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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Tough Talk

We hope that the published accounts
Of Mr.. Khrushchev's tough-talking in
terview with Averell Hartman are as
exaggerated as the premature report Of
Mark Twain'S death. Even II this is not
the case, however, there is no apparent
reason for either surprise or alarm.
1t should be remembered, first Of
all, that the text Of Mr.. Harriman'S re-
port to the State Department has not
been made public. So the news reports
have been based on information leaked
by officials, not on firSt-hand knowledge
Of what Mr. Hartman actually said. The
chances are that the text, If made avail
able, would soften the impact of the
inspired reports. And for what it may
be worth, our Russian visitor, Mr.. Kozlov,
who presumably has not seen the Harri-
man report either, has denied that Mr..
Khrushchev took threatful line in the
interview.
In any event, If one accepts the most
alarmiSt version of the incident, the fact
remains that Mr.. KhruShchev said moth
ing of consequence that has not been
said before He has made threats and
fexed his muscles in the past, and he
doubtless will do so again. Furthermore,
all of us would do well to bear in mind
that the Russian leader holds the high
cards in the Berlin dispute. If there Is to
be showdown over West Berlin, we
could hardly find ourselves in a less ad-
vantageous position, and Mr.. KhruSh-
chew is fully aware of this circumstance.
So he can be expected to press his ad-
vantage, and we, having committed our
selves not to yield the freedom OF West
Berlin, must be prepared to face up to
the consequences.
These consequences, of course, may
turn out to be quite serious. But we
do not believe that their nature will be
shaped or influenced by anything that
Mr.. Khrushchev said, or did not say, to
Mr.. Hartman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Jazz and Culture

In reply to one Of your cor
respondents who writes in de-
Tense of jazz as a part of our
culture in America, and con-
siders those who object to it
as ignorant and unmusical, !
wish to state that it is not
representative of our coun-
try's culture, for it emanates
from the untutored and
primitive element of our So
ciety instead of from the vast
majority Of people who came
from a higher civilization and
who founded the institutions
Of America.
There is no doubt that
Russia, as backward as she
has been in many respects,
has. nevertheless, produced a
national music far superior to
jazz-which is not taken seri-
ously by many cultivated mu-
sicians except for dance or
amusement purposes.
l am a scholarship pupil
and graduate OF a leading
American conservatory and
have been soloist with SYM
phony orchestras. The fact
that none of our best con-
servatories offer or stress
serious study Of jazz in their
curriculum is proof Of the low
estimate they have Of its
value.
Regina Winston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Election in Berlin

Despite the prior Soviet protest
attacking 1t as tension increasing
provocation, West GermanyS presiden-
tial election has been carried out in free
Berlin in completely peaceful manner.
The East German Communists had
limited at the possibility Of retaliating
with a temporary blockade or other
forms of trouble If the vote were held
there, but this threatful talk has turned
out to be quite empty. Refusing to be
inundated, the Federal Republics
1,038-member electoral college has quiet
ly but firmly cast its ballots in the divid-
ed city-just as in 1954-aS Symbolical
gesture to emphasize Berlin's continu-
ing role as the historic capital of all
Germany.
AS expected, the vote has resulted
in the election Of Agricultural Minister
Heinrich Luebke to succeed Theodor
Heuss as President Mr.. Luebke, 81, Is
a veteran member of Chancellor Ade-
nauer'S Christian Democratic Union,
and although a relatively obscure po-
litical personality in the urban areas,
he is we'll and favorably known to the
farmers Of the country. When he for
mally begins his flve-year term in his
new post, he will take on duties that
are largely ceremonial, but he still will
have certain powers with which he can
help to heal the potentially dangerous
rift caused within the CDU by the feud
between Or. Adenauer and Economics
Minister Erhard. All friends of free
Germany will wish Mr.. Luebke the
greatest measure of success in that
respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Pilot Checks

Charles Yarbrough reports
June 26 on some ideas of the
Federal Aviation Agency to
force airline pilots to retire.
One of the ideas. that an
experienced pilot over age SIS
should not CHECK out" in a
new type Of equipment,
sounds like it may have orig
mated with the management
of some frugal airline. A
final retirement age so is
proposed, but under the rule
a capable pilot in excellent
health would be prevented
from checking out" in q new
type presumably Jet equip
ment, if he had passed his
55th birthday.
A thrifty airline might not
want the greater expense Of
training and checking the
older pilots when it would
get only a few more years
service out Of them. How
ever, this would be an eco
nomic problem to be settled
between an airline and its
pilots. It should not be
settled arbitrarily by the FAA
under the guiSe Of safety
rules.
FAA's concern should be
to see that the pilots assigned
to jets have adequate train
ing time to be safe. Pilots
who have been flying one
type of equipment for years
may have lost some versatile
ity and have habits to over
come that would not apply to
the new equipment. This is
a matter of the adequacy Of
the pilot training or the
check out program.
Some people are young at
SIS; others are old. The SCI
entists at FAA should work
out methods to determine in
which Of these categories a
pilot would belong. The
answer of birthday seems a
bureaucratic answer instead
of a scientific one. More fire.
quent medical checks and
pilot performance checks
would be a better and more
democratic index of pilot
capability. I believe a pilot
should either be out of the
business or be allowed to
progress with it If he has
the capability and desires
to do so.
Sometimes ! wonder il the
FAA has fallen for a current
aviation myth, that it is such
a great, big. difficult (but
wonderfully thing for a pilot
to safely fly an airplane that
has jet engines.
Robert E. Trimble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Rock Creek Pollution

Rock Greek Park Day! Why
not really celebrate the day
we are given some aSsur-
ance of legislation to cor
rect pollution of the water
which runs happily through
the park. The teen-agerS, our
future citizens, are enraged at
this CHASTITY and unholy con-
dition. Leila E. Killers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Prods Conoress

The Senate has shown its
muscle by disposing Of the
me nacing Mrs. Luce and
Secretary Strauss, but what
about Hoffa and the labor
gangsters the Mcclellan COM
mittee has been exposing
for over a year?
RI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Warfare Becomes More Mechanical
By THOMAS R. HENRY

1t Is proposed TO install a
series Of small television cam
eras on the tractor 40 that
the distant operator can see
what he is doing and what
needs TO be done all the time.
All he needs to do is manipu-
late theobuttons on his con-
troll box.
The new tractor bull doZer
specifically is like any other.
All hand controls are re-
tanned so that 1t can be OPP
Grated in conventional FASH
ion. The driverless tractor
now is being given rigid tests
at the Engineer Corps re-
search and development lab
oratories at Fort BelVoir, Va.
The tests to date, as a safety
precaution, have been con-
Quoted with tractor and con-
troll within seeing distance
OF each other. The tractor
will be operated at greater
and greater distances as the
tests proceed.
The first mechanical mine
planter also has been de-
veloped by Army engineers at
Fort Belvoir, and by Inter-
national Harvester Co. scien-
fists.
1t plants the hot pota-
toes" in properly spaced
rows about as efficiently as q
farmers planter plants ac-
tual potato cuttings in a
field. 1t will replace squads
Of soldiers hiterto required
to lay a minefield by hand.
How 1t Works
The machine carries the
mines in a lazy susan" type
Of apparatus which auto
matically feeds them into the
planting mechanism. This
mechanism consists Of a de-
vice to arm the mines and a
side elevating plough which
opens a trench in which the
armed mines are dropped.
The plough lifts the turf or
soil and, after the mine is
placed. drops it back so there
is little superficial evidence
that a field exists.
The planter is mounted on
pneumatic tires and can be
pulled by any large tractor
which can be operated by
radio from a safe distance.
On highways it can be towed
by standard military trucks
at regular speeds.
The Engineers also have
developed a tank mounted
mine-exploding roller which
will help keep tank outfits on
the move in any future war
despite the tanks most pow
erful enemy, the exploding
land mine.
Fabricated of high strength
steel. the complete roller is
made up of a series of wheels
four feet in diameter and
six inches thick mounted on
independent shafts. In COM
bat it would be attached TO
the front of a tank and
pushed along ahead. The
weight Of the roller is sum-
cient to explode any buried
mines equipped with pres
sure activated fuses which
may be in its path.
Capable itself Of with
standing any antitank mine
explosions, it sets off q mine
before the tank tracks reach
the danger point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03

Ballet OF steel titanS In bill
lowing pink silk skirts
Somehow this figure OF
speech flashed over my mind
the other day at Fort Belvoir
when the Army's Corps Of
Engineers displayed for the
FIRST time to the public some
OF It's automatically operat-
ing heavy machinery.
Tractors, minelayers. gil
gantic Jaws operating appar-
entity with their own wills
and brains, all carrying out
on the floor Of q clay desert
ballroom floor dance steps,
arrayed in the clouds Of pink
smoke like a high school
girls first dance steps-and
in front of them Lord Fair
fax's Virginia pine forests
where q young civil engineer
named George Washington
flrst practiced his profession.
It was a realistic picture,
in all probability, OF a little
part Of a battle in a war Of
tomorrow.
One is inclined TO get some
what philosophical over it
all-which q journalist never
should do.
The engineer officers, prac-
tical-minded men, will tell
you, of course, that the steel
titans can do nothing unless
there is a human brain some
where. to tell them what to
do. Sometimes one wonders.
SentimentalistS who hate
war will say 1t is horrible.
Practical warriors will say it
is necessary because the po-
tential enemies doubtless
have their own electronic-
Drained legions. Cynics will
say that our distorted man
Drained scheme Of things is
near its end anyway. that
all this is just a preview Of
an inevitable tomorrow. and
1t doesn't make much differ
ence anyway.
Engineers Rate Praise
But sentimentalist, practi-
cal soldier or cynic must
pause together in admiration
Of one of the worlds great
scientific organizationS-the
United States Army Engi-
neers.
A tractor-bulldozer which
can be operated by a driver"
at least IS miles away is one
of the silk-skirted ballet
dancers. 1t is designed espe-
cially for clearing roads,
shoveling out road beds and
making almost any other
kinds Of excavations in ter
ritory under heavy enemy
fire or so contaminated with
radioactivity that it would
be very dangerous for men
to work there.
The fantastic titan also
may have considerable civil
ian value, the engineers say
such as fighting fires toe
hot for men to approach.
From a jeep or helicopter
equipped with a standard
Army radio transmitter and
a special control box the dis
tAnt operator can start and
stop the machine, engage
and disengage the gears. OPP
crate in forward and reverse
manipulate the doZer blade
up and down, and handle the
steering mechanism with
considerable fineSSe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

How to fall in love with q
cat!
M. J. Of Falls Church, Va.
writes:
1T has always interested
us when people write to you
stating they try over a long
period to attract the Wild
birds without success.
I'VE consider ourselves
most fortunate in not having
that problem. We recently
moved to a new location for
the third time and each time
within a period of a couple
Of months we were rewarded
by having attracted many
feathered friends again.
However, my letter con-
Germs cats.
I'VE have never liked cats,
especially since we try to
attract wildbirdS. We have
been dog lovers, but since
our last pet. an English
collie, we have had no house
pets.
Last October a stray cat
came one Sunday - a
Scrawny, bony creature about
5 months old. Even in that
condition she was pretty,
four white feet and white
underSide, gray on top and
lighter markings on her
sides.
II gave her some milk and
we took her in that night.
About two days later she
was licking her hip, and I
discovered it was bruised and
a secretion was coming from
one spot. We decided it
needed a doctors care. She
was in the hospital three
days. That errand Of mercy
cost us SIS, so I decided we
would have to keep her as
we now had money invested
in her. (Not that we would
have turned her away
II guess she Sensed I was
not a cat lover, as she was
in my lap all the time and
following me all over. She
was trying to break me down.
Or maybe she just lacked af-
lection in her former home
and was afraid of people,
especially children.
The Chinese say that when
a cat comes to a house it
means good fortune and
wealth, so we named her
Chen Chu, which means a
pearl Of great value. We have
nicknamed her Chu Chu.
4 4
Now, she is quite a size.
filled out and healthy. We
pay a lot Of attention to her,
which she loves. She is let
out at 5 am, and comes
in when we have breakfast
for her meal of liver.
"She is in and out during
the day for snacks and to
say hello. At $50 at night
she curls herself up on the
scrollwork Of the outer door,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03

peering in to see where
every one is. If we have q
snack before going to bed.
she awakens and is ready 10
eat, too.
AT lunchtime, no matter
where she is, she senses we
are eating and she comes in
and is fed by hand as you
would a dog.
-
Il put a paper towel in
the same place for her at
mealtime and she sits on it
until her food is served.
She will not drink cows
milk-only evaporated milk.
MY husband says that proves
how watered our milk is to-
day. I show her milk or meat
and she indicates which she
wants. She is talking all the
time and has a great variety
of sounds.
"She does not 60 after the
birdS-she wants to play
with them.
The mocker and she have
a great time; he tries to lure
her branch by branch up into
the willow tree, but she
Scampers right down.
In the spring he was
looming down at her and she
really had to hide from him,
but now he is too busy with
his young.
Several times she had
brought home a dead bird or
snake which she losses in
the air and plays with. How
ever, I could tell she had not
killed them, as there was no
mark on them.
She loves to catch but
terf1ies but she opens her
mouth Immediately and lets
them go.
"She is very smart and a
beautiful creature.
I'VE have really surprised
ourselves that we could give
so much affection to a cat,
but it happened"
$3.50
This friend of the family
probably likes evaporated
milk best because she was
fed it by the previous family
Or because Of the richer
taste! This is analogous to
babies who won't drink any,
thing but homogeniZed milk.
Half-and-half or pure cream
is best for cats.
1t is often impossible to tell
whether a pet has killed a
bird or not. since often no
mark is left. The organization
Of a bird, so strong in some
ways and yet so fragile, leaves
it to be killed at a blow,
Mrs. F. M. B.. also Of Fall
Church, puts a wreath on the
memory of the famous black
bear. She writes, in part: II
wonder what if anything will
be done to the police for their
bestial cruelty in three times
knocking down with their
auto the frightened, Devil
dered bear"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
Coffee and Brickbuts
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03

possible. The time for organizing and
conducting a Nationwide drive for such
large amount Of money is very short.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03

and Congress that the new
bill to erect a large monu-
ment next to Arlington
Cemetery-opposite the Lin
coin Memorials worse than
the one defeated last year
because it by-passes the Fine
Arts Commission.
The revived monument bill
is also much worse in the
sections devoted to the col
lection of the money and the
lack of accounting to the
Congress as to how much
and how long they can milk
the public all for patriot
ism" Not only are the school
children still hidden in there
but the National Monument
Commission and the National
Freedom Shrine Foundation"
are again asking Congress to
give them their blessing and
proceed Ito accept from any
source, public or private, do
nations of money, property,
and services for the erection
of said monument"
As your editorial has con-
structively suggested, tn e
whole act of 1854 should be
replaced because. as in the
case of this bill. it was loosely
drawn and hastily passed.
Joseph Harris.
Your sensible solution that
the Act of 1884" (created
for the sole purpose to have
a monument commission to
promote this Free dom"
monument be repeale d
should be taken seriously by
Congress, if only for the rea-
son that the monument pro-
moters, in their eagerness to
acquire this site while no one
was looking, did not abide by
it. The Act of 1854 required
that the plans be approved
by the Fine Arts Commission
and thereafter submitted to
Congress. The plans were
never approved.
The Act of 1854 should be
repealed because it was
passed in an undemocratic
manner. 1t was used as an
excuse to take public land
an excuse to prevent the vet
Grams from keeping it-and
nail it down for an interim"
period for this monument, to
give the promoters time to
collect more money, get we'll
meaning groups to support it
and mainly to give them time
to shut off any source of pro-
test they might meet. The
promoters had everything
Sewed up so tight they made
it appear as if Congress was
and is committed to put a
monument at this site. Con-
greSs is not committed to any
such thing. Old Timer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-03
UNDERGROUND Tests

I note that underground
nuclear testing. is about to
begin. I wonder how it will
affect underground veins of
drinking water-and deposits
Of crude oil, etc.
J. Richard Feeley.
An1eSh1rv Mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-25
By Mort WoIker
BY Walt Disney


planned that 'shoosegow" was q
slang term for "jail," Miss Fon-
teyn smiled, obviously pleased
at adding another word to her
store of odd Americanisms-
and still refused to be quoted.
But for word fanciers the
cream of the jest is that the
word "hoosegow" had its origin
in a word very common in the
Central American republic she
had been fleeing.
"Hoosegow," you see. was
borrowed by our earliest cow
pokes from the vocabulary Of
the Mexican . vaqueros, the
range hands on the other side
Of the Rio Grande. To them a
jail was "juzgao," from the
Spanish term "juzgado," mean
ing court or tribunal. 1t didn't
take long for our buckaroos
land that, incidentally, is our
adaptation Of "vaquero") to
complete the conversion of
"juzgao" to "hoosegow" "a
word whose creators could
never have dreamed that it
would one day be used to de-
scribe the overnight resting
place Of one of the worlds most
celebrated ballerinas.
CReleased by the Bell syndicats)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-25

City airport en- route from PAN
anna to London.
Surrounded by reporters and
photographers, the ballerina
parted all questions - except
one which surprised her and
caused her to pause perplexed-
ly before trying to answer.
How did you like the presi-
Dental suite in the hoosegow?"
was the question-and the word
"hoosegow" was the one that
caused the confusion.
When another reporter ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-25
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

The recent invasion" of the
Republic of Panama was not
without its comic opera as
poets, as many commentators
have observed. The overnight
failing Of British ballerina
Margot Fonteyn seems to have
set just the right note of wild
implausibility for the occasion,
but the incident that most de-
lighted this word fancier oc-
CURED when Dame Margot
stopped briefly at a New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-25
WORD GAME
Find "a or more words in
EX RE NOE
BEETLE BAILEY
SCAMP
ON STAGE

meaning TO know, undergo"
Average is 81 words; time limit,
20 minutes.
Rules Of the game: 1. Words must be
Of four or more letters. 2. Words which
acquire four letters by the addition OF
IS" such as bats" ears" are not
used. 3. Only one form OF q word Is
used. 4. Proper names are not used.
Answer to CHAsTISE
case, caste, cast, cash. cess. costa, chit,
chase. chat, cheats, chess, ehaise, chest,
hiss, hist, aches, aitch, ashes, asset,
sash, safe, saehet, saith, scat seattle,
seat, seta, sect, SHES, siesta, sist, site,
sites, slash, teach, this, thesis, itches,
east, each, eteh, ethics.
Diario las Américas., 1959-02-21
Warren SPAIN
C0nfr0f0
Son AhOru 26 los "Bruvos' Que
Han Firmudo Para Ell Ano 1859
No Sc ReveI6 10 que canard ell Lonzador zurdo

MILWAUKEE,, febrero 20.
tUPt)-Los Braves de, Mil
Waukee aseguraron hoy los
servicios de SUI jugador mas
importante, cuando ell lanza-
dor zurdo Warren SPAIN acep-
to, SUI contrato para 1859, en-
una conversation telefonica
desde su residencia campestre
en- Hartshorne, estado de ok
lahoma.
Ell acuerdo Sc logro, des-
pues que SPAIN que gano al
rededor de $4,000 d6lares ell
ano pasado -rechazo varias
ofertas anteriores. Ell vice pre-
sidente executive de los Bra
vos. Birdie Tebbetts, dijo que
SPAIN accedio a firmar ell
contrato "despues que nos en-
viamos I'm par de cartas y char
lie con e. dos wees" Tebbetts
dijo que Ell contrato es por un
ano, y agrego que "desde lue-
CO. jamas discutimos ell sala-
rio"
Son ahora %, los jugadores
que han llegado a un acuerdo
con la administration del
equipo, pero entire los que
ann no 10 han hecho Sc cuen-
tan fituras como Henry IA
Diario las Américas., 1959-02-21
Deportivas

PHONENIX, Aroma. CUPID
Ell outfjelder Felipe Alou, que
batio seis records de bate en-
la Liga Dominicana, disparo una
serIe de lineas impresionantes
en- las practicas de hoy.
Alou, que jug6 con Ell club
de Phoenix, antes de pasar a los
Dodgers, es uno de los posibles
nuevos jugadores titulares del
club de Los Angeles.
ST. LOUIS. UPI)-El Ian.
zador Larry Jackson firm6
hoy su contrat0 con los Car
denales de San Luis. Bing De-
vine, manager del club, dijo
Que Sc lie habia concedido un .
sumento de sueldo.
Los Cardenales tienen to.
davia cincO jugad0res sin fir
mar.
FORT MYERS, Florida. GU.
P.I.)--El lanzador Bob Porter
field iirmo hoy con los Piratas
de Pittsburgh, que tienen ahora
yn SOLO jugador sin firmar: ell
primera base Rocky Nelson.
VERO BEACH, Florida.
tUPD--Los ~lanzadores y re-
ceptores de los Dodgers de Los
Angeles realizaron hoy la pri.
mera session de entrenamien.
to. Los iugadores llegaron
aqui en- ell avi6n del club.
MILWAUKEE. (UPI)- Ell
yetcrano Andy Pafko devolvio
hoy su contrato firmado a los
Braves de Milwaukee, para SUI
Tia. temporada en- las Grandes
Ligas, y fue ash Ell vigesimosex-
to jugador que acepta las con-
diciones del club para 1859.