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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Hiroshima Day

Ceremonies have been conducted In
New York and in Hiroshima this week
to take note of the atomic bombing of
the Japanese city IS years ago.
In New York, marcherS presented
flowers to young japanese woman who
was in the bombed city and who still
bears the scars of her ordeal. In rebuilt
Hiroshima, some $4,000 japanese turned
out to hear the current mayor of that
city denounce the bombing as "a crime
committed against mankind"
The debate over the moral aspects
of the Hiroshima bombing, which took
the lives of an estimated $4,000 to
100000 people, will go on for a long
time Was it justified as war measure,
or was 1t not?
Before the question is finally an
swered someone should consult the
hundreds of thousands of young Ameri-
cans, not to mention an equivalent num-
Der of young Japanese, who are alive to-
day because it did not become necessary
to invade the main Japanese islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09

lowing: To improve the "attractiveness"
OF individual participation In defense
work In order 10 retain persons of out
standing abilities and scarce skills; 20
absolve the Defense Department from
political, social and economic detectives
unrelated 10 military security: TO elimi-
nate excessive specification" -wasteful
In money and time-for equipment; 10
reform budget procedures and 10 pro-
vide congressional committees dealing
with defense with adequate professional
staifs.
In effect, the CED is saying that
there is no second prize" In this poten-
tial world conflict and really no end OF
the threat in sight. The price for living
In our times is high, but II is a price
that can be paid without undue damage
II the management is intelligent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09

In a very sarcastic letter to
The Star. August 2, someone
signing himself Ardent Ad-
mirer" berated Mrs. Marian
Gattermann for her stand
against integration in the
Arlington public schools and
said that the code of ethics
of the Defenders of State
Sovereignty and Independent
Liberties evidently consists
of the following rule: %
Believe not in the Constitu-
ton Of the United States be-
cause it states that all men
are created equal"
Evidently Ardent Admir-
er" is not as familiar with
the Constitution as he should
be, since he apparently does
not know that the quotation
that all men are created
equal" is from the Declara-
ton Of Independence rather
than the Constitution. !
would suggest that he get his
facts straight before he
criticizes his opponents. Mrs.
Gattermann in her letter
directly preceding that of
Ardent Admirer" made it
quite clear as to what she
and other true Virginians are
fighting to preserve.
States RICHTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
NonessentioI Expense

President EiSenhower'S veto of the
independent Offices appropriation bin
was based on sound fiscal policies. To
add more than half billion dollars to
Federal deficit already approaching $l2
billion could only be justified If the ex-
penditure were essential to the public
interest. But the proposed $3.50 million
contribution to the Civil Service retire.
ment fund-while desirable-is not es-
sential now or in the immediate future.
For, as the President stressed in his veto
message, there is ample money available
to take care of all current demands on
the retirement fund and those in the
foreseeable future.
Mr.. Eisenhower pointed out, more
over, that the retirement fund receipts
from payroll deductions and depart
mental ALLEGATIONS are exceeding beneft
payments at present. AS long as this
favorable balance continues, he said,
there is no urgent need for additional
contributions from the Government.
Eventually, of course, this balance may
disappear. Then it will be necessary to
bolster the fund in order to make it &C
tuarially sound. In any event, the full
credit of the United States stands
behind the fund, so there is no reason
for beneficiaries to worry about the
situation.
Under the circumstances, Congress
should eliminate the Objectionable item
from the vital supply bill for II agencies
and resubmit the measure to the White
House. There is plenty of time at sue
ceeding sessions to consider further the
question Of reinforcing the civil service
retirement fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Where the Subsidy BELONGS

The Senate District Committee is
right in holding that any subsidy for
transporting children to school should
be borne by the District as a whole,
rather than by transit riders as a class.
On this theory, the committee has APP
proved a bill which would require the
District government to make up the
deficit incurred by D. C. Transit in let
ting school children ride for 71a cents
less than half the regular fare.
The decision of Congress many years
ago to permit school children to ride at
reduced rate was made in the days
when the transit company was prosper
Gus. The decision was a political one
which the company accepted and the
cost of which 1t passed on to its GUS
toners. In recent years, however, as
adult fares have continued to rise, there
has been increasing opposition on the
part Of transit offlcials and of transit
patrons to the law requiring the COM
pany to absorb the school fare deficit.
The loss last year has been estimated at
more than 100000.
The pending egiSlation-which APP
parently will be held over until the next
session Of CongreSs-would place the
burden of the subsidy where it be-
longs-on the public at large. 1t belongs
there-if a subsidy is to be paid-be-
cause matter of broad public policy is
involved. Certainly if school children
are to be subsidized with regard to bus
and streetcar fares, it is discriminatory
to assess only transit riders for the cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Senator Cores Victory

II sentiment In Tennessee on the
school indignation question normally
would be roughly comparable to that in
neighboring Arkansas, 1t looks as though
Governor Faubus must have been right
when he attributed his recent landslide
victory to the fact that Federal troops
were sent into Little Rock.
This, at least, is one inference which
may be drawn from Senator Cores tri-
umph in Tennessee. The Senator has
followed a moderate line on the race
question, and was among those who
refused to sign the Southern Manifesto.
Opposing him in the Democratic primary
was former Governor Prentice Cooper,
an ardent segregationist, who hammered
away on the Indignation theme and Bit
terly denounced Senator Gore. When
the votes were counted, however, the
Senator had about go per cent of the
total. In short, for some reason the
indignation issue, which dominated the
Arkansas primary, did not figure i'm
portantly in Tennessee. And the reason
for this difference, we think, can be
found in the bitter resentment aroused
in Arkansas by the dispatch of the
paratroopS to Little Rock.
OF course, there we're other issues
involved in the Tennessee election. Mr..
Cooper attacked Senator Gore as a
supporter of "global give-aways, trade
agreements that have dumped foreign
slave labor goods on American markets,
high taxes and socialiStic government"
But Senator Gore stood his ground. De-
Tending his voting record in the Senate,
he warned of the perilS of isolation and
said: Tennessee is part of the United
States and what is good for America is
good enough for Tennessee"
Thus, on both counts, Senator Cores
victory adds up to an Endorsement by
the voters of common sense and moder-
alton. And this should be a source of
some encouragement to other moderate
and enlightened men in public life who
have yet to face their constituents on
election day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
What We Must Afford

The Committee for Economic De-
velopment has produced constructive
and fortnight paper on national prob
lens in its statement on defense needs,
their financing and their administration.
On the needs and their COST the
committee findings are not news but
the blunt reStatement of them is effec-
tive in itself. The Communist threat
to this Nation is both real and great,
the committee emphasizes, and there is
no longer enough security in having a
huge industrial war potential-the ele-
ment which insured victory in two world
wars. There must instead be huge mill
tary strength "in instant readiness" 1t
is a requirement, the committee con-
tinues, that not only is costly but even
''waSteful" in the sense that there must
be constant changes in plans and in
weapons to meet the changing compo-
penis in the threat itself. We must
not lag in the race for innovation and
we must not underrate the speed and
scope Of Russian military achievement"
To pay the bill, in terms of dollars,
1--WE can afford what we must Afford"
the committee says, and this might we'll
be in the neighborhood of is per cent
or more of the gross national product
perhaps $50 billion yearly-rather than
the II per cent or $40 billion now so
committed. In this light, the study
group believes it is false notion" that
there is an arbitrary limit beyond which
defense spending would endanger the
economy. Instead, the economic dan
ger lies in financing through IAN IRA
tional structure" Of taxes that bear so
heavily on certain revenue sources as to
limit growth, prevent saving and impair
incentives.
Along with this, the committee
deals sharply with some Of the admin
istrative bugs" in defense management.
SROnE its recommendations are the fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09

The detectives to be achieved by
transfer Of Freedmen's Hospital to
Howard University, with its reconstruc-
ton as modern teaching hospital for
the university's medical school, are emil
nently desirable and capable of accom-
plishing great and lasting good. 1t is
prepoSterouS to believe that relatively
few members of local union of Govern
ment employees at the hospital can block
the transfer, when their reasons for
doing so spring wholly from narrowly
selfish interests.
One of the good things accomplished
by Senator Morse's hearings on the hos
pital transfer egiSlation-which we hope
will be brought up and pushed at the
next session of Congress-waS to de-
velop his own helpful support, while
placing the unions opposition in its
true perspective. Senator Morse is an
extremely able champion Of legislation
in which he believes. He is beyond sus-
picion, in so far as any antilabor bias
is concerned. He can talk turkey. And
the local union leadership would be well
advised to heed his wise admonitions,
and work for fair solution Of the
small problem involved in protecting
jobs, instead of demanding completely
impractical and unacceptable retention
of civil service status in a nongovern-
mental university.
The transfer to Howard of Freed
mems Hospital would be beneficial, not
merely to this community, but to the
Nation. 1t would provide useful future
for an institution, rich in traditions, but
which otherwise is faced with a bleak
outlook. Thanks are due Senator Morse
for his own great interest in the matter,
which is not going to lag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Suffering Express

Your sparkling editorial,
"Sub-Bering Express" at
tracted my special interest.
The idea of a tunnel under
Boring Strait. whereby an
express train could leave
Americas mainland, headed
West, and 60 to Paris. is not
new.
1t is not the "brainchild"
of a Russian engineer, Arkady
Markin, as was claimed in a
dispatch from Brussels July
S. That yarn stated Markin
had recently evolved the idea,
that it had been printed in
"Sputnik," on sale at 5 cents
a copy at the Russian pavil-
ion at Brussels, and was be-
ing gobbled up by Americans
like hot cakes.
/ happen to know the en-
cheering possibility of a rail-
road tunnel under Bering
Strait is at least As years old.
I was in Congress from
Oregon from 1911 to 1915,
took part in the debates in
1918 on the law for building
Of our present railroad in
Alaska, and heard Col. Dick
Richardson. then our chief
Army engineer in Alaska, say
such a railroad tunnel was
feasible and a possibility in
the future.
Col. Richardson was a
graduate of West Point, born
IN Texas, and in World War
I was a brigadier general.
Richardson Highway in Alas
ka is named for him. His
statue stands in Alaska.
In 1918. / heard Col. Rich
ardson say that a tunnel for
trains under Bering Strait
was possible. The Idea" was
common talk on Capitol Hill
then, so it is not the brain
child" Of a presentday Rus
sian engineer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Standing in line is no
good.
Just push your way
through. 1t is much more
satisfactory to the human in
stinct Of aggression. which
Freud calls one Of the basic
urges Of mankind.
This is Temp Jones' idea.
He says that he has been
watching people queue up, as
the British put it, at bus
stops, to get into restaurants
and other places.
He says that invariably
more time is consumed by
standing in line than if all
the people rushed up in a
mass and just pushed their
way in or on.
Maybe this is so, perhaps
it isn't; in the world of Temp
Jones this makes little diff
ference.
Perhaps few persons stand
ing in line have been bored.
One Of the worst such sit
uations is at a cafeteria.
The idea of standing in line
may have been born there.
The basic idea, certainly,
was to save time. (Also, per-
haps, to keep clumsy folks
from splitting bowls of hot to-
mato soup down the necks
Of innocent personsD
Just why tomato soup is
the hottest soup in the world
nobody knows, but this, too,
is held to be factual in Temp
Jones dream world.
=
II civilization and its dis
contents bore us, as they
sometimes do. 1t might be a
good idea TO abolish standing
in line.
It was a wartime expedi-
ent, invented by the same
master minds who thought
UP daylight saving.
1t was supposed to save
time, and if you didn't think
so, all right. but you better
not say 50, or of with your
head
The danger always comes.
not in thinking. but in say
ing, doesn't it? Oh, think
what you want to; nobody
cares, as long as you keep
your mouth closed.
Standing in line is bore
some.
That is the worst count
against it.
In the group, pushing and
showing, one has a chance TO
keep from being bored with
life, love, laughter.
1t is Just natural to push
a bit!
Some push too much, some
not enough, but all Of us
push. and keep on pushing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Druqs q Borqoin

Lawrence Saleeby In q let
ter criticizes the high cost Of
drugs. Permit me as a phar-
macist to challenge his state
ment.
Actually, today's prescrip-
ton is the biggest bargain in
history. A prescription costs
far less than a single days
stay in the hospital. In most
cases, just one or two pre-
Scriptions are all that q
patient needs to get well.
The new so-called expensive
drugs cut down the duration
of a disease and the con-
valescence period.
The so-called inexpensive
drugs, the hit-or-miss medi-
cines, are still available but
neither the doctor nor the
patient wants them because
the newer drugs are more
reliable, practicable and eff
fective. These new remedies
are based upon thorough re-
search, high Standardization
as TO potency (some walls
must carry q date Of ex-
piration). freshness. purity
and quality. The very nature
of these drugs rules out dis
count sales.
Those who believe that
drug prices are too high
should also set a value upon
the function these drugs
serve. They should also fix
the value Of human life and
well-being. Today's prescrip-
ton is an investment in good
health which pays big divi-
dends.
The following statistics
may help to evaluate the pre-
scription Of today. Fifteen
years ago, before the wonder
drugs" we're discovered, death
claimed 1913 out Of every
1000 people in the United
States. But today the death
rate is down to 90 per 1000
people-the lowest in history.
This means that 1.874.027
people did not die in the past
Is years, thanks to the anti
biotics, vitamins, hormones
and all other miracle medi-
cines which are now available.
That is why today's pre-
scription is the biggest bar
gain in history!
Herman M0rPn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Tests q Platform

Even those Of us who are
unwilling to be numbered
among the wearers Of the
conservative" label owe a
small debt of gratitude to
David Lawrence for outlin-
ing the platform of the
Americans for Constitution
al Action. as presented in
the August 4 issue Of The
Star. I did wonder why a
name less similar to that of
Americans for Democratic
Action had not been hit upon.
Some people may also Won
der why a retired admiral
has been selected to head this
new movement.
The announced platform
seems to stack up like this:
Almost any American would
insist that our Government
is based on the Declaration
of independence, the Consti-
tuition and its Bill Of Rights.
1t does seem to demean them
to refer to them as guide
lines"
As for the espousal of free
enterprise and the merit
system, the latter presum-
ably for private as well as
public employees. well nobody
has ever done it yet; but ]
think we liberals are just as
ready to take such a step as
are the conservatives, pre-
Stunning that everybody takes
the plunge at the same in
slant.
1 don't think anybody
knows what would happen
II a real effort were made to
operate our economy on a
hard" money plan. I can
think Of no period in our
history when we have actual
ly operated in such a fashion.
Followed to its ultimate i'm
plications, such a plan would
probably return us to the
economic thraldom Of Eng
land. such as existed in our
early Colonial period.
l know Of no one who has
seriously explored the real
implications Of the reserved
powers" theory. We have not
had real States rights since
the days Of the Articles of
Confederation. During the
Civil War this Nation was
two unions Of far from in
dependent States. Even the
Confederacy made no serious
pretense Of preserving States
rights. Had that been done
the Civil War would have
probably ended before the
end Of the second year.
All liberals would agree
with the AGA on the. plank
dealing with voting Too
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
INDECENT Care

Basically, the bills present.
ed to the District Of Columbia
by the private hospitals each
year exceed funds allocated
by the District for planned
admissions Of INDECENT pa
tientS. In some cases the
hospitals continue TO accept
INDECENT patients after pub
lie funds are exhausted.
The problem that the Com
miSsioners and Health Direc-
tor face is: Should more
money be allocated under the
medical charities program?
To answer this, 1t is neccs-
sary to find out how much it
costs to care for a patient at
the District General Hospital.
If a central cost accounting
system were in effect there,
1t would be no problem to
answer this question. After
this is accurately determined.
1t would be fair to reconsider
the amount paid the private
hospital for the care Of indi-
gents.
The next question is: How
many INDECENT patients are
transferred to the District
General Hospital from the
private hospitals for further
care? II a significant num-
Der of the total indigents
cared for in private hospitals
are sent TO the District Gen.
eral Hospital the problem
arises, is there duplication of
effort, for example X-ray and
laboratory studies? If this
is the case, the District is
paying twice for the same
service. once to the private
hospital and again to the
District General Hospital. If
this is a significant problem,
then it may be appropriate to
consider a unit record system.
This would assign a number
to the patients records and
X-rayS that could be used
in any one of the private hos
pitfalls or the District General
Hospital. Thus a patient
transferred from one hospital
to another would be accom-
panied by his or her hospital
chart and X-reys. The initial
cost Of this operation might
be small in comparison to the
money saved in duplication
of effort in subsequent years.
1t might also foster an atti-
tude Of cooperative effort
that would be beneficial to
both private hospitals and the
District General Hospital.
Former Intern, ID. c. G. II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09

though we may think up
some very fancy names for 1t,
and fool ourselves completely.
Pushing keeps life from
being boresome, especially
when a fat lady does a right
flanking movemen and
pushes in from the side.
You see at a glance, though
you are solidly where the
door should open. she is in a
better position to step in
ahead Of you.
Nothing boresome about
that.
You loathe the sight Of her
big horse face, her little pig
eyes, and her hippopotamus
construction.
She inks you, TO be frank
about 1t.
+ +
That you irk her, too, there
is no slightest doubt in the
well-worn world.
You irk each other equally,
but her irking you is far in
excess Of your irking her.
Now there is nothing TO do
except wait for the man to
open the door.
In a queue, the lady might
have to go TO the end Of the
line, or would she?
Temp Jones has a story
about the lady.
He was waiting at an old
fashioned ticket Office vim
dow.
He had been waiting q
long time. because the woman
ahead Of him with the six
children had long and elab-
crate forms 10 fill out.
Just as Jones turn came
at last (this was q line. re-
member, and boresome) a
fast-moving young woman
pushed in ahead of him.
Sorry" said Jonesy, show
ing her aside. %.
The young woman shifted,
an eloquent gesture Of the
gay '90s.
II would think" said she.
haughtily. you would step
aside and let a lady 60 first"
Templeton Jones looked at
her and smiled. always
watch out for Jones. when he
smiles.)
He opened his mouth. and
Just two words came out.
Il would" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09

many liberals as we'll as con-
servatives are too Indifferent
TO learn about the problems
Of politics to be able to vote
constructively.
If the conservatives set up
their tent on one lot and the
liberals on another, then we
might get a little action out
of the fence sitters in the
middle who for years have
been in the lead but who
haven't led us anywhere.
Charles L. Stout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Beauty and Brains

I have always heard that
Texas women were both
beautiful and intelligent. Re-
Gently, that was subStantiated
in part.
In late July I few to Fort
Worth on a business con-
ference. During a dinner
party I was discussing with
a manufacturer the impact of
the one-cent rise in postage
to become effective August l..
A beautiful platinum blond
at the table asked why we
didn't stock up on stamps be-
fore the price went up.
Just thought I'd pass this
along to my many Texas
friends.
MeIbOurn Jack4n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Toxpoyer's Lament

I see much newspaper
discussion of congressional
spending and a proposed
further raise in the debt
limit. What to do about it?
For a start, cut out about SO
billion of proposed foreign
give-away of the taxpayers
money, misnamed laid"
Reader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-09
Hard to Digest

All the comment I have
read about the recent Khru-
shchev-Mao Tse-tung COM
munique seems to have over
looked the most important
section. The meat of the
whole communique lies in the
next to the last paragraph.
There the two dictators Of
800 million Soviet and Chi
nese slaves lay down the road
TO the future. They pledge:
". to safeguard the
purity of Marxism -Leninism
-. to wage an uncompromis-
ing struggle against revision
ism :"
"Marxism Leninism". in
their specially coded jargon,
means violent. bloody revo-
luton" "Revisionism" goes
back to the 1905 and refers
to the proposals at that time
to tone down Marxist ex-
tremism TO make it more
palatable to the Socialist
parties of Europe. Mao and
Khrushchev are again S t
''revisionism" and positively
against any toning down.
Their statement is a bold
announcement to the Com
munist faithful (who will
understand not to worry be-
cause they will do no COM
promising at any sum m t
conference, or anywhere else.
At least Khrushchev has
relieved our President Of the
humiliation Of shaking his
blood-stained hand for no
purpose other than to sppease
our timid allies.
Alfred KOhlberg.
New York CITY.