
umns of the work.
The result is quite lovely
and ! am most anxious to
obtain the directions in order
to make a bed cape for
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DisposobIe Bottles
To Mrs. J. L., Washington
From Mrs. r. d. r.,

40 MIos -. L., w USfktftyLOU
From Mrs. r. d. r.,
Spring Siluer
This being your first baby,
you may not be quite so
thrilled with them as I was
after having two very colicky
babies. I decided to give the
disposable bottles a try for
my third and I found all their
claims absolutely true.
My third baby had no collie
whatsoever.
Not having scrubbed the
glass bottles before you have
no basis Of comparison, but
let me assure you that you
certainly will save time by
using dispoSable bottles. For
mula preparation time was,
to me, cut almost in half. I
also found that the nipples
far outlaSted the old type.
One word of caution: Be
sure to read the instructions
carefully and practice with a
few before your baby arrives.
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READERS CLEARING HOUSE
There's Always Something to Be Said
For q Monorel
To R. D. r., SLIDER Spring

Many of your readers must sympathize with
Mrs. R. D. R. of Silver Spring after seeing her
touching letter about Imp, here beloved mongrel
pet.
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Citrus Pie

Mrs. E. r. NJ, FGirtGE
I certainly hope that
someone can help with the
recipe I am referring to.
About three or four months
ago I clipped a recipe for a
delicious pie and cannot find
it. I think 1t was called Cit
rus Pie or Frozen Citrus Pie,
and all I can remember of it
is that it contained equal
amounts of lemon juice,
orange juice. and lime Juice.
I believe it was poured into
a baked pie shell. We enjoyed
it and it was still good five
days later under refrigera-
ton, which makes it an ideal
pie to make a day ahead for
dinner guests.
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WEE WOMEN
''Stop brooding. That
mirror thinks I'm the
fairest in the land"
Christmas for my grand
mother.
Color TeIevision

Mrs. G. B. NJ, Fort BeIDoir
We are planning on buying
a new television and are seri-
ously considering q color set.
In view Of the expense in
volved we would be very
grateful for any comments
and advice on color TVS.
We are especially interested
in dependability and MAIN
tenance costs, and would well
come your opinions on the
advantages and disadvantages
between color and black-and-
white.
Thank you.
Il 4 4 Il
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the writing of checks. Now everyone could own
acheckbook.
The volume of checks and check money
orders expanded by leaps and bounds. In 1899
there were some 1900 900 checking accounts.
By 1852 this figure had grown to 100000,
and today the figure is rapidly approaching
100000.
In the period from 1889 to 1852 the number
of checks written annually grew from an esti-
mated 3.5-billion to 8-billion. Should the 1899
50 trend continue, this figure could top %
billion annually by 1970l
The volume of checks is expanding at the
rate Of about 10 per cent year. The amount
of money transferred by 4billiOn checks in
1912 is estimated at about $580billion. In 1852,
the 8-billiOn checks transferred an estimated
$2.25trillion, and last years 14h-billion,
checks probably transferred $46trillion.
Back to terms we can understand the 1912
checks would have made a single pile some
$50 miles high, equal to the distance from
New York to Cleveland. By 1882, the pile of
checks in that year would have been $50 miles
in the air. 1928 checks would stack ,45O miles
high, or more than 1h million miles iflaid end
t0-end.
But this isn't all II is estimated that each
one of these 14Ek-billiOn checks is handled by
an average of 2h banks and that each of these
banks handles each check an average of 81
times. Multiplying 2h by 81 means that every
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check is handled 14h times, and the IAN.
billion checks means that there would be 2l0-
billion check landings in the banking system
in 1862 If 21O-billi0n checks were put in one
stack, it would extend q, 900 miles up into the
heavens!
Here in Washington alone, the d. c. Clear
ing House Association, organized by twelve
banks in April, 1887, yearly handles several
billions of dollars in money transfers for the
IS banking houses represented by the twelve
present members Of the association.
The D. c. Clearing House effects three
meetings daily, at 600 am, 1890 am. and 2:l5
pm. II is here that runners from each Of the
member banks present checks drawn on the
other banks for exchange. Rather than try to
settle balances due or owing from each of the
other banks on which particular bank may
have checks in its daily work, they settle with
the clearing house, and account balances are
adjusted with the balances each bank main
tains as part of its reserve with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond.
In 1862, the D. C. Clearing House handled
checks representing 81, 621 .432. 800 The largest
single day, November 10, showed $5O,477,2l4
exchanged, and the smallest daily total was
81, $50, 900 on August a.
With figures like this currently prevail
ing, and the rate increasing 10 per cent an
nually, the case for automatiOn in banking
looks more promising every day.
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If you are one of the nations more than
100000 checking account owners, then you
know how many checks you write in years
time. But did you know that in 1862 more than
14h billion checks were written, transferring
more than 4.6 trillions of dollars? If these
checks were stacked one atop another, they
would reach 1450 miles into space the dis
lance from New York to Houstonl or If laid
endto-end, they would span the distance be-
tween the earth and the moon nearly seven
times!
Fantastic, you say? Not when you realize
that in tOday's world, ninetenths of each
days money payments are made by check a
feat which would be physically impossible If it
had to be done with cash. People Just couldn't
carry that much money, much less make pay
ments on Out-of-town bills.
Our creditbased economy would be in
conceivable without the check-handIing
machinery developed and administered by
American fullsevice commercial banks.
Check credit must move swiftly, accurately,
and above all, safely in getting money from one
account to another, regardless of distance. The
method developed over the past century
Called "clearingO meets these requirements
so well that the smooth exchange of more than
SITS billion through checks each "A hours is
taken for granted.
Before the passage of the National Bank
ing Act in 1885, very few individuals had
checking accounts. One reason was that the
country's financial stability left much to be
desired, and confidence in money, to say
nothing of credit weakened. People liked hard
cash: much paper money was suspect, and
checks-well were they really money?
The growth of our economy after 1850, the
improvement of transportation and postal SER
vice all sped the use of checks, especially in
commerce, and by 1850 they were more pop
ular with businessmen than cash for paying
bills.
Checks got big boost from the establish
ment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913
This provided new machinery for expediting
their movement, and banks could more easily
handle the increased volume.
But the real heyday of the check came in
the middle l9S0s when special" checking &C
counts appeared on the scene. This "pay-as-
yOu-gO" service was blessing to millions of
Americans who previously had not been able
to tie up funds necessary as deposits against
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
ChRCLNG THE COUNTRYSIDE \
Virginia Museum of Art
Observation-Disclosures

Atoka- Rectortown road and
for all the well graded coun-
ty dirt roads. But when It ar
rived at the green gate which
opened into the tree lined
lane to the property the whole
party transferred to q high,
riding station wagon.
An amphibious PIT boat. In
which Undersecretary Fay
would have felt at home,
would have been handy since
the icy mud in rural Vir-
ginia has given way to Just
plain mud.
Presidential boots must be
kept at the Atoka tributary
because no one had them on
at church. Mrs. Kennedy did
have on beige Isle stockings
complementing her knubby
double breasted beige wool
coat and the Undersecretary
had on Q camel hair coat.
But the President was both
bootless and over-coatless,
certainly more vigorous than
his fellow countrymen. who
stayed bundled to the ears
during the long, cold week
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
BY BERNARD OBRIEN
Contributing Writer

PALM BEACH, Feb. "a
The charity ball is the thing
of the present in this resort.
Tonight, the Heart Ball will
be held at the Celebrity
Room, and the night spot
was the scene last Sunday Of
the Red Gross Ball,
Decorations in a red and
white color scheme were used
for the Red Cross event,
Ornate bronze candelabra for
the table centerpieces we're
flown to Palm Beach from
Chicago especially for the
ball. Former Ambassador
Stanton Griffis was honor
airy chairman.
Those with reservations for
the Red Cross Ball were Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert A. May,
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Cafritz,
Mr.. Griffis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter I. B. Lavan. Baron and
Baroness Thyssen Borne
misza, Mr.. and Mrs. o. Roy
Chalk, the Firestones, Fords,
Gimbels and many others.
The Cafritzes are kept busy
socially while here for q
month at the Palm Beach
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The honoree is active in
both Palm Beach and New
York. Mrs. Sanford was
chairman Of the April In
Paris Ball held. In New York
last fall, chairman Of the
Polo Extravaganza and will
serve as co-chairman with
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller this
summer in staging the Sara
toga Centennial Bail.
Mrs. Lauri Alwyn Of Palm
Beach entertained at a gour-
met luncheon at Taboo on
Worth avenue in honor Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Cous-
try. Mr.. Coustry is the agri-
cultural attache at the
Belgian Embassy in Washing
ton. From Palm Beach, the
couple Travelled to Mexico
City.
Art remains as the main
daytime attraction in the re-
sort. The portrait Of former
Ambassador John Hay Whit
ney, painted by Simon Elves,
is included in the artists one
man show at the Palm Beach
Galleries.
It is the custom for each
ambassador to have his por-
trait hung in the embassy.
This one of Mr.. Whitney.
which is on loan for the
show. will hang in the Amer
lean Embassy In London.
Mr.. Elves is one of Eng
lands most eminent por-
traitists. There Is q painting
Of former Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Air Artemus
s. Gates included In the show.
Over at Gallery IA is Rob-
ert Whites exhibit Of magic
realist paintings. Mr.. White
has exhibited at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art In
Washington.
THE Communist threat Is
still a serious danger con-
fronting the world" warned
Eleanor Lansing Dulles. in
an address before the Palm
Beach Round Table.
In the two decades that
she served the United States
State Department, Mrs. Dull
les earned worldwide respect
and admiration for her
achievements in the field Of
international economies and
diplomacy. In 1850, Mrs. Dull
les was granted the personal
rank Of Minister, one Of the
few women to be accorded
this signal honor. She re-
tired last year.
Jays Visitors
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jay Of
Williamstown. Mass. have
been in the resort for q visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Chatin. The guests showed
their famous film. Stars in
the Snow" at q private party
at the Everglades Club.
Mr.. Jay, known as Anieri-
cas- Ambassador Of Skiing"
is . Rhodes Scholar and
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Work will be limited to two
pieces per artist, Of any media
except ceramics, providing the
work has been done during
1862 and 1868. Brochures will
be sent in the spring. Co
chairmen Of this first VEN
ture of the Loudoun chap
ter will be Mrs. Thomas De-
Lashmutt and Mrs. Thomas
di zerega. Mrs. Paul v.
Rogers Is in charge Of CO.
ordinating the Loudoun art
lists and Mrs. Hunter deButts
Of the Fauquier artists.
There was some muddy
activity last Sunday, across
the meadows from Upper
vile. After 1880 mass at
the Middleburg Community
Center President and Mrs.
Kennedy drove straight from
church to Atoka to show
their guests. Undersecretary
Of the Navy and Mrs. Paul
Fay. the new presidential
home.
The long. black White House
limousine followed by little
black cars filled with IS, was
adequate for the paved
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Towers. They were seen at a
poolside luncheon given by
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. Joseph Tan
koos at his Colony Hotel.
Another noon. Mrs. Frank
Mcmahon Of Palm Beach and
Canada entertained at q
buffet-luncheon at her home,
which was recently acquired
from the estate Of the late
Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane.
The party honored Mrs. Mary
Roebling Of New Jersey.
Among the guests were Mrs.
Cafritz, Mrs. Robert Consi-
dine and Mrs. Michael Wild
ing Of London.
Antique Exhibit
The Damon Runyon Cam
Ger Fund benefited yesterday
from an invitational preview
party Of an exhibition Of an
tique furniture In model size
created by Saul Ritter.
The first Palm Beach ex-
hibit Of Mr.. Ritter's copies of
furniture in one-quarter size
was arranged by Mrs. Ste
phen Sanford. general chair
man Of the March 10 Polo
Extravaganza for the cancer
fund.
Mrs. Sanford's extrava-
ganza vice chairmen include
Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith. wife
of the former Ambassador.
and Mr.. Griffis Is chairman
of the Mems Committee.
The other night, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph H. Lauder gave
a dinner-dance in honor Of
Mrs. Sanford at the Celebrity
Room. The party gathered
more than 800 of Mrs. San
ford's friends in recognition
Of her guidance and organi-
rational ability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
BY DOLORES PHILLIPS .
Contributing Writer

~hAASNAo
RICHMOND, Va.-Not to
be outdone by the White
House, the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts is doing a major
Job of sorting, storing its
present pictures, and redec-
Grating, sprucing itself for
the opening on April 10 Of
q comprehensive collection Of
English art, loaned by Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Mellon Of Up
perville, Va.
Two hundred and fifty oil
paintings and $50 water
colors and drawings will rep
resent 1875 major English
artists, from 100 through
1850. In fact, the exhibit will
be called Painting In Eng
land, 1700I1850."'
The Melons have, APP
parently, spent years collect
ing these pictures which will
be shown to the public for
the first time at the Virginia
Museum. 1t is considered one
of the finest groups of Eng
fish paintings In a private
collection in the world, and
certainly in America.
According to dynamic Les
lie Cheek, jr.. the museums
director, it's "a personal
probing of an overlooked era
that is as informative as 1t
is refreshing" Also, 1T will
be Americas first major view
In breadth and depth Of Eng
lands greatest period Of art"
Appropriate Color
Mr.. Cheek and his staff are
redoing the museum for this
monumental exhibit by paint
ing each gallery an appro-
pirate color, installing spe-
cial lighting for each paint
ing, and wiring every area
for the most complete cleo
trical personal audio-guid-
ance system ever installed In
a museum. This wiring will
stay, after the Mellon exhibit
is over, as a permanent gift
to the Virginia public.
The collection will be par
ticularly strong In small, in
formal portraits. converse
ton pieces, landscapes, and
animal and sporting pictures,
but will not include large
scale formal portraits already
in American collections. Ar
fists who will be represented
include Hogarth. Hayman.
Derby, Rowlandson, Consta-
BILE, Turner, Bennington. Blake
and Palmer, as well as minor
artists whose works have not
been publiciZed.
Many Of the smaller, home
sized pictures have been
hanging at the Melons cot
tage on their Rokeby Farm
near Upperville, giving the
eating foxhunters." whO
have gathered In the foyer
of Little Oak Spring before
a meet, q preview Of part
Of the forthcoming exhibit at
the Virginia Museum. The
MELONS private collection is
hung as casually as any
other American might hang
a reproduction Of the Mona
Lisa" but with slightly more
impact.
Sharp Splinter
A splinter Of the Virginia
Museum. the Loudoun Coun-
ty chapter. is busy organic
ing an exhibit Of it's own,
representing local artists. TO
be held at the Henry Weav-
ers' Glengyle on June 20. This
exhibit will be called THE
Garden Festival Of Fine Arts.
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PALM BEACH REPORT %&>ts,,~:.; ": 1919. +, j.
All for Sweet Charity

thrice official United States
Olympic ski photographer.
He has turned out 20 skiing
and adventure films, one Of
which was nominated for an
Academy Award.
A direct descendant Of
John Jay, who was United
States Minister to Spain
in ITO, and renowned as
Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States,
the visitor bears a striking re-
semblance to his famous an
ceStor whose portrait is on
the current United States Is
cent postage stamp.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Prentice
Porter Of Marshall, Va, have
been here for q short visit
with the John P. lPorters.
A dinner on the Golf
Terrace Of the Everglades
Club honored Mr.. and Mrs.
George Summers Of Wash
ington. The dinner was given
by their hosts, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Davidson Williams,
jr., of South Ocean boule-
ward.
Mrs. Gladys Pape Of
Cincinnati and Palm Beach.
gave a small dinner party in
the Orange Garden Of the
Everglades Club In honor Of
former Secretary Of Com
merce Charles Sawyer. The
occasion was his birthday
anniversary.
Former Senator A. B.
Happy Chandler Of Ken
lucky, who is seeking q third
term as Governor, has been
at the Palm Beach Towers
with a group of friends.
SymingtOn Speaks
I'VE cannot simultaneously
cut the United States tax
take and hike its budget"
Senator w. Stuart Syming-
ton Of Missouri, said while
on q brief vacation at Key
Biscayne Hotel at Miami.
Senator Symington, former
Secretary Of the Air Force.
hopes every item in President
Kennedy's huge budget will
"be considered by every
member of Congress with the
greatest Of care"
Representative and Mrs.
Claude Pepper left Miami
last Sunday for their new
permanent" home In WASH
ington, thus many who had
planned to fete them with
farewell parties found 1t i'm
possible.
The Ivannoe Hotel In Bal
Harbour was the stopping
point for former Secretary Of
the Navy Dan A. Kimball Of
Washington. Also In the ho-
tel at the same time was
Gov. Bert Combs Of Ken
lucky and former Gov. W. w,
Wyatt of Kentucky.
Mrs. Sailing Baruch is still
beaming over the handsome
pearls she won as a prize
at Miami Beach's st. Francis
Hospital Ball. So when she
took an old friend, Mrs,
Elliott Roosevelt, to the can
Ger luncheon at the Deauville
Hotel she suggested that they
buy tickets on the pearls
given as q prize. Mrs. RooSe-
welt did and won.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who Is a
new Miami Beach resident
will be guest speaker next
month at o March Of Dimes
banquet in Miami. filling a
commitment accepted last
year by his mother, the late
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-11
A Propensity Is Detected in the Senate
For Inquiries FretfuI to White House

the contract which is over
five billion dollars.
This Is necessarily fretful
to the White House which
relies completely on It's De-
tense Secretary in q field
alien to the interests Of the
President and his principal
political adviser, his brother,
the Attorney General.
Then there is q new spec
tacular In the offing-
a Senate Foreign Relations
g Committee inquiry into the
question Of whether agents
Of foreign powers are COR
rupting the democratic proc
ess. Here again Senators have
been deeply impressed by the
story unearthed by the COM
mlLJe6 6gdII.
Chairman Fulbright can be
relied upon for a sober in
quiry, but as his investigation
into RFC operations proved
years ago, he does not cover
up, either. The new inquiry
lies within the field Of his
main interest.
Such an inquiry can lead
almost anywhere and to a.
most anyone. The huge sums
spent for foreign aid under
score that proved possibility.
With a fresh and embattled
foreign aid appropriation on
the way, the White House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-11
Memorial to G. O. p. Leader Is Called
Also q Symbol of Party Atonement
RALPH McGILL

Spring has come in full to
the Nations Federal City. It
is a pleasant place in which
to walk. One halts by many
memorials. One Of these is
the handsome Robert A. Taft
Memorial hard by the Capt.
toll. One realizes that 1t me-
morializeS more than a super
Tor Senator. 1t is, in a sense,
confession and symbol OF
guilt and an effort at atone
ment.
1t is almost as If the hard
core Of the Old Guard was
saying. Forgive us, Bob. We
betrayed you with Willkie,
Dewey and E iSenhower, but
this is our atonement and the
bells continually will remind
us of our sins"
The beauty of the memo
rial is impressive. If one counts
the base in Minnesota gran
lite, the peak of the shaft of
pink Tennessee marble, where
the bells are, is lis feet high.
While admitting the integ-
rity Of Senator Taft and his
many legislative contribu-
tons, the fact remains that
this immortality in marble on
Capitol Hill has in it a cur
ious psychological quality.
There is no comparable
memorial to any Of the great
Senators or Presidents of the
past. Senator Taft'S father
was both President and Chief
Justice Of the United States.
There is no memorial to him.
Nor to any of the giants Of
the past-Webster, Calhoun,
Clay, to name but three.
None Of the Senators Of mod
ern times, whose services to
the country were both BIZ
partisan and productive, Is in