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THE EASTON STAB-DEMOCRAT, EASTON, MD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1952 other woman member, lake irioct fit The YOUR FEET' The Poet's Comei 4 her time. Easton Star-Democrat EBIABLIBHED BY THOMAS YEEHIH SMITH, ATTGTJSI 1799 PublielnMl WMkl bj the Easton Publishing Inc. Hanaon Street at Mill Place, Eaaton, Maryland WALTER 8. McCORD, President NORMAN W. HARRINGTON, Editor-Manager though she has delved with success to many other pursuits.

Dr. Lucie Carlson finds the study and teaching of geography the most tlirilllng thing she's ever done. Born in Texas, the daughter of a rancher, sheays helghtjjf her ambition on graduating rom the'Amarillo hiitt school was ioTbe a Latin teacher. "You can never realize the tota i tninit li was mosuy Decause i so adored my own teacher at highfiity of geography, it reaches into so many areas, Dr. Clrlson, assist school, for -when I versity of Colorado, I "majored; in i witn tbe United BUtea Army) CHARLES J.

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ant professor of geography at Western Reserve College, Cleveland, said on a recent visit to Washington. "Geography lays the world at your feet. It is not just a matter of math and physics and found myself hankering to be an engineer," she said. She taught math and physics at a Sargent, Neb. high school a couple of years then returned to the University for her A.B.

and boundary lines, capitals, and the listing of products and industries oi certain places, aa schoolboys used B.S.E.E. degrees, which she won with honors, though her education THERAPY If we had a built in therapy, Postlvely refused to brood; Diggin deep for our troubles. Ignoring each silly mood. What would become of doctors. And eighteen dollar pills? If by turning on the heat, We could cure our ills.

This is just a-suggestion. And really sounds quite fair; Can't we remove a kidney, or lung. And install a therapy there? All women would die of boredom; If their symptoms all disappeared; And they had no occasion to say. That, is Just what I feared. While we sit in the office.

The doctor, wears a mask; Oh, how he'd like to strangle us. For silly questions we ask. Well we were taught to be thrifty. Our training dates back to birth, So we continue to babble on, Till we get our money's worth. M.

R. C. MY OWN PRAYER was interrupted during World War WE BET THAT'S ON THE AGENDA tss iv rff Z-rj W'C 'S: Wffc MalwWnWMil I when she taught code work to draft men training in auto mechanics and such. She was the first woman enrolled in the student trainine course at the Westinghouse Electric Co. where she also worked in the research laboratory.

Later, atfer earning a doc tor's degree and while working for a power company in Colorado she was married to Arthur L. Edgecomb and retired to homemaking. Upon his death. 13 vears later, she worked with the U. S.

Engineer Corps in Denver, waiting for an opening with the REA which came in 1943. "You feel you're doing so much good with the REA," she explained. "During the last specifications of transmission lines, substations and related facilities, for accuracy and adequacy of design, right structure and 'best solution for any situation to keep expenses down." QUITE A PROBLEM? to think of it. Man is the center of geography and we are interested in such things as physiography and climate, and other such factors as they affect his living and the possibilities they present." Currently engaged in a research project for a treatise she is writing on Cleveland, Dr. Carlson has already surveyed and written papers on the industry of Seattle, where she attended Washington University, and on the iron and steel industries of Scandinavia after two exhaustive visits abroad.

Born in Minot, N.D., the daughter of an engineer, this very feminine, sweet-faced woman has spent much of her free time in travel and has visited European country outside the Iron Curtain, except Yugoslavia and Greece. Her eyes shine with pleasure as 6he recalls her journeys in far-away places and the treasures she has collected, which grace her six-room apartment in Cleveland. "I have beautiful Venetian glass and linens, hand-carved objects from Rome and Germany, pottery and silver from Denmark and Norway, and pretty things to wear from Paris," she said. Dr. Carlson's many interests have Included sculpture, psychology, symphonies, the drama, biking, horseback riding, and incidental and non-profesional writing.

She is a member of the Women's City Club of Cleveland and other groups. "But of all I find geography the most satisfying," she said. "I never tire of it." THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO POLITICAL MARKET In an election year the pressure gets pretty heavy on botli sides of the fence and the fellow who is being backed into a corner really has to put his thinking cap on to pull some "smart" political moves that will give him a little more of a lease on his well-padded existence. ow. when a fellow in power wants to stay in power politics he must control everything and everybody.

Stalin is doing an excellent job of this in Russia. Mr Truman has one pet theory of his about to be thrown out the door the controls bill. If this economic control bill 13 thrown out, price controls on food will go too. It is a strange, but true, fact that Nature has been very kind to Mr. Truman in this political summer of 1952.

First, the farmer got too, much rain and he couldn't plant or plow. When he finally got his plants in, he got no rain to make them grow. When the farmer finally nursed his fields along to the point where he had a small showing of tomatoes or no corn at all, he got too much rain again which scalded most of the few tomatoes that he had raised. The drought was then immediately seized upon as an excuse for trying to call a special session of Congress to pass more price controls to stop the inflation that was sure to come in food prices, and then all along the line. Vesicular Exanthema has now been brought to light to throw fear into the public to convince them that a shortage is just around the corner and prices will spiral unless price control laws are continued.

Last week we carried a 6tory about how a quarentine had been slapped on hogs in Maryland to stamp out this "dreaded" Dear Father above, may I be so vain, As to pray for myself in this house of pain. Blessed God, make me see what is the right. Give me some comforting, guiding light. I ask this great favor in your dear name, That you may hear and do the same. I ask forgiveness for the wrongs I have done.

And I pray in the future that they be none. Help me, God, to go through with these days, That my heart will change along with my ways. And when with your help, I fulfill this prayer. Tell me, Dear Father, may I come up there? by "Carlie" To interview one Frenchman when you speak no French 8nd he speaks little English is difficult enough. Ten Frenchmen really pose a problem.

However, with the aid of an interpreter and earphones. I was able to talk with top representatives of the agricultural press of France about their month's U. S. study tour, sponsored by the Mutual Security Agency. Silvain Andre Gorse, leader of the group, which included two women, said the purpose of the trip had been to study the part played in the U.

S. by the farmers in increasing agricultural production and in introducing new methods. He said the group found the farmers of the U. S. extremely well-informed on subjects vital to agriculture but working, and can shut off necessary materials with no regard for the welfare of the whole country.

A change is needed to rescue the nation from these new disease. We were a little upset, too, about the prospect of Talbot set-up. MSA officials say the. entire project will not cost the American taxpayer much. Some $40,000 has come from the counterpart funds to provide training and tools for about 200 Filipinos who will then train other Filipinos in their use.

This is about half of the estimated cost of the current training program. The Philippine government is bearing the other half. County losing thousands of valuable porkies to the ravages of WAV'" 5 that they generally knew little about international affairs or economic problems of the rest of the world, and seemed little interested. It. is est.imaf.fd snm 80 OOfl fnml dlili) PJf 190 It lies will receive assistance and some MlIe- Simone Michelle Skhar, at-kind of training during the slack tractive press official of the French season in farming.

The United National Productivity Association in conjuction with the i and former member of the French monopolies. A change is needed from an administration bogged down in its own corruption; from an administration helplessly lost in the run-around of debt, inflation, controls, and taxes; from an administration groggy with centralized executive power, which has become too great to handle; and from an administration that faces failure east and west, because of the confusions of its foreign policies. Not just a change, but a change from intrenched ineptness; from, slick politics; and from abject servility to ruthless new monopolies. Farm Journal If you're trying to locate a prominent visitor to our city of Baltimore, you can save time Philippine government, showed in a i unaergrouna, ana cnic ivime. uer rcnort after thfi war that the lame Angiboust, an agricultural writ rural population, engaged in agri- 1 er said women's subjects are prom-culture about 20 days a crop year, French farm publications, at that time had an idle manpower I "They deal with such subjects as Dotential of about 800.000.000 man- home economics, child care and more and more about methods try the Lord Baltimore first.

days a year. of simplifying their chores on the farm," Mme. Angiboust explained FRENCH GAPER "They still have many things to learn about such subjects as balanc ine the diet and food The French farmer does not' buy so many publications as the Ameri this new malady, so we went forth to talk with hog raisers and packers. We found that first, the disease is not new, that it ha9 been going on in California for about 20 years and in New Jersey for about 10 years, with no quarantine in effect. Secondly, the disease Is fatal to only one in a thousand hogs, and is dangerous to only small pigs.

It follows the pattern of three-day measles in children a fever then a breaking out. Three days later the hog is fully over the disease. Thirdj it can't be contracted by humans or other cattle in any manner. It is strictly a hog's disease. A huinerous incident arose at a near-by hog sale the day the quarantine was placed in effect.

About 9 A. M. a farmer had plated a prize boar in the pens for sale. Then the government said that a hog must be either sold forbutchering or must remain at the sales- It could not be taken home by the farmer. At the close of the sale the poor owner hadn't sold the boar for; meat purposes and he couldn't take it home and the sale people didn't want the animal.

Disgusted with controls, the' government in general, et al, the farmer said, in effect, but using much stronger language, "stand aside, boys, I'm taking this boar back home." And so he did. No doubt the drought will cause -farm prices to rise, that is the normal supply and demand law. But to those who 6till think price control is needed, look what happened to potatoes. The day before the ceiling was removed, you couldn't buy spuds and when you could the average price was 15 cents a pound. The day after the ceiling came off, the price was 4 cents a pound, and you could buy all you wanted.

The high they have Teached since then has been about 10 cents a pound, Mr. Truman. can farmer, the group said, because It's not the tall buildings, the monuments, or even the people, that attract Mile Marguerite A. Lefevre on her travels. Her sightseeing consists of gaping at canyons, river erosions and other land forms.

Geomorphology is this alert, bird their publications are more ex Why Not Eat Your Cake OVERSEAS REPORT I "A ir. pensive. A publication costing only a dollar a year in this country, would cost $10 to produce in France, like little Belgain woman dish the study of the origin and evolution they said. Also, they do not have so much labor-saving equipment by WILLIAM B. DILLINGHAM of the earths topographical fea and have less time to read than do And Have It Too! Americans tures.

She counts as one of the highlights of her life, a visit in 1932 to the Pasadena home of the late Louis Vidilles, representing fruit and tobacco publications, was struck bv the "apparent quietness and William Morris Davis, whose con crpt of the geomorphic cycle, or theory that land forms pass through a series of well-organized stages in an inorganic evolution, resulted in the development of geomorphology. Mile. Lefevre is director of the Institute of Geography of The Uni slowness of American life and the apparent importance of women." Others were impressed by Ameiican iazz orchestras, rich museums. Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and "the ease and comfort of life in the home." Mile. Skliar spoke of "the great freedom left to children." Philippe Susini expressed the group's one regret that the trip didn't permit them more time to go into American homes.

versity of Louvain, Belgium, and as a professor she has been lecturing CANARY ISLAND A young German entered the French Consulate here and explained that he wanted a visa for Dakar. "Let me see your said a French woman who seemed to be in charge. When he handed it over to her she thumbed through the pages quickly. "This is no the woman exclaimed. "This passport comes from Germany.

Why can't you bring me an American passport like your friend Dillingham here. What you've got there is less than nothing." "Well, can you give me a visa?" asked the German "No, impossible," replied the woman. "But you gave a German friend of mine a visa just yesterday for Dakar," he argued, 'so why not give me one?" since 1938 on human, economic and regional geography. Dr. Lefevre is world known in her field and is the only woman officer of the great International Geographical Union, which she serves as first vice president.

Born at Steenokkerzeel, near Brussels, the daughter of a doctor, she attended boarding school at Brussels, later the University of UN STONES Here's how. Set aside as much of your weekly paycheck as possible. This is not only money it's money INVESTED, that starts earning interest for you, immediately. Come in and ojen that account, today! Louvain and the Sorbonne, where she received her master's and doc tor's degrees. Her teachers were the great geographers.

Dr. Paul Michot-te of Belgium, Albert Demangeon of Paris, Henre Baulig of Strasbourg, and later, at Columbia Uni I gave your friend a visa yesterday?" she questioned, beginning to look among her papers. "That's impossible, we have to request all such visas from the authorities in Dakar. I have no right to give visas." "But if I bring my German friend here with his passport and show you the visa, will you give me one, too?" "I never gave him a visa," she said. "But will you give me a visa if I show you his passport?" asked the German.

"Let me look at the records a versity in New York, Dr. Douglas Johnson. "The United States offers a won From the beaches of the Island of Rhodes, in the Aegean Sea. have been sent some 45 tons of elliptical black stones, laboriously handpicked by native women, to add a decorative note to United Nations headquarters in New York. In a message from Athens to the Mutual Security Agency here the project is reported as takinp the combined efforts of the Greek government, Greek shippers, the American Special Economic Mission to Greece, an American-financed welfare agency and last but certainly not least, scores of women of Rhodes.

The stones, due to arrive this month, will be delivered to United Nations representatives to be used to decorate the space surrounding a fountain at the entrance to the handsome UN Building. The story of the stones began a derful opportunity for research," Mile Leferve told me. "Your Colorado canyons are the biggest in the "But I was a good boy in France," replied the German. "Ill bet!" she responded. "You look' exactly like the fellow who shot a bullet hole in one of my father's barrels just to fill a "I don't know from personal experience, Madame, and I certainly don't doubt your word, but you have to put TWO bullet holes in a barrel one to let the air in." "You seem to know a lot for such a good boy," she said sarcastically.

"But we are all friends he said, "a united Europe. Let's forget the past. I know you are a kind lady so please see what you can do for me please." "Come back tomorrow at eleven o'clock," she said, "and I'll give you the visa." "Jawohl," he replied. "Thank ycu very much, When we got outside in the street, my German friend said to me: "These consulatesare all the same. They are like little girls.

First they say no, and then afterwards world and here there is much to "moment," she said, paging through study in the way of cultivation and farming." Mile Lefevre keeps house in Lou vain for her young nephews, John, EASTON NATIONALBANK MARYLAND IASTON, MARYLAND a mountain of visa applications. "Et volia!" she exclaimed. "Yes, I gave him a visa but his case was different. He had lived in France for a "Well I lived in France for four years," said the German. "Oh.

yes?" the Frenchwoman asked. "When was that?" "During the war," he answered. "Oh." she murmered sternly. "But that was different." year ago when Miss Miriam Davis of Santa Barbara, was tour ing the Greek Islands. Returning to the she told how natives 22, who designs and makes furniture, and Mike, 20, who is studying at Louvain to be a doctor.

She had just returned from a trip to the Alps with the boys whom she adopted when their parents died. Mile Leferve is musical and has studied piano. She has written two books, "Rural Habitation in Belgium," and "Principles and Problems of Human as well as numerous scholarly treatises. Besides her house in Louvain with it's small garden, she has a cottage in the woods. of Rhodes produced beautiful mos aics using the black pebbles TIME FOR WHAT CHANGES? No single argument will likely affect more votes this fall than the idea that "it is time for a change." For twenty years, under only two presidents, a single party has controlled the U.

S. government. In two decades evils have time to become so ingrown that only a complete change can root them out. Those who believe that change is desirable may want to reflect upon the deeper and more special reasons which make a change essential. After all, it is not enough merely to be tired of the same old faces and ideas.

Anv administration responsible for the government of the whole United States should first of all be truly a national administration. It should in every act take into account the best interests of all the people, and not merely those of a single geographical eection nor those of a particular group. The government belongs to everybody. More than half a century ago, Americans were alarmed at the monopolies of economic power which were being achieved by ruthless business groups. Through great economic power these groups attained great political influence.

The interests of all the people were being hurt. The danger was recognized by the party then in power. The Interstate Commerce Commission was set up to police the railroads, and the Sherman Anti-trust Law was passed to restrain the industrial combinations. Other measures followed, until no business, industrial, or financial group had within its reach the means to exploit the people. 1 Now monopoly of another and equally objectionable character has grown to undue power.

The decree of a single union labor leader this spring stopped steel making in the U. S. for nearly two months. He was able not only to stop production, but to compel the White House and the agencies of government to back him up. His complete mastery prevented the administration from using the law passed by Congress which could have given his union members a chance to decide for themselves whether thev wished to strike or to return to work.

The suspension of production for so many weeks set back the defense porgram, caused unemployment in other lines, and interfered ruthlessly with the nation's normal activities. Now the country looks forward to the possibility of another 1 w-. imu-or in nn1. It mnnnnnlv against a white stone background. Arvin B.

Shaw III, New York architect, associated with the firm which designed the UN Building, was intensely interested. It seems the architects had already planned MEMBER. FEDERAL RESEeVE SYSTEM Buy and Hold S. Savings Bonds CAPITOL DATELINE INDIAN ORGANIZER By JANE EADS AP Newsfeature WOMAN POWER to use a black and white mosaic, but had been unable to find the necessary quantities of stones. Here, possibly, was the answer.

Miss Davis got in touch with Laird Archer, recently retired fore ign director of the Near East Foun dation in Athens, to seek the help WASHINGTON Mrs. Lucille Foster, a gifted hand-weaver from California, has organized primitive Ieorot mountain weavers of the Philippines into a full-scale commercial business now exporting their products to the United States. Mrs. Foster, wife of a copper mining of the governor of Rhodes and the field representative of the MSA special economic mission to Greece. Then the women of Rhodes werei official, got" interested in the wea feet and back against the sides and devised a wider breast beam.

Gay color-fast yarns were imported from the United States. She also worked out an apprentice system of teaching ne wweavers, came home looking for markets, and ir. all invested about $10,000 in the business which she calls the Lepanto Fabrics, Inc. Now as a result of her enterprise, the handicraft industries in the islands are getting a Point Four lift in a beginning effort at revitaliza-tion. The Mutual Security Agency, according to officials here, has started broadscale planning for assistance in the cottage handicrafts revival on a national scale.

Large automatic looms, having ten-fold productivity the native type, are being imported from Hilda Edgecomb had started the washer going with her weekly laundering. She was also beginning to prepare dinner. like to keep house," she told me in the midst of these goings-on. "I had my own home in Boulder, Colo, for a long time before coming to Washington. I never knew how wonderful a sink was until I had to do without one for a while." Homemaking however, is ony of secondary concern to Mrs.

Edgecomb now. Her friends know her as "Engineer One of the few women of that profession in the government, she's doing an engineer's job for the Rural Electrification Administration Power Division of the Department of Agriculture. The job, her interest in the registration of women engineers, and her service on the board of the District of Columbia Society of Professional Engineers, which boasts only one INSURANCE ALL KINDS EXCEPT LIFE We Have Nothing Better or Cheaper Than Anyone Else 4 BUT WE WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU SERVICE AND WILL CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS J. HOWARD ANTHONY 22 GOLDSBORO ST. PHONE 622 ving done by the wives of the men working in the mine about two years ego.

She began investing her own funds in redesigning the crude mountain looms and taught the women to redesign their traditional products, such as the tapis and g-string, into marketable items such as luncheon mats, scarves, evening bags and -yardage. She changed the looms and techniques, which had been used asked to contribute their help and eagerly collected what amounts to 1,000 cubic feet of pebbles. After the job was completed the volunteers, wives of island fishermen, were paid for their month's work picking up the pebbles from the beach or dragging them from the sea. MSA officials arranged a group of patriotic coastal vessel owners to transport the 760 sacks of pebbles to Piraeus, the port of Athens, where the owners of a passenger ship, the S. S.

Nea Hellas, agreed to carry them free of transportation costs to New York- since Magellan discovered the Phil exercise ot nionop- ysj ippines in 1520, with her weavers Japan, and machinery for process few men can stop many thousands from sittinj in a sort of cradle, bracing inj soft grass fibers is also being whenever one man or a.