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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS
Gleeful Drawing Room Topic
Is The IN and OUT Book

the important people involved
and casually greet them as
you go in or out of the hear
ing room.
RUNNING FOR PRESI-
DENT is IN, but running for
Vice President is OUT.
Baudouin is IN: Leopold is
OUT. :. Clare Luce is OUT;
Ogden Reid is IN.
HoStesSeS who constantly
entertain the attractive extra
men in town and do not IN
vite the women who intro
duced them are considered
OUT by the women who in
troduced them.
Benefits for disease are
OUT; so is serving on every
welfare committee in town.
but having a special more
obscure charity of ones own
is IN.
Embassy brushes are OUT.
=. After-theater and after
concert parties are OUT. =.
Long pre-dinner cocktail pc
RODS are dreadfully OUT. e.
Dinner parties are IN: so are
buffet suppers If they are
seated. Right now infor-
NAL suppers in the garden
are terribly. terribly IN.
Going to Rome or Paris for
the State Department was
IN, but it's rapidly going
OUT because practically all
the IN people have already
been there.
Boards are OUT; so is the
beat generation. but revolu-
tons are IN. Dictators
are OUT; kings are IN.
Aunt Bessie" Merryman
is IN. but the Windsors are
OUT.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER
is IN. Baker is IN and
Laika is OUT. Private
swimming pools are IN.
Investing in good pictures is
IN: investing in good jewelry
is OUT, though it once was
IN. Eggheads are IN.
e. Arty men are OUT, though
they work harder than most
to be IN.
OUT word of the year:
TOGETHERNESS.
Pushing a grocery cart is
IN. To be interested in
politics is IN. Artificial
flowers for the house are IN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14

:. The st. Lawrence Sea-
way is IN. Theater in
Washington is IN.
People who are careful to
be seen only at the right
places are OUT because IN
people are still IN even at
the Greasy Spoon.
Things that are especially
OUT in Washington:
Using VIPs as q drawing
card.
The decorated look in a
house.
The important places you
are going to or have just
come from.
First-name dropping.
Seating an honor guest be-
low the place Of honor in
difference to rank.
Leaving cards on ambas-
sadorial couples you don't
know.
Leaving cards.
Jet planes are IN, propeller
planes are OUT unless pri-
vately owned Helicopters
are way IN Yachts are
OUT: boats are IN.
TITLES ARE MORE or
less OUT because they are
no longer particularly IN.
Social publicity is IN but
to be overpublicized is OUT.
Bright young men IN the
administration are OUT. but
bright young men in Con-
gresS are IN.
Being IN or OUT in Wash
ington has nothing to do
with official rank except for
the President. Vice President
and Secretary of State. who
are always automatically IN.
Mems garterS are IN
Chic raincoatS are IN
Colored stockings and colored
cotton gloves for women are
OUT Corsages have been
OUT for ages and still are
The Opera Society OF
Washington is IN The
Women's National Press Club
is IN Senators johnson
and Symington are IN: Sem
atorS Morse and Proxmire
are OUT Hostess feudS
are also OUT.
STAYING IN WASHING
TON THROUGH JULY is IN.
Only the OUT people would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14
Crittenton Event
Being Plonned

The Woodley Circle Of the
Florence Crittenton Home is
sponsoring the opening Of
the Rosecroft Music Circus on
Tuesday evening, June % on
the grounds Of the Rosecroft
Raceway at Oxon Hill. Md.
"Du Barry Was A Lady"
starring Bert Lahr, will be
presented In a theater-in-
the-round setting. Curtain
time is $3.50.
Mrs. Nixon heads the list
Of patronesses for the gala
which will benefit the work
Of the Florence Crittenton
Home.
Other patronesses include
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14
BY BETTY BEALE
star stan Writer

The most gleeful topic cur
rently being tossed about in
Washington drawing rooms
is THE IN and OUT Book"
by Robert Benton and Harvey
Schmidt.
According to the latest is
sue Of Vogue, it is also what
New York is talking about.
BY IN and OUT the authors
mean u and Non-U. only,
they say, talking about U
and Non-U is OUT"
To further clarity the sub
ject matter. let me quote from
the first pages of the deli
ciously arbitrary. amusingly
illustrated thin volume:
THERE ARE TWO KINDS
OF PEOPLE in this world:
IN and OUT Some OUT
people try to get IN by say
ing they like IN things, but
since OUT people can never
be IN. they can only manage
to ruin some good IN things"
And again: Senator Ken
nedy is so IN he's OUT
Harry Truman is IN The
editorial We has always been
OUT . . An IN person who
works at being IN is auto
matically OUT" And so forth.
Washington socialites
seemed to agree entirely with
the above, but there were
several things in the MeSSrs.
Benton and Schmidt's list
they found fault with-for
example: africa is OUT.
Russia is IN" So Washing
ton IN people have been
drawing up their own list.
Here are their contributions
to date:
Russia is OUT unless you
are going on the trip with
Mr.. Nixon. Africa Is IN and
Red China Is very IN.
Low District license plates
are OUT White dinner
jackets are OUT Going
to fashionable summer re-
sorts for the summer is OUT,
unless you've been going since
you were born and "just have
to for the sake of the family"
Going to Congressional
hearings is IN but only If
you know at least two Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14

be afraid TO stay in for fear
Of being considered OUT :.
Country houses are IN. Debut
dances at country houses are
IN.
Ambassadors who play up
only TO rich residential social
ties who can do nothing to
strengthen ties, between the
countries are OUT.
OUT people pretending to
be IN are OUT. but OUT peo-
pie who make no pretense
may be IN.
Small foreign cars are go
ing OUT, and small American
cars are coming IN. Bigs cars
are OUT Snobbery is
OUT, but discrimination for
tunately is still IN.
II you wonder whether you
are IN or OUT, you're OUT.
Washington is IN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14

Ezra Taft Benson, Mrs. Lyn-
don johnson. Mrs. Perle
Mesta, Mrs. Homer Ferguson,
Mrs. David B. Karrick and
Mrs. Morris Cafritz.
Mrs. Max harrington, pres
ident Of the circle. is benefit
chairman. assisted by her
officers. The ticket chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14

Mrs. Earl Warren, Baroness
Silvercruys, Nine. Yang,
Nine. Thor Thors. Mrs. How
ard Beale, Mrs. Thomas c.
Clark. Mrs. William J. Bren-
nan, Mrs. Stanley F. Reed,
Mrs. Robert b. Anderson,
Mrs. Arthur z. Summerfield,
Mrs. Fred A. Seaton. Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-14

is Mrs. George d. johnson
OF the Sheraton Park Hotel.
Mrs harrington has pointed
out that the Rosecroft Music
Circus Terrace Lounge viii
open at 5 pm. and the dining
room at 6 pm. so groups
may plan dinner parties there
before the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
DAVID LAWRENCE
On the Eve of Conquest

Article 81 Of the United Ma
tons Charter.
The Communist bloc al
ready has infiltrated suffl-
GENTLY into Afghanistan to
set up a Com m unist-
supported regime there. and
efforts are also being made
to overthrow the existing
government in Iran which is
next door to Afghanistan on
the west.
The Soviet strategy seems
to be to move southwark from
the Asian territory already
held by the Communists,
including the mainland of
China and Tibet as well as
Northern Wet Nam. It will
be recalled that at the Geneva
conference in 1854, which was
supposed to end the Indo-
China war, the Communists
agreed to withdraw to North
Wet Nam and to respect the
sovereignty Of Laos, Cambo-
dia. Thailand and South Wet
Nam. But in recent months
the Communists not only
have invaded most Of those
same areas with marauding
bands but also have sent
troops into the provinces bor-
dering on Pakistan and into
certain states within midas
jurisdiction. Also Burma is
being stirred up by the Com
munists, and there are Com
muniSt-inspired riots in CAL
cutta and other parts Of
India. The pattern is the
same as has been witnessed
heretofore prior to an actual
invasion by Com m unist
troops.
Will the members of the
free world stand up in the
United Nations and take steps
to repel aggression just as
they did in Korea in 1850?
Should President Eisenhower
politely advise Mr.. Khru-
shchev that. in view of the
changed conditions in South
east Asia. perhaps it would
be better for the Soviet Pre-
mier to postpone" his visit
to the United States? These
are the questions arising out
OF the new crisis that the
Communists have fomented
1t is not a time for cringing
but for resoluteneSs-other-
wise. a greater danger could
come from the big war that
usually ensues when dictators
are appeased.
Copyright. 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
A Dangerous Opponent

systematic grass roots" tours
over the Soviet Union. He has
kept his ear to the ground.
He has given a greater touch
OF practically to Communist
theology without in any way
abandoning the theology it.
self.
One small point well illus
trates the difference between
Mr.. Khrushchev and, say,
Stain. Stain, had he ever
come to this country, would
have come as an unconcealed
military boss. He would have
been ready, of course, to talk
to the big people, but would
have been scornful of popu-
lar demonstrations. Mr..
Khrushchev is coming like a
happy. rural visitor to a
worlds fair-and bringing
his whole family with him.
In the terms of this meet
ing with the President, Khru-
shchev has regrettably few
weaknesses. Only two are
confidently described here:
He is impulsive and he is in
a great hurry. These qualities,
however. are not merely dan
gerous to him; they could be
dangerous to us as well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
Khrushchev Talks Peaceful c o-existence
While Reds Are Seen Attacking in Asia

United States Government.
1t says in part:
1T is now clear that the
Communist bloc does not in
tend to permit the sovereign
Laos government to remain
at peace. The Communist bloc
apparently intends to foment
and direct a rebellion within
Laos and to give extensive
support to the attempt to
seize important areas and
otherwise to prevent the
establishment Of those peace
full conditions necessary to
implement basic economic
and social programs :.
THAT outside Communist
intervention exists is demon
strated by the assistance evil
IDENTIFY being received by the
Communist forces within
Laos, including supplies and
military weapons that could
be provided only from Com
munist territory and by
the fact that the military
outbreak in Laos has followed
conferences in Moscow and
Peiping between Ho Chi
Mimi and Soviet and Chinese
Communist leaders and also
conferences in Moscow be-
tween two members of the
Northern Wet Nam polit-
buro and Deputy Prime Min
lister Anastas Mikoyan it
is appropriate that this mat
ter be thus brought to the
worlds attention.
The United States is join
ing with other nations to
bring the situation before the
U nited Nations Security
Council and-if a Soviet veto
is interpoSed there-a request
for a United Nations General
Assembly meeting then will
be forthcoming. In the case
OF the military action ordered
by the United Nations in 1850
in North Korea, the Soviet
government had absented it.
self from the Security Coun-
Gil, so no Soviet veto was
registered. But the General
Assembly. too, can authorize
any group of member nations
to take action or the latter
can do so without seeking
United Nations permission,
simply by utilizing the COL
lectiVe formula provided by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
British Are Seen as Semi isormed,
Developing A-Power for Peaceful Uses

LONDON-President Eisen-
hover has found here a semi
disarmed and almost a paci-
fist state.
The British have reduced
their army on the Rhine to
little more than a training
brigade. The famous Royal
Navy is in the process of a
reorganization which it is
hoped will make it the very
model Of a modern nuclear
fleet. 1t still does not have its
first atomic submarine. The
Royal Air Force is similarly
in transition, with no fixed
decision yet made on what
aircraft will serve its purpose.
This half-power military
status is not the cause Of the
British drive toward accom-
mediation with the Soviet
Union. 1t is the result of the
considered opinion Of Britain's
leaders about the future of
their nation amid the harsh
realities of the space age.
For the whole theory Of
British politics today is that
this island kingdom of so
million people. crowded into
an area roughly the size of the
State of Kansas. could not
Withstand an atomic attack.
Estimates of probable losses
from about nuclear war run
as high as a fourth of the
whole population within the
first hours.
Surrounded by water, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
WILLIAM S. WHITE

What kind of an antago-
mist. actually, is President
Eisenhower preparing to meet
in Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev? And what are
the real skills and weak
nesses of this heir to Lenin
and Stain and the other old
Bolsheviks?
Men of high responsibility
and of special knowledge of
Mr.. Khrushchev privately
return far from reassuring
answers to these questions.
Their chilly reckoning comes
to this: Nikita Khrushchev
by Western standards is the
first truly able professional
politician, the first real mas
ter of propaganda techniques
readily adaptable to the
Western mind, to head the
Soviet Union.
In these fields he is a far
more dangerous opponent
than any of his predecessors
would have been. For the
issue now between East and
West is one Of political-prop-
uganda negotiation and not
a Straight-out power contest.
Though the sources of the
information cannot be iden-
titled, all these observations
and all the following may be
taken as an authoritative
view of Mr.. Khrushchev. 1t
is a view on which the Pres
ident himself no doubt will
be thoroughly briefed before
he opens his talks here with
the Soviet Premier.
Lenin and Stain and all
the others who came before
Mr.. Khrushchev ran Soviet
affairs and attained Soviet
detectives by the most openly
brutal Of brutal force. Mr..
Khrushchev is no less dedi-
Gated to the ultimate tri-
umph of world communism.
Still, he has developed far
more subtle ways of reaching
his goals.
He has learned for him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07

On the eve Of Nikita Khru-
shchev's visit to the United
States. he brazenly gives sup
port to a war designed to
conquer the remainder Of
Asian territory not yet con-
trolled by Communists.
Along a front of approx
mately 5000 miles. Commu-
mist armies and munitions
now have been modified and
small bands of troops have
already crossed over to in
wade various free countries.
including Laos, Burma and
India.
Americans are unfamiliar
with the names Of the places
where the war is taking place
or with the geography of the
area. But what has just hap
pened is about the same thing
as II the Communists held all
of Canada and sent troops
across into Idaho. Minnesota,
Michigan and New York.
Since the military operations
are widely separated. the plot
is not so readily apparent.
But the whole movement is
a concerted one and it is
aimed at conquering all of
the continent of Asia. Pre-
Sumably as soon as the con-
quest of the mainland is COM
pleted. the way will be open
for the invasion of the
Philippines, Japan and For
moSa.
This military action, COM
ing as it does in the midst
of Mr.. Khrushchev'S protes-
tation of peaceful intent and
his advocacy of peaceful CO.
existence" is truly startling.
For evidently he thinks
Americans and the free world
generally will acquiesce
rather than risk giving any
military support to the VIC
Tins Of aggression. This is
precisely the view Hitler had
when he invaded the Rhine
land and Czechoslovakia and
when he finally attacked Po-
land in 1899. He was con-
WINGED that the west
wouldn't fight.
The facts about the war
in Asia have been plainly set
forth in an official statement
issued on Saturday by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07

British have nowhere to re-
treat in such a disaster. Pre-
sumably their Dominions
would take them in, but
means Of transport to the
Dominions for even a frac-
ton of the people are no.
where in evidence.
1t is important for Ameri-
cans to remember that the
British political parties are
not divided on the general
proposition that they must
live - or die - as an island
kingdom. If anything. the
out-of-power Laborites are
the more jealous about it and
more willing to pay the price
for it.
Nor does anyone view it as
a backward step or dismal
prospect. With vision and
energy the British are going
ahead with the development
of atomic power for peaceful
use. They are said to be ahead
Of the United States in this
field. and certainly they in
tend to be.
They have planned and
worked with foresight for
economic recovery and they
are succeeding. Employment
is up and they have achieved
parity with the United States
in trade; their exports to us
equal their imports.
Yet, they have had to take
note Of the bright prospects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Khrushchev will go to Red China after visiting u.s.
Mr. KS motto Speak softly and carry big chop stick"
Democrats reel under series of Eisenhower vetoes
They claim he's been abroad long, his English rusty
He can't remember how to say yes"
Strange world Laos is at loss how to repe Communist
understand the US is at loss how welcome them.
Labor Day: Named in honor of the brave men who
persisted in the last of the great crusade-the abol
sh Mondays
House committee will probe rugged TV shows This
will be show where the management hand out
the answers along with the questions.
Q-Have reached Indian summer yet? Al don't
know about you. but reached it hve years ago.
Democratic view: likes miracle He oafs for
six then to work for three monthand outshnes
everybody"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
RALPH McGILL
Southern School Notes

advanced mathematics, high
school physics or chemistry.
They cannot have a fair
chance in educational COM
petition. This, to be sure, is
not limited entirely to these
States. But the harmful
effects of 1t are there most
concentrated "aYse the
South has Il, Toss school
population.
Putting all the related parts
together reveals the melan-
choly fact that historically
there exists an astonishing
lack Of local support Of edu-
cation.
The most tragic aspect Of
the blind. massive defiance in
the hard-core States is not
defiance itself. 1t is the in
ability of the South to re-
duce the school problem Of
its steadily declining Negro
population to rational terms.
Leadership, which from the
beginning has deceived the
people as to the alternatives,
consistently has substituted
myth for fact. emotion for.
reason. Going to school has
been made into the image Of
an intimate social gathering,
rather than a place where
children go separately to be
taught. The myth Of forced
social mixing has become a
fixed one. as If attending
classes was similar to attend
ing a dance. The myth of a
school being overwhelmed by
mass numbers Of Negroes is
fostered despite the fact con-
trolling pupil placement laws
have been declared constitu-
tional.
The people properly resent
anyone who attempts to tell
them what they must do. But
what they have not been told
is what the alternatives are.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
Khrushchev Described as a Master
Propogondist and Able Politician

self-or perhaps he has been
taught by Western traitors
who have detected to the
Soviet Union-how to cover
over the sinister totalitari-
anism of Soviet life and pur-
poses with bland and appeal
ing words and acts.
1t is not accidental, for
example, that for the last
three years at least he had
been making himself amiably
available to Westerners at all
sorts Of affairs in Moscow.
The picture offered has been
one OF a friendly, easy-going
elderly man, a sort of Rus
sian foxy grandpa always
ready to have a cocktail with
chance acquaintance and
humanity liable once in a
while even to drink a little
too much.
The impression has been
slowly and carefully built of
a new" kind of Soviet dicta-
tor, personally more relaxed
than the old Bolsheviks and
also much more relaxed to-
ward the outer world.
Along with this, Mr.. Khru-
shchev with equal care has
carried forward a "humaniz-
ing" process within the
Soviet Union. He has revived
the influence of the Commu-
mist Party-here is one of the
evidences of him as a poll
tician-and correspondingly
reduced the influence of the
secret police.
he mas largely eliminated
the old Soviet slave labor
camps. not for motives of
pity but in the belief simply
that they were not economi-
cally sound. He has taken
many steps to decentralize,
or at least seemingly to de-
centralize, the Soviet bu-
reaucracy.
He has made unusual con-
cessions to the farmers and
has lifted some controls from
them. Unlike all his dicta-
tor predecessors. he has made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
Robbers Loot Home
While Owner Sinos

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 7 (AP).
Burglars broke into the home
of Singer Anna Maria Alber-
ghetti while she was singing
at a Hollywood Bowl program.
They took $4,000 worth of jew
elry and ransacked the singers
home in an unsuccessful search
for cash.
Police said the burglary oc-
Cured Saturday night and was
discovered not long afterward
by the singers mother, Mrs.
Vittoria Alberghetti, who found
a rear screen cut and the door
pried open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07
Lack of Local Support Is Blamed
For Substondord Rural Systems

Southern school notes. At
a time when the challenge of
the school bell is heard in the
land, children in the States
Of Mississippi. Alaba m a,
South Carolina and Georgia
are sitting down to learning
amid predictions this may be
the last year of a State pub
lie school system.
There are other items of
news directly related to edu-
cation in those States.
A 1859 National Education
Association research report
finds the above four States
to be among the lowest in the
Nation in expenditure per
pupil. More revealing is the
fact that while at the State
level these States have made
progress in educational ap-
preparations. they are among
the very last in local financial
support Of schools.
The cities of these States
have made substantial con-
tributions from their own tax
funds. But outside the larger
centers, local support is al
most nonexistent. In a ma
jority of rural communities it
literally is that.
There Is another relevant
item. Each year, United
States Senator Herman Tai
madge Of Georgia, at the re-
quest Of the press of his
State. releases some educa-
tional statistics. They are the
examination results Of young
men from his State who had
applied for appointment to
the military academy. He
gives no names, only the
figures. This is the third Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-07

such releases. Thirty-five
young men applied in 1858
and 80 per cent fiunked out
right.
The shocked Senator is
sued a heated statement to
the effect that progressive
educators seemingly had sub
stituted the right to march in
a commencement procession
for the right to an education"
Last February the results
on 95 applicants were re-
leased. There was a slight
improvement. But the Sem
ator still was shoe ked.
Seventy per cent flunked. The
latest statistics once more are
at hand. OF SO applicants,
80 per cent failed.
The Senator understand
ably was the more exercised
when he had the breakdown
before him. OF the 10 who
passed with scores Of 10 or
better, II came either from
private schools in Georgia
or are the sons of Georgia
military personnel who went
to school outside the State.
OF the 10 successful appli-
cants, only one was educated
in a rural county high school.
The others were all from the
public schools in the larger
cities of the State.
What this reveals can be
applied, generally, with few
variations, to all the hard
core Deep South States. 1t
reveals what many distressed
parents have known for a
long time. 1t is that If they
live in the rural areas of any
Of these States their chill
dren are most unlikely to
have an opportunity to take