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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Bad News for Criminals

With crime once more trending
upward in Washington, it is gratifying
that the House Appropriations Commit
tee has allotted the Metropolitan Police
Department enough money to bring the
patrol force to the authorized strength
of $500 men. There is no certainty, OF
course, that all the qualified applicants
required to achieve this goal can be
obtained during the ensuing year. But
the availability of funds for full strength
would enable Chief Murray to continue
his highly effective plan of using volun-
teerS for extra duty.
BY working these experienced off,
GERS on their days off or on overtime
assignments, the department has been
able to keep important street patrols
fully manned and, in some cases, aug
mented The Police Chief credits these
extra-duty volunteers with major role
in keeping crimes here well below the
national rate. 1t is reaSsuring to know
that under the pending bill this system
could be continued for another year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14

Joseph P. Crowley, the former Yale
football star, now awaits trial in Tokyo
on charges connected with the mysteri-
Gus death there of T. A. D. Jones, jr., his
brother-in-law and business partner.
The tragedy occurred only three days
after these two close associates and
friends had arrived in Japan to buy an
oil tanker. According to Mr.. Crowley,
the case against him is mistaken to the
point of being fantastic" and this view
is shared by some other Americans who
were in contact with him and Mr.. Jones
not long before the latter Succumbed to
a cerebral hemorrhage resulting from
blows on the head
Since Mr. Crowley is citizen of the
United States, the people of our country
naturally are taking special interest
in the fact that he is being subjected to
the processes of Japanese justice, which
are not quite like ours. However, as
amply demonstrated in last years SEN
sational Girard case, they are processes
of very painstaking and diSpassionate
kind, and so there is good reason to
expect-as Americans have a right to
expect-that Mr.. Crowley'S prosecutor
and judges will be particularly careful
in evaluating the evidence, or lack of it,
and in seeing to it that he gets COM
pletely fair trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Silver Anniversary

Men prominent in both the public
and private life of the Nations Capital
Joined this week in tribute to Eugene
Meyer on the 25th anniversary of his
acquisition of The Washington Post
The Post, since merged with The
TimeS-Herald. was tottering on its last
legs when Mr.. Meyer took it over in the
deep depression days of 1888. Under
his guidance it has become a thriving
publication, vigorously dedicated to the
promotion of those things it considers
to be in the best interests of the greater
Washington and national communities.
This is the primary function of
newspaper, and Mr.. Meyers faithful
adherence to that function fully merits
the tribute paid him. We are happy TO
add our congratulations to those already
expressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Cyprus Flares Again

The extreme difficulty OF reconcile
ing conflicting nationalist emotions and
interests is being demonstrated again in
Cyprus. After months of relative quiet,
uneasy though 1t was, the island has
been swept by violence during the past
week as Greek and Turkish Cypriot
mobs battled each other, destroyed
property and fought British security
forces. Attempting to enforce strict
curfew on Greek and Turkish commu-
mites, British authorities are sending
paratroop reinforcements to the Medi-
terranean colony. In Athens and in
Ankara, meanwhile, there have been
renewed expressions Of anti-British SEN
timent and of Greek-vs.- Turk hostility.
Ironically, and rejecting the frus-
trating quality of the whole unhappy
situation, this latest round of near
chaos was touched of by new British
efforts to find mutually acceptable
formula for bringing peace to the island.
After months of restudy, the London
government has prepared and submitted
to Athens and Ankara another in the
long series of proposals by which it
hopes to protect British strategic in
terests while satisfying Greek and Tur-
kiSh political considerations. Although
the plan was not to be publicly revealed
until early next week, apparently enough
of its details leaked out of Foreign
Office channels to arouse the new out
breaks of violence. Speculation that
the plan does not contain any guaran-
tee of self-determination as demanded
by the Greeks, or of partition, as most
recently demanded by the Turks, ap-
pears authoritative. In any case, it is
obviously not satisfactory to either side.
Athens, protesting Turkish barba-
riSm," has asked NATO Intervention in
the crisis. All three of the countries
affected are, of course, partners in NATO
and the potential effects on that ALI
ance have been worrisome factors in
the bitter dispute. In addition, the
Greek Foreign Office said United Ma
lions Secretary General Hammarskjold
had been given a report on the current
status of the problem. Thus, in view OF
the long record of failure of the three
powers involved to find solution, and
of the dangers in letting the situation
deteriorate even further, the good Of
fees of either the NATO or U. N. may
yet prove to be essential.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
PTA Views

The Executive Committee
of the Prince Georges County
Council of PTAs views with
mixed feelings a recent letter
in your columns from a can
didate for the Maryland
House of Delegates from our
county.
The problem Of adequate
budgetary provision for edu-
cation, recreation, park-land
acquisition, libraries, and
other public purposes has
long vexed our citizens and
widespread public discussion
of governmental philosophy
and practice in this area can
only have salutary effects.
This letter is not written to
oppose or support any polit-
ical candidate. Its purpose is
only to set the record
straight. PTAs eschew in
Movement in partisan politics
and it must, therefore. be
made clear that although it
is gratifying to have political
figures indorse our views, we
do not eyer sponsor or sup
port particular candidates or
parties, nor is the use of our
name in a political context
ever justified.
1t is also most disturbing
to find our children charac-
terized as being deprived Of a
first-class education. There
are ever so many improve
ments that money can buy
that the County Council OF
PTAs feels should be in
troduced. Some of these. such
as reduced class size, in
creased pupil allowance for
textbooks, improved salaries
for experienced teachers and
the like. we're enumerated in
an earlier letter from the
Executive Committee Of our
Council which you published
1t is misleading to imply that
our school system is second
rate. even though improve
ments are needed.
Another disturbing feature
Of the candidates letter is
that his expression Of agree
ment with the views Of the
Executive Committee Of our
County Council Is followed
by q lengthy passage which
one might legitimatYy con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Act of Bad Faith

Congress would be committing an
act of bad faith if it should approve the
recommendation of the House Appro-
priations Committee with respect to the
Federal payment to the District. 1t has
been but short time since both houses
of Congress agreed by unanimous vote
that the Federal share of the Capitals
expenses should be raised from the
authorized $23 million to $32 million.
Now, in a shocking about-face, House
committee recommends that the actual
appropriation be cut even below the
former figure. 1t is hard to believe
and we prefer not to believe-that the
$32 million authorization was just a
gesture, to be ignored completely when
appropriation time came around.
Prior to congressional authorization
of the higher Federal payment the Com
miSSioners had submitted a request for
a $25 million payment. This sum rep
resented the full $23 million previously
authorized (but never appropriated in
any year, and 50 million of the back
log of deficits resulting from the short
changing practice. Since then, however,
Congress has approved a new public
works program that will require full
$32 million Federal payment unless Dis
trict taxes are to be raised to unreaSon-
able levels. And Congress has passed
pay legislation that will cost the District
many millions more. On top of that,
bills have been introduced to raise
teachers pay by amounts ranging as
high as go per cent.
Despite this depressing financial
picture, Chairman Rabaut of the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on the
District has made it plain that congress
sional authorizations mean little to him.
He said during the hearings: IF every
thing that had ever been authorized by
the Congress was to walk up and make
a full demand for payment of the APP
preparations Committee, can tell you
for one thing the taxpayers of this
Nation would be crying to high Heaven
for vengeance. The District should be
treated no differently than anybody else
in the general interest of the Nation"
1t may we'll be that Congress at
times has authorized appropriations
which it had no intention Of grant,
ing. But this certainly cannot be said
of the new authorization for larger
Federal payment-an authorization rec
commended by joint committee which
carefully studied District finances and
concluded that the Nations Capital
would suffer seriously unless the Gov
eminent agreed to carry more ade-
quate share of the burden. Congress,
in good conscience, is obligated to full
fill its pledge, so recently given, that
the Government will assume its fair
share of the cost of running the Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Rides league
Citizen.

For more than a quarter
of a century. Washington
taxicab drivers have sought
relief from a system Cor
rather lack of SYSTEM that
continues to hold them in
economic bondage.
The fundamental fault
lies with Congress for retain
ing virtually complete control
over taxicab operation-and
then doing nothing about it.
Authority to regulate other
utilities. such as D. c. Tran
sit. the Washington Gas Light
Co., and the Potomac Electric
Power Co., has been delegated
to the Public Utilities Com
mission. But Congress will
not release similar power for
control of the taxicab in
duStry.
Now Representative DIN
E. league Of Texas proposes
to perpetuate existing condi-
tons and. by statute. hogtie
the drivers permanently. He
would forever deny to the
District government any
control over the number of
licensed taxicabs. He would
make permanent the year-to-
year ban on taximeters to
replace the unfair and dis
criminatory zone system.
Mr.. league. it is true. has
introduced some taxicab bills
but nothing in them can be
construed as being Of a
constructive nature designed
to solve any Of the long
standing problems haraSsing
the Woodworking cab driver
Herman L. Wand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Cancer Aid Group

The District Of Columbia
Cancer Aid Group. of which
I have been a member since
its inception in 1947, started
out with 13 young housewives
who felt the need Of an Or
ganization solely dedicated to
the raising of funds to help
in the fight against cancer.
At this time we have a mem
bership of over 800 women.
and over the past 10 years
have donated approximately
$4,000 to Children's Hospi-
tai, Warwick Memorial Can
Ger Clinic, and the District
Division, American Cancer
Society. At the two former
institutions our funds have
been used for fellowships in
research Of cancer for the
past two years. Previously our
monies aided in the treat
ment of indigents suffering
with cancer (Children's Hos
pitaD and at Warwick a
treatment room was COM
pletely furnished. This year
alone our presentation was
in the amount Of s12.500 all
totaled, donated to the above
named organizations.
Won't you please help US.
for through publicity we
raise more funds.
JEANNE surwik
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Labor Reform Bill

I should like TO JOIN you
in criticism Of Secretary
Mitchell's attack on labor re-
form legislation that seemed
to have a good prospect of
enactment by this Congress,
but for different reasons than
you set forth in your edi-
torial.
While the Mitchell attack,
as you intimated, may have
a suggestion of Republican
purpose in confusing the issue
and thus beating any labor
legislation at all as of now,
it has more important ele-
ments, deeply rooted in the
broad field of civil rights.
Secretary Mitchell's criti-
cism of the bill for not giving
his department power of sub
poena and hearings is not
valid. 1t is another reflection
of the constant drive for
power by individuals in any
government, a condition that
requires constant public vigi-
lance to thwart.
The bill gives the Labor
Department the right to ex-
anime and audit union ac-
counts. If such examination
discloSes evidence Of wrong
doing, the place for further
investigation is in the courts,
via the grand jury. They keep
the power Of regulation, prop
erly, in the hands of the
people. Do not the courts
hear cases developed under
the Harrison Narcotics Act
and the food and drug legis-
lation? Should not the same
principle apply in all depart
ments?
There already has been too
much delegation Of hearing
and punitive authority, trials
in actually, to the depart
ments and the bureaus and
their functionaries. In fact,
there has been too much of
such authority already
usurped by the legislative
branches themselves, in the
State and Federal Govern
ments. This all tends toward
government by men, not law,
as intended by the Constitu-
ton. 1t is a bad direction.
Let's pass this bill and get
on with the business of laying
wrongdoing where it belongs,
before the country's courts.
Earl Scoop. Shutz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Eormorked Taxes

We are told that the hand
which holds the purse
strings controls the destiny
of the United States. This
had been supposed to place
our fate in the hands of the
House Of Representatives,
that body of Congress which,
by virtue of its election BIZ
ennially, is closest to the
people. However-harbinger
of disaster-the House has
yielded up its grip on the
purse by mortgaging great
gobs of the annual revenue
for programs-for example,
highways, defense = many
years in advance of their
execution, thus paralyzing
to a great extent economy
minded members Of new
Congresses.
We are also told-and we
believe it to be true-that
great nations Of the past
have been destroyed by
troubles within themselves
and that one important in
ternal malady has been fls-
cal insolvency. In our pres
ent case we face a great ma
tional debt. 1t grows larger;
not since the 1920s have we
seen, in our momentary in
debtedness, any reduction.
Since the purse-string grip
of Congress is developing
multiple sclerosiS, / propose
that some of the control over
the national debt be vested
directly in the people who
pay the bills.
What I propose for conSid-
Grafton and debate is simply
this: That inasmuch as the
major portion of our present
revenues consists of the in
come tax, the citizen who
pays the tax ear-mark a por-
ton of it for the specific pur-
pose of paying off the prin-
cipal of the national debt. Let
Congress adopt a statute I'M
der the 10th Amendment
which would require us, while
preparing our income tax
statements, to allot a certain
definite percentage Of our
payments for the national
debts principal. Let it be ten
per cent, more or less. 1t
should then be possible to
look ahead and foresee a time
when the burden might be
lifted. 1t might even give us
the hope-and not necessarily
a vain hope-that the income
tax itself might be removed
from the scene and decently
buried. Like the citizen who
buys a home on installments,
we could look forward to a
time when the mortgage could
be burnt and we would be free
once again. We could boast
that we had a plan" and that
we were no longer just drift
ing towards fearful brink. "
Where is the Congressman
who will present this idea to
the House?
Citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14

a great deal to take care Of
your own lawn. Let the other
fellow do as he pleases, you
can't tell him what to do,
and he wouldn't do it If you
did. )
Consider the man who
thinks fertilizing the lawn a
total waste.
why. he fertilizes his
lawnl" he said of another,
in genuine amazement.
Maybe he hasn't heard of
it, but most people have. To-
days market affords several
types of fine lawn fertilizers,
and any one can have a bet
ter lawn by using one of
them.
No grass burning any more.
You just sprinkle the fertil-
izer around, even in dry
weather. and before you know
it, the grass looks greener,
not on the other side of the
street, but in your very own
yard.
Fertilize the lawn twice a
year, in late fall, and early
spring. This way, you have
greener grass the year around.
yes. even under the heavy
SHOWS.
Grass is such a wonderful
thing, we sometimes do not
stop to give it the credit 1t
deserves.
1t provides the good back
ground color Of all gardens.
soothes the eyes. and some
how magnifles the spirit Of
man.
One has some perturbation
In trying to have a good
lawn in or around Washing
ton. We do not have the
rainy days of merry old Eng
land, as a rule, and we do
have dry days, sometimes
week after week. II is diff
cult, but effort is never
wasted.
The dandelions won't hurt
much.
They are nice TO have
around. They share with
crabgrass the distinction, If
one wants to call 1t that. Of
having more thought and
work put on them than any
thing else in the lawn.
Crabgrass can be crowded
out by better grasses. with
out the toll and sweat Of
trying TO dig it up; and dan
delfons have ways Of disap-
bearing Of their own accord,
If left alone. Maybe they just
fly away to other yards, but
they disappear just the same.
Forget your dandelion
puller and enjoy the dande-
lionsI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-14
Space and Smuqness

AS accomplished recently by Van
guards failure to put 20-pound earth
satellite into orbit, our country still has
a long way to go to catch up with the
Russians in outer space. A measure
of their lead over us can be found in
the fact that the latest Sputnik weighs
almost ton and half and their sue
cess in launching 1t plainly indicates
that their rocketry-right now, at any
rate-iS significantly more advanced and
more powerful than ours.
Yet, despite this, and despite lots OF
confusing talk from the Pentagon about
possible lunar probes" this summer, we
do not seem to be in any great hurry
to do what must be done if we are to
reduce or eliminate our present mar
gin of inferiority Instead, according to
some of our top experts, our national
mood-which was one of alarm and
urgency when the first Sputnik went
into orbit last fall-now appears to have
grown rather complacent. Complacency,
however, is altogether unwarranted by
the facts of the situation. The chief of
these facts is that our current spatial
position viS-a-vis the USSR is full OF
highly disturbing military, scientific,
chronological and propagandistic impli-
cations Accordingly, as the President
declared two months ago, it calls for
action "at the earliest possible date"
to establish a great new American
agency equipped with enough money
and enough power to push forward with
a program of research and exploration
big enough and imaginative enough to
meet the Soviet challenge in space.
The House has overwhelmingly en-
acted its own version Of legislation to
create such an agency, and a special
committee in the Senate has just rec
commended another version. As for Con-
gress as a whole, it may not be able to
reach a Anal vote on the matter until
adjournment time, II then. Under our
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strue to be a reStatement of
these views, but which, in
fact, transcends them. For
example, we have as yet
reached no conclusion as to
the merits of special pay for
coaches or the phaSing of a
kindergarten program; both
of these subjects are now be-
ing studied by special Coun-
ty Council committees and
their recommendations will,
in due course, come before
our members for a vote. Our
school building program can
not properly be characterized
as definitely inadequate"
The County Council Finance
Committee considered the
pending school building pro-
gram at length and recon-
mended certain additions to
it, most of which were
adopted by the Board of Ed
ucation. The County Com
missioners have the financ-
ing of this expanded pro-
gram under consideration
now, and we expect them to
live up to their responsible
ties and approve the neces-
sary funds. Teacher turnover
is not a matter of low salaries
alone. Most turnover results
from marriage, maternity or
migration. While We favor
improved salary scales for
teachers and intend to work
hard to obtain them, it is not
our purpose to attribute all
our ills to neat and simple
causes and to place all the
blame on the heads of our
County Commissioners.
1t is not true that many
chi ldren throughout the
county still attend schools
on a part-time basis" There
are now only two schools with
part time pupils, and these
number only 375. Few school
systems in this area have as
good a record. Two years ago
there were 2,208 part-time
pupils in the county school
system. and seven years ago
there were 1884. This prob
lem is being solved and will
soon, happily, no longer be
a problem.
The improvement Of our
county schools and other
public facilities depends on
the availability of tax dollars
We are not satisfied with
budgets that are almost but
not quite sufficient to provide
continued improvement. Our
county has the means to
pay for what is needed, but
until the public generally
makes it clear to our County
Commissioners that they are
willing to pay what is neceS-
sary, we can look forward
to the continued application
of a penny -pinching philos-
ophy in this area. 1t is not
a partisan problem, however
The schools belong to all Of
us and all must cooperate
in their improvement.
The Executive Committee,
Prince Georges County
Council Parent-Teacher
Associations.