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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30

into jail In Saudi Arabia for
three days. The King person
ally got them out.
Finally Settled
Payment finally came when
the flyers returned. sold their
story to q national magazine
and gave several testimonials
on the equipment they. used.
Mr.. Piper also brought back
one Of the planes he had orig
inally donated and gave 1t this
time to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
And so the business was
finally launched. literally on a
wing and q prayer.
Miss Marley says that 80
per cent Of the new clients
come from their old ones,
adding: Our list of clients
reads like the stock exchange"
To name a few: Fairchild,
Martin and Bendix in the
aeronauticar field. John Deere,
Standard Vacuum, Continental
Can and Magnavox In others.
Many lawyers also go to
Courtesy. They also serve
small local firms such as an
organ company. q flag manu-
facturer. carpet cleaning and
washing machine repair estab-
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lishments. To say the least,
the girls have to know many
languages In the business and
mechanical fields as well as
the lofty terms Of law.
Other Services
Courtesy also serves as q
Washington headquarters for
out-of-town firms. arranges
dinners and hotel reservations
for large groups meeting here.
writes thank-you letters for
brides and once even took a
group of grocers' wives
through the White House.
I'VE do anything the client
doesn't want TO-" 'says the
owner with a laugh.
The way the system works
is this: Each client has his
own station on the SWITCH
board in the l6-room Offices
Of Courtesy. When his phone
rings In his Office it also rings
at Courtesy. II the client is
out Of town or the phone is
obviously not being answered
for some reason. his "secre-
tary" at Courtesy will pick it
up saying. "Mr. Jones Office,
may I help you?"
The caller doesn't know that
he Is talking TO anyone other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30
BY DAISY CLELAND

Anyone who thinks that
ideas for new businesses are
exhausted in this age Of gim-
micks and Madison Avenue,
underestimate the powers Of
q young Washington career
girl.
Ten years ago, at the ripe
old age Of "a. Miss Jane Maril-
ley originated her own BUSH
ness which is now crossing a
couple Of hundred thousand
dollars q year. 1t is Courtesy
Associates. Inc.
The appearance of this soft
spoken. pretty young woman,
who has short wavy brown
hair and twinkling blue-green
eyes, bellies the human dynamo
and shrewd businesswoman
that she is.
In a restaurant as a busi-
nessman acquaintance casu-
ally stops to chat with Miss
Marley. she has the knack
of making him feel no less
important than John D.
Rockefeller himself. His fairly
mundane weekend trip to the
country suddenly sounds as
interesting as a quick visit to
the Tai Mahal.
Courtesy Associates is. ac-
cording to its owner, "a tele-
phone answering service on
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-13
Deferred Justice

Chief Judge Laws and his associates
on the District Court bench have good
reason to be concerned over the growing
backlog of civil jury cases confronting
them. There is now nearly two-year
lapse between the filing Of civil case
and its calling up in court for trial. And
there seems little prospect Of any sub
stantial shortening of this long delay,
despite strenuous efforts of the judges
to keep abreast Of the litigation.
The delay in trial Of civil jury cases
increased during the past fiscal year by
three monthS-from 10 to % months.
At the present rate Of filing, it is ex-
pected that the delay will cover rs
months by october of this year. Part
Of the trouble has been attributed to Ill
ness Of several judges during the year.
Furthermore, the judges concentrated
on clearing the calendar of remaining
domestic relations cases, which now are
being handled in the Municipal Court
With the domestic relations cases out
of the way, the District Court should be
able to speed up consideration Of other
civil litigation during the new fiscal
year. The efforts Of the judges to re-
duceAthe backlog should be continued
With 1T letup, for long delays ~ bring
ing 1aes to trial seriously ahect the
quality ~ justice.
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Control of the Purse

AS Congress nears the end Of con-
sideration Of the yearly appropriation
bills 1t Is estimated that approximately
81 billion will be trimmed from the ad-
miniStration's original request for $73.3
billion in new spending authority. This
is not, by itself, a guarantee that actual
spending in the present fiscal year
projected at $71.8 billion-will be cut
accordingly, as many billions of undis-
bursed funds have been carried over
from earlier appropriations. In this
respect, however, it is gratifying that
President Eisenhower now has requested
department and agency heads to restrict
expenditures to fiscal 1857 levels-or a
total of about $40 billion. AS guidance
for this effort, Budget Director Brun-
dage has issued an economy directive
calling for the following: ~ Detailed
justification for any spending above 1857
disbursements. (2) Postponement "of
significant part" of obligations planned
for construction, procurement and re-
search. (3) Quarterly allotment of pay
roll funds. (4) Quarterly review of pro-
grams by each department and agency
head.
If successful, this proposed saving
of approximately 50 billion will be at
least step in the right direction. There
are, however, many pitfalls ahead. The
economy directive itself contains its
loopholes. There are fixed obligations
that have risen between the two fiscal
years and rising prices still are pushing
upward the costs Of existing programs.
Along with these forces, there is the
ready temptation of the available I'M
expended balances, and it was timely
warning on this score issued by former
President Hoover in San Francisco
speech this week. 1t was Mr.. Hoover's
thesis that Congress has lost its con-
stitutional control of the Federal purse
through permitting accounting proce-
dureS that allow the executive branch
to amass these huge unexpended bal
ances over period of years. One of the
major Hoover Commission recommen-
dations was for budgeting and ac-
counting reform that would restrict this
practice as well as result in annual saw
ings estimated at more than SO billion.
Actually, legislation to accomplish
this purpose already has been passed by
the Senate and, in somewhat modified
form, has been reported favorably by the
House Government Operations Commit
tee. In the light of wide agreement that
Federal economy is both desirable and
essential, particularly in this period Of
infiationary pressures, the House leader
ship should give high priority to COM
pleting action on the legislation.
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Buy-Roud BottIenecks

Motorists who have had to contend
with traf1c congestion on Maryland's
inadequate approaches to Chesapeake
Bay resorts will hail the news that
Southern Maryland authorities are plan
ming to seek relief from the State. At
a conference between Calvert and Prince
Georges County officials it was brought
out that bottleneck conditions on some
of the principal roads to Bay beaches
are endangering lives, hurting business
and aggravating residents and transient
visitors to shore points.
Weekend traffic jams are particu-
larly bad on Routes A, 202 and 416, it
was reported Many families which for
years have spent their vacations on the
western shore of the Bay are going to
resorts in other States-over safer, mod
ern highways. Unfortunately, Mary
lands current highway improvement
program provides little in the way of
traffic relief for the Southern Maryland
counties. State Senate President Gold
stein has proposed 2-cent State gaso-
line tax to finance a supplementary
highway building program, including
improved roads to the Bay beaches. This
is something requiring action by the
General Assembly, which never is enthu-
Siastic about raising taxes. Some such
plan will have to be adopted, however,
If the growing congestion on highways
leading to Southern Maryland beaches
is to be relieved.
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Wor Is Obsolete

1t is difficult to derive comfort or
reinsurance from exercises like Opera
ton Alert 1887" which has Just been
carried out here in Washington and in
numerous other cities throughout the
Nation. True, as a measure of civil de-
tense, such an undertaking probably has
value in the sense of showing how X
number of lives might be saved under
certain circumstances in certain types
OF attack on our country. But let us be
frank with ourselves: If we were sub
jected to an all-out, sustained assault
With nuclear and thermonuclear weap-
onS, delivered by supersonic bombers or
long-range missiles, or both, what would
be left OF us? Not much, If anything
not enough, certainly, to make the un-
countable dead envy the minority of the
living.
This is point that has been made
many times before. The latest civil
defense exercise merely confirms it, and
the same holds true for the newest
publication of the Defense Department
and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Entitled "The Effects of Nuclear Weap-
date the similar book Of horrors pub
ished in 1850, before the advent of the
hydrogen destroyer. What it shows, in
effect, is that civil defense, although it
might be able to play some incidental
palliating role, would be pitably made
quate thing in the event of total, no.
quarter war with the kind of arms that
are now available. The "clean" bomb
which is an exceedingly important and
encouraging prospective development
that may be full of great non-military
Signif1cance-would mean safety for
people far from the target areas in such
a war; but the shock, heat and blast Of
the kiloton and megaton explosions
would be enough in themselves to inflict
an all-engulflng kind of humiliation on
our cities.
In the teeth Of this reality, which
hangs like cloud Of death over every
country in the world (including not least
of all RUSSIA, what are people to con-
clude? They can conclude only that
the family of nations must discover,
somehow, to live in peace together by
controlling disputes and passions of the
sort that have led in the past to major
armed conflicts. For such conflicts, as
has just been reafflrmed by an inter-
national meeting of scientists at Pug
wash, Nova Scotia, can no longer take
place without at the same time leading
to the danger of humanity's literal
obliteration. Civil defense? At best,
what does it promise but the most in
consequential of palliatives? AS far as
America is concerned, our chief security
rests at the moment in the maintenance
of massive deterrent power, but there
will be no real safety for any people
anywhere until there is a permanent
peace in which all can trust. Man, in
short, must unlearn war, or man may
destroy himself sooner than he thinks.
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Holding Its Own

One of the reforms promised by
Wladyslaw Gomulka, chief Of the Polish
Communist Party, calls for the restora-
ton of large measure of private en-
terpriSe in the field Of agriculture. At
present, in keeping with the system i'm
posed upon them by the Stalinists in
1945, the peasants of the country are
compelled to sell most of their produce
to the government at prices arbitrarily
fixed at levels far below what they could
receive on the free market. This has
resulted in such loss of incentive that
all efforts to expand farm output have
failed and hence Mr. Gomulka's willing
ness to relax the old totalitarian controls.
But this is something that other
members of the Polish Communist Party
do not want to see happen. They are
the doctrinaire right-wingers, the ones
who are inclined to be more or less in
favor of stubborn and cruel Stalinist
methods, and they have accused Mr..
Gomulka of being ready, in effect, to
land Yet he has the weight Of damning
facts on his side. One fact is that
the communist agricultural system has
seen dismal failure thus far through
out the country And another fact is
mat the failure is likely to build UP into
an acute crisis unless his proposed cor
receive measures are put into effect.
Thus, at least as far as agriculture
is concerned, all signs indicate that 1t is
imperative to abandon or sharply cur
tail totalitarianism in Poland. The doc
trinaEe Communists, of course, argue
othei Use, but Mr Gomulka, according
to last reports from Warsaw, now
has the support Of the country's lead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-13
For the Record

Please allow me to correct
the statement in your recent
story that I am IAN affected
property owner" should the
River Bend dam be con-
Structed. The only property
1 own is my home. which
stands at an elevation of sew
eral hundred feet above the
mud flats that would sur
round the proposed reser-
voir-and three miles from it,
I am glad to say.
Since your reporter has also
written that the Coordinating
Committee on the Potomac
Basin. of which I am chair
man, has aroused Col. Sum-
ner's resentment" by OBJ
jecting to the dam at River
Bend. I hope you will allow
the further comment that it
was this proposal in particu-
lar to which Col. Sumner in
vited comments at the recent
hearings. Analysis of the
statements offered by mem
berS of the committee will
leave no doubt, / assure you,
that our objection was to any
dam on the Potomac below
Harpers Ferry. We firmly be-
lieve that the Corps of En-
gineers must investigate the
potentialities of dams on the
tributary streams, and the
natural reservoir of fresh
water in the tidal reaches of
the Potomac, if it is to meet
its congressional directive to
make a comprehensive plan
for the Potomac Basin. In
contrast to the highly organ
lied and reiterated demand
that the River Bend dam be
built. mainly to provide a
source of subsidized hydro
electric power. I am conf
dent that the testimony Of
fered by our committee con-
stitutes the main body of fac
tual material that must be
considered in basin-wide,
multipurpose planning for
the Potomac.
Frederick Gutheim.
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Critics Moy Not Win Against Court

The Supreme Court has
just handed down another
decision likely to arouse con-
troverSy in a big way-a de-
cision which has the effect of
turning William S. Girard.
Army specialist. third class.
over to q Japanese court for
trial in the shooting of q
Japanese woman. The deci-
sion was unanimous. with
eight members of the Su-
prsgas Court concurring.
In this particular case,
the courts decision appears
to be entirely justified and in
accordance with the Consti-
tuition, the laws and an in
ternational treaty. The trial
of Girard is yet to be held.
Under our system. no man is
considered guilty until so
proven. The circumstances
surrounding the shooting of
the Japanese woman. Mrs.
Naka Sakai, a Japanese civil
ian. so far related, are not
happy for Girard. To say
the least. they seem to make
him out trigger happy and
irresponsible.
High officials Of the Gov
eminent believe Girard will
get a fair trial in the Japa-
nese court-and reports from
Army sources have been that
Girard would in all probable
ity receive a much more Sc
we're sentence if found guilty
at the hands of an Army
court-martial than from the
Japanese court.
Some members Of Con-
gress. however, have seized
on the decision in the Gil
rard case to criticize anew
the Supreme Court, which
has been under congressional
fire for a series of its opin-
ions, starting with the
courts unanimous opinion in
1854 outlawing segregation in
the public schools. Angry
members of the House and
. Senate have introduced a
number of bills aimed at
trimming and limiting the
powers of the court.
Criticism Hits Peak
Criticism reached a peak
in recent weeks, during a
series of decisions which (a)
opened the secret files of the
Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton to criminal case defend
ants, (b) criticized in harsh
terms procedures of the
House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee, Co narrowed
the range of the anti-Com-
munist Smith Act, freeing
five Communist leaders and
ordering new trials for nine
others, and Id freeing NAL
lory. a convicted rapist-
self-confessed-in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
A proposed change in the
law to protect secret files of
the FBI is already making
progress in the Congress, ana
may be enacted into law.
Some members of the Senate
and House have been very
much aroused over the Su-
preme Court opinions which,
in their minds. restrict the
rights and powers Of con-
gressional Investigations, and
also over the courts opinions
which pre-empt govern
mental security laws and
cases, leaving the States and
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ing economists. Above all, his position
should be greatly strengthened by the
apparent rout of the so-called Stalinists
in Russia, and also by the Kremlin's
decree abolishing compulsory deliver
les of produce to the government by
collective farmers. The situation speaks
for itself. The idea of private enter
prise, the free human spirit at work
without hindrance, apparently continues
to do better than hold its own behind
the Iron Curtain.
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VoteIess Capital

1t was with interest that !
read your article (Star, July
o. regarding home rule for
the District of Columbia. I
am surprised that Congress
should need more convinc.
ing arguments" in order to
pass the bill, for what argu-
ment could be more convinc-
ing than the fact that Dis
trict residents cannot vote
a privilege many Americans
take for granted and /or
abuse.
In a little more than two
years I will be old enough
to vote, yet because I live in
the District 1 will be denied
this right. I pay taxes, but I
cannot help determine how
they should be spent; I am
subject to the draft, but I am
denied one of the things !
am supposed to fight for; to-
gether with the rest of my
generation, I am to assume
responsibility for the affairs
of the Nation in the years to
come, but my hands will be
tied because I cannot vote.
This is an age when every
thing is being geared and
Streamlined to atomic living,
yet the District is bound
to practices long outdated.
Many of Washington's prob
lens would be handled more
efficiently If the administra-
tors were responsible to the
people; many of Congress
time-consuming bills would
be eliminated with home
rule, and expenses would be
cut down. But Congress must
have more convincing argu-
ments!
Washington, D. c., is the
Nations Capital, the citadel
of freedom and democracy,
and yet she cannot vote. Even
Communist cities can go to
the polls.
So. as a future voter-and
/ will vote, even If I have to
move-and as one interested
in the welfare of this country,
I would be happy to see Con-
gress think toward the future,
not the past. Let D. C. vote!
John H. Geerken.
Editors note: Our corre-
spondent, If he remains in
Washington under home rule,
would still lack a vote in the
Government which collects
his taxes and sends him to
war;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-13

John Kasper. known pro-
segregationist. along with
Is codefendants on a criminal
contempt charge, is on trial
for having violated a Federal
court order issued by Judge
Robert r. Taylor. Whether
they knew about the court
order or not, they must have
known about the decision
rendered by the Supreme
Court outlawing a separate
but equal system. Ignorance
does not excuse them from
breaking the law.
Many Southern Represent
atives and Senators want a
jury amendment to be in
cluded in the civil rights bill.
Yet case after case Of clear
cut nature have come to the
courts OF the South, but TO
our regret nothing was done.
The decision the Kasper
jury will reach is unpredict-
able. even though Southern
Congressman and Senators
have full faith in the fair
ness Of the jury system in
the South, and even though
the contempt charge is most
clear.
The members Of this jury
have a splendid opportunity
to demonstrate their fairness
or their prejudices.
DR.. Davis w. Board,
Chancellor, School d Reli-
gion Of Northt stern
College.
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@ STREET.

" . NEE L.
Dear Sir:
you often write about
books and reading, and l
have a problem.
Il have the proverbial
one thousand books, UP in my
attic, where one is not sup
posed to keep books; but what
can / do?
MY family likes a neat
house. with everything Just
so. and the books. they say,
do not quite fit in.
In my childhood. was
used to books everywhere in
my father and mothers
home. which was my home,
with plenty of books.
Now that / am married,
and have children of my own,
! find my books no longer
exactly acceptable.
"Oh. yes. books still have a
place, they admit. but not the
big place l would give them,
so up in the attic they go.
MY situation is not as
bad as that Of a couple in
New York. whose landlord
ran them out of house and
home because Of their books.
MY books are safely hid
den in the attic, and what !
would like to know is this,
do you think they constitute
a fire hazard?
What is the general care
Of books stored in an attic?
This is a nice room. with two
windows at opposite ends.
books decently in cases. as
they deserve.
Very truly. H. de J. L."
y 49,
Books properly cared for
offer no particular hazard in
an attic.
Books improperly cared for
do offer considerable hazard.
So it is up to this book
lover, as others with the same
problem, to see TO 1t that
every step is taken TO keep
precious volumes from be-
coming both a weight and
fire hazard.
A thousand books are a
thousand books.
Most persons with many
books think they have a great
many more than they do
have.
One thousand books is
about as many as an aver
age book lover will gather to-
gether in a lifetime.
They represent something
precious to him. his growing
mind. as well as interests,
preferences. hobbies, even.
1t is the growing mind
which makes the reading
man.
This mind was once thought
TO be the savior OF civ la
ton. j.
Now, after two terrible
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Demon Rum

DR.. Peter j. Steincrohn,
in his article in your issue
of June II, 1857. "A Drink
Before Dinner" so advocates
for patients (both men and
women over 40. The doctor
states that he knows of no
medication less harmful (?D
that will so painlessly cut
the rope of tension; that
moderate amounts of alcohol
daily are better than any
other kind of medicine. He
refers to similar opinions Of
his psychiatrist colleagues
and quotes DR.. Paul D. White.
the heart specialist. as fol-
lows: IAN ounce of whisky.
brandy or rum may give
rapid relief from angina pee
toris. usually in the course
Of a very few minutes"
The quotation is taken out
Of context, and is unfair both
to DR.. White and to the gen.
eral public. DR.. Whites state
ment on page $50 Of his book.
Heart Disease" published in
1856. is as follows:
THE most effective drug
after the nitrites is alcohol;
1t was used routinely 100
years ago. before the intro
duction Of the nitrites. and
even now, when the nitrites
are not available an ounce or
two Of whisky. brandy or
rum may give quite rapid
relief from angina pectoris.
usually in the course Of a
very few minutes.
However. inasmuch as a
paroxysm Of angina pectoris
is likely TO subside before
alcohol exerts its full effect.
these various beverages are
more useful in prevention
than in treatment: and in
asmuch as alcoholism cs a
habit may be established by
this procedure, the prophy-
Tactic use Of nitroglycerine
Is much preferred.
Tt should be added that
although heavy drinkers seem
to show little atheroma, the
moderate or even the consid-
cradle use Of alcohQlA docs not
protect against c1yonary
heart disease in middle are.
! have encountered . good