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Evening star., 1958-07-06
Up to the Lebonese

In its flrSt report to the Security
Council, the United Nations Observation
Group in Lebanon has declared, in ef-
feet, that 1t has found no evidence to
support the Glamour governments
charge Of massive intervention" against
the enbattled country by men and
arms inflltrating across the Syrian
frontier. This confirms Secretary Gen
eral Hammarskjold's earlier evaluation
Of the situation. It also indicates very
strongly that the strife over there, even
II encouraged and exploited by Cairo's
propaganda broadcasts, is primarily an
internal affair that ought to be left to
the Lebanese, and to them alone, to
settle.
b., Thus, while conceding that they
have not been able to inspect certain
rehel-held sensitive spots" described
BY pro-Western President Glamour as
'Hnnltration routes" the U. N. observers
have found little or no reason to doubt
that "the vast majority" of the armed
Insurgents are Lebanese. Reports from
other sources have made the same point.
It is point that casts doubt on the
validity of the charges accusing the
United Arab Republic egypt and Syia)
Of intervening on large Scale-with
men and armS-in an effort to Subvert
and absorb Lebanon. Actually, the war
fare in that country has been myStifying
In many respects, and some knowledge
able people who have studied it quite
closely feel that the Beirut government,
regardless Of what Cairo may or may
not be doing, has the wherewithal to
put an end to it II It acts firmly and
With wisdom. 1a c
In these circumstances, since the
situation seems clearly to be one that
the LebaneSe themselves should be ca
pable Of pacifying with a settlement
acceptable to the warning factions, fur
tl1er U. N. action-apart from a con-
tinuation of the observing operation
appears to be uncalled for. And the
same may be said, but with even greater
emphasis, as regards the commitment
our Government is supposed to have
made to President Glamour. Certainly,
unless all signs are deceiving, nothing in .
the current picture could possibly justify
American armed intervention on his
side.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Teacher to Teacher

District Teacher" should
check her facts q little more
carefully.
I am o graduate Of Wilson
Teachers' College and no one
handed me my permanent
status automatically. ! took
a two-day written and cral
examination. After I had
passed that I became a
probationary teacher. During
my probationary year ! was
observed In the classroom.
Then, and only then, was ]
given permanent status.
District Teacher" has very
good qualifications. She
could easily get permanent
status any time she Is willing
to take and pass the teachers
exam.
But please. let 1t be under
stood permanent status" u
not given automatically.
Another District Teacher.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Irked at Neiqhbors

Something should be done
about inconsiderate neigh
bors who buy large plastic
swimming or wading pools
without providing for proper
drainage.
In our rear yard, which is
at the bottom Of q hill, we
get the rain from the rear
yards above US. And now we
must submit to having the
water from these pools poured
into our rear yard. It is
worse than having a torren-
tial downpour Of rain for
causing erosion; and, Of
course, nobody wants q rear
yard that is continually wet.
Yet. as things stand now, the
only recourse is to take your
neighbors into court.
Why not a simple regula-
tion or law stating that pools
must be emptied into the
gutter by hose and not al
lowed to run into other per-
sons property?
Irene J. Hoffman.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Air Safety Setback

The need to postpone action on
plans for abandonment of military flying
at two cloSe-in military f1elds-Bolling
Air Force Base and the AnacoStia Naval
Air Stations regrettable. Lieutenant
General Elwood r. QueSada, presidential
aviation adviser, had recommended re-
moval Of flying activities from the old
fields to other installations, including
Andrews Air Force Base. He said such
removal would be "a major contribu-
ton" to the maximum safe utilization
Of the air space and airports serving the
National Capital region"
Plans for abandoning the two fields
had been worked out, contingent on
establishment Of additional facilities at
Andrews and at Webster Field, near Pa
tuxent, Md. Now, however, the Navy has
decided against developing the Webster
airport in favor Of new runway at the
Patuxent Naval Air Station. This has
been a severe setback to the QueSada
program for early closing of the Air
Force and Navy fight posts in Ana
costa. General QueSada has told the
Senate Military Construction Subcom-
mittee that immediate transfer of flight
operations from Boiling and the Naval
Air Station to other fields would not be
/ feasible, because Of the unavailability
ct this time Of suitable facilities.
& However, with the expansion Of
Andrews Field and the development of
additional facilities at the Navy's big
Patuxent base, gradual reduction Of mill
tary flying at the Anacostia fields viii
be carried forward It is hoped that by
1861 most of the AnacoStia activities
will have been shifted elsewhere. In
any event, the desire Of officers at the
Pentagon to hold on to the two fields
merely as a convenience to them in ac-
cumulating extra flying time should
have no bearing on the plan for ultimate
abandonment of the posts. The para
mount consideration should be the re-
duction Of hazards in the congeSted air
space over the Washington Metropolitan
Area.
Evening star., 1958-07-06

stop mumbling) Of sS hours, So minutes
and seconds. News stories on this
highly unimportant. event said she was
nearly exhausted" when she finished
which serves her right and we hope that
nobody, including Mr. Araiza, was lis
tening. For our part, we agree with
Samuel Johnson, who once wrote, II am
very fond Of the company Of ladies.
like their beauty, I'like their delicacy,
like their vivacity, and like their
silence" From now on, Mrs. Araiza,
please keep quiet.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Dnrden Needed

! am one Of many Virgin
ians saddened by the an
Ilouncement Of DR.. Colgate
w. Darden, ir., that he was
"resigning" from all public
life henceforth, which he
coupled with his recent res
iTnation as president Of the
University Of Virginia.
Mr. Darden Is no doubt one
OF the foremost and abIest
Virginia statesman alive to-
day. No one can surpass his
high educational attainment,
his generally moderate-pro-
gressive outlook, and devo-
ton to his native Virginia.
The former Governor Of
the Old Dominion Is q highly
educated Southerner--a rar-
ity even today. He has not
been found in the council Of
racial bigots; nor has he been
a sectional isolationist, al
though his first love has no
doubt been Virginia. But he
has been no pollyanna Vir-
ginian. He has been critical
and outspoken Of things he
does not like. One Of his most
outstanding characteristics
has been q belief in progress
through constructive crit
icism. He has had an aggreS-
sive attitude toward and
always for progress in the
educational. social and eco
nomic realms Of life. He has
stood almost alone in the
council of Old Dominion
leadership in his espousals
for clear-headedness and
law-abiding moderation in
the current school crisis in
the Old Dominion.
I hope that Mr.. Darden's
resignation" from public life
is very short-lived. Virginia
needs his cool-headed. sober
counsel.
L. s. Brown.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Elementary?

Your editorial Chinese
Charges" issue Of June IS.
declares:
Some notice should be
taken Of the fact that the
Rev. Cyril P. Wagner. one Of
two priests released by the
Chinese Communists, does
not contest the validity Of the
charge upon which he was
held in Jail for five years"
In part. your editorial con-
tinues::
I'VE do not intend to sug-
gest that this lends credence
to all charges made by the
Chinese against Americans. I"
So far, so good. 1t is good
to know that The Star does
not intend to suggest that all
charges made BY Chinese
Communists are necessarily
true. The implication is that
only some Of them may be
true.
Your editorial concludes:
'If Father Wagner's &C.
count can be accepted, how
ever, 1t does stand as q warn
ing signal against the COM
mon assumption that any
charge made BY the Chinese
Reds % false"
Waving for the moment
the dubious need for such Q
warning. I am sure q sum-
cient number Of reporters
have seen q sufIlcient number
Of broken men come through
Hong Kong to know the score
regarding such admission.
Generally. the plight Of the
brain.washed elicits sympa-
thy. even indignation, rather
than the suspicion that the
victim might, after all, have
got what he deserved.
The charge upon which
Father Wagner was detained
for five years in jail GIVE
years in a Chinese Cornmu-
mist jail) seems to have been
one Of dealing in the black
market,
! am sure that q sufficient
number Of reporters under
stand that any dealing what
ever, including buying an
egg, may be trumped UP by the
authorities into a charge Of
black market" involvement;
exactly as they realize that
any prisoner held for i've
years in such q jail can be
worked over land usually Isl, /,
until he believes the charge
himself. ! should have sup
posed that, current affairs
wise. that would be elemen-
tary journalism.
Fred GiblO, Jr.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Callers Steps
L. S. Brown.
Representative

Representative Emanuel
Celler called for United States
intervention in the civil war
in Lebanon-even at the
calculated risk of q third
world war. He also referred
to the head Of the Egyptian
Government as that megalo-
maniac Nasser." Then he
bitterly attacked President
Eisenhower for his action in
forcing Britain, France and
Israel from subjecting Egypt
bv armed force in the fall Of
1856.
It seems to me that the
utterances and the policies
suggested by Congressman
Celler are an ideal prescrip-
ton for the United States to
lose face among all really
freedom-loving people in the
world. Dorothy Thompson, at
least, has had the courage TO
face up to all the special
groups who would like to see
Nasser destroyed snd the
vision of a reunited Arabia
blotted out.
Mr.. Celler should ask HIM
self this honest question: II
Israel has the right to revive
a long dead Jewish kingdom
in Palestine, have not the
Arabs the right to reunite
and establish an Arab ma
tion-especially since they
don't have to bring their
population in from abroad
at the expense Of huge gifts
collected all over the world
and with aid. also. voted by
the United States Congress?
Only one bromide did Mr..
.Celler fail to repeat. ! give
him credit for not saying
that the Middle East is
vital to the security Of the
Western World because cf
its OIL" As Gen. Joe Collins
recently pointed out. there's
not Q ghosts chance that
Middle East oil could reach
Evening star., 1958-07-06
FROM THE STARS FILES

caused by tapping the pipes.
set Commissioner Rawlings
to work with his men to find
out the taps and destroy
them. He found the pipes
tapped (at several places :.
Some Of those who have thus
been cut of complain bitterly
Of the great inconvenience
they suffer by not having wa
ter for their bathrooms, en-
tirely careless Of the suffer-
ings Of hundreds of better
citizens for water to quench
their thirst 7"
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Dixie and Inteqrotion

In his June 80 letter, David
w. Board bemoanS the fact
that "the South is holding
fast to segregation" He says
that o concerted stand has
been taken to fiout the
Supreme Court antiseg-
regation ruling, and that
officials have been seeking
every legal means to evade
this court order" AL this Is
quite true, and win continue
to be true until the court de-
cision is nullified or reversed.
The Southern people are, in
deed, holding fast to segre-
gation-and more power to
them. say II
Those who resist public
school integration are defy
ing. not q law, but an Illegal
court decision, which actu-
ally violates the Constitution.
Incidentally, we wouldn't
celebrate the Fourth Of July
II the Colonists hadn't de-
fled the British Crown.
EIgaY Smith.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriteTs' correct
names and addresses. Al
letters are subject to condeH.
sGtion.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
YucketY-Yock

Mrs. Carmen Araiza hardly is help
ing to destroy an age-old indictment
against her sex-namely, that they are
@iustly accounted chatterboxeS." For
whatever it Is worth-in the case Of Mrs.
Araiza it reportedly was 1000 in mis-
cellaneous prizes-the Topeka housewife
has set q new talkathon record (nen-
Evening star., 1958-07-06

TO ebullient living. II sug-
gests that sitting down with
a brainless, empty-headed
woman, to q platter Of four
Holsters and q pound Of
caviar might be q start for
some-but. for others 1t
would be the bilious end.
Such a life would have at
tached to weary years Of
dietary excesses, and matri-
monial boredom, ''PIus tax;
and. II the marriage were dis
solved there would still be
alimony.
There is no juggling with
the solemn fact that life
keeps books. Ultimately. there
Is no tax evasion. william
James speaks about q man
yielding often to the helIish
gravitation pulling to things
below, turning periodically 10
the indulgences he had vowed
to let alone. Succumbing
again and again to the Inn
portuhities Of dissolute com.
panions. he would banter,
We'll. III have q ding this
once, but I won't count It
this time" James comments
significantly regarding this
would-be tax defauker, 'It
was counted nevertheless. II
was written in his weakened
will. In his inflamed appetite.
in the jangling nerves Of his
disSipated body" The prod
igal might jauntily say. II
won't count it this time" but
1t was counted because life
keeps books. Robert Louis
Stevenson. In q penetrating
comment on life declares,
Everybody soon or late sits
down to Q banquet Of conse-
quences" and, we might
add, on the menu is plainly
printed. PLUS tax"l
During the summer It will
be mine to return to the
rural pulpit where, in my first
pastorate, ! stood as 0 boy
preacher. The dear folks,
who in those long past days
sat in front Of me, and who
were 50 long-sunering with
my mental and spiritual i'm
maturity, are there no more.
Their forms and faces are
kept now only in grateful
memory. But at that little
crossroads church well do
I remember quoting lines,
and repeating them in other
churches later across the
lengthening years. In spite Of
the glorious Gospel Of re-
pentance and redemption
which tells US that down in
the human heart, crushed by
the tempter, feelings lie buried
that Grace can restore, there
is still a melancholy truth in
those verses which I held up
in the beginning Of my public
ministry. Here they are
! DGlked In the iDoodlnnd
meadows tDheTe sDeet the
tltrushes sing
And ! found on a bed OF
moses, q bird Nth a
broken iDtng.
I healed its tUtnO and each
morning 1t sang Its old
StDeet strain
But the bird Nth the broken
ptnton neUer scared 80
high again.
I found a young life broken
By SINS seductive art
And touched Nth a Christ
like pity ! took him to my
heart.
Ee liUed Nth q nobler par-
pose and struggled not
In Udin
But the life that sin had
Smitten neUeT scared 30
high again.
The title Of those sad lines
might well be, PLUS Tax"
Evening star., 1958-07-06
IS Years Ago

Some all-time baseball
greats figured In the all-star
game Is years ago. Report
ing the game In Chicago on
July 8, 1888, The Star said:
I'm the flashing panorama
Of baseball stars. the Amer
ican Leaguers defeated the
National Leaguers, 4 to 2,
before $4,000 spectators here
today. The mighty Babe
Ruth made Q home run in
the third inning 10 treat the
crowd. Frankie Friscli Of the
Cardinals drove q home run
into the rightfeld seats in
the sixth. :. Manager Nc
Graw Of the Nationals and
Connie Mack Of the Amer
leans made frequent switches
in their hneups to give all
the stars q chance. ="
A flyer who went astray in
Russia had fewer worries rs
years ago. On July Q. 1888,
in reporting on the discovery
Of a flyer who had been miss
ing for more than is days on
a round the-world solo flight,
The Star said: Early rescue
Of Jimmie Mattern, round
the-world flyer, from q little
town in Siberia by the Coast
Guard cutter Northland Is ex-
pected. Permission was given
the commander Of the cutter
yesterday to 60 TO the ayia-
tors aid. Earlier State De-
partment officials told Coast
Guard officers they saw no
objection to the venture BY
the Northland into Soviet
waters.
Evening star., 1958-07-06

tempts were made to capture
this horse by the Federal
soldiers. Many O Confed-
crate officer (among them
Gen. Robert E. Lee) tried to
buy her, but all to no
DurpOge.
Evening star., 1958-07-06

Western Europe IN the event
Of war.
Roy H. PelIetier.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
50 Years Ago

A different Castro was
causing international trouble
so years ago. The Star, in q
dispatch from Caracas, said:
"The threatening break In
friendly relations long exist
ing between Holland and
Venezuela win add one more
nation to the long list Of
those which either have no
intercourse with Venezuela or
have serious questions pend
ing. These are France. Colom-
bia, United States, England,
and perhaps Italy. The path
Of the diplomat is thorny In
Caracas and only too many
have met their fate at Cast
ro's hands +"
Owner Of the famed black
mare" Of Mosby's Rangers
died SO years ago. The Star,
on July IL, 1908, reported:
Jeremiah De Bell Wilson, q
resident Of Washington for
% years. and one of Mosby's
Confederate Rangers. died at
7:l5 O'Clock last evening at
his home. Mr.. Wilson
was the owner and rider Of
the famous black mare re-
ferred to repeatedly by Col.
Mosby IN his memoirs as the
finest mount in the Confed-
crate Army. Repeated at
Evening star., 1958-07-06
100 Years AGO

Celebrating the Fourth of
July was q quiet affair 100
years ago-except in the mid
die of the night. On July 6,
1858, The Star reported:
THE celebration Of the day
in Washington began about
fifteen minutes past IL O'Clock
on the morning Of the 5th
(the holiday fell on SUM-
day., by the ringing Of bells,
which was kept up till after
daybreak, much TO the regret
Of those who wished to en-
Joy a good nap before enter
ing upon the pleasures Of the
day. At q very early hour.
large companies Of men,
women and children were to
be seen vending their way to
the rendezvous Of various
parties formed for pleasure,
at the springs, pavilions,
groves, etc., Of the adjoining
counties Of Maryland and
Virginia. -"
The canal which flowed
through the center Of Wash
ington 100 years ago was in
need Of attention, The Star
said on July 10, 1858. The
story reported: Very num-
erous complaints are made
Of the condition Of the vari-
GUS bridges over the canal.
The planking is said to be
worn out or decayed so
as to be positively dangerous.
not only to vehicles. but TO
pedestrians ="
Bootlegging OF water, In the
days before an adequate pub
lie supply In Washington,
was q common practice. On
July 9, 1858, The Star COM
mented: The suspicion that
the want Of water IN the
neighborhood between Twelfth
and Fourteenth street, the
avenue and Canal street, was
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-09

Lawyers
Are Barred

Only lawyers who are mem.
bers of the Maryland bar and
who live in the county and main
tain offices here will be able to
practice before Montgomery
County Circuit Court under new
court rules just adopted.
In announcing the change,
effective October 1, Judge
John X. Reeves said the rules
changes are the first adopted
in the county since 1894.
He said the rules are the re-
suit of a study made by Bar
Association committee headed by
j. Douglas Bradshaw, of Silver
Spring. The committee worked
for nearly a year before the draft
was submitted to the Bar Asso.
citation and then to the court,
Reeves said.
Another important change, he
said, is one which will require
the clerk TO enter an order Of dis.
missal as TO any case in which
no action has been taken by
either side for a period of two
years. II applies TO both law and
equity cases. Purpose Of the new
rule is to enable the clerk to
clear out old and inactive cases.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-09
us. to Pay
$4,000 for
Tract Here

The government has settled
on a price of $4,000 for 33
acres of land near Gathers
burg needed as part of the
proposed site of the huge
Bureau of Standards building,
it was learned this week.
Owner of the land is Paul v.
Finegan, former real estate Off.
cial with General Services Ad.
ministration who Is now employ.
ed in real estate work with the
u. S. Post Office Department.
The payment was set after
F'inegan's attorney, Bernard
Flynn, Of Baltimore, entered a
stipulation with government at.
torneys before the case went be.
fore a jury. Judge w. Calvin
Chestnut, Of u. 5. District Court,
signed an order Of judgment
against GSA, requiring the agen.
cy TO deposit the full amount in
the bank.
Flynn this week said that
the money has not been paid
his client, and that he wished
someone would light a fire"
under GSA.
Finegan was one Of six land.
owners taken 10 court by the
government which wants $50
acres for the Bureau Of Stand.
ards near the northwest tip Of
Gaithersburg. Other litigants are
still In court.
The land wanted by Standards
lies between new u. S. 2l0 and
RI. l2l south Of RI III.
Finegan's property bordcrcd
Muddy Branch I'd, ono oi the
proposed tracts southern boun.
daIies.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-09
BY Bob Bernstein
staff Reporter

Some school board candi-
dates may still band together
in one or more states for the
remainder of the campaign
but on the basis of an infor-
NAL poll of all the candidates
by the Sentinel yesterday the
prospect appears dim.
All the candidates deny the
present existence of formal
states. Several of them see such
moves as possible, and potentially
desirable. Others say it is i'm
possible.
Most acknowledged that
the views of the candidates
lend themselves to natural
groupings.
A feeler sent out to possibly
construct a ticket of moderate
conservatives" fizzled this week.
Leader of the move was Col.
George A. Moore, who said he
would "bc happy to be part of a
slate of moderate conservatives
consisting of himself, Harrison
King, John E. Oxley, James Hum
phrey, Ralph D. Boyd and Harold
F. Breimyer.
The would-be running mates,
however, expressed no enthusi-
aSm.
Breimyer vetoed the idea of
stating in general Boyd and
Humphrey objected to the exclu-
sion of Wylie w. Barrow and
Mrs. Miriam Sherwin from any
conservative" ticket.
Boyd said more natural"
grouping would substitute
Barrow for Moore i'm the
Fourth District and Mrs.
Sherwin for Breimyer i'm the
at-Iarge category.
Barrow is generally considered
to be the leader of the so-called
conservative camp, which is
critical of the present board ma
jority.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-09
Hyde, Foley
Differ On
School Aid

Differences on issues of
Federal aid to education be-
tween Dewitt S. Hyde and
John r. Foley, candidates for
Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict, have been spotlighted
by a recent questionable of
the Montgomery County
Council of P-TAs.
The same survey found general
agreement on the issues betwccii
senatorial candidates j. Glenn
Beall and Thomas D'Alesandro,
jr.
Democrat Foley and in
cumbent Republican Hyde
split over proposals which
would grant Federal aid 10
states and localities for new
construction and operating
costs.
Foley expressed support OF the
plans, while Hyde objected on
grounds that mo authority has
been willing to name any state
which cannot afford TO adequate.
ly finance construction and op.
Grafton"
He said he would change his
position IF it can be shown there
is a state or states which are
financially unable to do this
Both candidates said they sup
port continued aid to Fcdcrally
impacted areas and proposal to
provide $1,000 Federal IN crit
scholarships.
D'Alesandro declared strong
favor Of all the Federal aid plans
mentioned. Bcall favored all eX.
ccpt the ono calling for aid fOr
operating costs, which he said he
would have to study before max
ing a commitment.