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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Gross Trick

Representative Gross of Iowa, who
seldom passes chance to try to flnan-
cially undercut the District of Columbia,
has done it again-thiS time on an even
flimsier pretext than usual.
Mr.. Gross latest thrust has tor
pedoed, not fatally we trust, bill which
was in the nature of an emergency
measure to help clear the way for the
Capitals long-planned national sports
stadium. The bill would specifically
authorize Federal park officials to pro-
vide essential parking areas and access
roads at the East Capitol street site. The
Interior Department has had an agree
ment with the District Armory Board for
some time to provide these facilities, but
an unexpected hitch developed earlier
this year when the House Appropriations
Committee imposed a ban on spending
money for this purpose.
To the rescue came the House Dis
trict Committee, reporting it's special
authorization bill. 1t no sooner hit the
House floor this week, however, than Mr..
Gross, with a groWl at the Federal
expense involved went to work. This
time, he dug up a rare technicality-a
complaint that the bill was out of order
because the report accompanying it
omitted certain language. So back to
the committee went the bill.
The delay has at least one advan-
tage. 1t permits little extra time for
the committee and the Interior Depart
ment to clarity the precise costs involved,
matter which can stand some review.
We no )e, however, that the committee
allows nothing to stand in the way of
getting the bill back to the House by the
next biweekly District Day." and that
the House then proceeds to vote Mr..
Gross down-aS it has done on such
frequent occasions in the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16

While the jay might so in
jure a mocker that it would
die, the chances of this are
not very large, we believe.
Though the jay has a bad
reputation among some bird
watchers. we have never seen
it do any particular harm to
any other living thing.
Maybe we Just haven't hap
pened to see a jay at its worst.
Certainly it is strong, fear
less, and energetic, but it
balances these with a sense
Of real humor, an almost al
truistic way of helping other
birds, and a relentlesSnesS
that makes a real American.
No doubt it can drive other
birds away. at times. and
does. Perhaps it eats the eggs
of other birds out of their
nests.
All in all, however, the jay
does not possess the mean
streak of the grackle, for
instance.
In opposite fashion, the
jay hides peanuts and other
goodies in places where
other species can find them.
1t would be impossible, of
course, to say the bird does
this with the hope other
birds will find the food. But
that they do find it, and that
they benefit from finding it.
must be left to the credit of
the jay.
4 x
so we answer our cores
pondent by saying that we do
not think her jay was killed.
and that he may or may not
come back.
We may be wrong, of
course. If he is never seen
again, it would be very easy
to think he was so injured
in the battle that he subse-
quently died.
Still, there would be no :
proof. The bird may have
decided to stay away. not
only to get away from his
enemy, but also to raise an
other brood.
Most often birds nest at
ONE other place than a
feeding point, This is because
oy this they throw off the
importantly of other bros
and conceal the nesting site
from them.
1t would be a good thing
20 put out the favorite foods,
as usual, and hope for a re-
turn Of this bird some time
in the fall. SeedleSs raisins
are the best autumn and
winter food. r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Brief Ray of Liqht

Something helpful came out of yes
terday'S Senate debate after all. 1t was
not the passage of another "home rule"
bill-a miSchievouS piece of legislation
which, in the unlikely event of enact
ment, would raise hob with this city and
still leave local taxpayers unrepreSented
In their sovereign Government.
The helpful thing that came out of
the debate was discussion of a surprise
proposal by Senator Case of South Da-
kota. He wanted to substitute, for the
home rule bill, Constitutional amend
ment permitting Congress to allow rep
reSentation of local citizens in Congress,
and in the choice of President and
Vice President. That is the only form
Of home rule worth boot.
The discussion produced no opposi-
ton to the principle Senator Case was
advocating. Some who voted against
the proposal supported the principle,
and the proposal itself mustered Is re-
corded votes in its favor. The opposition
was based on the procedure. The Senate,
in, effect, was being asked to submit
Constitutional amendment - requiring
favorable votes by two-thirdS Of the
Senators-which has not yet been con-
sidered or reported from committee. OF
course it was doomed.
We doubt that Senator Case, an old
hand in such matters, ever thought his
proposal had a chance. But its SubmiS-
sion threw the spotlight on what must
become the objective-the representa-
ton of residents of the Capital of the
United States in their own Government.
That representation would leave undiS-
turbed the great concept of Washington
as the Federal City, the place set aside
for the seat of Government and develop
ment as the worthy Capital of the
Nation. It would not inject the idea Of
a puppet form Of local government,
fixed with responsibility but lacking the
material resources and the power to dis
charge it.
This brief debate on Senator Cases
substitute motion is the first time that
a concrete proposition along such lines
has reached the Senate floor. The heavy
vote against it was no test OF the prin-
ciple. Senator Case deserves commenda-
ton for bringing the matter up as he
did. And in doing so he was serving
fair notice on the people of this city
that unless they get behind the Con-
stitutional amendment and really work
for it, they are going to be stuck with
some form of futile, costly and even
tually unavoidable "home rule" that will
further prejudice their case for worth
while voting rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Pans Planners

The new traffic plan BAN
ming left turns at Wisconsin
and Massachusetts, avenues
NV. for traffic moving east
on Wisconsin avenue and di-
recting traffic to turn at
Garfield street places the
newly purchased park at the
corner in the center of a
truck merry-go-round. This
decision by the traffic and
highway officials is about the
most stupid that they coulG
come up with. A high-priced
park for the benefit of cit
liens il this area that was
fought for so long and so
hard and finally won over
great obstacles is now sur
rounded by a continuous flow
of trucks all day. A very poor
city management decision.
w. A. Sellers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Tuition Grants

Boothe apologies to Al
mond for Thompson. That is
nice. Now if someone apollo
gizes to the people of Virginia
for Boothe and Almond,
equity will be restored.
That is about all we can
do for our 10th district in
cumbentS and our beloved
Governor-ap ologize for
them.
1t was for them really, and
to appease certain pressure
groups working for integra-
ton and a breakdown of
State sovereignty via the
public school system, that the
So-called freedom of choice"
legislation was passed (by one
vote).
This is the legislation that
authorizes to II heavily popu-
lated areas of Virginia a tu-
ition grant so low that pri-
vate schooling for the average
family cannot be contem-
plated. This, and not their
denials, shows their real atti-
tudes toward segregated pri-
vate schools. and while they
extol the virtues of public
education. they very dutifully
neglect to insert the word
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Senate Rescue

Senator Bible Is entirely correct IN
urging the Senate to come to the res
cue of appropriations needed to solve
the Chantilly Airport sewage disposal
problem.
The House, reducing $32 million
request to $750,OOO, told the Federal
Aviation Agency that the lesser amount
would be sufficient to build a small
treatment plant at the airport. FAA
already knew this, for it considered and
abandoned such scheme more than
year ago. Its chief reason for doing so
was that the airport plant would route
sewage ef1uent into the Potomac above
the areas water supply intake. In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Our Moscow Art

After reviewing all of the
alleged political implications,
l am prompted to comment
on the quality of United
States art which is to be eX-
hibited in the Soviet Union
solely on the basis Of artistic
values.
Until the advent of the
avant-garde move e n t,
sculpture, painting and mural
decoration were considered to
be entirely within the realm
of the visual arts and, being
such, each work was &C
claimed or criticized for its
esthetic merit.
However, we are also aware
that throughout every period
of history there have been
tendencies in art gravitatlng
toward the exotic, the bizarre
and the grotesque. That these
art forms as a transitive
novelty have their place cam
not be denied. for they have
an appeal to everyone in
limited doSages. But to foist
them on an unsuSpecting
public as the credo of art in
our era is perhaps the most
outrageous esthetic swindle
and mass-mesmerism ever
attempted.
Thus, the avant-gardiSts,
knowing their works could
never survive purely on their
visual merit, have added a
new dimension, the con-
temporary art critic - a
sophist so intoxicated by his
own vocabulary that he has
eagerly accepted the role of
high priest in the lip-service
promotion of a new and weird
art cult. This literary prop
agandist is the nucleus OF a
powerful claque dedicated to
the alteration and glorifica-
ton of artistic inSincerity
and charlataniSm.
Incomprehensible and in
artistic masterpieces" are
explained" to the public by
a subtle concoction of glib
gibberish, motivational psy-
chology and literary leger-
domain. The critics have en-
barked upon a complete abne-
CATION of arts basic precepts.
In their world-stood-on-head
lexicon, ugliness is beauty,
fantasy is realism and blatant
confusion is orderly logic.
We have enough social,
moral and cultural ills pla-
guing the contemporary scene
without the additional chaos
and bad taste created by ar
tistic delinquents and their
very vocal coterie. The avant-
garde works we have sent
abroad should not be con-
strued by foreign peoples to
be representative of the sum
total of American art.
Gordon d. Friedlander.
White Plains, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
ChontiIIy Hearing

The July II public hearing
on the Federal Aviation
Agency's abrupt relocation of
the Chantilly Airport road
corridor has significance far
beyond the redress due a
large number of Fairfax
County citizens whose homes
are threatened. 1t is signifi-
cant that The Star. in an
editorial on June %, first
supported the public demand
for a hearing. Again on July
S. an editorial in The Star
asked that the owners be
given a chance to be heard
"either before the FAA or a
Senate committee" 1t added
that THE good faith of the
Government is at stake" 1t
is also significant that Sen
ator Byrd, Senator Robert
son, and Representative
Broyhill then joined in a
similar request to the FAA.
The significance of this
public hearing does not end
with the fact that it will take
place. Implicit in the support
of the press and the Virginia
legislators is the following
mandate to the FAA.
l. The hearing is primarily
for the benefit of the citi-
zens affected by the shift of
the corridor. In all good
faith, the public" hearing
took place last fall, at the
time Corridor B was adopted.
2. Property owners outside
Corridor B and affected in
any way by the route as filed
for in the agency'S court ac-
ton should be granted all the
time necessary to state their
cases.
8. The action of the agency
in this matter has been such
that the citizen should have
the right to challenge those
factors on which the agency
decision was based Further,
each citizen may rightful.y
expect a reply concerning
every particular factor. Ger
tainly every citizen is en-
titled to the facts used by the
FAA in support of their ac-
ton.
Without this mutual I'M
derstanding regarding this
public hearing and a mutual
interchange of facts bearing
on the road location, the
plight Of the individual citi-
zen is indeed desperate. If
the FAA truly seeks to act
in the public interest, then
the citizen can take heart
for, as Milton said in the
Areopagitica, "Who ever
knew truth put to the worse,
in a free and open en-
counter?"
M. A. Stahl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Steel Solution?

The steel industry cannot
afford to pay the workers
more than SO per hour. The
workers cannot live on So
per hour. Hence the indus
try must close it's plants.
The workers may be put on
relief, where they can be
supported for less than So
per hour.
The public must go with
out steel. But must they?
Solution! Rerlove all tariff
and other barriers and open
our markets to foreign steel
producers and invite them to
bid on our needs. 1t might
solve the problem. Let's try it.
John A. Savage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16

"integrated" before the word
public.
This is an academic point,
as all attorneys in Richmond
and almost all laymen know
that the granting of these
scholarships will be held State
action by the Federal courts
and that this whole package
of legislation will be struck
down. But what is not aca-
demic is that this was done
deliberately. Provisions which
guarantee retirement rights
to. teachers by State action
were also calculated to defeat
this plan. This was done
deliberately.
Owen Allen Keen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
THE POLITICAL MILL
Humphrey Gets in First Blow
By GOULD LINCOLN

fauver withdrew. New Jersey
has, Of course, its own favor
ite-son candidate in Gov.
Meyner, and so has Michi-
gan in the person Of Gov.
Williams.
All this favorite-soning is
painful to Senator Kennedy,
regarded as the front-runner
today. The Senator, most
widely publicized of the large
group of potential presiden-
tial candidates-Democratic
is relying on his personal
popularity with the rank-and-
file members of his party. II
he is forestalled from doing
so by favorite-son candidates
pre-empting the race for del
egates in their particular
States, his chances may suf-
fer. He is doubtful he could
survive if the nomination
were to be made in a smoke
filled room in Los Angeles by
a hardboiled group Of party
leaders.
A Calculated Risk
Senator Humphrey is TAX
ing a risk in his early an
nouncement for the presi-
Dental nomination. Candi-
dates fear they may become
a twice-told tale if they be-
gin campaigning openly too
soon. So they go about the
country making speeches but
denying they are active can
didates. The Minnesotan's
action in declaring himself
is refreshing.
Also, ne has given imme-
date example of the kind of
hard-hitting campaign he
plans to make. He didn't wait
a day before launching it
with a strong pro-civil rights
statement, attacking Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Vice
President Nixon for not TAX
ing a more aggressive stand
for further civil rights legis-
lation.
The civil rights issue is one
on which Senator Humphrey
hopes to ride to the nominal
ton and in his campaign for
. election if nominated. His APP
peal to the Negro vote dates
back to the Democratic Ma
tlonal Convention of 1948. a
few months before he won his
first term in the Senate. He
brought in a minority report
supporting a strong civil
rights plank in the national
party platform and persuaded
the delegates to adopt the
plank against the will of the
majority of the platform
committee.
This is just a sample of
what may be expected from
the Minnesota Senator in his
fight for the nomination. 1t
certainly should please Dem
ocratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler and others in
the Democratic Party who
clamor for drastic legislation
to force indignation in public
schools throughout the Ma
ton.
1t will, of course, make SEN
ator Humphreys path more
difficult because of opposition
from Southern delegates in
the national convention. 1t
conceivably could lose him a
number of the Southern
States in the general cleo
ton. But he apparently is
willing to take that risk.
The Senator from Mime
sofa is expected to follow up
with strong statements in
favor Of pro-labor legislation
and farm legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16

Senator Hubert Humphrey
Of Minnesota has boldly
cracked the ice and an
nounced himself a candidate
for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination. 1t is charac-
teristic of the Senator. Also,
1t is sensible from his point
Of view. Now that he is out in
the open, he should be able
to gain an idea Of how much
chance he has to win the
coveted prize. II he fails to
land the presidential nomina-
ton, it is his firm purpose to
run for reelection to the
Senate.
1t remains TO be seen how
soon another of the potential
candidates for the presiden-
tial nomination follows him
into the ring. Some of them,
like Senator John F. Kennedy
OF Massachusetts,, for ex-
ample, are hard at work try
ing to line up favorable dele
gates, or a promise of them,
to vote for them at the Demo-
cratic National Convention
in Los Angeles next summer.
AS OF today, that conven-
ton will be one of the finest
horse-trading affairs in re-
cent political history. More
and more of the States, both
those which have presidential
preference primaries and
those which do not, are pro-
ducing favorite-son candi-
dates for the Democratic
nomination. Certainly this is
true in States which hold
significant and important
presidential primaries. In
California, Gov. Pat Brown
has announced himself a
favorite-son candidate-and
in all probability no other
potential candidate will have
the temerity to challenge
him, although Senators Ken
nedy and Humphrey have
been playing around with the
idea. Gov. Brown is the first
Democratic Governor elected
in California in many years
and he stands well with the
electorate.
Other FavOrite Sons
In two other States-WiS-
consin and Ohio-the Gov
errors have indicated pref
erenceS for favorite-son can
didates. Gov. Nelson of Wis
conSin wants Senator Prox-
mire to carry the ball as
favorite = son candidate in
that States presidential pri-
mary. If the Senator declines,
Gov. Nelson may take a crack
at it himself.
Gov. Disable of Ohio is
considering a favorite-son
candidacy, too. Gov. TaweS
of Maryland, another primary
State, may become a favorite
son there, Notwithstanding
the fact he has been put on
notice by Senator Kennedy
that the latter may enter the
race for Maryland's prefer
ence.
The Florida Democratic
delegation in Congress has
tossed the name of Senator
Smathers into the ring as a
favorite son, thereby seeking
to keep that States primary
family affair. The Florida
primary in 1856 was one of
the chief backgrounds be-
tween Adlai Stevenson and
Senator Kefauver of Tennes-
see in their race Tor the
presidential nomination. 1t
was in the California primary
that year that Gov. Stevenson
clinched his grasp on the
nomination and Senator Ke-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Lefty Whipple.

Secretary, Northern Vir-
GINA Committee, Ma
tional Association of
Social Workers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-17
St. Peters Church
Fall Style Show
Set September d

A long list Of door prizes and
fashion accessories from Jel-
leffs will be given away at the
third annual fall fashion show
to be held at the parish hall of
st. Peters Parish Hall, Olney,
at 8 pm. on Thursday, Septem-
Der "a.
Models will show autumn
styles for children, teen ayers
and adults with commentary by
Sue Boetler, fashion coordina-
tor for Jelleffs. Following the
show, refreshments will be
served.
Admission is 81 for adults
and so cents for children under
IA. Tickets will be sold at the
door and proceeds will go into
the church building fund.
Mrs. Harry Wessling, chair
man Of the event, is being as
sisted by Mrs. Harold Strick-
land, decorations; Mrs. Robert
Cuff, Mrs. William Morrow and
Mrs. William Simmett, refresh
ments and Mrs. James Cole,
music.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-17
Committees Named
For Fall Square Dance

Committees have been lined.
up for the Fall Frolic Square
Dance to be held at the Gath
ersburg Agriculture Center at
$3.50 pm. on Saturday, October
8. The event is being sponsored
by the Woman's Democratic
Club of Silver Spring. Maurice
Flowers will call.
Cenevieve Wells will serve as
general chairman. The ticket
committee, headed by Edna
Cook, includes Evelyn Lynch,
Mary Kehoe and Julia Russo.
Also assisting are Jeanette
Varoutsos and Louise Smith,
hospitality; Thelma Smith,
door prizes; Marion Clark and
Betty Ruth McDevitt, publicity.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-17

ty. He also serves In the Army
Reserve as a lieutenant colonel
in the Chaplain Corps. Both
have worked in the Rockville
P.TAs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-17
Joann BreIick.
Douglas Fleming
Engaged to Wed

ANNOUNCEMENT of the engage.
ment OF Miss Joann Carol Bre-
lick, to Douglas Nelson Flem-
Ing Is made by the bride.elect's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Brelick, 1928 Fleming ave-, Be.
thesda. The prospective bride
groom Is the son Of DR.. Paul
Fleming of Silver Spring and
Mrs. z. w. Kuhlman Of Hagers.
town.
Miss Brelick graduated from
Walter Johnson High School and
Is now employed as a secretary
with the Federal Communica.
tons Commission. Washington,
d. c. Her finance graduated
from Hagerstown High School
and is now attending Columbia
Technical Institute.
A December wedding Is
planned.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-17
Fails Celebrate Silver Anniversary
By kathryn S. Pontius

Honored at an evening lawn
party on the occasion of their
silver wedding anniversary Fri
day were Rev. and Mrs. James
c. Fail. The celebration was
planned as a surprise by their
family and a group of members
of his congregation in the Rock
vile Presbyterian Church.
About 300 friends, fellow minis
tiers of the Rockville ministe-
rial association, chaplains. rela-
tives and folks in his present
and former congregations, Joined
the Fahls to share their cele-
bration on the spacious lawn of
the Smith home adjoining the
manse on Forest ave.
japanese lanterns lit the way
for the receiving line of friends
greeting the Fail family. join
ing their parents in welcoming
guests were Pat, who ATTENDS
Presbyterian School of Nurs-
ing, Colum bia University;
Charles, a student at Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, Ohio;
Margaret, a third-year student
at Richard Montgomery High
School; and Cindy, who attends
West Rockville Elementary
School.
Among the guests were Rock.
vile residents DR.. and Mrs. Gus
ter Cromwell. Mr.. and Mrs. 10.
seph Tarallo, Mr.. and Mrs. Brian
Benson, DR.. and Mrs. William
G. Hall and Mr.. and Mrs. Bar.
nard Welsh. Relatives attending
were Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Jar.
chow and Miss Mildred Runyon
of Wilmette, H.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Jarchow and daughter
Ann of Evanston, H.; Mr.. and
Mrs. Al Jarchow and daughter
Ann of Bethesda; Mrs. Margaret
Pearce of Highland Park, Ill;
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Zitzewitz
and daughter Gail of Evanston,
Ill; Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. Fail
of St. Mary's City, Ind; DR.. and
Mrs. E. Walters of Arlington
Va; and Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett
Fail of Baltimore. The Rev. L.
B. Colquitt, executive secretary
of the Potomac Presbytery, was
also present.
The Fahls were married in
Irving Park Presbyterian
Church in Chicago, H., on Sep.
TENDER 10, 1884. He served his
first church in Westhope, n.
Oak, for IS months, then at.
tended graduate school at the
Yale Divinity School for a year.
His next call was in Spencer,
N. Y, where he served for two
and one-half years. From 1899
to 1913 he was minister in War