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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-12
FILA Lists 'Guideposts'

Here are q few guideposts
the FILA uses In looking at
the house that may be help
full to you when you are con-
sidering the purchase Of a
home:
l. Value is created by de-
sign which stays desirable
through the years. No matter
what you are able TO pay for
q house-you don't want to
be saddled with paying for a
fad-type house long after the
fad has passed but the mort
gage fingers on.
2. Housing should be well
located and well Handicapped
in an attractive setting.
3. Housing must be Of
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with an exterior Of natural
redwood. A new plastic vain
scoating will be used instead
Of tile for the bathroom wall
above the tub and on one
wall Of the family room. The
material looks like cloth and
has a satiny finish.
The housewife in the South
Bend house will test a new
kind Of counter top in her
kitchen--a plastic laminate
Of more than 20 layers of
plastics, resins and wood
fibers bonded under heat and
pressure. It has a mahogany
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sound construction If the de-
sire to own the home is to
be lasting.
4. Consideration must be
given to community needs for
schools, shopping centers,
churches and recreation.
5. Housing must have the
right appeal to excite pride
of ownership. 1t helps: to
have the useful equipment
that makes housework pleas
ant-and which home owners
are proud to possess.
6. Housing must give last
ing value in the different
price ranges through quality
materials and good work.
manship.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. DIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER D.,

Of very thin hardwood. only
3/l6th Of an inch in thick
ness. This hardwood is ARR
can oak. A thin. long-wearing
vinyl viii cover the kitchen
floor.
Both houses will have
heating systems to permit
the addition Of air condi.
tioning when the homeowner
desires.
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be plastic-pipe plumbing and
a new wiring system called
the wiring tree" which viii
serve major electrical appli-
ances.
In Knoxville, Mrs. "Y" will
store kitchen utensils in pre-
nodded plastic drawers which
are light, easy to pull out and
push in. and remarkably easy
TO keep clean.
Most Of her floors will be
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time on whether the new
structures measure up to
builders and materials man
ufacturers' expectations.
The purpose in building
these houses is aimed at
ways to provide Americans
with better homes for less
money.
A big step in this direc-
ton was taken last year with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-12
The ARLEN

IS TWIN-SIZE BEDROOMS . MANOR SIZE
22-FT. LIVING ROOM with airy sIopine cothedroI
PATIO z DE LUXE FULL BATHS lone in master
bedroom) diversified SEPARATE DINING AREA
. BUllT-IN RCA WHIRLPOOL WONDER KiTCH-
EN- feoturine Eye-leve buiIt-in ELECTRIC OVEN,
COUNTER-TOP RANGE . l2-CU.-FT REFRlG-
orator with full-width ocross-the top freezer
. Under-the counter AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER
Custom FOOD DlSPOSER Huge, ottroctiveIy
outside exit, featuring wol-to-woII buit-in home
entertainment center with TV nook finished in
hond-rubbed wood LARGE BASEMENT AREA
equipped for automatic washer CARPORT
and private driveway Additional rouehed-
in HALF BATH in utility 800 Don
oreo.
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features and equipment will
determine II the innovations
should be duplicated. modi-
fed or improved.
Panels Used
Let's take q look first at
the house In South Bend. It
is being erected with q nom
conventional sandwich panel
structure. using a foamed
plastic core between Its ex-
terror and interior finishes.
The house is SO feet 6
inches by 80 feet 6 inches
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wood finish and also comes
in finishes looking like cloth.
marble or leather.
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The Knoxville house is SO
feet 8 inches long by 20 feet
6 inches wide and has 1850
square feet Of living space.
The main feature is the use
Of cardboard as the basic
structural material. It's hard
board exterior will be coated
with a new long-wearing
paint. Another feature will
Evening star., 1958-05-14
Where Credit Is Due

Two long standing friends OF the
District deserve most of the credit for
rescuing the six-year, $112 million pub
lie works bill from threatened delay or
death in the House District Committee.
Members of the committee frankly &C
knowledged that but for the persuasive
efforts of Representatives Smith of Vir-
ginia and O'Hara of Minnesota the vital
new reconstruction measure might never
have reached the House floor.
The works program, prepared by a
Joint Senate-H House committee headed
by the Virginian, was endangered when
members of the House committee got
into a wrangle over school construc-
tion-and particularly over local school
policies and administration. Proposals
for another congressional investigation
of the Districts schools were made and
rejected Representative Smith stressed
that the main issue was whether local
schools were to be allowed to decay or
were to be improved. Stated in that
simple way, the question before the
committee could not well have been an
swered except by acceptance of the Joint
committees report. The House and the
Senate can do no less, if they have the
best interests of the Nations Capital at
heart.
Evening star., 1958-05-14

War does not erupt be-
cause one people is vicious;
another, virtuous.
War is the consummation
of millions Of immoral prior
events.
For many years the Ameri-
can government has matched
the Russian government -
hate for hate, threat for
threat. malicious act for ma
licious act-and it is this that
will be responsible for any
American Russian war.
More than 95 per cent of
the Russian people, Of all ma
tional peoples, are moral. An
American government of intel
ligence would direct its
actions to win the good will
of this 95 per cent of the
Russian people-no i'll will,
no threats, no malicious acts,
a constant sincere friend
illness and cooperation.
Automatically this 95 per
cent of the Russian people
would respond reciprocally to
moral behavior and carry
their government with them.
American-Russian relation
ships would become cordial
and cooperative. Present
American-Russian stupidity
would be ended.
DerwOod NJ Dudley.
Evening star., 1958-05-14

earthed the fact that Los Angeles toy
making firm has sold more than 81 mil
lion worth OF ant farms-transparent
plastic containers partly filled with sand
enough 10 accommodate a l5-apt colony
since last October. They anticipate
"a pun, maybe) even better business
with a new line OF luxury "farms"-big
enough for more ants. Furthermore,
they have helped establish a score OF
ant-breeding suppliers around Los
Angeles, a city Of charming eccentricity
even before the Brooklyn Dodgers moved
out there.
Ifit is true that one thing just leads
10 another, It should not be long before
some enterprising capitalist starts rais-
ing bees to put in your bonnet. Sorry.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
Booklet for the KremIin

Now that former Premier Nicolai
Bulganin has returned to his old job as
head of the State Bank of the Soviet
Union, it may be of more than passing
interest to note that this Communist
version of the House of Morgan has
addressed brief, buSineSslike letter to
the Hanover Bank of New York. The
letter has placed an order, and the
order has been promptly taken care Of,
for copy of the popular booklet en-
titled Peoples Capitalism"
Prepared for Hanover by DR.. Marcus
Nader of New York University, the
booklet tells about how our American
economic system is coming to be con-
trolled more and more by the people Of
the United States. AS DR.. Nader has
explained, this is happening because
ever-increasing numbers of uS-Some
on a large scale and some on small
Scale-have been investing in stocks
and thus acquiring part ownership of
big and little business corporations. 1t
has been happening, too, because of the
way we have been putting our money
into such institutions as savings banks,
pcIlSlOA 1uIluo dllu llAC llloul dLlCC SOLl-
panieS.
1t is noteworthy that the Soviet
State Bank has displayed enough in
terest in all this to send to New York
for DR.. Nadler'S study. Perhaps Mr..
Bulganin and his money-handling COM
rades will now curl up with the booklet
and read it thoroughly And maybe
they will be sufficiently impressed to
call it to the attention of Premier
KhruShchev and other high and mighty
tenants of the Kremlin. That could be
good thing. 1t might open their eyes
over there in way that would save
them from becoming prisoners of their
own silly propaganda about the nature
of our free-enterpriSe economy.
"As is we'll known" according to
this propaganda, our country is place
where nearly everybody is exploited by
a handful of paunchy, greedy, cigar
smoking men who wear dollar signs on
their vests and who spend all their time
in Wall Street suite plotting never
ending villainies against us. The Carl
cature could hardly be more fantastic or
absurd. Let's hope that Peoples Capt.
taliSm" will help to persuade the Krem-
lin to stop telling such fairy tales.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
The FIomingo Hat

1t is not surprising that a
music critic should be most
interested in music but it is
incomprehensible that in re-
viewing THE Flamingo Hat"
as a show, Day Thorpe failed
to devote a single word to the
libretto. AS well credit the
popularity of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operettas entirely to
Sullivan or the success Of MY
Fair Lady" to Loewe without
mentioning Lerner.
Richard Dirksen's fine score
is deserving of Mr.. Thorpe's
commendation but for all the
review revealed the cast might
have been singing nothing but
la-la-la. Actually, Frank
Baer's clever lines and lifting
lyrics contributed immeasur-
ably to the enjoyment of the
performance and is equally
deserving of praise.
Harold Bergman.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

ond place, perhaps. to some
OF mans own devilish crea-
tlons, but if he visibly were
with us, he might shame
some people into being kind
to squirrels, too.
4 4 =
The point is. we believe,
that if one cannot be kind
to such little ones as these,
how will he ever be kind to
people?
Kindness, or love, as you
prefer, is something many
people have to work at, and
we suggest that the gray
squirrel is as good a point
to begin as any.
Perhaps better than some.
since even the indifferent
person, feeding and watch
ing, may in time learn to
admire this one.
After all, he is interesting,
acrobatic and pretty.
What more can you ask?
The squirrel sometimes
gnaws electric wires, and
sometimes finds his way into
attics, but for most part he
minds his own business very
we'll, considering how active
he is most of the time.
4 4 4
He would be interesting, II
only because of his nervous
organization.
We can think Of no other
living creature more nervous,
unless it is a bird.
This alone would seem to
give the squirrel a right to
team up with the birds at a
feeding station.
y 4 4 4
We are not sure how
squirrels manage to eat in
extremely inclement weather.
The red squirrel of the
Middle West has his store Of
nuts in a tree hole, but the
gray specimens hide theirs in
the ground.
Almost always. however.
there are berries in various
shrubs, sticking above the
snow line; and though the
squirrels do not prefer them.
no doubt they eat them when
they must.
The gray squirrel is almost
as omniverous as people! He
will eat a large variety Of
human foods, from fresh
tomatoes to peanut butter; he
loves bread. raisins. and
watermelon, and the seeds Of
the sunflower and others.
His very fatness, in the
winter season, allows him to
go for a week or more with
out any food at all, and as
for drink, he likes nothing
better than to take fresh
snow up in his paws.
Evening star., 1958-05-14

Squirrels have been absent
from this column for a long
time.
Too long, perhaps. lost in
the big SHOWS of the winter.
but very much alive, just the
same.
These festive rodents. be-
ing sensible creatures. have
no use for snow.
In bad days. they normally
stay aloft in trees, sometimes
seeking shelter in the big
leafy nests they construct for
their young.
They do not like to come
down in snow except when
there is a crust on it. to give
them secure footing.
Since their caches of nuts
are hidden by the white stuff
below, they steadfastly stick
to their winter gardens. the
trees which comprise their
cradle, nursery. home and
gymnasium, all in one.
In our own yard, the first
appearance of squirrels of the
spring season was heralded
by three newcomers, little
fellows with bodies not more
than five inches long.
These little ones are just
as active as their parents.
They find the trees so much
to their liking they seldom
leave them. But as they
watch their elders at bird
feeding stations, they usually
work UP enough spirit of ad-
venture to follow the leader
We hope no feeder of birds
resents too much the pres
ence of squirrels.
While writing this, we
know from long experience
that many bird watchers do
resent the squirrels tremen-
dously.
We feel, however. that they
do both themselves and the
merry rodents wrong. to har-
Dor such resentment.
This modern world is so
full of resentment, offspring
of hate, that the sensitive
can see the air fairly seeth-
ing with it.
If this presence in the air
were colored, it would have to
be a pale sickly pink, since
hate. itself. is necessarily red.
The pinkness of resentment
is not nice. and easily would
be seen as bad, if it we're
in color; since it is not tinted,
1t is often overlooked, even by
essentially kind people.
In medieval times, the
devil was a living entity, to
most people, and he, too, was
pictured as red.
Today the devil takes sec
Evening star., 1958-05-14
Caracas Outrage

The outrageous and tnexcuSabie
treatment of the Vice President and
Mrs. Nixon in Caracas stands out in a
day Of vicious and profoundly disturb
ing violence directed against the United
States
The attention of the American peo-
pie, of course, is centered on Venezuela
and the shocking behavior of its de-
praved mobsters. One must assume that
this frenzied affront to Mr.. and Mrs.
Nixon, and through them to the United
States, was CommuniSt-inSpired to some
extent. But this does not explain away
the fact that Venezuelan police on the
scene did virtually nothing to protect
the Vice President and his party. Nor
does it explain why 1000 armed Ven
ezuelan soldiers at the airport stood by
while the mob surged over and around
the Nixon entourage, smashing their
cars and injuring several members Of
the party. The fact that the Venezuelan
Foreign Minister was present, and Suf-
fered his share of miStreatment, argues
against any assumption that the Ven-
eZuelan government was party to this
shameful affair. But since there was
ample advance notice of impending
trouble, why was it that adequate secu-
rity measures were not taken?
Whatever the answer, one conclu-
sion is Self-evident: Never again should
an American Vice President, or any
other representative of this Govern
ment, be exposed to such an ordeal. II
nothing else is done, we had better for
get about good will" missions to hostile
peoples in Latin America until there is
some evidence of reciprocal good will on
their part. For what happened in Ven-
ezuela, and to some extent in Peru, was
not a personal affront to Mr.. Nixon. 1t
was an affront to the Self-reSpect Of the
United States.
The days evil work was not con-
fined, however, to Venezuela. Rioters
in Lebanon continued their violent dem
onstrationS against the United States
and against their own pro-American
government. In AlgierS a right-wing
French mob sacked the United States
Information Agency's Office, and a
French paratroop general has set up
Rightist regime in Algeria.
In short, our national policy, dedi-
Gated to peace and the rule of law, is
unoer attack from the Left, from the
Right and from various points in be-
tween. The policy apparently is not
winning friends for us where we need
friends badly and it may be having the
opposite effect.
1t may well be that our country,
suspended somewhere between the devil
and the deep blue sea, has no acceptable
choice except to adhere patiently to the
policies which have been laid down. 1t
is difficult to know what else there is
to do. Nevertheless, the events of the
past few days clearly suggest that our
policies, and their application to par
ticular countries, should at least be the
subject of a very careful re-examina-
ton.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
Totterinq Resistance

Virginia's program Of massive re-
sistance" to public school integration is
beginning TO come apart at the seams.
Arlington is under court order to
admit a few Negro students to some Of
It's schools in September. Federal Judge
John Paul now has directed Charlottes-
Vile to desegregate in the same month.
And Federal Judge Walter E. Hoffman
has set June 7 as the date for hear
ing on a motion calling for integration
this fall in Norfolk and Newport News.
Judge Hoffman has hinted that he will
grant the motion, and nothing in his
record invites doubt on this score.
1t may be possible to put of the
day of reckoning in some of these COM
munities for little while by resort to
new delaying tactics. But it is as clear
as anything can be that showdown is
both imminent and inevitable. Within
a very little time, some local school au-
thorities will be faced with final court
orders to accept Negro applicants in
their schools.
What will happen then? Do the
State authorities seriously propose to
close the schools in Arlington and three
Virginia cities? Will there be token
closings, followed by a cutoff of State
financial aid?
We do not pretend to know the
answers, but If they should be in the
affirmative the consequences are rea-
Sonably predictable. We do not believe
that public opinion in any of the four
jurisdictions will tolerate permanently
closed schools. Token cloSingS, followed
by return of the schools to local con-
troll, may be possible. But the local
authorities, faced with the threat of
contempt of court proceedings, almost
surely would reopen the schools on an
integrated basis. This might mean loss
of State money, even though the tax
payers in the four communities had
contributed their share, and more than
their share, of the funds involved. But
this would not prevent integration-the
stated objective of the massive resist
ance program. All that it would accom-
pliSh would be to create bitterness, and
justifiably so, among the taxpayers in
the affected communities.
In short, massive resistance, we
think, has just about reached the end
of it's road. Virginia ought not to wait
for this blow to fall upon the helpless
school authorities in the local commu-
mites. The sensible course would be to
call the Legislature into special session
to devise program, perhaps something
similar to the original Gray Commission
plan, which would have the merit of
being adapted to the obvious realities
of the situation. 1t is very difficult, po-
litically speaking, for Governor Almond
and other State officials to acknowledge
that some integration in Virginia is
inevitable. But it will be more diff
cult, we think, to accept the political,
not to mention the legal, consequences
of refusing to face up to the facts as
they are.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
Zoninq Service
WASHINGTON STAR

On behalf of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board and
every property owner in the
District of Columbia, I would
like to extend our most sim
cere and unrestrained COM
mendation to The Evening
Star for the outstanding pub
lie service rendered in pub
fishing the comprehensive
information and complete
text of the city's new zoning
regulations. The Stars con-
slant concern with the well
fare of the Nations Capital
was never better illustrated
than by your special section
last Saturday.
At this moment it might
be well also. to pay tribute
to The Stars usual thorough,
objective and accurate cover
age of the three-year-long
news story regarding these
new coming provisions. We
have come to look upon The
Star as a bible" for infor-
nation Of this type.
Washington is indeed. for
tunate in having The Eve
ming Star and The Sunday
Star published by an organ
ization dedicated so obviously
to the community. It's no
wonder that we hear so often,
land furthermore, I read it
in The Star"
Edward ]. Kyle,
President, Washington Real
Estate Board.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
LincoIn's Voice

Having served in Congress
AZ years ago, 1 talked with
several colleagues who had
heard Lincoln at Gettysburg,
and on other occasions.
Their testimony was unan-
imous that his voice was
pitched in a high key, but
most pleasing to hear.
Later, in conversation with
an elderly French merchant
in New York, he mentioned
that on his first visit to New
York, 1860. in early spring,
he was passing City Hall plaza
at noon and saw "a tall,
rather homely man" address,
ing a crowd. and out of curl
osity stopped to listen. the
speaker turning out to be
Lincoln.
Desiring to get the version
of this very intelligent French
gentleman. without disclosing
what I had heard before, I
asked:
What sort of voice did
Lincoln have?"
He replied: 1T was tenor.
but charming. While I did
not understand every word,
knowing then but little Eng
lish, I was so taken that !
listened to every word"
He added that most Of the
audience seemed rather blase,
or Indifferent. but "a few
cheered the speaker vocifer-
ouSly." A. w. Lafferty.
Evening star., 1958-05-14
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Navy Builds New Mechanical Broin

been used to calculate the
precise orbit Of the earth
for the next thousand years
and the orbits Of several
other minor planets.
In nine hours at one sit
ting. DR.. Herget says. II has
completed more computations
than II has been possible 10
carry out In all the past his
tory Of astronomy.
II doesn't originate any
thing but nobody knows what
may be originated from Its
calculations.
A cheap. lightweight plas-
tic cartridge case for artillery
shells has been developed and
successfully tested by Navy
scientists.
The Army now will take
these over and make opera
tional and cost studies. II
these prove favorable the new
case probably will replace the
traditional brass case which
has been In use for more
than a half century. as well
as the steel case developed
during the Korean War.
The new plastic case costs
less than half as much as the
metal one. II is. for example.
three pounds cheaper than
the standard case for shells
Of the l05-millimeter field
gun used by both Army and
Marines. This not only will
cut down shipping costs but
will make for easier and
faster handling.
Other Advantages
Other advantages are a
saving Of vital materials like
brass and steel. and greatly
reduced production costs. The
conventional injection mold
ing processes will permit
comm .rcial plastic firms to
do the work.
Some of the test cases have
been fired by Office Of Naval
Research scientists without
reconditioning, emerging un-
damaged from the test gun
after being subjected to ex-
tremely high temperatures
and pressures. They also
have passed weather tests in
temperatures ranging from
-65 to l60 F.
Further tests by the Army
Ordnance Corps will deter
mine whether the cases are
strong enough to stand the
rough handling of worldwide
shipping and actual use in
the field under battle con-
ditions.