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lescent with wild curly hair sat
playing chess by himself. With
one hand he moved the chess
pieces. With the other. he beat
time in the air. to the cool Jazz Of
the jukebox, and made noises in
his diaphragm.
To our left, a man and a woman.
He had thick hair and a heavy red
mustache and thick-lensed glasses
and mournful eyes and generally
looked like a Balkan spy who had
just lost the blueprints.
The woman wore japanese straw
slippers, tight black toreador pants
and a dirty sweatshirt. Her blonde
hair hung straight and stringy to
her shoulders and her eyes looked
glazed.
To our right. a young man with
distinguished blackheads and a
mountain of hair and beard was
explaining to a friend:
I've passed the beat stage.
You're beat when you're at the
bottom Of your personality. Now
I know what want. I've reason
to live, to CO."
Are you writing?"
"Not yet. But I'm finding the
inner surrealistic meaning. I like
it here. In st. Louis. people look
at you funny. Here, there is no
obligation to do anything or be
ANYTHING"
Behind US. a young painter was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29

explaining himself and his mural
on the opposite wall. The picture
showed a clown and . woman on
a park bench.
It's q Motter Of Color
Its abstract realism" said the
painter. II painted the woman
in yellow because women are cow
ards and conformists and I feel
like a clown having anything to
do with them but I can't help it.
Anyway. that's why I painted her
yellow"
We looked again at the artist
but he wasn't smiling. We looked
again at the woman in the mural.
She was clearly painted blue, not
yellow.
I've been arrested three or four
times without cause" the artist
was saying as we left.
Near the door. tourists were ar
irving. You could tell the tourists
by the outrageous similarity be-
7ween their coats and pants. One
leaned over to q young man in a
trench coat seated at a table.
"Are you beatnik" asked the
visitor.
Hell. no! I'm here like you,
Just looking"
Outside, we walked up Grant
street. past an art gallery called
THE Scene" The piece de re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
A REPORT FROM HEADQUARTERS
The Beat Generation TODAY

that way. Einstein was a beatnik.
So was Gandhi."
Suddenly Padrik Seamus O'Sul-
Ivan appeared before us in high
boots. handsome beard and
plumed hat. He talked purple
streak.
"These beatniks have no gods.
Their gods are old Christmas trees
rotting in q vacant lot in July.
"Me? I'm the last Of the great
romantic poets. And let me tell
you. the country is In a helluva
fix when a cop can come up to
a great poet and ask, Where do
you work. Imagine, where do I
work, the last Of the great ro-
mantle poets!"
Meanwhile, back at the old
bagel shop. the pimply boy was
still staring at his coffee and get
ting no answers. The tourists had
CONCEALED at one table and were
singing happy birthday" At the
next table. a bloodless girl in black
looked as II she might get sick.
Peter Bury. the bearded CO.
owner Of the coexistence bagel
shop. told us:
Trouble? The only trouble we
have here is with the tourist men
tally. The tourist is a man who
thinks II he's away from his nat
ural habitat it's okay to act like
a complete ass. So he makes
cracks about relaxed kids with
Boards"
Bury suddenly interrupted him
self to introduce a murky looking
far girl:
This is. Isn't she lovely?
She's an artist. She's a charming
young mother. She's II. Aren't we
all mothers. in a sense?"
In a chair tilted against the
wall, a Negro with a porkpie hat
and demure Van Dyke was draw
ing. He drew q triangle. Then
he inserted an eye. Then he added
q heart pierced by an arrow.
On the way out. we overheard
two young men discussing a trip
to Mexico. One insisted he did
it all on $11.50. hitchhiking and
living son a diet of cabbage. In
an opposite corner. this dialogue:
What is your philosophy.
MANI"
I'm a machine until I'm 81.
Then I'll be free"
you mean your father Is pay
ing the bills"
Yeah, man. but soon I'll be
free"
Outside. the clear night air felt
good. Square but good.
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YOU'LL FIND 1T HERE
Lobbying for E Everything

cutting the front lawn or not. The
Government considers these big
ger lawnmowers commercial ones
not subject to the S per cent tax.
lown Mowers, Too
Headquarters for the Lawn
Mower Institute is the Office of
Harold K. Howe in the Mills
Building. He also runs the &C
Invites Of five other trade associa-
tions through that office-includ-
ing the National Institute of
Diaper Services and the Stump
Pump Manufacturers Association.
MI Howe is registered lobby
list. Il regard lobbying as strictly
education" Mr.. Howe said. He
said the lobbyist has to know all
sides of the problem and be able
to explain 1t to both lawmakers
on Capitol Hill and businessmen.
This requirement of knowing the
problem often prompts national
organizations to rely on someone
from the field rather than profess
sional Washington lobbyists or
lawyers. For example, the chief
lobbyist for the National Congress
Of American Indians, headquar-
tered at l346 Connecticut avenue
NV. is Mrs. Helen Peterson, her.
self an Oglala Sioux Indian.
The Commerce Department
estimates there currently are about
900 national associations in WASH
ington, half of them business
trade associations. This makes
Washington tied for second place
with Chicago in the ranking of
cities by how many trade associa-
tons they have. New York is
first.
William H. Sardo, jr., executive
vice president of the National
Wooden Pallet Manufacturers
Association. contended Washing
VII Wdo q lOSlCdl LIlCCCd lOI IdOC
organizations: What with the jet
plane, California is no farther
away than Philadelphia was not
so many years ago." Mr.. Sardo
said the Federal government has
such a decisive effect on business,
that 1t behooves business repre-
sentatives to be on the. spot in
Washington
And by the way, do you know
what a wooden pallet is? It's not
something artists use. That's
spalled palette. And Mr.. Sardo's
manufacturers don't make the
pallets potters use for shaping clay.
Nor do they make the OF er pallet
"A small bed. instead. their pal
let is the wooden platform fork
lift trucks Use. The pallet is put
onto the forks and then goods
are piled on top of it.
Mr.. Sardo said these pallets are
a great palliative for industry.
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sistance in the window was three
rusty shovels-real shovels-with
eyes drawn in chalk. The shovels
were stuck In a bed Of rotted
boards and rusty nails. The title:
EN- famile," which may or may
not reflect the beatniks' scorn Of
family togetherness.
The Anxious Asp"
We stopped at another bar
called "The Anxious Asp" It had
sawdust on the floor, non-objec-
tive pictures for sale on the walls
and candles on the tiny tables.
Business was slack.
A man In thin, ethereal mus
tache and a fore and aft Sher-
lock Holmes hat fluttered in,
whispered excitedly to the bar
tender and fluttered out.
The washroom Of 1.-THE Anxious
Asp" had an interesting decor. All
the walls were papered with pages
from the Kinsey report on the
sexual behavior. Of the human
female.
We had more espresso at our
next stop. "The Coffee Gallery"
which Is two stores with the con-
Meeting wall knocked out. On
the bar side. the place had the
look Of a club, with a bulletin
board advertising jazz concerts,
art shows, poetry readings and the
sale Of a secondhand motor
scooter and gramophone. Pinned
to one corner Of the bulletin board
were letters for habituees.
Outside in the main room, sip
ping their espresso or beer, there
were the pale-faced women in
traditional black, men in open
shirts. yachting caps. leather
chauffeur's caps. sandals, tennis
shoes. Near the booming juke
box. two bearded men shuffied in
a slow rhythm. In barely percep-
tible movements.
We talked with Beniamino Bu-
fano. a sculptor Of genuine repu-
tation and no beatnik. A gentle,
quiet man In his sos, Bufano esti-
mated that only about per cent
Of the beatniks in the area actual
ly write. paint or do anything
creative.
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language Of the group. is to solve
1.-The greatest mystery Of our
times"
Asked II friends took his work
seriously, Mr.. Hall said: They
have to or we don't stay friends I"
Mr.. Hall is secretary of NICAP.
He said the biggest obstacles be-
fore the group are Pentagon Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
By GEORGE C. WILSON
Contributing Writer

Ever feel like declaring war on
limp pizza? Or joining a national
effort to get to the bottom Of this
flying saucer mystery? Or per-
haps you are dying to learn how
to sell cemetery plots.
II SO. Washington is a city Of
opportunity. It Is headquarters for
national organizations seriously
dedicated to all these and many
other unusual detectives.
Take that pizza business. A
Miami reStaurateur, Anthony Ro-
mano, has launched a national
campaign to raise the standard Of
pizza pies. Headquarters for this
effort, still in the formative stage.
is a desk in an Office at 1911 G
street NV. In promoting his Ma
tional Quality PizZeria Association.
Mr.. Romano writes prospects that
"a great number Of so-called pizza
places from Times Square and
Coney Island to the far deserts Of
Arizona and Texas are today put
ting out so-called pizza pie that is
a shame to the legitimate and old
time pizzaiol."
The loft Offices Of a building at
1886 Connecticut avenue are head
quarters for the flying saucer
group. Charts Of the heavens dec
crate the walls, and sitting behind
the central desk is affable but Sc
rious Richard Hall, %, an honor
graduate of Tulane University
where he majored in philosophy
and minored in math.
The Flying Soueers
I'm here" he explained to a
recent visitor, because / don't
think science has looked into this
flying saucer business properly.
Just the possibility that we may
be looking into something that
could affect the whole world keeps
me interested"
Mr.. Hall believes the most
reasonable hypothesis" is that the
flying saucers are space ships from
another planet. Right now the Or
ganization. called the National
Investigations Committee on Ae-
rial Phenomena, is setting up
field subcommittee throu" bout
the country to make fast. scien-
tific on-the-spot investigations of
flying saucer reports.
NICAP is headed by Major Dom
aid E. Keyhoe. retired. who. frus-
trated by military secrecy and
slepticism. several years ago de-
cided to concentrate full time on
unidentified flying objects. His or
ganization now claims members
in all 40 States and 26 foreign
countries. The objective. in the
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When something in the kitch-
en- is ready. they ring a ships
bell and II the chow is nowhere.
at least that bell is the most.
Georgetown like that's
Greenwich Village, but with hot
water-has a place that comes
on like gangbusters. Posters Of
soldiers in fur-bearing hats on
the walls I mean are crazy. and
there are bag pipers yet.
They stomp on around blow
ing up a storm and its like
teaching a pig to sing, man.
Too much squealing to talk.
but who's listening?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
race Pact With Canada
Urged to Stop Rivalry

courage the development of new
domestic sources Of supply. The
Canadians ridicule this argument,
and have found a supporter in
Representative Coffin.
IF oil is needed for defense"
Mr.. Coffin reported to Congress
after his special study mission Of
Canadian-American relations,
there is no legitimate distinction
between the wells of North Dakota
and Texas on the one hand, and
the wells of Alberta and Sas-
katchewan on the other. All is
available to meet any threat posed
to the people of the United States
and of Canada"
Resent Restrictions
The Canadians also resent the
quota restrictions the United
States has placed on lead and zinc
imports, and the likelihood that
the United States. having en-
couraged the expansion of the
Canadian uranium industry dur
ing a period Of scarcity. will not
renew existing contracts on their
eXpiry.
The United States government
has reciprocated by re%nting -
and justifiably in Mr.. Pearson's
opinion-Canadian anti-dumping
duties which Washington says vio-
late the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade. Higher Cana
dian tariffs have hurt the United
States farm exports. BY refusing
to permit overseas immigrants to
enter Canada at United States
border points, Canada has hurt
United States shipping and air
lines. And power development in
the Columbia and Yukon Rivers
is matter Of recrimination.
Pearson believes it would be
helpful to have some formal
treaty agreement that laid down
principles which would guide the
conduct of the governments on
both sides of the border"
Mr.. Coffin would have the two
countries develop "a device or
procedure which can bring to-
gether the thinking on all of the
issues between the two nations.
The objective would be to con-
slider some problems en- bloc, in
a package"
In other words, mutual conces-
sions by the good ole ..5r,l.
American technique of horse
trading, to clear away the log
Jams" and give interdependence
a fresh start.
There is ample evidence that
men both in Ottawa and Wash
ington who value Canadian United
States friendship would be glad
to lend a hand to push such neces-
sary agreements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29


The D Of c is nothing but
Weirdsville for hipsters, hop
sters and beatniks.
Like it's too far out. daddy.
Most of the pads turn out to
be cocktail lounges. man. and
they really lay 1t on a cat. All
the mattresses are working for
the house, If you dig.
Down in the Southwest
there's a place you can fall in
for a few chuckles. The boards
vile bunch from the art gal
leries mingle with the cooler
contingent from the UNIVERSE
ties and the pad sometimes
swings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
By GERALD WARING
Contributing Writer

OTTAWA.-Two new approaches
to the difficulties of Canadian
American economic relations were
proposed recently by two experts
In the rather backward art of to-
getherness on this continent. Both
will bear serious consideration.
Liberal Party Leader Lester B.
Pearson put forward the idea Of
Canada and the United States
signing treaty to enshrine the
principle Of their economic CO.
operation.
Representative Frank M. Cof-
i'm. Democrat of Maine, advanced
a plan for a package settlement
of the outstanding economic diff
ferences which irritate the other
wise warm relations between his
country and Canada.
Neither of these men should
need further identification-Mr.
Pearson. the former Canadian for
eign minister. former Ambassador
to Washington and Nobel Peace
Prize winner; Mr. Coffin, the dedi-
Gated young CONGRESSMAN who has
made American relations with
Canada his principal concern in
the last two years. BY study and
personal investigation. Mr.. Coffin
has learned more about his sub
ject than possibly any other men,
Der of the Congress. Mr.. Pearson
enjoys the same distinction in
Parliament.
Complementary Suggestions
BY coincidence, their two ap-
proaches are complementary rather
than conflicting. Both can be
pursued simultaneously with, I
think. beneficial results.
The Pearson plan is basically
concerned with principles. 1t stems
from the interdependence of the
two countries militarily. econom-
ically and even culturally. And
from the danger that conflicting
national economic interests will
betray the true interests of both
countries; will foster national acts
which will arouse resentment in
the other country. inviting re-
taliation and destroying the spirit
and fact Of interdependence.
Both countries cite economic
grievances against each other. The
Canadians are currently incensed
over United States restriction on
imports of Canadian oil which,
sources in the dominion's old in
dustrv assert, have cut exports to
the United States by 40 per cent
in the last year.
Washington's reason for the i'm
port curb is that the interests of
national security require protec-
ton Of domestic producers to en-
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~>~~~-~~-~-~-
the great unwashed Of the fifties,
Of the pale Charles Adams girls
in black. the bearded geniuses In
sneakers. the liberated refugees
from conformity and split-level
houses. These are the century's
new rebels clotted under the ban
ner Of the Beat Generation.
What's 1t like. to drop in on
Endsville. where they live, from
Squaresville. where the rest Of
us live?
It's like q walk on the wild
side. q romp through a manic
Oppressive ward. a visit to q small
planet where nothing is all, where
silence is a language and gainful
employment is social disease.
The Beots Stotehouse
Our night out with the beats
began at their statehouse. which
used to be called Herbs delicates-
sen and now, after the disordered
fiippancy Of its clients, is known
as the coexistence bagel shop.
In q sweaty, smoky room no
bigger than most living rooms,
We sat elbow to elbow, the faith
full and the curious. hugging our
espresso cups. nursing our beer.
slipping our wine at tiny tables set
on sawdust.
The walls held signs and hand
printed notes heralding jazz ses-
sions and poetry reading, a big
cub scout pennant featuring the
words. BE Square" assorted post
ers and scrawled questions, COM
mands and legends such as:
Juice from a Sun-Kissed Alba
tross." did You Dig Gig?" Have
You Seen the Castrated Angelo"
Read the Testament from the
Underground"
Across the room, a pimply
checked novitiate, no more than
10. sat in a catatonic stupor, star
ing through heavy Peter LORE
lenses at his coffee, completely
oblivious to the people. the place,
the century. Was he alive or was
he dead? Academic question.
A bearded Negro, wearing corn
colored hair, bule beret and red
sandals. walked over. He extended
three fingers of his right hand
and moved them four inches later
ally. The pimply boy nodded with
OUT looking up. The Negro sat
down and together. like welded
me SKIS. they shared the delicious
empathy Of staring at two coffee
cups.
The Quiet Conversation
After a half-hour, during which
their lips had never moved, the
Negro rose, moved three fingers
laterally again and departed while
the pimply boy nodded without
looking up. 1t had been a stimu-
lating conversation.
At the next table, another ado
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per cent excise tax on household
lawn mowers. 1t also takes issue
with the Federal Government de.
iinition of household avn NOW =
err" Uncle Sam contends any
mower with a cut less than "a
inches wide is a household one.
This makes for bigger lawn now
ers. whether they are sold for
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Cemetery Plots

Cemetery Plots
To get back to earth, there &C
tually are groups set up to help
people sell cemetery plots. The
Nation Association Of Cemeteries
is one. 1t boosts a membership Of
1000 cemeteries. The MAC head
quarters are at has Nineteenth
street NV. A big part of It's pro-
gram is the sponsorship Of ma
tional conferences in cemetery
selling and maintenance.
None Of these associations con-
siders itself a lobby. But many
trade associations do. The Lawn
Mower Institute, for example. is
lobbying for removal of the S
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The Situation Here

Washington Generaton?" asked
reading Mr. Pes article memorandum the subject
requested OF Michael The Stars reporters
His utterly ncomprehenstbe to the editors appended
herewith 1t be that there readers who M Gpprehend the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star Stan Writer

The administration political
wizards hope they have found the
handsome prince charming who
will help to restore Republican
fortunes in the West.
Oregon's Republican Gov. Mark
o. Hatfield, SO, demonstrated in
Washington recently some Of the
qualities that have endeared him
to voters in the face Of a Western
Democratic tide.
He has youth. good looks, a
pleasing personality and a pretty
wife-a combination that sobers
the hardest Of his opposition.
The Nations "orngest Republic
can Governor. he has scored as
tonishing successes in a political
career that began only nine years
ago.
AS a consequence, Republican
leadership is taking long. close
look at man already mentioned
as Vice Presidential prospect in
1860.
Since he and two other Repub-
licans, Nelson Rockefeller Of NV
York, and Christopher Del Sesto
Of Rhode Island were the only
members Of their part to knock
out Democratic incumbent Gov
errors in the recent election, they
are naturally regarded with spe-
cial favor by the G. o. P.
Ticket Possibilities
Though they have never met,
the two younger Governors might
someday find their fortunes linked.
Gov. Hatfield might become log
ical choice from geographical APP
peal for the vice presidential
nomination if Governor Rockefel-
Ter receives a presidential bid.
But Vice President Nixon, with
whom Mr.. Hatfield is friendly. is
considered now the No. / Repub-
lican choice for the presidential
nomination in 1860. A national
convention would probably frown
on choosing another Westerner to
run with Mr.. Nixon, a Californian.
Gov. Hatfield. though fiat
tered" by the mention. took the
traditional position that he was
far too busy" as Governor to
think of anything else.
He has had his eye on the Gov
ernor's chair since childhood when
his parents, a railroad blacksmith
and a school teacher, drove him
past the Statehouse in Salem.
Across the street as student.
at Willamette University. he
hopefully studied law and political
science.
Shy and stiff, often i'll at ease
at large GATHERINGS. he left Will
lamette in World War II and took
part in Navy ambitious attock
landings on Two Jima and Oki-
nawa. After postwar study at STAN
ford University where he earned
a master of arts degree as a spe-
cialist in President Hoover's Ia
Dor policies, he returned tn teach
at his home town college. He had
vastly changed.
No longer the introvert, he
plunged into teaching, church
work and politics with the conf
dence born Of wartime RESPONSE
bility.
Was Deem TO Students
Subsequently chosen as dean of
students. he VS. uncoubt odly the
most ~opula" holder of that Of
flee the university has ever
known. He substituted persuasion
for discipline in a school that for
bids not only drinking but also
smoking on campus and often
joined the undergraduates in a
Smoke break" on the sidewalk
OPPOSITE the StatehousA.
II did some of my best coun-
selling on Smokers Row. he re-
called. we we're all relaxed out
there"
In 1850. he was elected to
TY1,,no
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In the Greet Tradition

MANY are just imitators but
there are some who work hard.
as I do. is hours a day. But let
me say this for the beatnik. He
Is just a man who refused to
comply with normal thinking. In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-29
BY SAUL PETIT
Associated Press stan Writer

SAN FRANCISCO.-As 1t pulls
away from the edge Of Chinatown
and Lun Kings supermarket.
upper Grant street draws a deep
breath and climbs the side Of
Telegraph Hill.
There. suddenly 1t ends. in
Endsville.
This is the home Of the brave
Beatnik. the original rookery Of
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This Is journey to oblivion. Tiptoe
through the sowdust and meet the
beat oeneFotion on It's own stompins
ground in Son Froneiseo's dens Of
murky conversation. Here. where the
bsots meet to cot. nothing. but moth
Ing. 10 lioble to happen. but omons
the beotniks nothinsness is oil.