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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
ToControI Progress

Having seen the undesirable effects
of uncontrolled development in some
parts of Montgomery County in the pre-
coming era, the staff of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission has proposed an appealing
checkrein on So-called progress" in the
rural upper Rock Creek valley. The
plan will be appealing, that is, to those
who wish to preserve, as long as possible,
some of the remaining green spaces of
the county. The residential subdividers
and the shopping center promoters may
be expected to voice opposition.
The staff report recommends that
the 26 square miles of farms and large
estates in the upper part of the water
shed be zoned so as to prevent the cut
ting up of the land into lots of less than
one-half acre. In some areas the mini
mum lot size would be two acres. No
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
Voting Out the Frinqes

Although overshadowed by the
sweeping Conservative victory, at least
one other result of the British election
is worthy of note. This was the crafty
ing and virtually total rejection of the
extreme left and the extreme right.
Less than per cent of the entire
vote was cast outside Britain'S three
major parties, decrease from the cleo
tionS four years ago. 1t is what hap
pened within that category, however,
that is important. The Communists,
for example, were able to muster Scant
one-tenth of per cent of the popular
vote-ample proof of communism'S in
effectiveness in England. At the other
end Of the political spectrum was the
reSounding defeat of Sir Oswald Mosley,
a wartime British Fascist. His bid for
a Parliament seat was based almost en-
tirely on an appeal to racial antago-
niSms in London'S North KenSington
diStrict-one of the major centerS Of
tension and emotion during Britain'S
f1are-up of racial riots last year. Mos
ley was repudiated so thoroughly that
he had to forfeit his $420 candidates
bond, a penalty inflicted only on those
who fail to receive 10 per cent of the
votes cast in his own district.
These defeats are welcome in them
selves. But they also reflect general
distruSt of the radical fringes, a dis
trust which is becoming more and more
characteristic of voter sentiment in ma
lions of the West. This is an indication
of political maturity which augurs well
for our side in the bitter battle Of politi-
cal PHILOSOPHERS being waged throughout
the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
To Halt the 'RumbIes'

seat Pleasant has been the I'M
pleasant scene of some juvenile-gang
''rumbles" in recent months. A rumble
is gang jargon for an incipient battle
with rival group. But town officials
have found that the troubles were
stirred up, in most instances, by invad-
ing gangs from other communities
even from Virginia. It was to meet this
outside challenge to peace and order
that the town council has proclaimed
a curfew for juveniles of II and under
This is an experiment that will be
watched with interest throughout the
Washington Metropolitan Area.
Under the Seat Pleasant curfew reg
ulationS the affected juveniles will not
be permitted on the streets between
10 pm. and am, from Sunday through
Thursday, unless they are regularly en-
ployed, are accompanied by parents or
guardians or specifically are authorized
by their parents to run errandS or per-
form other missions for them. The
curfew hour on Fridays and Saturdays
will be midnight Offending juveniles
may be subject to detention by juvenile
authorities as delinquent" and parents
of such offenders will be subject to a fine
or jail sentence. Also, owners of eStab-
liShments where offenders are picked
up may be prosecuted.
1t is too bad that restrictions must
be put on all juveniles in order to curb
the rowdyism of few. But if the cur
few plan will enable Seat Pleasant to
cope with the problem of rowing hood
lums from outside its corporate limits
it will be a protection for the towns
own citizens, young and old. At least
the plan Is worth fair trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
Mans Place in Space

The guided missile is replacing the
manned bomber as an instrument OF
warfare-but man is still an important
factor in present plans for space explo-
ration. That is the view of an expert on
space travel research, Fred Payne, head
of North American Aviation'S Project
Analysis Division. He spoke before a
group of test pilots at symposium on
1.-The Pilots Role in Space Exploration"
Among the pilots was Scott CroSSfield,
who is scheduled to take the rocket
ship, Kills, around the earth in mans
first orbit flight He and his fellows
evidenced understandable pleasure over
the optimistic forecast of future employ
ment opportunities "out of this world"
Much information about outer space
can be obtained by the launching of
such unnamed rockets as the Russian
LunikS and the American satellites. But,
as Mr.. Payne pointed out at the SYM
postum, there are limits to what push
button controls and automatic guidance
systems can do. 1t would be impossible
to construct a mechanical pilot capable
of all the human refiexes needed to
meet emergency conditions. And the.
more complicated. sophisticated, as
the rocketeers Say-a rocket ship be-
comes, the greater the likelihood of
mechanical failure. The sophisticated
Vanguard, for example, was subject to
disheartening breakdownS.
So when man makes his first jour-
ney to the moon or to one of the planets
he will not be going along just for the
ride or for observation purposes He
will be in actual command of his space
ship, ready to guide it around any celes-
tial objects in it's path, to make emer-
gency repairs to equipment and to cope
with other hazards as no electronic
brain could do. Obviously, the job is
not one for the faint-hearted, the SLOW
witted or the inexperienced. And it
is clear that the training and testing
which Americas prospective astronauts
are undergoing cannot be too thorough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
THE PASSING SCENE
Watching the Pros Is INTRIGUING
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

the evening Of their careers,
clear across the continent.
They exhibited another
quality of the pro: A wholly
untheatrical efficiency.
Again, there was the mas
sive Early Wynn, the Chicago
pitcher who so steadfastly
faced his responsibilities for
the ultimate defeat of the
White Sox. Wynn. the most
winning pitcher in baseball
when the series opened, be-
came in that severe test about
the most-losing pitcher Of all.
What did he do. in mani
Testing the third great quail
ty of the pro? Why. he stood
up like a man and offered no
alibi at all, though surely a
small one would have been
humanity understandable.
II goofed it up good" That
is what he said.
And, finally, there was the
political pro, Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan Of Britain.
AS it turned out, he was a
winning, rather than a losing
pro. But. before the votes had
been counted and his Con-
sentative party had returned
to power, many men and
many circumstances had
pressed him very hard. His
back had looked to be against
the wall. Our own White
House, for one, did this old
friend no good by issuing an
oddly petulant statement sug-
costing that perhaps he had
phonied up the issue OF the
Summit meeting. maybe this
was done because Macmillan
had been tactless enough to
intimate that it was he who
had really brought about
negotiations with the Rus
sians-as indeed he had.)
NOn-PrOs Excitable
The non-pro under such
cruel and unexpected pres
sures would have screamed
against his opposition and
against fate. The non-pro
would have driven himself
and his associates into I'M
wise-and thus unprofesSion-
al-extremeS. But old pro
Macmillan tried to do and
did do what the Dodger vet
Grams did so well: When he
found himself unable to hit
safely to one field he turned
calmly about and hit soundly
to another field.
To paraphrase, it is not
what game you are in that
counts, it is how you play
the game.
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heavy Industrial or commercial develop
ment would be permitted in the whole
area. However, large industrial park
would be set aside nearby, at the north
east corner of the Rockville and Shady
Grove road intersection.
The report undoubtedly will be
debated at some length-as 1t should be
IN public hearings before the MNCPPC
and the County Council, both Of which
must approve the plan before it can be-
come operative. Out Of the hearings
may come coming pattern for the
upper Rock Greek area that will prove
effective in guiding the orderly develop
ment of the wide open spaces that make
that part Of the county so attractive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

mucn less CIle ulSCuSSIULlS, CA
cept in church.
y \ 4 4
"Tut, tut" said Templeton
Jones, 81 have been meeting
the challenge of America as
best 1 could for all these
years. What more can I do?"
That, Mr.. Jones, is the
point.
Today's salesmanship says,
confidently, that you can, if
you try, do just a little more.
AS the song once said.
every little bit added to what
you've got makes just a little
bit more.
Still, there is the old mat
ter Of fear.
Maybe acting confidently,
even if it does take large let
tiers, is one way of throwing
off the invisible letters of
fear.
Fear comes to us mostly.
today, through the famous
subconscious mind, the old
mind of the primitive man
Just raised out of apehood.
Fear is primitive.
That is why it takes hold
on us, at the most unex-
pected times, and why we
should not be ashamed OF
feeling it.
We must so be modern all
the time that we often for
get that we are very primi-
tive, after all. This too, is a
good thing, rightly handled.
The primitive in us
The primitive in us ties us
to all that has gone before.
; We must be tied to that,
else we remain silly monkeys.
So fear, if we want to
regard it in that way, helps
tie us to past, present and fu-
ture. 1t makes us human.
because humanity began in
fear and trembling. Even the
boldest today have involun-
tary fears they cannot con-
troll at times. You merely
have to catch them with
their guard down.
Let sleeping dogs lie, in
deed!
Their warning barks speak
of primitive fear translated
for us into modern Amer
lean lingo as Meet the
Challenge of Growing Amer
ica."
BY putting on our boldest
front, maybe we won't be
afraid at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
History in Wax

This is to express the
thanks Of the National His
torical Wax Museum for the
perceptive story by Michael
Mok in The Rambler column
Of october 2.
Careful planning has gone
into the selection Of subjects,
and the preparation Of the
exhibits, in this new museum.
The r a m bier column is
evidence that we have APP
preached our goal of making
the museum an educational
as well as entertainment
value, and it is evidence, too,
of Mr.. Mok's sensitiveness
and of his ability to project
it in writing.
Mr.. Mok noted the ana
chronism Of an American
Red Cross Volunteer" pin on
Clara Barton's dress. This
poetic license was exercised
by Red Cross officials them
selves: one Of them pinned
the insignia on the figure!
Frank L. Dennis,
President, National HiStor-
ical Wax Museum.
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Defends tCut-Rotes'

Milton L. Elsberg, presi-
dent of Drug Fair Commu-
nifty Drug Co., was guilty of
a harsh and unfair attack on
So-called "cut-rate" drug
stores in his speech reported
in The Star of September 80.
"The public still demands
legitimately run, honestly ad-
vertised establishments" he
said. Any undergraduate in
business economics could in
form Mr.. Elsberg that top
heavy chains. which pay up
to 10 per cent of their gross
sales in rent. plus enormous
salaries to incorporating ad-
miniStrative personnel, can
not compete with the closely
held, carefully operated small
"cut-rate" store which is able
to make a satisfactory profit
on a gross MAKEUP of per-
haps 20 per cent, instead of
a 662s per cent MAKEUP con-
s1dered to be essential to de
climate" merchants.
Thomas Wilson.
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er's point Of view. too. ! am
a pedestrian and take my life
in my hands every time I
step from the sidewalk into
the street. because of bully
ing and discourteous drivers
who will not allow me to have
my right-of-way across the
street. I, too, think it is much
safer to cross in the middle of
the block where you can look
both ways and know you have
a chance to get across.
Mrs. ]. M. WOOding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

MEET the Challenge Of
Growing America" said the
sign, in letters at least 2
feet high.
Temp Jones. passing by,
wondered why it was neces-
sary to use such large type.
People have been meeting
challenges since life began.
Can 1t be that they are
afraid of people now?
Afraid that somehow they
are too lazy. too Indifferent,
to meet challenges?
Or so dumb that they have
to have everything pointed
out to them in ever-growing
larger type?
Fear is basic.
We have been so Soothed
by such civilization as we
have that we have forgot
ten this at times. Probably
is is a good thing, too. If
we were fearful all the time,
what a life this would be!
But underneath our ap-
parent calm there is still a
great deal to fear, and some
people are more sensitive to
it than others.
The millions of persons in
hospitals for the mentally
i'll spell it out in sad detail.
There are still millions who
fear something or other who
have not gone over the Dor
der.
zone in every ten"
Isn't that the sad news OF
the scare ad?
One in every ten, says this
organization, with an accus-
ing look at-you, it says,
though it is difficult to know
how they found out.
How can we teach life
without distractions?
Fear" all by itself, and
without pinning it down is
bad enough.
Today's education demands
that we pin-point every
thing for possible earning
power.
This has its good points,
but one Of its great dangers
is that it overlooks the
theory Of life.
In the old days. they had
a subject called Ethics. Here
were gathered all the abb
stractions of life and conduct.
Now YOU never hear the word,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
Approves Dog Trap
Three cheers Tor MIS-. Dor

Three cheers for Mrs. Dor
Sett and her dog trap!
I. too, like dogs and chill
dren but not in my garden.
At times last spring we had
one or more dogs roaming at
large on our property almost
every day, all contrary to law.
One even came up to the
screened porch where I was
reading and barked at me,
adding insult to injury.
So far as the solicitude of
the neighbors for the safety
of their children is concerned,
I wonder if it ever occurred
to them that the dogs at large
in themselves constitute a
menace?
If Mrs. D. gets into trouble
and needs a defense fund put
me down for S.. More power
to her.
George d. Wstrous, Jr.
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Questions and Answers
Ru THE HASKIN SERVICE
By THE HASK1N SERVICE
A mail to any question q TACT o
street


@. When did groups of
people from Ireland first
arrive in the United States?
HIM.
A. In 1921 i'm m / gra n t S
from Ireland first settled on
the present site of Newport
News, Va. After TOO they be-
gan to come in large num-
bers and many settled in
Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, and Vermont.
Between It'll and 1773, the
Irish province of Ulster alone
sent 10000 immigrants to the
American colonies. Edmund
Burke, writing in 1857, men
toned that these immigrants
"are chiefly PresbyterianS
from the northern part of
Ireland, who in America are
generally called Scotch
Irish"
@. Who invented animal
traps? T. M.
A. Traps for animals are
Of ancient origin. No primi-
tive or savage people has
ever been discovered which
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Wary of Reds

KhruShchev stirred the
world with his disarmament
proposal, but I fail to see
why anyone would get excited
about that. We have only his
word that Russia wants to
disarm, but he has never been
caught telling the truth and
Russia has never lived up to
the terms of any treaty.
We have been asking for
disarmament for a number
of years, but we insisted on
inspections that will force the
other parties to show some
integrity by complying with
the terms of the treaty. We
got our fingers burned on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

HEALTH. Build more hos
pitfalls. Train more doctors,
so there will not be this con-
tinual Self-induced shortage
of doctors and resultant high
fees; if this country believes
in competition, let us have
some competition in the
medical field. Reduce med
ical costs generally, so that
the person of average or be-
low-average income can af-
ford to pay for the medical
service he needs but cannot
now afford. Sponsor a Fed
eral law to cover the addi-
tional great costs of catas-
trophic land pauperizing)
illnesses. Not recommended
here, but England, Russia
and several other countries
have free medical service.
EDUCATION. Build more
schools. Train and hire more
teachers, and pay them a liv-
ing wage. De-emphasize rock
and-roll music appreciation
and coed cooking, and en-
phaSize the teaching of
math, sciences and Ian
guageS. Make it possible for
the one-half of the gifted
high-school graduates who
cannot now afford college to
attend college, at Govern
ment expense if necessary;
they are desperately needed
if we are to compete with
Russia either peacefully or
militarily, since Russia is
training three times as many
engineers and scientists as
are we, and the cost of this
education would be more
than repaid through the
higher income taxes paid by
the trained graduates.
WELFARE. Put some social
security into the Social Secu-
rity System. AT present mil
lions of elderly citizens are
receiving Sub-human amounts
Of old age pensions; in several
States the amount is $54 per
month, and in the richest
country in the world. The so
million employed in jobs
under the Social Security
system may look forward to
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did not use some kind of trap
or snare. Traps are of three
major types: Those such as
pens and pits which imprison
the animal without injury;
traps which seize and hold.
such as slip-nooses, and
steel-jaw traps used to catch
fur-bearing animals; and
traps intended to kill. These
last range from dead-falls
and knife-trapS for big ami
mails down to the common
mouse trap. The oldest form
of steel-jaw trap, dating
back to the 1700s. was a
man-trap, used to catch
game poachers.
@. When was the pine
apple first known in Eng
land?-O. G.
A. The first mention of the
fruit in English literature is
believed to be a reference Tin
the Diary of Evelyn to a
pineapple from Barbados, in
the West Indies, at the table
of King Charles II Clatter
half of the 18th century,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12
Dreams of Using Pentogon for Peaceful Pursuits

When Khrushchev made
his total disarmament" pro-
posal to the United Nations,
a television commentator
conjectured that, if this came
to pass, an evacuated Pen
tagon might be used for the
storage of surplus wheat. I
doubt that this is practic-
able; the leftover hot air
that would remain in those
corridors occupied by the mil
itary's public relations legions
would Sprout the wheat and
burst the building.
But if we are to dream of
entering into an theological
and peaceful competition
with Russia rather than the
present competition of mill
tary production, why not
evacuate the Pentagon of the
military and fill it with, say,
Health, Education and We'll
fare people, and Labor De-
partment people? (There
would, Of course, be consider
able displacement of present
Pentagon personnel, but the
head man could return as
planned to the soap business;
those senior officers now re-
firing to take sales-promotion
jobs in the ornaments indus
try could take sales-promo-
ton jobs Of, say, vacuum
cleaners or insurance; the
public relations staff of the
Air Force alone could fill the
employment needs of Madi-
son Avenue for the next 40
years, and all those security
investigators who snoop so
thoroughly into the private
lives of Pentagon employees
and applicants could easily
convert their skills to divorce
spying and overlapping &C.
cupations.)
The new occupants could
then hire some additional
employees giving due con-
sideration to employing the
surplus Pentagonian civil
servants, take over part of
that $42 billion per year de-
tense money, and try to do
something about the follow
ing:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-12

Some fellows are construc-
tion-watchers, or sidewalk
superintendent. Some fell
lows are bird-watchers, star
ing always through their
glasses for the sight Of the
long-billed whatyoucallem.
Neither hobby is uncon-
stitutional nor even against
the law, not yet at any rate.
But, to one fellow, both leave
something to be desired. One
bulldozer in action is, after
all, pretty much like another.
And one good, long look at
q single purple-spotted pleas
ant is, for him, quite enough
in the way Of pheasant-peer-
ing.
For this one fellow. the fell
low who writes this column,
is a Observation-Disclosures
Here, surely, is a view end
lessly arresting and endlessly
changing. For the proper
study Of the pros is the proper
study Of mankind. Life in all
its forms is lived more fully,
and considerably more grace
fully, among the pros.
They Are Comrades
These, indeed, are a band
Of brothers, a good company
Of men. No matter how di-
verse their fields Of profess
sionalism-baseball or poll
tics or whatnot-they are the
worlds true kinfolk and COM
rades.
And recent days have
brought before the eyes a
rich panorama Of the pro in
action. In the world series
any qualified professional
watcher could easily find sew
eral authentic members of
the species.
There was, for example,
Nelson Fox of the Chicago
White Sox. This sturdy, un-
terrified, immensely able
little second baseman illus
trated the first and greatest
of the qualities Of the pro:
He never, never gave up. He
kept coolly hitting that ball,
whether his team was two
runs ahead or eight runs
behind.
There were Duke Snlder
and Gil Hodges and Carl
Furillo of the Los Angeles
Dodgers. They had been big
men IN the old, old days back
when the Dodgers were based
in Brooklyn. They now
showed that they had trium-
phantly surmounted the obs
tacles of advancing age and
of q rough transplanting, in
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retiring after 80 or 40 years
service on a bare fraction of
their average earnings, a low
subsistence rate of around
$125 or $3.50 per month. The
employer and employee con-
tributionS to the system
should be increased, and
benefits considerably in
creased, probably doubled, so
that we might have some
thing approaching a real
social security system, as in
many Of the nations of West
ern Europe. Would any think
ing employee object to in
creaSing his contributions for
these purposes?
LABOR. Unemployment in
this country for the last few
years has been reported at
from 3 to 5 million, and when
it gets near S million there is
much to-do about it. 1 do not
know how the Labor Depart
ment arrives at these statis-
tics; possibly they consider
as unemployed only those
fairly recently employed but
not now working. But if we
mean by unemployed" those
people able to work, wanting
to work but who cannot find
work, then a true figure
might be as high as 20-25
million, to include those
denied employment because
they are not white, or have
minor disabilities, or are over
40, or worship in a minority
religion, or are Disseminated
against because of sex, or are
housewives who want to work
half-days. All these people
worked during the great ma
tional effort Of World War II.
These categorieS of people
are working in Russia. If we
are to compete about with
Russia in peaceful production
or in ornaments production
then these people must be al
lowed to work again; we can
not compete with one-fourth
Of our potential work force
unemployed.
But maybe all this is just a
pipe dream, even though it's
logical.
J. Sam Mewhinney, tr.