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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
No Need to Eeud

Defense Secretary McElroy has made
the one move best calculated to end the
unseemly feuding between the Air Force
and the Army over antiaircraft missiles.
BY making it known that both the Air
Forces Bomarc missile and the Army's
Nike Hercules will share the responsible
ity Of protecting Americas cities against
air attacks, the fears Of each service
that its missile would be discarded have
been abated The decision thus removes
the reason for any publicity campaign to
"Sell' either missile to the Pentagon or
Congress.
There have been repeated attempts
to influence committees of Congress and
high-level military authorities in their
comparative appraisalS of the Bomarc
and the Nike Hercules. Air Force and
Army representatives have complained
that inspired" magazine and press
articles were unfairly belittling their re-
spective missiles. Congress, apparently
irked over the feuding, cut $45 million
from the Pentagon's request for 1929
million to build launching sites for the
Bomarc and Nike Hercules. At the same
time Congress requested Secretary
McElroy to determine with respect to
each defended area which missile or
combination of missiles will be employed
in that area"
Now Mr.. McElroy, in ordering the
interservice pickering stopped, has in
dicated that the Bomarc will be used in
some areas, the Nike Hercules in others
and combination of the two in still
other areas Actually, only the Nike
Hercules is operational at the present
time. It has been installed at sites
around Washington, New York, Chicago
and Los Angeles. The first Bomarc in
stallation is scheduled to be in operation
at Mcclure Air Force Base, in New
Jersey, late next year. Each missile has
It's merits, with the weIl-tested Nike
Hercules designed to knock enemy
planes down when they are from rs to
100 miles away, while the Bomarc is
designed to hit target some 800 miles
distant. The Defense Secretary pointed
out that joint installation could give
our defense forces two chances at an
enemy bomber.
Both services now can present
strong cases before the next Congress
for funds to extend the protective screen.
And it is about time that the two services
stopped fighting between themselves and
concentrated on preparing the most
effective system for lighting an attack
ing bomber fleet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
Autumn Economics

The Federal Reserve Boards state
of the economy report for August
brings together in one cheering package
statistical evidence Of solid and con-
tinuing upturn in business. Without any
consequential interruption, the upward
trend has been steady since April-the
low-water month in the sharp economic
dive that started almost exactly one
year ago.
Using 1947-49 as a base period for
an industrial production index of 100,
the board calculates output of factories
and mines in August at 1877 per cent
compared with the April low of 1875.
Particularly encouraging was the fact
that heavy equipment figured in the up
ward push, although in the two earlier
postwar recessions this segment of the
economy continued to slide downhill for
some months after the overall index
had reached its low point. The output of
electricity, one of the revealing barome-
tiers for the economic climate as whole,
reached a record high last month.
Housing starts increased for the sixth
consecutive month, to the highest figure
since January, 1856. The employment
picture likewise improved, although the
gains there have not been as sharp as
those in production and there are indi-
y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
LETTERS TO THE STAR

appeared spanking clean" in
their fresh shirts and shined
shoes. They appeared to be
happy children-and relaxed.
Stopping for a traffic light.
I glanced at my morning
paper beside me on the seat.
1t wasn't until I read the ugly
anti-integration news that !
became conscious that this
cross-section of life / was
viewing reflected skin tones
that ran the gamut from
shades of so-called white" to
interesting deep sepia. One
heartening item of interest in
the news concerned a white
student leader in the Van
Buren, High School in Arkan-
sas, who appealed to parents
to drop their segregation eff
forts and allow indignation to
go into effect.
And a little child shall
lead ye." Seems to me that
this generations blundering
adults might do well to resort
to this sort Of sagacity. Per-
haps one day, adults may
learn from the children how
to love thy neighbor" and
discover how to live in color
harmony.
Jessie B. Solomon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
Food for Thought

The United States Govern
ment has set aside So million
to provide school lunches for
Egyptian children. Feeding
hungry children-anywhere-
is one Of the noblest projects
of a republic, but surely
charity could begin at home.
Seventeen hundred elemen-
tary school children in the
District of Columbia are in
need Of a MONDAY meal.
Many of those in greatest
need walk to school within
sight of the Capitol where an
emergency bill to supply
funds to feed these children
did not pass the last session
Of Congress.
Perhaps the Egyptian Gov
eminent will be willing to
send 100000 to the United
States to provide school
lunches for hungry children
in Washington.
Deborah L. Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15

cations that the jobless total will remain
substantial for some months to come.
In this setting, developments of the
next few days in the auto industry may
well determine the economic story for
the rest Of 1868, The u A. w. has set
Wednesday as D-day to strike Ford. A
shutdown for one or all of the Big Three
would affect steel and other supplying
industries also. There are signs, how
ever, that negotiators actually are
making progress toward agreement II
reached soon, autumn's economic colors
almost surely will be bright.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
What c ouses Heavy Drinkers to Suffer
By THOMAS R. HENRI

leased they cause serious It's
sue damage to various Or
gans-especially heart and
liver. The amount Of en-
zymes liberated is approxi-
mately proportional to the
magnitude Of the tissue dam
age they cause.
Now, liver damage is a FREE
quent finding in alcoholic
addicts-especially cirrhosis
of the liver which is the bug
bear paraded by advising
doctors. The Swedish doctors
were led to their investiga-
ton by certain similarities
found in DIT, patients and a
condition usually preceding
cirrhosis. They proceeded to
test the amounts of GOT
and various other stored en-
zymes-in the serum of the
dementia praecox cases
brought to the hospital. Such
persons usually show liver
damage, although there are
few cases of actual cirrhosis.
Some of their findings:
GOT FIuctuates
Markedly elevated GOT
levels are found in deliriun1
tremens. The elevation is
simultaneous with the men.
tai and somatic (physicalt
symptoms, and a GOT peak
is obtained at the height d
these symptoms. When THE
delirious state is over the
GOT level usually reverts
rapidly to low or normal
values.
When patients are adj
mitted during acute intoxi-
cation. before a delirium has
started, high GOT levels are
also observed. The level often
reverts rapidly to low or
normal values as the blood
alcohol concentration de-
creases, but rises again il
delirium tremens follows.
In alcohol addicts a GOT rise
is also often seen after a
single days drinking, even II
a long period of abstinence
with normal GOT level has
preceded the incidence. Two
periods of delirium were OBJ
tanned for a few patients and
two GOT peaks we're found.
THE findings suggest acute
liver cell damage in delirium
tremens, in addition to
chronic liver disease. How
ever. cell damage in other
tissues, such as skeletal
muscle, heart, kidney or
brain, cannot be ruled out
as an additional cause of the
raised engine levels in
serum"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15

cabe was begun in 1902, and
service between San Fran
cisco and Hawaii started the
follceing year. Continued via
Guaa and Midway to the
PHILIPPINES, the first trans
Pacife cable was completed
in DOB. On July 4 Of
that var. President Theodore
Rooseelt sent the first mes
sage rom Oyster Bay, Long
Island, N. Y, to Gov. William
Howard Taft at Manila.
Q. Peportionately, do Eu-
ropean countries have a.
many ut dogs as Americans
have7 Al.
A. No.A compilation made
some tine ago by the Gaines
Dog Research Center showed
that ther; are far fewer dogs
in European countries, in
proportion to population.
SpDrtingl and working dogs
are favofite breeds. a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
Peace Is Our Goal

While c0uched IN flrm and blunt
language ruling out a foolish kind of
appeasement, President Eisenhower's
week end letter to Soviet Premier
Khrushchev has left no room for doubt
that our country-even though pre-
pared to meet force with force If neces-
sary-has as its prime objective
peaceful and honorable settlement, or
abatement, of the current grave crisis in
the FormoSa area. In substance, that
will be our chief goal at the ambassa-
dorial talks which we have now just
resumed with Red China in Warsaw. If
Peiping responds in kind, reasonable
give-and-take negotiation should be
able to eliminate the danger of major
war.
But the "if" involved here is OBJ
viously very big. This is so for the rea-
son, among others, that the Mao Tse-
tllng regime, ever since it began its
massive artillery bombardment of Que
Inoy last August % (some three weeks
after the Soviet Premiers mysterious
visit to Peiping), has repeatedly pro-
claimed its determination to use mill
tary might to take not only the offshore
islands, but Taiwan (Formosa) as well.
Accordingly, as the President has writ
ten to Mr.. Khrushchev, the basic issue
at the moment is whether the Chinese
CommuniStS-at the risk of war with
the United States-will really "seek to
achieve their ambitions through the
application of force ). or whether they
will accept the vital requisite Of world
peace and order in nuclear age and re-
nounce the use Of force as the means for
satisfying their territorial claims"
In connection with this, Mr.. Eisen-
hover has sharply noted that the Soviet
Premier has addressed no letter to the
Chinese Communist leaders urging mod
Grafton upon them" And he has gone
on to declare that If Mr.. Khrushchev is
genuinely interested in finding "a COM
mon language for peace" rather than in
merely spreading nendaciouS, upside
down propaganda about our country'S
stand against aggression, he will exhort
"these leaders to discontinue their mill
tary operations and to turn to policy Of
peaceful settlement of the Taiwan dis
pute"-a policy under which they would
'place their trust in negotiation and
readiness to practice Cancellation"
Given such change, then the United
States, in the Presidents words, will, on
It's part, strive in that spirit earnestly
to the same end"
OF course, even assuming that Mr..
Khrushchev might be able to persuade
Red China to join our country in for.
mally and unequivocally renouncing
force, there would still be some question
as to the attitude of the Chang Kali
shek government, which has indicated
that it has no intention of subscribing
to such a remuneration. Be that as it
may, however, the United States has
made clear that an affirmative response
from Peiping would open the way to ne
gotiations that could result in mu-
tually satisfactory settlement. That is
why the renewed Warsaw talks, which
will be followed anxiously by the United
Nations General Assembly in its new
session opening tomorrow, support the
hope that craftsmanship and common
sense will yet manage to avert war
that could benefit nobody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
THIS AND THAT
ByE CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL

nent writers and others who
fancy the animal.
Hemingway, the novelist,
has so cats on his planta-
ton in Cuba. or at least did
have until the trouble be-
gan. Heaven knows what has
happened to them.
1t is noticeable in all maya
zines devoted to writing as an
art. book review, ETC., that
there is always some author
and his cat in a photograph.
The cat not only leads to
contemplation, by reason of
its mystery, but also is an in
teresting, picturesque animal.
Even persons who like to
think of themselves as dog
men, pure and simple, find
that a household cat soon
exertS a certain influence.
They are attracted despite
themselves.
A good cat picture is diff
cult to take, and a painting
more difficult still.
We have seen excellent
portrait painters who could
not, for their lives. paint q
cat to look like a cat. In
variably it would have human
features!
The point about a cat, we
believe, is that it is so ut
terly unlike humanity.
1t brings us quite authentic
glimpses of the jungle, the
fiat terrain of ancient Eu-
rope, the lands of the Far
East.
Even in the heart Of an
American family. perhaps
the most prosaic family group
in the world, the housecat
comes as a stranger from a
distant world.
The sensitive person with
a poetic mind recognizes this
instantly, and never quite
gets over the feeling that the
animal is a wonderful gift
not quite deserved.
1t is the poet in us who is
able to see the mystery, the
lure and the wonder of the
tiger in the house.
Dogs are so a part of hui
mainly that they have no
mystery left in them. They
are as common as old shoes,
as near as ones breathing,
whereas the cat always holds
us a little distance away, and
examines us carefully with
inscrutable eyes, in whose
depths we seem to see the
BEGINNING and the end of all
hings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
EUkLID STREET.

Dear ST:
my sistr and I were de-
lighted wifi your article re-
garding tie English farm
cat.
I'VE hae just such a cat,
and are ouch interested in
her ancesty. She is perfectly
described by your article
clean, intelligent, pure white,
such a fresh clear white,
and a remarkably interesting
face.
Her 9eS are a grayish-
brown, 3moSt hazel. She
has a lovly disposition. The
gray spoS are an unusual
type, neither tiger nor mall
tese, but pn her head there
are a few faint tiger stripes.
I'VE hate never had a cat
like her all our long ex-
perience with these in
teresting enimals. And we
are hapH to have our
opinion confirmed, that she
is an EXCEPTIONAL type.
Eve are, keeping this COL
umn for Oh scrapbook.
Sincerely M. G. K"
n 4 X
Cat pho4s and articles
seem to go Particularly well
in scrapbook
While this hobby is not so
widespread aSin the old days,
there are tho1ands of people
who still keen scrapbooks.
They will finA nothing more
interesting thin something
about a cat, 4, of course,
they are INTERESTED in the
first place.
That is one Ting about a
cat, he gives his Vest only to
persons interestedin him.
The cat does bCst too, in
the home where thee is no
other cat.
Selfish?
Well, maybe.
Cats in numbers, like'star-
lings in cities, bring UP lrob-
lens.
Two cats, maybe, will get
along very well. We lave
known of good cat families
of four, but over that nun
Der, trouble begins, both 11r
the animals and their humsa
friends.
The cat, both as subJec'
for photo and article, hal
come into It's own in recent
years.
The false doctrine, that thu
housecat is fit only for chill,
dren to admire, has been deal
a body blow by many emf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
Route 240

- - =
Is the object of the Mary
land State Roads Commits
sion in extending the south
east leg of Route $40 to Beach
drive solely to relieve con-
gestion in Bethesda rather
than to get 240 at long last
connected with Rock Greek
Park en- route to the city by
the speedway detour along
the creek and river?
Then there is a puzzle with
in an enigma within a conun-
drum as to why 240 traffic
was ever directed into the
Rockville pike at Pook's Hill
by constructing a southeast
leg and expensive interchange.
That did much to create the
congestion in Bethesda now
invoked as an excuse for
construction which may draw
the 240 traffic off of Wiscon-
sin avenue to the east there
of. This has taken the form
of a very expensive "corri-
dor" (freeway) as an alterna-
tive for the much more feas-
ible and reasonable Beach
drive connection.
But if 240 traffic has to
take the southeast leg, that's
because there is no southwest
leg yet built. Why. indeed,
have the political planners of
the Maryland NCPPC chosen
the extremely difficult site for
a freeway ("corridor"O east
instead of west of Wisconsin
avenue, when it would be so
simple and relatively mex
pensive to connect Old
Georgetown road with River
road and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. via Bradley boulevard
and Little Falls parkway, in
stead of forcing all that COM
muter traffic into Wisconsin
avenue in Bethesda?
The interminable and in
excusable procrastination in
reconstructing River road
should be ended forthwith to
make 1t a highway fully
capable of carrying our chief
golfer to Burning Tree with
out risking his neck. The
District must facilitate this
traffic with an already badly
needed grade separation at
Wisconsin and Massachusetts,
avenues, and later, perhaps,
a Glover-Archbold connection
with the freeways at Key
Bridge. Traffic Victim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RH THE HANKIN. SERuI
By THE. HASKIN SERVICE
reader
D Please incloss :"

@. Are there two versions
of the poem Casey at the
Bat?" L. j.
A. There are not two YER
sions of the entire poem.
However, texts used in var
iouS anthologies show major
and minor differences in
wording. Some start, 'It
looked extremely rocky for
the Mudville nine that day."
others, "The outlook wasn't
brilliant" Comparison of
nine texts shows the score
standing at two to four" or
-four TO two" in seven texts.
and at -four to six" in the
other two. Cooney died at
either first or second; Flynn
was variously a pudding, a
hoodoo, and a lulu. etc.
@. When was the first
trans Pacific cable laid
v. E.
A. Work on q PACIFIC Ocean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15

It's not gin that does 1t;
It's GOT.
This doubtless is arrant
sophism, but there is a GER
tain satisfaction in reporting
a scientific finding Of some
Swedish psychiatrists for the
sake of various occasionally
suffering and often (they
feeD unjustly prosecuted &C
quaintances.
Martins and bourbon high
balls. after all. may have been
only prime movers, so TO
speak, and not direct causes
Of the ways these peoples
acted the night before and
felt the morning after.
The real trouble wss an
excess in the blood serum
Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
aminase.
This is the case, at least,
with delirium tremens and
probably with somewhat
lesser states Of acute intoxica-
ton, according to the findings
of DR.. Lars oran Allgen and
his associates of the Breckom-
berga Mental Hospital of
Bromma, Sweden, just re-
ported to the American Asso-
ication for the Advancement
Of Science here.
Admittedly glutamin-pyru-
vic transaminase and malic
dehydrogenase. also enzymeo.
also may play a part, but
nothing like the prima donna
role Of GOT.
Drunkenness Studied
Now this is not a justif1ably
detestable effort to write a
column by playing, with a
sense Of righteousness, on
multisyllabic scientific words.
I long have felt that tar-anh-
feathering is far too mild a
treatment for those who do
so.
/. Very little has been known
about the causes of DIT ex-
cept that 1t follows heavy
drinking bouts. DR.. Allgen
and his associates-Drt. Sam
der Izikowitz, Britta Eauck-
hon, Inga.Britt Ordell and
lima Salum-are reporting a
serious effort to find cut what
really happens in States Of
extreme drunkenness, up to
the point where pink ele-
plants fly arounf the room.
GOT is an engine, widely
distributed in the cells of the
body. The purpose engines
serve, if any, us unknown.
The thesis is that excessive al
cohol-possibly any alcohol
-liberates thsm. Once re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15

Pen names may be used If
letters carry iDriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-23
Army CoIoneI's
Conviction Upset

The United States Court of
Military Appeals today set aside
the conviction of the former
commanding officer of the
Boston Army Base.
Col. Walter c. Heniel was
convicted in August, 1856, on
eight counts of conduct un-
becoming an officer.
He was charged with obtain
ing meals, haircutS. tailoring
and other services from base
facilities through an abuse Of
his authority.
He also was charged with
using the official motor pool
for private purposes, wrongly
associating with enlisted per-
sonnet and dishonorably induc-
ing a married woman to aban-
don her husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-23

It's official: Six Minnesota
Congressman are sufficiently
loyal, moral and trustworthy to
represent the United States at
an international assembly in
their home State.
They had to go through a
Civil Service security check for
clearance as delegates to the
World Health Organizations
assembly opening Monday in
Minneapolis.
Not all the congressional
delegates are gleeful at the
Governments stamp Of security
purity.
Representative Wier, a Demo-
crat, called the whole thing
"asinine." He said today he
refused to give the investigators
any references to check. and
told them:
IF you're not satisfied,
scratch me and I'll pay my
own expenses and go without
any strings attached"
He was cleared anyway.
Representative O'Hara. a
Republican, called the security
check SILLY" and ridiculous"
observing that lit sounds funny
to have to be cleared to 60 to
your home State"
But, Mr.. OHara added, mo
body can be blamed except
Congress itself. We passed the
law. Wen have a little fun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-23
Security Check Lets
6LegisIotors Go Home

with it some day" He plans to
seek amendment of the law so
it would not apply to Con-
gressmen serving as delegates
in the United States.
Mr.. O'Hara co-operated in
the rather chubby investigation.
The security men asked the
Congressman the usual ques-
tons about each other.
An aide to Democratic Sen
ator Humphrey said his boss,
who left for the assembly yes
terday, was somewhat per-
picked and incredulous, but
treated the whole thing as more
amusing than anything else"
Senator Humphrey was par
ticularly amused when a secur-
ity man solemnly asked his adj
ministrative assistant and cam
paign manager, Herbert j.
Waters, whether his boss was a
reliable sort of fellow.
Mr. Waters apparently spoke
we'll of the Senator.
Representative Judd, a Re-
publican, approved the security
check.
The other two congressional
delegates, Republican Senator
Thye and Democratic Repre-
sentative Mccarthy, we're I'M
available for comment.
The World Health Organiza-
ton is an agency Of the United
Nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-23

aides now are saying privately
the general does not plan to
tinker with the alliance.
Bases, Routes Affected Only
If France were to pull out of
NATO or become an Intellectual
partner, only bases and supply
routes would be affected. France
has only a negligible number
of troops committed now to
NATO. The bulk of the French
Army. some 100000 men. has
been in North Africa the last
three years trying to hold
Frances sphere Of interest to-
gether. France says these men
are defending NATO territory
and technically Algeria is part
of NATO, but officers in the
Norstad headquarters say these
men are in fact nine-tenths
useless to NATO. There are
another 440, 900 men in Europe
but only $4,000 of them are in
Germany on the firing line and
most Of these are engaged in
administrative and housekeep-
ing jobs of interest only to
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