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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

HOW TO GROW UP IN ONE
PIECE. BY Robert Paul
Smith. (Harper & Row;
$3.50
This 4O-page book Is not
for those who buy their read
ing material by the pound.
But those who enjoy magma
tive design, catchy layout,
good paper and fine printing
may think ''How to Grow Up
in One Piece" worth the
price, for in a d dition the
words, though few, are well
selected.
They are by Robert Paul
Smith, who wrote where Did
You Go? Out. What Did You
Do? Nothing" Mr.. Smith be
Iieves that fathers have be-
come the masters Of their
children, but that the reyolu-
ton, is not yet 6 en- er ally
known: "An right, kids,
straighten up and pay atten-
ton. Old Father is talking to
you. For some time, now,
mothers have been IN and IA
Tiers have been OUT. This has
been very pleasant for you, !
am told, but it has not been
very good for you, and In any
event, those days are over.
Fathers are beginning to be
IN now and mothers are be-
ginning to be OUT. 1t is what
is known as a cultur a |
change"
Well begun is half done, it
is only the first step that is
difficult, and so on. Having
asserted himself and eStab-
Ished his position, odd Fa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

THE CHINESE KOSHER
COOKBOOK. BY Ruth and
Bob Crossman. (Eriksson;
$2.95.) More than go honest
to-goodness recipes for
Kosher Chinese dishes in
vented by a stubborn Jew
iSh grandmother who re-
fused to let her Orthodox
cooking chase her modern
family away from the
table. Included are such rec
ipes as Egg Roll Hah Dab
Sab and Chicken Coy YIN.
Nicely illustrated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

RECENT AMERICA: A His
tory. Volume I. 19OO-19Ss;
Volume ii, Since 1888. BY
Henry Bamford ParkeS and
Vincent P. CarosSo. Grow
ell; $500 A two-volume
history Of the United States
since 1900, in which the au-
thors present an account
Of the many significant
events Of this century and
Of the political, economical,
and diplomatic develop
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

begin with the transfer Of the
objective form to the nominal
tive In the subject relation.
Me and her was both late is
obviously soun d American.
But one never hears Me was
late or Her was late.'
One hears Her and John was
married but never Her was
married The distinction is
Immediately plain. It exactly
parallels that between her
and 'hern,' our and 'ourn,'
their and 'theirn': the tend
ency, as Sweet says, is to
merge the distinction of NOM
NATIVE and objective in that
Of conjoint and absolute. ,"
II is no news that the paper
Variety has had a great bene-
fetal influence on our Ian
guage, but it is startling to see
how many words 1t has In
vented, Banging away at the
language In an innocent,
hearty, and Unsuitable man
ner, /" that have become univer-
sal and standard American.
Examples are: pix, cliffhanger,
socko, nitery, to author, a
rave, tie-in, brush-off, to beef,
to gander, on the lam. ''The
jargon Of Time" says Menck-
en-, ''is measurably less inter-
eSting than that Of Variety,
mainly because most Of its
neologisms are more or less
obvious blends, e.g., shama-
teur, cinemactress, fran
chisler, bookritic, and power
phobe, but also because its
assaults upon orthodox syntax
are carried on under cover of
q pretension to information
and even learning"
Four-letter words are dealt
with cursOrily and genericaIly;
Mencken himself used them
as rarely as the New Yorker
uses photographs. What did a
man need Of ordinary exple-
tives and invective who could
write ''The Methodist Church
is the secular arm Of the Ku
Klux Klan." The debts Ameri-
ca owes to the native Ian
guages Of its immigrants is
fully explored, as are also the
characteristic hig h-flown
language Of politicians, under
takers, and schoolteachers.
The circumstances In which
Mencken coined the word "ec-
dysiaSt' are given, but In
highly curtailed form. Even
though I sympathise with the
abridger and bis problems, /
do think that Mr.. McDavid
should have kept this episode
verbatim and In extenso.
There are, Of course, a few
inevitable lacunae. Among the
clipped nouns used as
verbs" there appears, to be
sure, ito baby-sit," but with
out indication that in Cleve-
land Park, D. c., the verb
can take a direct object, as In
''Who's going to baby-sit me
tonight, mamma?" Further
more, among the numerous
uses Of the verb ito get" !
fail to find "get to watch"
meaning to view, as in 81 get
to watch TV tonight" Even
more serious Is the failure to
recognise ito get to- in its
reduplicative form, universal
ly heard in homes with only a
single TV set when sister
wants to watch her favorite
program about hospital
nurses in order to learn about
abortion, narcotic addiction
and alcoholism. In this situa-
ton brother, who is interested
in war pictures, queries idi-
omatically: Don't I get
to get to watch 'Combat'?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
What Inspired the Cry
Long Live Trotsky!

THE PROPHET OUTCAST (TrOtsky Isz9l940) By Isaac
Deutscher. Oxford Press; $500
"An armed prophets have conquered and the marmed
ones have been destroyed wrote Machave and this was the
theme Isaac Deutscher took for his hreevoume biography
Of Leon TrOtsky.
In The Prophet Armed" Mr.. Deutscher described the
triumphant years Of oty who his s8th birthday led the
Boshevk seizure Of power In St. Petersburg and then saved
the Revolution with his brilliant command of the Red Army In
the civil war that followed
In The Prophet Unarmed" the author told how Trotsy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

ing example OF the combina-
ton Of scholarship and popu-
lar entertainment. A third
supplement could be added,
Mencken could be revised and
brought up to date, or the orig
inal three volumes could be
abridged with Incidental addi-
tons.
Knopf and Raven /. Nc
David chose the third. Menck-
ems text Is c licensed to
about a third its original
length and much new materi-
al added between brackets
and In footnotes. The most ex-
traordinary aspect of Menck-
ems original IS that, a book
about the American language,
1t Is written in the American
language. It is not a parody,
like q Lardner story, but the
real thing exposed to view
and In action. Mr.. McDavid is
stepped In the Mencken style
to such an extent that his
transitions are smooth, and
though he does not allow him
self the freedom Of the master
nor possess quite his verve,
he has done an excellent job
one that Mencken can show
with approval to the Satanic
ranks Il, as he progonosti-
Gated, be Is presently in hell.
In the past, though perhaps
not at the present time, the
E n glis b Superciliously and
Americans abashedly have
proclaimed British English
the model and the norm Of the
language, American being
only q corruption. Our great
est writers before Twain
Melville, Emerson, Thoreau,
and even those who, like Coo
per, were writing parochially
about the American scene
used English that was as pure
as they could contrive to
make it, and If 1t was true
that then nobody ever read an
American book, it was not be-
cause the style was unpleas-
antly American. II Is Menck-
ems thesis that now American
is the dominant language, and
that In the future English will
become a dialect Of our tongue.
This belief underlies the
dozen sections of his book, but
1t Is not intrusive. What the
book brings the reader beyond
the high entertainment Of
almost every page (something
that will induce some people
to use Mr.. McDavid's volume
not as a separate work but
side by side with the original
volumes) Is the realization
that American is far more
than slang and regional idi-
osyncrasies, is in fact a mode
of expression which may be-
come as distinct in feeling, in
purpose, In its overtoneS, as
French or German is today.
As an ex ample Of how
Mencken makes arreSting and i.
interesting facts which are so
obvious that they are seldom
seen, / cite his remarks on
the pron0un. It was only In
the 18th century that the dis
tinction between the nomina-
tive and objective cases was
firmly established. Earlier
"'Tis them," or ''It may be
him" were correct, and Mat
thew Prior could write:
For thou art a girl much
brighter than her And he was
a poet sublimer than me-"
perhaps the best way to
get at the principles under
lying these changes" says
Mencken, sis to ex a m in Q
first, not the cases Of their oc-
currence, but the cases Of
their non-Occurrence. Let US
Evening star., 1963-12-25

soaps have not been satisfac-
tory.
Percholorethlyne, the clean
ing solvent used in the United
States is not produced locally.
Trichlor and stoddard solvent
which the Russians have used
for dry cleaning in the past
bleed dyes and eat the buttons.
There is also the matter of
Mr.. Fielding's getting back the
quarter million dollars he has
tied up in the project, not all
Of it his own.
But he isn't too worried. For
the Moscow Mayor has recon-
mended purchase of the pre-
sent plant and the ordering of
40 more identical units.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Fielding has
been approached by q represent
tative Of the Leningrad Soviet,
who indicated Russia's second
city might follow MoScow's
lead, and there are lots of 9TH
er Soviet cities, all in need Of
laundries and dry cleaning. RuL
manian and Polish representa-
tives have also expressed an in
terest.
Evening star., 1963-12-25
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
American Cleans Up in Moscow

impin, efficient chief Of the
Moscow Department Of Com
munal Services, who proved
more than sympathetic. He
took the cleaner to see Mayor
Vladimir Promyslov who prom
ised to intercede with the
Chamber. The advance wa:
then scaled down to around $3,-
600.
Having turned his blueprints
over to the Russians, Fielding
headed home to order hi'
equipment and his technica,
assistance. A few days later HI
received q cable that because
Of venting difficulties the loca.
ton was being transferred to q
two-story building with an en-.
tirely different floor plan.
BY then it was mid-June. Ac.
cording to the contract al
equipment had to be In Lenin,
Evening star., 1963-12-25

ground floor Of a new seven
story apartment house.
On his return home Mr.
Fielding ordered detailed blue
prints of his projected layout
with metric dimensions and all
specifications in Russian, at q
cost of $4,000.
In May Mr.. Fielding again
took off for Moscow to com.
plete and sign the contract fol
the exhibition. But his hosts
demanded an advance cash
deposit totalling $4,000
against installation costs and
rent. When Mr.. Fielding pro-
tested that no such demands
had been made upon him the
first time, the Chamber Off
cials answered: "Yes, we are
better organized now than We
were in 1883" Mr.. Fielding ap.
pealed the matter to Nilolai OIL
Evening star., 1963-12-25

lril Baxtresser and Frederick
Huber, had been waiting fol
two weeks.
A succession Of further snags
forced Mr.. Fielding to keep
poStponing the opening, origi.
nally scheduled for October /.
At last a firm date was set:
November 22d.
Printed invitations were sent
to several hundred distingu.
ished citizens. the American
Embassy and the press. Ambas-
sador Foy Kohler and Deputy
Mayor Alexei Kalashnikov
made speeches. The opening
ceremony was followed by q
lavish reception at a downtown
restaurant.
Once the exhibition opened,
business, has doomed. Mr..
Fielding intends to stick around
until all bugs have been
eliminated and he is sure the
Russian staff can carry on.
Still to be resolved is the
problem Of solvents and soaps
after the present supply runs
lout. Experiments with Russian
Evening star., 1963-12-25

his shirt on a gamble that the
Russians would buy him out
once they saw the equipment
working. His judgment proved
sound. He got back his invest
ment with a tidy profit.
Mr.. Fielding has managed to
keep his foot in the Soviet door
ever since. Over the years he
has made eight trips to Mos
COW, selling additional laundry,
as well as dry cleaning equip
.ment. But all this was a mere
prelude to his latest venture.
One year ago Mr.. Fielding
turned up with an offer to or
ganiZe an American Dry
Cleaning and Automatic Laun-
dry Exhibition" again at his
own expense. The Chamber
agreed in principle and as
signed him a location on the
Evening star., 1963-12-25
By EDMUND STEVENS
Special to The Star

MOSCOW-If you want tc
know how to clean up in Mos
COW, the man to see is a young
Californian, Roman Fielding
who has installed the Soviet
Unions first all-American dry
cleaning and automatic laun-
dry unit. Mr.. Fielding, who
back in Los Angeles operates
his own laundry chain, first got
the idea Of teaching Russians
the American way Of washing
back in 1858.
Landing in Moscow as a
tourist. he contacted the ALI
Union Chamber of Commerce
and got its approval to arrange
an American Laundry Exhibi-
ton" at his own expense.
Returning home with nc
further commitment he hooked
Evening star., 1963-12-25

grad not later than August 20
which meant it had to be deliv'
cred dockside New York In
time to catch the only avail
able carrier, a Swedish sched-
uled osail August Sd.
Mr.. Fielding was determined
to take along everything h
would need, including plastic
bags and cardboard boxes, alsC
cardboard for the shirts. HI
likewise ordered a years supply
Of soaps and chemical solvents
The total shipment involved
purchases from "a different
firms in II cities.
All electrical equipment haC
to be adapted to 50-cycle cur
rent and the slot machines re.
fooled to fit Soviet coins. Wher
Mr.. Fielding cabled the Cham.
Der for sample coins they ca.
bled back they were sorry but
the export Of Soviet currenc!
was strictly forbidden. Tit
problem was solved when Field
ing found some loose change IL
a pocket.
Several items, including tn
chemicals, had to have docu
Evening star., 1963-12-25

mented export licenses. Racing
against time. Mr.. Fielding was
on the phone to Washington
almost daily, pleading with De-
partment Of Commerce Off
cials. Before he got the
licenses.
To make sure nothing went
astray Mr.. Fielding sent sten-
cils with his name and the des-
tination, Leningrad, in English
and Russian.
Just after all the 1875 crates
had been marked, Mr.. Fielding
was warned that New York
dock workers would refuse tc
handle cargo marked for the
USSR. So the previous letter.
ing had to be linked out and re-
placed by the non-committal
legend: "Romaine Fielding fol
export"
The Swedish tramp sailed or
schedule, but after calling al
various ports en- route, on Au-
gust % it wound up in Riga
not Leningrad. And 1t took un.
til September 10 for Fielding,
shipment to reach Moscow
where his two technicians, Cy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22

The First Church of God in
Rockville inaugurated its an.
nual youth convention Wednes-
day night and will continue the
program nightly at 8 o'clock
through Aug. 80.
Evangelist for the convention
is Rev. Dennis Mitchell, pastor
of the First Church of God in
Fairfax, Va. A graduate of the
Church of God seminary in And
erson, Ind, he and his wife
served for three years as lead
ers of youth and Christian edu-
cation at the South Meridian
Church of God there while he
was attending school.
The minister also spent more
than a year as an associate
minister for the Church of God
in Flint, Mich, performing spe.
officially as youth leader and
director of Christian education.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22

Rev. John Chapman Mayne,
interim pastor of the Bethesda
Congressional Church since Jan
uary, will relinquish his duties
on Sept. l when the permanent
post will be taken over by Rev.
Theodore Atkinson, now serv.
ing the United Congressional
Church in Newport, r. l.
The Rev. Mr.. Mayne, who
was appointed on a temporary
basis following the resignation
of the former pastor, Rev.
Grover C. Rieger last December,
will continue to serve as minis
ter of the parish for the Found
ry Methodist Church in Wash
ington, a position he has shared
with the Bethesda pastorate
since last April.
A graduate of Otterbeing Col
lege in Ohio, the University of
Chicago and the Congressional
Chicago Theological Seminary,
the Rev. Mr.. Wayne served Con-
gregational churches in Illinois
and Missouri and for five years
was director of social action for
the Missouri Council of Church
es. In that capacity, he set up
more than 20 new church coun-
ellis and syndicated a weekly
newspaper column to more than
200 papers in Missouri.
He returned to the ministry
last December after having
served since 1850 as head of the
department of organization and
field work for the religious free
dom organization, "Protestants
and Other Americans United for
Separation of Church and
State"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22

attending camp. Peggy had two
falls while riding, resulting in a
conclusion.
Mrs. Edwina Salliday has
moved to her new home on De-
Rusey parkway.
The Clyde Stouts are home
from a four day venture at
Bethany where they were guests
of Judge and Mrs. Thomas
Anderson. Their son, Bill, is
visiting here from Orlando, Fla.
Dotty Knutti is recuperating
from a fall down two steps. She
was taken to Suburban, via the
RVFD., where x-rays revealed
no broken bones, but a severely
bruised back.
Black Scott, the well known
mount of Harry Semmes, Jr.,
met with untimely death last
week when he caught his hoof
in his halter and cut his own
throat.
The Jim MacMartins lost two
horses and a pony last Tuesday
during an electrical storm.
tightening was the cause.
The Fill Cranfords have been
visiting friends in Long Island.
Donnie Buchanan will leave
Sept. II for Boston u. to study
design and marketing. She has
been working this summer at
Garfinckers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
AI0 Thursday. August n. 1858
Night W. tch'
Helps Solve
Theft Series

The apprehension of four
teenagers by Washington police
has left Montgomery County Of
ficials hopeful their arrest will
halt series of automobile ran.
sacking cases that have poster
ed residents of a Silver Spring
apartment developing in re-
cent weeks.
Two Of the boys were ar
rested originally by a county
policeman recently after he de-
cided not to go to bed when he
got off duty at midnight and
went instead to a parking lot of
the Blair House apartments to
keep an eye out for the persist
ent thieves. He had just about
decided to give up shortly after
5 am. when four intruders came
into the lot to justify his off.
duty watch.
According to Detective Capt.
Fred Thrailkill, two of the boys
were nabbed by Pvt. Jerald
Reed, of the Silver Spring sta
ton, after they had started to
search unlocked cars in the lot
in their quest for loot. The other
two got away but were picked
up by Washington police a short
time later as the result of in
formation obtained by local
authorities while questioning
the pair in custody.
The combined investigation
established that the four had
come to Silver Spring in two
automobiles stolen in Washing
ton, with the result that all were
turned over to juvenile authori-
ties there on auto theft charges,
Captain Thrailkill said.
Reed, the arresting officer,
Joined the county force about
a year ago and has been beyond
the rookie" stage just about
six months, Captain Thrailkill
said. He and other police Of
ficials commended the officer
for going beyond the call of
duty" in his effort to solve the
Blair House thefts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22

Religious affairs
Rev. Wayne Relinquishes
Church Post i'm Bethesda

Association Sept. 10 at 7:45 pm.
in the Viers Mill Baptist Church.
Invitations have been sent to
all Sunday School officers and
teachers in the area as well as
department and class officers
and Sunday School pupils. Ac-
cording to Rev. Robert T.
Hughes, missionary, the prin-
cipal objective of the meeting
will be to encourage churches
to participate more fully in the
Bible study program during the
coming year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
Christian Scientists

Whence cometh wisdom and
where is the place of under
standing?" a passage from Job,
will be part of the responsive
reading program in Christian
Science churches and societies
this Sunday.
The Bible lesson is entitled
Mind" and one of the CORE
spending references from Mary
Baker Eddy's Science and
Health With Key to the Scrip
lures" will be included as part
of the program.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
Plaza Sale
Called Off

Publicly advertised sale of
Congressional Plaza at public
auction on Aug. II was not held
when principals in a legal dis
pute settled their differences.
The advertisement announcing
the auction sale commended there
had been default on payment
on a note but the other side dis.
puted that contention.
No details of the settlement
were announced.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
Potomac
Pony Club
Horse Show
Due Aug. Is
BY Cissy Finley

August 25 is the day set for
the Potomac Pony Clubs fund
raising horse show to be held
at The Kennels, Glen Road.
The Club members are spon-
soring the all day event to swell
their much depleted treasury,
following the expenses incurred
by the club members participa-
ton in the National Pony Club
rally.
Glasses will be run simultane-
ously in two rings throughout
the day. The judges for the
event are Miss Theresa Hallman
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Hef-
lin. The steward is Miss Ann
Caldwell.
Thirty-six classes, including a
driving class, hunter and jump
er classes for all size ponies and
horses, a lead line class, and
novice performances are sched-
uled. Entry fee is So per class.
Spectators will be charged ST.
per car or so cents per person.
Home prepared sandwiches
and refreshments will be on sale
during the day. Hamburgers
will be barbecued on the
grounds, with plenty Of liquid
refreshments available.
Anita Bogley hostessed a
party Saturday night honoring
Marcia McCardle and Ruffin
Maddox, whose wedding date is
set for Aug. 81.
The SO on" cocktail buffet af-
fair drew a crowd of 60 Of the
young couples friends, and close
members of both families.
Marcia is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl McCardle, Nc
Lean, Va. Ruffin's parents are
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Ruffin Maddox,
Potomac.
There is a run" on surprise
birthday parties. Faye Buchan-
an was honored on Aug. Is. The
Fletchers invited Faye's friends
to their home on the Boiling Air
Force Base. Many of those at
tending the dinner party were
former University of Maryland
classmates Of Faye's, as is Mrs.
Fletcher.
Another surprise party took
place at the home of Mrs. John
Skillman. Much to the surprise
of Mrs. Rollin Atwood, when
she assembled the long hill lead
ing to the Skillman home, there
were walking posters spelling
out ''happy birthday, Ruth"
Dotty Skillman invited 20 of
Ruth Atwood's friends to cele.
brate the Aug. 10 occasion.
Margaret Terry thought her
outing to The Washingtonian
last night was a family affair.
Not SO. Walter Terry had ar
ranged for his wife to have a
something different" birthday
party. And that something diff
ferent was the friends of the
couple who gathered for the
surprise party honoring her
birthday.
The Terrys live on Persim-
mon Tree Road.
1t was a inject the new neigh.
Dor" party that Bernie Steiner
hostessed on Aug. Is. The new
neighbor on Burbank Drive is
Barbara Schaeffer. Thirty ladies
attended the coke and sandwich
party.
I've heard that 49,.
Donnelle Gaynor is recovering
from an accident at the Horse
Center last week. Donnelle was
kicked in the head by a horse
that Unexpectedly bolted from
his stall as she was walking by
his stall door. She suffered a
broken jaw, fractured skull and
conclusion.
Peggy Mcfarland was in
Suburban hospital last week fol
lowing a hurry.up trip from
Montpelier, VT, where she was
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
Pre.School Opens

A pre-school nursery and kin
dergarten for occupants of the
new Grosvernor Park Apart.
ments on Rockville Pike near
Silver Spring has been estab.
lished by Mrs. Jane Hoard and
Mrs. Helen Swaney, with classes
open to youngsters between the
ages of two and five years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-22
Bible Study Set

An "A" Night program, plan.
ned as a means of promoting
improved Bible study, will be
held by the Montgomery Baptist