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Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
THE RESULTS OF INITIATION
We Americans axe not the only Victil

We Americans are not the only victims of
imitation. The whole Western world is in
pretty much the same boat. The story is told
in a u S. News and World Report feature ar
ticle which says: "The worldwide imitation
reflects many things. 1t reflects big spending
by government in most countries. 1t is in
fiuenced by huge demand for capital to re-
build and to expand industry and to provide
people with homes. 1t grows, in part, from
the immense unfulfilled wants of people who
are getting higher pay with which they can
fill those wants"
The magazine shows, in chart form, what
has happened to purchasing power of money
in the 1947-57 period. III that little span of
10 years, our money has lost 20 per cent of its
purchasing power; Frances has lost SO per
cent; Canada's has lost % per cent; Brit
aims has lost 38 per cent, and Chiles has lost
a staggering "a per cent. So it goes, down the
whole roster. In no case has country's mon
ey held its value, much less improved it.
What do people in high position think
about this? The answer, as u. S. News gives
them vary greatly from country to country.
An English top official is quoted as saying,
eff a nation pays itself per cent more for
doing no more work, as happened last year,
price increases will follow as night follows
upon day. Before those price increases
thus generated are to form the basis for ar
other round of wage increases, the country
should ponder the damage which could be
done to this nation and all who work in
it. :" In France, on the other hand,
prominent banker holds that "a little inf1a-
tion is not bad thing" on the ground that
it is a necessary part of economic expansion.
In about so years, incidentally the value of
the franc has declined from 20 cents to one
third of one cent.
The u. S. official attitude, as u. S. News
sees it, is to resist rising prices. However,
there is another school of thought "that
would accept a gradual inhation-of very
limited kind-provided that it could be con-
trolled." This should, like the French bank
er, sees a relationship between economic
growth and some imitation. Aside from the
pros and cons of that, we have had cost of
living increase of close to per cent in the
last 18 months-whereas in 1953-54-55 the
dollar was comparatively stable.
What can be expected in the future? There
are no signs that government spending
which most economists regard as major in
fationary force-win materially diminish
either here or abroad. Demands for capital
continue heavy. On the other hand, we have
what is designed to be an anti-inhationary
tight money policy. u S. News concludes on
this note: Either way the tide Of imitation
turns, it promises to carry political dyna-
mite Today, over much of Europe and in the
United States, people are grumbling more
and more about the costof living. Imitation is
emerging as hot political issue that may
weigh heavily in the outcome of the next
elections"
Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
%>%@&&
TIME FOR REFORM

Suppose new store opened in your town,
selling groceries, furniture, automobiles, or
anything else. And suppose this sign appear
ed above the door: Owned and Operated by
the United States Government"
You'd be amazed-and you'd be shocked.
For it obviously isn't the governments busi-
ness to go into trade-and it is equally OBJ
vious that the private citizen would have a
mighty tough time trying to meet this kind
of competition. Yet the fact is that there are
comparable cases in existence right now
Take, for instance, the parcel post service
of the post office department. 1t was estab-
lished primarily to supply transportation fa-
cilities in rural areas, at a time when there
seemed to be real need. But, like most gov
ernmental functions, parcel post has expand
ed and outgrown the original concept. 1t now
transports huge volume CT purely CONNER
cial traffic between communities where pri-
vately operated services are more than ade-
quate. .,,,
Then, to make bad matter worse, it has
usually operated at defcit-and all the tax
payers, whether they ever use parcel post or
not, must chip in to pay that deficit.
To quote a Hoover Commission report,
"The private enterprise system is the basis of
the military strength of this Nation and of
its unparalleled standard of living" In the
light of that, it is certainly not surprising
that the Hoover Commission-like other au-
thoritative bodies-has strongly recommend
ed sweeping reforms of the parcel post SYM
tenn.
Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
N&@N&
WINTERS WARMER2

Another of the weather experts has gone
on record as saying that the winters are be-
coming warmer. That was the trend among
the experts until the last twelve months
when a certain group began to voice the opin-
ion that reversal of the trend toward warm
er winters was setting in.
However, DR.. Verne Petersen, Profess
or of meteorology and director of the Univer-
sity of Chicago's Weather Forecasting and
Research Center, says that winters are con-
tlnulng to become warmer. He does not rec
OgniZe any reversal of this trend
DR.. Petersen say that the icebergs have
shrunk and glaciers have receded and that
polar ice has been creeping northward for
some time. Large areas are now without
winter ice, which once had experienced win
ter ice each year and some areas where ice
still exists find the ice is now thinner.
Likewise, it has been noted by many ex-
perts that the survival line of many plants
and trees has been steadily moving north
ward and continues to do so. AS to why this
is happening, DR.. Petersen offers no expla-
nation.
However, it has been theorized that sun
spots were the cause of the steadily warming
winters. Being no weather expert, we cannot
give an intelligent opinion for or against the
theory concerning sun spots. However, we
do agree that winters are gradually becoming
warmer.
Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
N%@&%
DEFEATING POLIO


Figures released recently by the L. S.
Public Health Service show that the fight
against polio is being steadily won. Although
there has been doubt as to the progress of
the battle, from time to time in recent years,
the latest figures show conclusively that the
polio vaccine has accomplished miracles in
this respect
Only 3,217 cases of polio have been re-
ported this year as against 7,073 reported
last year. Moreover, the paralytic type of
polio, which is the worst, has been reduced
by an even greater margin. Only 1,054 cases
have been reported so far in 1857. In 1856
there were 1881 paralytic cases.
The figures quoted are national figures.
It is true that in some states where mild epi-
denies occurred, the entire picture is not al
together clear. For example, there were
slight increases in all types of polio in the
following states: South Dakota, Nebraska,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, New Mexico and the District of
Columbia.
Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
Let Kids Make Rules
For Family Auto Trips
By DOROTHY V. WHIPPLE, M. d.
AP NeWsfeatures

LET'S FACE ITmost children
hours In
active youngsters This boredom likely wrestling
and roughhousng = e
Ini ooL.Ia-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-08
'0lnt Of she's

Read the following seven pages.
for oil tFot's new from the
drawing boards of ten of Americas
land your foNorite designers:
D'Antonio, Cellini, Foot FIoirs,
Town & Country, Joyce of
California, British Brevitts, Red
Cross. Porodise. youthful Paradise
Kittens, and Kin1el of California.
Come see, come try
the exciting shoe fashions for foil
81 in The Hecht Co.'S
three great Shoe Salons.
SEE INFORMAL SHOE MODELLING
oil this week, on the Street Floor,
Washington store.
SEE OUR SHOE FASHION SHOW
Thursday evening, September II.
OF 6 o'clock, in the Third Floor
Shoe Salon, Washington store.
MEET MISS BILLIE GOULD,
Foshion Director of the
Leather Industries of America,
who will be our guest
commentator, Thursday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-08

The whole towns toiking! ).
about the news in shoes.
Not for many season
have there been such exciting
sIhouettes:: toes topered to
needle sIin1ness
slender, soaring heels wing for
attention with the ench0ntingH
continental little heel.
Such unusual textures: lustrous,
grained wild rice colt
sooty, sculptured suede.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30
DO 1t Yourself Wealth

It Is very likely that the Commu-
nistS-who, in one way or another, creep
so consistently into any commentary on
our life and time-will view with their
own brand of horror" list Of rs Amer
leans reported to own wealth of more
than SIS million EACH This, no doubt,
will be considered proof" that the
capitalist system is evil-breeding great
fortunes for favored few through ex-
ploitation Of the "downtrodden masses"
1t seems gratuitous. perhaps. to de
fend" rs so fortunate, but look behind
the dollar signs is both interesting and
informative.
In compiling and analyzing the list,
for example, Fortune Magazine finds
that As per cent of those so wealthy
made their fortunes ION their own
through work, initiative and magma
ton that are built-in componentS of our
private enterprise system. For this As
per cent, the. accumulation OF great
wealth has come during their own life
times-in period of increasingly heavy
taxation and increasing public regula-
ton of business activities. 1t has been
accompanied by the building of vast
commercial and industrial organizations
giving employment and livelihood to
hundreds Of thousands of workers and
associates, many of them acquiring an
equity In the operations, and the sum
total adding material strength to the
economy Of dynamic nation.
Even among those whose wealth has
grown from inheritances, there is the
common denomination in most cases Of
resources constructively uSed-reaching
through research beyond past horizons
to develop new products for the comfort
more eff1cient techniques of manufac-
ture and better systems Of distribution.
On the surface, this list Of dollar hold
ings does not seem to reflect a spread
the wealth" economy. But beneath the
surface, as most of these fortunes have
grown, their employment has spread
multitude OF benefits through what we
consider the highest standard of living
recorded In civilization. These achieve
mentS have not, Of course, come entirely
or even in largest part through the "su-
perior" management of handful OF
wealthy persons. No part is greater
than the whole Of our capitalistic sys-
TEN. But 1t is an important part in the
strength of that system that both the
need and the opportunity remain for
the employment OF capital by some for
mula other than bureaucratic dogma.
And 1t is understatement, on the side
Of modesty, that the wealthiest OF all
these 76-Jean Paul Getty-should at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30
Extending the Parkway

Prince Georges County is showing
commendable interest In plans for ex-
tending the George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway from the District to Fort
Washington, despite failure Of Congress
to grant funds this year for the project.
The county commissioners and staff
members Of the National Capital Plan
ming Commission have been studying
proposed routes through the county for
the proposed 6.8-mile dual highway along
the Potomac River The county already
has agreed TO bear its share of the cost
OF land buying, as provided under the
Capper Cramton Act.
The parkway already is being ex-
tended through Virginia as far as the
new Central Intelligence Agency build
ing near Langley. Rights of way on the
opposite shore, both in the District and
in Montgomery County, have been &C
Quired long ago. Only in Prince Georges
County has the parkway program Jagged.
1t is encouraging, therefore, to have
county officials lining up actively behind
the plans for continuing the parkway on
the Maryland side Of the river all the
way to Fort Westinghouse originally
contemplated With this backing, the
chances for Federal appropriation next
year of $950,000 for land purchasing in
Prince Georges County will be materially
inproyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30
Space and q Shaggy Doq

According to Radio Moscow, Rus
sian scientists have been training a
shaggy little dog to go travelling through
space in new Soviet Sputnik scheduled
to be launched sin the near future" The
dog, a female named Kudryavka, is said
to have gone far above the earth al
ready, having been shot there in rocket
and then released dressed in helmet
and special pressurized suit Of her own
for parachute trip back to terra f1rma.
Apparently the experience has left her
none the worse for wear. In fact, or so
her trainers say, she seems to have en-
joyed her adventure, and presumably
she Is looking forward to the day when
she will be sent orbiting around the
globe-hundreds Of miles up-at speed
of $4,000 miles an hour.
In effect, as explained by the Rus
sian scientists, Kudryavka's role is to
be- that Of canine pioneer blazing the
trail for men who some day-maybe-
will take of In ships designed for inter-
planetary travel. Yet, despite what
Radio Moscow has said about how she
enjoys the whole business, we wonder
whether her distinction really pleases
her. After all, she can express her true
feelings only in banks, and we cannot
understand such language. What would
she tell us If she could speak as we do?
We don't know, Of course, but we suspect
that she'd say humans are crazy and
she, for her own part, would rather be
a plain old terrestrial lap dog or house,
hold pet than lonely pathfinder hurs
Ting through space and woofing discons
solately at the stars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30

As a former New Yorker,
! take exception to Betty
Beale's comments of October
rs, about the relative merits
of New York City VS.. Wash
ington.
New York. provincial. in
deed! II Just so happens New
York has several million more
people, and a few thousand
other businesses to handle.
while taking care of visiting
dignitarieS and or the press.
And Miss Beale ought to be
cosmopolite enough to real
ize New York City has many
more traffic problems than
the District of Columbia.
Just because Miss Beale
was not mollycoddled in New
York the way she is in WASH
ington. as a member of the
sacrosanct. immutable press.
she raises the cry. "provin-
cial."
And to top II all Oh. she
points an accusing finger at
New York press relations.
Didn't two college boys crash
a Queens party with District
OF Columbia press passes. OBJ
tanned at the drop Of q hat?
It's only in provincial
towns that everything stops
for the pressl
Margot Donovan Coley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30

The world now has heard from both
Nikita Khrushchev and Secretary Dulles
on the. mysterious fall from grace of
Marshal Zhukov. But it must wait
while longer before 1t gets the real story.
Mr.. Khrushchev, of course, knows
the story. but he's not talking. AT least,
he's not talking straight At a Turkish
Embassy reception (of all places) he did
chat with reporters about the custer Of
Marshal Zhukov from his post as Minis
ter of Defense. Mr.. Khrushchev said he
had seen Zhukov that day, that he was
in good health and that he spoke to him.
He insisted, however. that there was no
particular significance to the Zhukov
incident--that 1t was Just like the resig-
nation of our own Charles Wilson as
Secretary of Defense, and that the
Kremlin just hadn't gotten around as
yet to finding a suitable new job for
Mr.. Zhukov
Mr.. Dulles doesn't know the real
story and he didn't pretend otherwise.
He expressed the belief. however, that
there is an internal conflict, great deal
"a RAAAAAAS NAA0 AANAAAAAAH, Swans OAA AASAA~
the Soviet Union. And he suggested,
although he didn't say it in so many
words. that the firing of Marshal Zhukov
might be more closely related to
Russia's domestic tribulations than to
international problems.
For what it may be worth Mr.. Khru-
shchev also said the Zhukov business
was an internal matter. Furthermore,
he seemed to lend some supportsto M
Dulles domestic trouble theory by say
ing that the situation In the Middle East
has taken a turn for the better, that
ait has gone a little way toward peace"
We hope. and we would like to be-
lieve, that this is the real story-that
the firing of Marshal Zhukov was an
internal affair and that 1t does not
foreshadow some new trouble on the
international scene. But 1t would be
more sensible to wait while TO see what
happens-and, in the meantime, to keep
ones fingers crossed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30

The c continue d separate
status Of our local citizens"
(white) and "civic" (colored)
associations puzzles me upon
returning to Washington after
a long absence. In the possi-
bility that there is logical
reason for separately estab-
liShed organizations. / should
like TO know what the reason
may be,
When, in these times. we
have In the District asked
our children to integrate in
the educational process and
when our District is facing
the multitudinous decisions
of growth so aptly described
in The Stars Metro" series,
l wonder how we can afford
both TO set diverse adult ex-
ample to our children and to
consider our basically inte-
grated civic problems on Q
"nonintegrated" basisl
loretta GoldbeRE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30
Hommerinq at the Wolf

Despite the tension It has caused in
the Middle East and regardless Of the
ominous meanings that some have read
into its mystifying dealings with Mar
shall zhukov, the Kremlin still seems to
be interested in promoting more
amicable atmosphere between itself and
the United States. At any rate, Georgi
Zaroubin, its ambassador here, has not
been acting as II his government really
believed its own belligerent charges
about an American Turkish plot to
attack Syria. Instead, In an apparently
congenial mood, he and a delegation of
Soviet experts have Just begun negoti-
ating with some Of our top State De-
partment officials for a far-reaching
agreement designed to promote infor-
national, scientific, cultural and other
types of cooperation between his
country and ours.
Although they still fight shy of our
American insistence that the Iron Cur
tain should be eliminated to permit
free flow of news and ideas between
East and West, the proposals presented
by Ambassador Zaroubin embody--at
least on limited scale--most of those
favored by the United States. Among
other things, they would establish a
systematic program of competition be-
tween the outstanding athletes of our
two countries, and they would aim at
bringing about a marked increase in
reciprocal tourism. In addition, they
would establish exchanges of radio and
televiSion broadcasts on an equal-time
basis. and they would put into operation
a plan under which various groups OF
our Notwithstanding, cultural, in
dustrial, agricultural and so on--would
travel to Russia while Soviet specialists
in the same fields would travel here.
Further, Mr.. Zaroubin has declared that
the Kremlin SIS also ready to reach
agreement in principle" on a sort of
"open skies" arrangement that would
permit regularly scheduled commercial
air flights by RusSia's and our own
planes between such places as New York
and Moscow.
In one form or another. all of these
ideas have been discussed before by
American and Soviet negotiators, but
they still remain nothing but ideas. Yet
they are good ideas. and it is encourage
ing that the Kremlin-speaking through
Mr., Zaroubin-continues to show an
active interest in them by undertaking
a series of new talks with us in an effort
to translate them into reality. The
project deserves the best wishes OF all
OF us. Americans and Russians alike.
For If 1t can be made TO work, If it can
be put into force in a genuinely effective
manner. there will be good reason to
hope for an end to that ominous wall
that divides our two countries and splits
the entire world. Certainly, given real
agreement on this matter, the outlook
for peace would become brighter than
1t is or has been for many long year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30

River vs.. Lakes

It Is no secret that the
Army Engineers plan for
Harvesting the Potomac en-
visages a series OF upstream
dams so that the Potomac
would no longer be a river
that moves in majesty" but
would, rather, be a string
OF man-made lakes. Inun-
dated would be much Of the
historic Gao Canal and Its
scenic beauty as well as many
thousands Of acres OF farm
lands.
The argument OF the pros
that the present recreation
areas would be replaced by
a beautiful lake affording a
different type Of recreation
is hardly convincing, mas
much as the draw down dur
ing periods of low river flow
in summer months might
expose as much as $4,000
acres OF mud flats.
Such a prospect is not
pleasant to contemplate. For
tunately there are alterna-
tives for providing sufficient
water supply and proper
sewage disposal without de.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30
Gen. Scheopf's Grove

In the interest of history, I
am anxious to locate. perhaps
through your column, the
burial place Of Gen. Albin
Francis Scheopf.
The following data may
help to identify this officer:
He was born March I,
1922, in Podgorz. near
Crakow. Poland. During the
Civil War. Gen. Scheopf was
commander Of the Michigan
Army and was wounded on
the battlefield. Later he was
in charge Of a camp at Balti-
more, Md. Gen. Scheopf was
married and had two chill
dren. He died May 10, 1886,
in Hyattsville, Md. Records
at Arlington National Gene
terry do not show burial there.
He must therefore be buried
In some private, older ceme-
terry,
II any descendant of this
general. or perhaps a care
taker at one of the older
cemeteries around Washing
ton. can furnish this in
formation, l would appre-
ciate 1t very much.
vict0r Anthony.
~ Breunig Avenue.
Trenton. N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-30

The odious alien and sedi-
ton laws were overthrow
because they muffled the in
diyidual citizen. A procedure
used at the last Arlington
School Board meeting is
worse--it muf1es the speech
Of public officials acting as
board members.
Here's the way 1t worked
last Thursday. During the
debate on the controversial
Retarded Children's School.
q board member moved the
previous question" This
motion cuts off debate. and
according to Roberts Rules
OF Order requires both a
second and Q two-thirds vote
for passage. However. with
out such Q second or even a
vote on the previous ques-
ton. the shady business
being discussed was itself
put to a vote. The two mi
nority members of the i've
member board voiced their
protests. but the deed was
done. The board chairman
saw nothing unusual in the
practice Of allowing one
member to kill debate. there
by precipitating a vote on
ill-considered measures.
Parliamentary procedure
is designed to protect the
rights OF the minority, but
in flouting well-established
parliamentary rules the
liberal" triumvirate on the
Arlington School Board are
suppresSing these rights.
- N Marfan