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GREENBELT NEWS REVIEW September 30, 1954
The Long View
By A. C. Long
I sympathized with Abe Chasa
now through the fourteen agoniz
ing months he was under suspen
sion and so far I have endured the
fourteen days of his much publi
cized restoration, but my patience
is fast wearing out. If once more
just one of my kids knocks the
newspaper out of my hands (their
way to get my undivided atten
tion) to tell me, “Look, Greenbelt
is on TV”, or, “Here’s a picture of
Greenbelt in Life magazine”, I
will blow my atomic top and make
the tests of AEC look pretty puny.
The Chasanow affair and its ef
fect on Greenbelt and Greenbelters
was to me a most interesting ex
perience. I am sure that Abe did
not share my scientific inquisitive
ness and was not a willing cata
lytic agent for the community’s
reactions. No one would volun
tarily go through such a night
mare even for my scientific trea
tise. Once the body is dead, how
ever, an autopsy ought to be made.
My first observation is that the
right dosage of hate, fear and
frustration can produce a venom
ous, destructive force on ,a body
politic; the only antidote for which
is a strong dosage of reason,
knowledge, charity and courage. It
is not always possible to adminis
ter this medicine, as the patient in
the throes of disease often de
stroys the healer. Because of this
danger mapy doctors are afraid
to treat this malady and run for
cover when they see evidences of
it’s becoming epidemic.
It is not endemic to any one
people and often slyly attacks
those who think they are immune
to it. In such cases it can be most
virulent. Strangely enough, a
well-balanced formula of hate,
fear, and frustration (caused by
Russian Communism) and reason,
knowledge, charity and, courage
(our American heritage) provides
complete protection and develops
the mental and moral fibres so
that it can be completely eradi
ated 33 a communicable and, con
tagious disease.
Another observation is that
some practitioners, mostly witch
doctors and • voodooists, believe
that liberalism, unionism, New
Dealism, even liberal Republican
ism and similar symptoms, which
in the past have shown up in
healthly persons as St. Francis,
Pope Pius XI, George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wil
son and Franklin D. Roosevelt, are
definite evidences of Communism.
This is not true as Russian Com
munism is the absolute absence of
all of these symptoms and cannot
tolerate them for a minute. They
may be disturbing to some people
but they are nob symptomatic of
Russian Communism.
More observations later about
this interesting disease.
,* * *
A pleasant visiting Swedish Co
operator was stranded in town last
Sunday evening with no place to
sleep (usual GCS mix-up, you
know) and where do you think the
cab driver took him to get things
straightened out? Why, to that
Cooperator Long’s house, of course.
Got him bedded down on the Har
per Ranch before midnight and
without several committee meet
ings either.
* * *
My oldest son, “Kayo” writes
from Saigon that he noted two in
stances of modern living in that
part of the world—outrigger ca
noes with outboard motors and
plastic chopsticks. We have a lot,
to offer those people, don’t we?
* * *
It was necessary for me to be
late to the last GVHC Board meet
ing because of an important Re
serve Officers affair. Made the 1
mistake of advising them I would
be tardy and., by golly, they almost
adjourned before I got there. It <
may have been coincidental but it 1
was the earliest by far that any i
Board meeting had ever ended in
the history of the corporation.
* * %
The Cooperator’s policy is that if i
Long writes anything about GCS, <
“censure it!” It’s a good thing J
that GVHC .and the City of Green- i
belt do not advertise in the paper 1
I’D TRIED TO BE WISER
THAN LAST YEAR, when our
eldest took off for first grade, and
I’d plied him with endless ques
tions about school. I was thrilled
and eager, but he wouldn’t answer
directly. He opened up about
school later, when he felt like do
ing it. This year, my pleased in
credulity at our daughter’s start
ing public school surpasses even
last year’s delight, but I was de
termined to be more patient and
less prying. I must not have been
skillful enough about hiding my
curiosity, for today as our brand
new first grader arrived home for
lunch, she followed her “Hi, Mora.-
my” with the warning, “Don’t ask
me what I did today.”
IT WAS REALLY A VERY
DULL YEAR. NO CICADAS
(seventeen-year-locusts), only fire
flies. There is no comparison be
tween the interest the locusts
aroused among the youngsters,
and the common ordinary fireflies.
Not until 1970 will we have an
other noisy, exciting Spring like
the last. The children seemed well
content with fireflies, however.
Early this summer a friend com
mented that she finally realized
fireflies were the reason she sud
denly ran out of jars when usually
she had plenty.
WHEN THE THREE-YEAR
OLD BROKE SOME RECORDS,
it was no feat, only feet stepping
on phonograph records he’d taken
into the crib with him. We’re tak
ing the damages out of his semi
weekly allowance, perhaps even
docking him for some knick-knack
destruction, and six cents for
sticking unused postage stamps on
the wall. Now the poor bankrupt
cherub keeps pleading, “I prom
ise I won’t break anything. Give
me money.”
FEW HUSBANDS ARE AS
GRACIOUS AS MINE. LUCKY
ME. He consoled me after I said,
in a self-deprecating mood, “You
know, I’m a lousy housekeeper.”
“Don’t worry,’ he replied, “that’s
the least of your faults.”
—daisy.
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NATIONAL SYMPHONY
Boasting one of the finest sched
ule of features in its four year his
tory, Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties’ famed “Music
At Your Doorstep,” popular annual
concert series presentation of Na
tional Symphony programs, under
the direction of Howard Mitchell,
has been announced for the com
ing season.
The series, composed of four
concerts, will be given in Ritchie
Coliseum at the University of
Maryland.
For the opening concert, October
21, the soloist is Roger Pries, tal
ented young pianist whose home is
in Silver Spring. Mr. Pries has ap
peared several times witty the Na
tional Symphony and he played
with the orchestra during the
making of its new high-fidelity
Westminster recordings last sea
son. The artist’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Pries of- Bonifont
Road, Silver Spring, have been
ardent supporters of the National
Symphony for many years. Mr.
Pries is chairman of the Suburban
Concerts Committee which under
takes to bring the Ritchie Coliseum
series to music lovers of Mont
gomery and Prince Georges coun
ties.
or there wouldn’t be anything
much left not to write about.
(Ed. Note - We also “censor”
those things which we consider in
poor taste, although unfortunately,
we don’t always catch everything.)
:Jc * *
New housing construction sta
tistics have jumped up too 300 per
cent —two empty co-op houses and
one private venture at Lakeside.
Very few communities in the
country show a 300 percent in
crease in new homes and Green
belt should, be very proud of this
unusual record.
* * *
The biggest laugh of the month
is President Bierwagen’s remark
that GCS is prepared to welcome
competition in Greenbelt when
stores are sold by PHA—about as
welcome as a mother-in-law on a
honeymoon!
BAZAAR
An open air bazaar will be
held by the Lydia Guild of the
Greenbelt Lutheran, Church.
Friday, October 8, beginning at
10 a.m. in the Center. Items for
sale will include house plants,
baked goods, nylon handbags,
Christmas cards and wrappings.
Girl Scout Camping
Caravan Oct. 11-15
A Camping Caravan sponsored
by the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.,
will be set up at Camp Rockwood,
Bethesda, from October 11 to Oc
tober 15, to demonstrate camping
procedures and equipment to local
Girl Scout troops and camping en
thusiasts.
Staffed by camping experts, the
Caravan consists of a station wa
gon fitted with camping equipment
suitable for all climates and ter
rains. Most of the equipment,
such as canvas wash basins, light
weight tents, and cooking utensils,
can be made from ordinary house
hold materials.
The Caravan will stop at Camp
Rockwood as part of a national
tour to encourage outdoor camp
ing activities. Its emphasis is on
safe and healthy camping with
make-it-yourself equipment.
Demonstrations will be held es
pecially to train Girl Scout leaders
who do not have extensive experi
ence in camping. Training ses
sions will cover three types of
camping activities—outdoor ac
tivities for inexperienced leaders;
troop camping for leaders of inter
mediate and senior Scouts, and
“primitive” camping for Scouts
training for national and interna
tional camping events.
Under the direction of Catherine
Hammett, president of the Amer
ican Camping Association and a
member of the national Girl Scout
staff, the Caravan will sponsor a
conference for training vounteer
leaders in the Girl Scout out-of
door program and an institute on
planning “primitive” camping
events.
The project is under the super
vision of the Camping Division of
the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
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Boon Favorites
By M. Muir, Librarian
A poll of favorite books among
the young fry, members of the
Greenbelt Public Library, created
the following line-up in a count of
175 votes.
Alcott - Little Women - first
place, Clemens - Adventures of
Tom Sawyer - second place, Phelps
- Ketch Dog - third place, Bialk -
Ride ’em Peggy - fourth place.
For the fifth place there were
four books that tied: Baum - The
Wizard of Oz, Brennan - The
Good-Bad Boy, Renick - Jim’s own
basketball, Stevenson - George
Washington, Boy Leader (biogra
phy)-
For the sixth place there were
also several ties; Clymer - The
Grocery Mouse, Higgins - Juliette
Low (biography), Lansing - The
Pony that Kept a Secret, Melady -
Saints for Home and School (bio
graphical), Stevenson - Daniel
Boone (biography).
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