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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
A Marines Marine

In reaching down the list of high
ranking Marines for new commandant
of the Marine Corps, President EiSen-
hover has chosen an officer whose cour-
age and stamina as a leader have been
proved under the most trying of battle
conditions. 1t may seem bit trite to
call Major General David M. Shoup
Marines Marine" as some of his aSso-
ciates have done, but the label seems
fully justified against the stirring back
ground of his war service.
AS colonel of the I'd Marines, I'd Ma
rine Division, this 54-year-old Indianan
displayed inspiring heroiSm" above and
beyond the call of duty in the grim
battle for Betio Island in the Tarawa
campaign in the Pacific. The quoted
phrase is from the citation he received
with the award of the Congressional
Medal of Honor, the Nations highest
decoration for bravery in actual contact
with an enemy. General Shoup, then, is
the sort of seasoned fighting man who
well deserves promotion to the top COM
mand of his elite corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

the months that have since passed, and
now, as a result of certain concessions
made In the talks at Geneva, some
thing lot less unwieldy is to take its
place. The Big Four foreign ministers
have not yet revealed the details Of their
agreement, but apparently the tentative
arrangement they have worked out
makes sense and promises to be work.
able, at least to the extent Of being lin
tied in size and permitting efficient
negotiation.
Conceivably, in these circumstances,
the world may be able to make prog
resS, slowly but surely, toward genuinely
trustworthy disarmament. However, as
experience has shown, no kind Of U. N.
commiSsion-large or small-can sue
coed in this fateful job as long as the
Russians refuse to accept the kind of
mutual policing that is absolutely essen
tial. Presumably, Premier Khrushchev
and President Eisenhower will discuss
the issue in the weeks ahead, and one
can only hope that something good will
come of what they say to each other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

to Bethesda on old Route 240.
The latter instance is almost
an actuality.
With this accomplished,
the traffic function Of the
roads will have been seriously
impaired, the character of
the residential communities
in the path destroyed, and
the best interests of the bust
ness community poorly
served.
We will then build bypass
roads to avoid the congeSted
areas, disrupting more neigh
borhoods and isolating more
businesses. The pressure will
then mount to zone the by
pass roads for commercial
use, and eventually we will be
building bypasses of the by
passes. Sixteenth street is
now extended to bypass the
Silver Spring business dis
trict. The pattern is obvious.
There are solutions to the
problems, and it is not too
late. The longer we wait the
more expensive the solutions.
I wish to make the follow
ing proposal:
Commercial and apartment
districts shall be limited and
defined by ring roads Dor
dered on each side by rela-
lively narrow strips of dedi-
Gated park. Ring roads shall
be designed to carry the bur-
den of through traffic and
enable by means of merging
feeder roads, the siphoning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Stadium Amendment

Thanks largely to the earnest and
intelligent efforts of Representative
Harris of Arkansas, the House has passed
an amendment to the stadium law
which deserves quick passage, also, by
the Senate. The amendment, by speci-
flying the amount which may be spent
for such collateral projects as parking,
access and other important stadium ia
cilitieS, sets at rest reports that too much
money would be allocated to such access
series.
Earlier, Interior Department off,
Gals indicated the facilities might cost
as much as $50 million, an estimate
which rightfully brought charges that
the designs were "grandiose" and "uto-
pian." Actually, it turned out that the
work involved a number of improve
ments in nearby Federally owned areas
which were not directly related to the
stadium. In order to rule out any such
incluSionS, Mr.. Harris amendment lin
tied expenditures for parking lots, ap-
proach roads and utility facilities to
$2.6 million-a realistic figure arrived
at recently in conferences between In
terror, congressional and civic partici-
pants in the project.
The bill also clears up any further
question about the legislative authority
of Interior to construct the facilities
matter which had been queried by the
General Accounting Office. 1t is impera-
tive that this new legislation be approved
this year so that the design and financ-
ing of the 5O,000-seat. stadium can pro-
coed. We hope the Senate District Com
mittee sends it to the Senate floor
promptly and that swift approval
follows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Wolves in the Streets

Representative Charles c. Diggs, jr.,
is a Negro Congressman from Michigan.
He has been vigorous and outspoken
opponent of discrimination against Ne
groeS. So we do not suppose that any
one will impute racial prejudice to him
in his description of the Logan circle
incident.
Mr.. Diggs was driving friends to the
airport shortly after midnight Thursday
when he saw a man, knocked down on
the ground under a street light at the
circle, being beaten and robbed. Both
the victim and his aSSailantS were
colored. When Mr.. Diggs tried to
frighten off the attackers, two of them,
one armed with knife, came toward
his car-this in the center of Washing
ton. He said the gang members, all
apparently juveniles, were "like pack
of wolves" And he added: "You hear
about these things, but you don't really
understand it until you see it. I never
saw anything like that before" And
this certainly is true-too many people
who aren't beaten and robbed them
selves, or who don't see it happen to
someone else, are inclined to shrug their
shoulders and look the other way.
At about las am. the same night
a policeman, who happened to be white,
was jumped and brutally beaten by a
gang of colored teen-agerS near Seventh
and T streets NV. The night before
a colored Air Force sergeant went out
to chase away several young men who
were tampering with his car. He was
shot and killed.
The point of all this is that no one,
white or colored, is safe in Washington
while these hoodlum gangs of whatever
color are free to prowl the streets at
night. Some way must be found to take
them out of circulation
One proposal now under debate is
to ban objectionable" lettering by peo-
pie under the age of Is. But it hurts
just as much to be beaten up ard robbed
by an 18-year-old gang as by a 17-year-
old gang. Why not get the legislation
If any new legislation really is needed
which would make 1t possible for the
police to chase all the wolf packs off
the streets?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

off of traffic to and from
business districts.
Dislocations created by
ring roads would come about
in any event in the course of
the expansion of the bust
ness districts in the existing
trend. Residential areas
protected from encroach-
ment by ring roads would be
more stable and values would
be protected. Traffic flow
would be unimpeded by con-
gestion and the business dis
tricts would be more acceSsi-
BILE. Road costs would in the
long view be less, since the
construction of the inevi-
table bypasseS would be
avoided.
Physical limits of business
districts once defined would
result in increase in land
values and more intensive
use of the land, with a con-
Sequent increase in the tax
base. Existing major roads
which presently penetrate
business districts can be con-
verified to parking facilities
and pedestrian malls.
The esthetic advantages of
this scheme should also not
be overlooked. In the alterna-
tive present we have the
prospect of the inevitable dis
ruption of established resi-
Dental neighborhoods; and a
ribbon slum of usually cha
otto major roads, choked with
unnecessary traffic.
Harold Lionel Esten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Good Will Luncheon
I wish to EXTEND conpratl-

I wish to extend congratu-
lationS to Pan American
World AirlineS for their pub
lie service in sponsoring a
luncheon on August 5 honor
ing the visiting cadets par
ticipating in the interna-
tional cadet exchange pro-
gram. In my opinion such an
affair as this on a people-to-
people basis is much more
effective in creating interna-
tional good will than our
government to government
aid program.
J. Raymond Keany,
President, Washington
Lions Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
None So Blind .

F.: George L. MeanyS comment after
|. the House had passed the labor reform
) bill Is the statement of a man who
cannot see the truth because he will
not see it.
{ The AFL-CIO president referred to
|: the HouSe-approved measure as the
IMAM National Association of Manufac-
turers) bill. It's adoption, he said, was
Na-Yictory for antilabor forces-the NAM
and the Chamber of Commerce"
If this was just another propaganda
statement, that is one thing. But if
SMr. Meany was serious, he betrays the
same blindness to reality which was so
: typical of big business three decades
ago.
Z The NAM and the Chamber of
Commerce may we'll be antilabor in the
: sense in which Mr.. Meany uses the term.
Certainly they did everything they could
& to get the Landrum- Griffin bill through
1.-The House. But it was not the efforts
sof the NAM and the Chamber which
sdld the trick. Standing alone, they
;could not have mustered more than a
:corporal'S guard for the measure. There
:WaS just one thing which broke the back
of the powerful union lobbyS opposition
I to the bill. And that was an overWhelm-
ling demand from the public that this
Congress do something effective to curb
union abuSeS-not Just the worst
abuses" of which Speaker Rayburn
spoke, but all abuses.
/ 1t is too bad that Mr.. Meany does
not or will not recognize this For he
land his associates on the AFL-CIO
Council have tried to do something
about union corruption and abuses. For
example, they gave the boot to James r.
Hotfa. 1t was not their fault that Mr..
tHotta continued to do thriving bust
ness. The AFL-CIO needed help-help
in the form of effective legislation. Yet
the bill which they supported was hope
,lesSly Ineffective. : If they had taken a
true reading of the public pulse and had
thrown their support behind measure
which would have dealt with all of the
sabnseS as well as the racketeers, they
3might have gotten bill which would
shave been more to their liking.
: All that, however, is water over the
sdam. The House, by surprising margin
sof 229 to 201 on the key vote, adopted
Sthe Landrum- Griffin BILL Despite the
propaganda, we do not believe that this
lis an antilabor bill or that it will be in
sjuriouS to any legitimate union activity.
cit will help, however, to protect the
srightS of individual union members,
lcf nonunion workers and of employers
who are not directly involved in labor
disputes.
7 ~.1 The next step is to send the House
: bill to conference with less effective
ESenate measure. Perhaps the House
! version can be refined or improved in
detail. If so, that should be done. We
!. hope, however, that this Congress will
Z finally enact an effective reform bill
I even though Mr.. Meany may choose to
: pin NAM bill" tag on it, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Jail Evangelist

1t was with great interest
that I read John Barron's
article concerning Ann Du-
borg MRS. Peter Duborg)
and her faithful weekly Wis
its to the inmates of the
Alexandria Jail.
Mrs. Duborg is a personal
friend Of mine and 1 have
had the privilege of working
with her in the services at
the jail. I have never known
a person with more faith in
God, nor one who is more
dedicated to God than she.
For that reason it was a
shock to me to read that
"she fears she has accom-
plished nothing through her
decades of prison evangel-
ism" A statement so utterly
devoid of faith coming from
such a servant of God seems
: a paradox.
In the two short years that
I worked with Mrs. Duborg
in the jail services, I saw the
evidence of changed lives
and heard the confessions of
faith by hardened criminals
as tears of repentance
streamed down their faces.
All this makes it difficult to
believe that she could make
such a statement so full of
doubt. 1t comes as an anti
climax, and lends an air of
defeat, to the whole article.
But what she is reported to
have said is true in a sense.
We accomplish nothing Of
eternal value except through
God. We are mere vessels Of
clay through which He works.
Only eternity will reveal
the rich fruits of the labors
of my beloved friend, and
servant of God, Ann Duborg.
Kathryn T. BoWSher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Fair Trade

Phil Yeager and John
Stark are to be congratu-
lated for presenting both
sides Of the fair trade
story"
The Justice Department
spokesman who is quoted as
saying flair trade would re-
quire a large number of en-
forcement agents" is in error.
The law is self-enforcing,
and it's up to the manu-
facturer to bring legal action
against violators.
His prediction that some
price-cutters would resort to
under the counter" dealings
is perhaps valid. There are
always those who break the
law, but this is hardly a
justification for not having
laws.
Those opponents Of fair
trade who contend it is con-
trary to free enterprise are
also mistaken. Fair trade will
not put an end to bargains
and shopping around" But
it would end the practice of
loss-leader selling of famous
national brands, which some
giant retail stores use to lure
shoppers into the store.
LoSs-leader selling is not
only a destructive means of
competition, but it also ex-
ploitS the gullibility of shop
pers by leading them to be-
lieve what is not true-that
everything in these stores is
a bargain.
Stores that want to pass
on the savings of their al
legged efficiency and low OPP
Grating costs will be free to
cut prices all they want on
their of brands and private
labels-which account for
about 80 per cent of their
total stock, and on which
they make up to 300 per
cent in huge hidden profits
to offset the losses they
sacrifice on the "best Sellers"
Fair trade would be a
safeguard against monopoly,
rather than encouraging it.
By giving the little fellow"
a chance to compete fairly,
it would promote the COM
petition of hundreds of
thousands of retail stores
throughout the land. With
out this competition, retail
distribution would be con-
centrated in the hands of a
few large stores-and this is
where the danger of monop-
oily lies.
John w. Dargavel,
Chairman, Bureau of Ed
ucation on Fair Trade,
New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

The preliminary master
plan of the Kensington-
Wheaton planning area, pre-
pared by the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, and given
public distribution recently,
makes certain land use pro-
posals utilizing the conven-
tional techniques of coming.
These methods alone have
failed in the past and give
little hope of succeeding in
the future in obtaining the
detectives of orderly and
planned development of COM
mercial districts and residen-
tial neighborhoods.
Commercial enterprises are
naturally drawn to locations
near the intersections of
major roads; the merchant
wishes to be where the most
people will pass. New coming
applications are made almost
daily to extend the scope of
the commercial and apart
ment coming. Pressure on the
Planning Commission to per-
nit the ribbon development
of the major roads is relent-
less.
The pattern of the future
may be one of unbroken COM
mercial d evelopment the
length of Georgia avenue
from the District line to
Olney. Md, on Viers Mill
road from Wheaton to Rock
vile, and from Rockville the
business district may extend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Arms and the u. N.

~ Before receSsing for an indefinite
period, the Big Four foreign ministers
despite their failure to make any per-
ceptible Roadway on the Berlin issue
managed at least to agree in principle on
p plan aimed at reSuming general dis
armament negotiations in the United
Nations These negotiations have been
stalled for almost two years, ever since
the Soviet Union decided to boycott
them.
The boycott began with a demand
that the United Nations abolish it's 12-
member disarmament commission and
its all-important f1ve-power subcommit-
tee made up of France, Britain, Canada,
Russia and the United States To re-
place this compact negotiating machin-
cry, the Kremlin insisted upon the crea-
ton of new body consisting of nothing
less than the entire membership of the
82-nation General Assembly. Under
Standabiy enough, the Assembly forth
with rejected the proposal as something
that would establish sort of prepoSter-
GUS debating society much too big, too
sprawling, too populous and too divided
to deal effectively with the enormously
complex problem of arms limitation and
control
Nevertheless, with characteristic per-
siStency, the Kremlin kept on insist
ing, and kept on boycotting, until the
ASsembly-little more than year ago
unanimously agreed to set up the Soviet
proposed 82-nation disarmament COM
mission. But this new agency has been
completely unorganized and inactive in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
THE POLITICAL MILL
Eisenhower No Lame Duck
BY GOULD LINCOLN

just what is in the interest
Of the whole country. A
President, Of course, should
always decide a problem In
the best interest Of the peo-
pie as he sees 1t. But a sec
ond-term President, who is
not running and cannot run
under the Twenty-second
Amendment for another
term, is in a particularly
happy position when 1t comes
to making such decisions.
Proves His Power
Mr.. Eisenhower, it is true,
faces an overwhelmingly
Democratic Congress. But he
has proved in this session of
Congress he still retains ire
mendouS power, for two
reasons. First, because the
American people believe in
him. trust him and continue
to give him their support.
Second. because of the
power inherent in the high
Office he occupies.
Other second-term popular
Presidents have demon
strated they retain this
power, although they held
themselves bound by the
two-term tradition-started
by George Washington-not
to seek a third term. Some
Of them, like Mr.. Eisen-
hover, have been confronted
by Congress in whole OF in
part controlled by an oppos-
ing political party. Andrew
Jackson, Grover Cleveland,
both Democrats, and Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Republican,
spring to mind as examples.
The one President who
broke the two-term tradi-
tion-Franklin D. Roosevelt
suffered his worst defeat
at the hands of strong
Democratic Congress, in his
second term, although he
was conStitutionally able to
run for a third term. He lost
his fight to put through a
bill giving him the right to
increase the membership of
the Supreme Court in order
to gain decisions from that
body upholding some of his
pet legislative proposals.
The adoption of the two
term amendment to the Con-
stitution was accomplished
by a two-thirds favorable
vote in both houses of Con-
greSS, followed by ratification
by three-fourths of the States
OF the Union through their
legislatures. elected by the
people. Efforts are now I'M
der way to repeal the amend
ment. They seem doomed to
failure. The ban on a third
term for PresidentS--or a
fourth or fifth term-was
freely made by their repre-
sentatives in Congress and
the State legislatures, all
chosen by the people. This
answers the argument that
the people should be allowed
to elect the same man for
President as often as they
desire. President Eisen-
hower'S experimenting first
President banned from REL
election to a third term by
the Twenty-second Amend
ment-giVeS the lie to argu-
mentS that a President be-
comes powerless by reason
of the ban.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

@. Is it contrary to flag law
for civilians to fly the flag
day and night?-P.C.
A. The flag code, as amend
ed, which serves as a guide
for the use of the flag by
civilians, provides that: 1T is
the universal custom to dis
play the flag only from sun
rise to sunset on buildings
and on stationary flagstatts
in the open. However, the
flag may be displayed at
night upon special occasions
when it is desired to produce
a patriotic effect" Ordinarily
the flag is displayed from
sunrise to sunset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15

Various chanting styles Of
ancient music bear some lit
tie resemblance, we feel. to
the choral music of the
sparrows grouped in a vine.
This type of music is diff
cult for many to appreciate,
that is all.
We are so used today to
thinking of good music as
good German-inspired mu-
sic, that not all listeners I'M
derStand or appreciate other
types.
Chanting chorals have
their own appeal to the seri-
GUS listener; such a listener
will find in sparrow music
something to soothe and in
Spire.
1t is certainly true, as our
correspondent brings out,
that sparrow mothers are
very good to babies of other
kinds.
Few more interesting sights
are to be seen in the garden
than a small sparrow mother
feeding a gawky starting
youngster four times her size
already.
y
The European skylark has
been tried in America with
out success. Each transplant
tation died out shortly. So
we have no way of judging
their music. Personally, we
Will take a wood thrush any
day, preferably any evening,
Just as darkness is settling
down.
Then the repeated music
OF this bird nestles down in
the heart, to make peace
something that should pre-
vail the world over for all
peoples.
1t has been said that peace
hath her victories no less
than war.
If this is true, it is about
time that mankind began to
prove it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-15
Price of Progress

The 1000 block of Klingle
road NV. is a short, 30-foot-
wide residential street con-
Meeting Park road and the
freeway through the park to
Connecticut avenue, f1anked
by shade trees and carefully
kept lawns. Rather belatedly.
the city fathers have de-
cided to remove these trees
and much of the lawn space,
in order to bring the benefits
of urban blight to yet an
other area. Their plan is
classic in its simplicity.
Klingle runs into Park.
which recently was repaved
and is also 80 feet wide and
flanked by shade trees. Wild
ening Klingle to AZ feet, as
now planned, will create the
possibilities of a beautiful
bottleneck as the widened
traffic of Klingle moves into
Park road, and if motorists
are cooperative there will
be excellent opportunities for
traffic accidents. Obviously,
this will make it necessary to
widen Park road, to eliminate
the bottleneck and enable the
city to get rid of more trees
and lawns. Since there is a
good deal of cross traffic at
the intersection of Park,
Klingle, and Ninteenth street,
it may even become feasible
to destroy the entire area and
build a clover leaf.
This kind of planning is
to be commended. Why
should the areas residents
have shade trees and lawns?
AS we tear up the city to
facilitate commuter traffic,
the only decent thing for
residents to do is move out
to the suburbs and become
commuters too.
A small group of stubborn
residents have banded to-
gether to block this inspired
bit of civic planning. Selfishly,
they insist that a traffic
policeman stationed at the
intersection, or even a traffic
light, would solve any traffic
problem likely to arise. This
is very shortSighted of course.
Here we have a plan that
could run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and
they want to substitute a
traffic light just because it's
all that is needed. How cheap
can you get?
The plan of the city
fathers meets all conceivable
standards of extravagance,
arrogance, uSeleSSneSS, and
stupidity, and all those who
envy the treeleSs splendor of
Baltimore's slums should sup
port it Fundamentally. Let
us all get behind the magnifi-
cent program of making
Washington a desert by 1870.
BY the way, what ever hap
pened to the plan for razing
Rock Creek Park and turn
ing it into a parking lot?
Warren w. Morse,
Vice President Mount
Pleasant Neighbors Associa-
ton.