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Defends Guard

Gen. LeMay made unjust
flied criticism Of the Nation
al Guard.
Air GuardSmen are re-
quired to comply with the
same unit training standards
and combat crew operational
readiness standards as the Air
Force. indicative of the pro-
ven capability and effective
ness of the Air National
Guard is the fact that at
20 ANG bases throughout the
country aircrews are peform-
ing daily air defense alert
missions; four ANG aircraft
control and warning squad
rons are providing round the
clock radar coverage as a
part of our air defense Sys-
tenn; in Hawaii the ANG is
providing the primary radar
coverage and fighter protec-
ton; an ANG team won the
Air Force world wide rock
etry meet this year; an Air
Force study showed that the
ANG has an excellent poten-
tial to man Bomarc missile
defenSes; and ANG tactical
aircraft in-commission rates
compare very favorably with
the Air Force rates.
The active participation of
the ANG in the air defense
system, as well as in numer-
GUS Air Force operational
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

the other 10 sparrows that
come to this vicinity.
Or it may be a warbler.
The sparrow hawk flies
straight as an arrow to his
prey, lifting it into the air
and bearing it to the bush,
where it pierces the heart
with its cruel beak.
Then it proceeds to tear
off many of the feathers to
get at the meat. It's claws
are good only for holding
and perching.
y + 4 4
If q householder who
values all birds can make his
appearance just as the small
bird is seized, he may be able
to save the victim before it
is killed.
The hawk Will not ike
human interference.
He knows, from expert
ence, that the appearance Of
man on the scene may mean
trouble for him.
This, evidently. is burned
into the consciousness of all
birds, but particularly into
that of the hawks.
Pigeon hawks, so called,
take larger prey than ordi-
nary small songbirds. That
is why they are called pigeon
hawks, not because they take
just pigeons.
y &*
We are not sure there is
any food to put out for a
sparrow hawk, owing to his
liking for live food.
Still it might be interesting
to offer him suet and maybe
a little hamburger, now and
then, but both these delica-
cieS should be placed about
10 feet high in the crotch OF
a tree, to keep dogs from
getting at it. The house cat
is not likely to go into a tree
to find its food. The house
cat climbs for climbing's
sake, just as human beings
climb mountains.
The sparrow hawk is one
of our most beautiful birds.
He is even small enough to
be called "cute," if the OBJ
server uses the word.
Actually, he is not much
larger than a blue jay, but
he is heavier and his neck
and bill are stronger.
A loggerhead shrike is an
other fairly large hawk like
bird. He is also called butcher
bird from his habit Of putting
his kill away on thorns until
he wants to eat it. This one
is not likely to be seen in
town.
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Nowhere Else to Go

Two pOllClcally-mlnQed meetings OF
completely different complexionS ar
rived at substantially the same con-
cluSion over the past week end. 1t was,
in short, that there is little merit-even
under extreme provocation or on behalf
of limited special intereSts-in launch
ing any third party movement in the
United States. Since the two groups
involved were the Southern Governors
Conference and the United Auto Work.
erS, their unhappineSs with political
things as they are stems from quite
different reasons. Furthermore, II both
had decided on political action outside
the two existing major parties 1t would
have meant two more parties-not just
one more. Actually, both were wise in
arriving at the same concluSion-even
though by different routes.
The Southern Governors, who have
only two Republicans delaware and
West Virginia) in their Remember or
ganization, demonstrated that above all
they are practical men. 1.-THE South"
Governor Hodges of North Carolina said,
would be foolish beyond compare to
Jump out of the Democratic Party with
the control it has in Congress-" Only
Governor Holdings of South Carolina, a
vigorous young States rights" Dem
ocrat, limited at boiling If the party plat
form or its ticket were "too liberal" in
1860.
The auto workers, sharing with most
of organized labor a feeling of resent
ment over congressional enactment Of
union reform legislation, displayed in
the showdown their own practical judg-
ment on politics. BY resolution, they
called for joint action with "other liberal
forces" to effect "realignment" within
the existing two-party system.
Actually, the mood reflected by these
two groups serves best to illustrate a
dilemma that has become familiar in
the Democratic Party-roughly, the con-
f1ict between its "liberal" Northern and
conservative" Southern factions. BaS-
ically unhappy together, both feel that
there is no real refuge for them in the
Republican Party and that nationally,
at least, there would be no reward in
going it alone. The decisions of the past
week end assure only that the struggle
will continue when the party meets next
summer to draft its platform and nomi-
nate its presidential ticket.
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Inside Siberia

I am grateful to those who
pointed out that we had
casualties in our Russian ex-
petition during the Red
Revolution.
I should have stated the
American forces at no time
fought the Reds, Whites OF
other factions politically. The
casualties were caused by
partisans firing upon our
troops while guarding rail-
ways, ETC., and it was not
taken lying down. The Amer
leans replied.
Mr.. Khrushchev said at
Los Angeles that the Ameri-
cans had gone to Russia to
aid the White Guard to
strangle their revolution,
This was not so, and the
American policy was as ]
stated and cannot be dis
puted.
I alluded to Gen. Graves
book Americas Siberian Ad-
venture" and refer anyone to
that book for the facts.
Cora March.
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"F STREET.

Dear Sir:
do you think that a SPAR
row hawk would live in our
neighborhood?
There is a bird I am sure
is a sparrow hawk, and I
wonder what I can do to keep
it, because it is a beauty and
I would like to keep it
around.
$50 far it has not caught
any sparrowS, as far as I can
see, but we have too many Of
the latter, I don't think some
of them would ever be
missed.
"I have been watching this
bird, as he perches so erect
in q pine tree. and he makes
a wonderful picture, so pleas
ant his plumage and upright
his posture.
eff you would tell me some
thing about hawks, I and
other readers would appre-
ciate it.
Sincerely, J. D. w."
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This small hawk is found
all over the District Of Co.
lumbia and nearby Mary
land and Virginia.
1t is, indeed, a beauty,
especially to the observer
who can rid his mind of the
common belief that all hawks
are bad.
The truth is that hawks
are good, from the viewpoint
of mankind, since they help
keep down rodents and other
nuisances.
Experts who have looked
into this matter for many
years unite in declaring that
only a few of the hawk fam
lily deserve instant death.
One of these is the red
Shouldered hawk.
The smaller ones, such as
the pigeon hawk, and the
sparrow hawk, do us good,
If we can believe the scien-
fists.
The songbirds might have
a different idea about it.
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The sparrow hawk is our
smallest, and neatest.
Truly he is a wonderful
bird. simply as a bird.
His way Of making his liv-
ing is to perch in a shrub
and watch for a smaller
species.
Often enough it will be a
common sparrow, or one of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
THE POLITICAL MILL
A Southern President Part y
By GOULD LINCOLN

Governor Of New York. was
nominated for President. four
States of the South broke
away and voted for q Repub-
lican President, Herbert
F5over. Mr.. Smith was known
as a Tammany man and a
Wet. He was a Catholic, I'M
popular with many Southern
voters.
Later four Southern States
declined to give President
Harry S. Truman their cleo
toral votes because Of his
strong stand for civil rights
and the civil rights plank in
the party platform. They
turned to an independent
Democrat, the present Sen
ator Thurmond of South
Carolina. In 1852 four and in
1856 five of the Southern
States voted for a Republican
President, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover. against Adlai E.
Stevenson largely over the
civil rights issue.
SOutherners on Ticket
The National Democratic
Party, in an effort to appease
the Southern Democrats in
1923. nominated the late
Senator Joe Robinson Of Ark
ansas to run for Vice Presi-
dent with Governor Smith.
In 1852 Mr.. Stevenson picked
a Senator from the Deep
South-Sparkman from Ala
bama-as his running mate.
Four years later the Demo-
cratic Convention nominated
Senator Kefauver of Tennes-
see for Vice President to run
with Mr.. Stevenson, but with
out avail.
The nearest any man from
the 1861-seceded States has
ever come to the White House
was when John N. Garner of
Texas was twice elected Vice
President with Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Mr.. Garner.
Speaker of the House in
1882, was himself a can
didate for the presidential
nomination. He went into
that torrid National Conven-
ton with 80 delegate votes
pledged to him. Those votes.
many from California,
thrown to Roosevelt on the
final ballot, gave the New
York Governor the then nee
essary two-thirds vote for the
presidential nomination. Mr..
Gamers selection for the
vice presidential nomination
followed as night follows day.
Had President Roosevelt's
health failed, the South
would have had a man in the
White House.
Nothing could more clearly
indicate to the world the
Solidity and unity of the
United States than the NOM
ination and the election of a
President from the South.
Whether this may be possible
in 1860 is a question with
which the Democratic Party
must wrestle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Show the Public

1t is highly encouraging that archi-
tect Edward Durrell Stone has COM
pleted his preliminary plans for the
$50-million national cultural center on
the banks of the Potomac. The time
has come, however, for an early expla-
nation of the plans to the public so
there can be full understanding of the
scope and needs Of the project.
A good bit Of information already
has leaked out in dribletS. But these
piecemeal accounts attractive as they
Sound-confuSe more than explain the
architectural concepts involved. They
suggest, for example, that Mr.. Stone
may be thinking of some notifications
in the quite circumscribed site bordering
the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
in Foggy Bottom. If this is so, all the
time that is available should be used
to reach early decisions in that contro-
versial section of the city.
Mr.. Stone apparently described his
ideas, in considerable detail, to large
group of people at recent cloSed-door
meeting of the Presidents Music Com
mittee in New York. Such sessions as
these are all to the good, for the full
cooperation of all groups concerned
with the arts will be needed to support
the ambitious Embarrassing program.
The public, however, should be fully
advised at each step of the projects
development, and we hope that its
directors set an early date for full
explanation of what has happened thus
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RoIIying the Troops

David J. Mcdonald is too old hand
to really believe that the steel industry
is trying to "break the union" What
ever the merits or otherwise of the con-
tract dispute, he knows the industry
leaders are not that foolish. So there
must be another explanation of Mr.. Nc
Donald'S verbal fireworks before the
fact-f1nding board.
He sounds to us like a man who is
trying to rally his troops for a winter
campaign. Mr.. Mcdonald said his men
would go back to their jobs if Taft
Hartley injunction should be issued He
Implied, however, that they will be
taken out on strike again at the end of
the 80-day "cooling-off" period-a move
which is not likely to appeal to 100000
men who have already lost heavily in
wages. 1t might not be possible to arouse
any enthusiasm for another strike if
the issue should be a matter of few
cents an hour. But it will be different
If the men believe that their union is at
stake. So Mr.. Mcdonald pitches his
appeal to the theme that "the union
will never surrender manage
ment will achieve its allegedly wicked
ends only lover the dead body of the
steel workers union"
No matter how inf1ammatory the
language, however, the facts remain
unchanged. And the essential fact is
that this is typical labor management
dispute in which the industry has Of
fered modest improvement in fringe
benefits and wages, and in which the
union has offered nothing whatever.
Mr.. Mcdonald is willing to take, but he
will not give. 1t is possible that he may
want to resume the strike this winter
on that basis, and take his chances on
what the Congress will do to deal with
the resulting situation. If so, the real
issues should be kept clear and the
phony issues should be exposed for what
they are.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Checkrein on Annexation

Virginia's highest tribunal, the Su-
preme Court of Appeals, has injected an
important new factor in annexation
proceedings in the State-one that may
put checkrein on plans of several
cities in nearby Virginia to expand at
the expense of adjacent county terri
tory. The new consideration is the well
fare of the area sought to be annexed.
In the past the States courts have held
that the paramount consideration
should be the best interests of the city
desiring to enlarge its boundaries.
Heretofore Virginia'S cities and in
corporated towns have been given every
opportunity to grow, under court inter-
pretations of the State constitution.
Counties rarely have succeeded in de-
feating cities when the ShowdownS came
before the special three-judge courts
authorized by law for annexation suits.
And it was no surprise when Rocking
ham County lost its fight to resist en-
enactment by the little town of Timber
lake-although the county had con-
tended strongly that residents and bust
ness firms in the affected territory would
not benefit from the change. 1t was
obvious, on the other hand, that the
town would gain a lot of new taxpayers,
as well as room to expand.
However, the high court has over
ruled the annexation tribunal with an
opinion which, in part, said: I'm deter
mining the necessity for an eXpediency
of charging the territorial limits of
town, the court cannot consider only the
preservation of the town, but must also
consider the best interests of the area
to be annexed" 1t held that it would
not be to the best interests of the area
in question to make it a part of the town.
The decision will be of special in
terest to the cities of Falls Church and
Alexandria, which have been discussing
possible annexation suits against Fair
fax County. The county already has
lost recent annexation cases instituted
by Vienna and the town Of Fairfax
although its appeal in the latter suit
still is pending. Fairfax County officials
have been bordering legislative propos-
ais designed to save the county from
further annexation threats. The State
Supreme Courts ruling will bolster the
countyS determination to resist any
further gobbling up of its land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

exercises and missions dur
ing the past several years,
clearly proves that the dual
Federal-State status Of the
ANG is no obstacle to their
ready and full utilization by
the Air Force. In fact, the
States support Of the ANG
program has been a tremen-
dous asset to the Air Force.
and has resulted in consider
able savings to the Federal
Government.
A recent statement by Gen.
White, USAF Chief of Staff,
as quoted in Air Force mag
azine, well sums up the Air
Guards capability: To-day
the Air' Force is confronted
with unprecedented require
ments which impose in
creased reliance upon the i'm
mediate augmentation capa-
bility of the Air National
Guard and Air Force Re-
serve. The knowledge that
these units stand ready and
able to provide this additional
capability is a matter of pride
and deep personal satisfac-
ton to me-"
Air Guardsman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

two legislators have been given Albert
Lasker Foundation awards, usually re-
served for doctors, research specialists
and other professional men. Both have
been in the forefront of the fight in
Congress to obtain more funds for medi-
cal research, and both are sponsors Of
pending legislation to create new In
stitute Of international Medical Re-
search as part of the National Institutes
of Health. They have well earned the
honorS which have come to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
ReoIist VS.. Economists

Recently several econom-
lists came up with the peculiar
thesis that spiraling postwar
labor costs have had relative
ly little to do with the creep
ing imitation which is con-
tinuing to plague us.
If the $4,000 Atlantic Coast
and Gulf longshoremen are
able to force through their
current demands for a soc
per hour wage increase, it
will figure UP to around ST.
100000 per week or $88, 400
900 per year. What will hap
pen to that staggering wage
increase? Much of our food
stuffs and other necessities
come from the Pacific Coast
and from overseas. That mer-
chandise is handled by these
longShoremen over East
Coast docks. Do these econ
omists make what they call a
"basic assumption" that this
extra cost may just possibly
evaporate, or can be stuffed
down the rat hole? Or will
the importers and distribu-
tors of consumer goods be
forced to add it to the cost
of necessities we buy, affect
ing the pocketbooks Of all of
us?
Maybe those economists,
through some mysterious
mumbo jumbo, painlessly can
dispose of such problems but
the realiSts among us, that
is. we consumers, have learn
ed a few economic facts, too,
the hard way. Take, for ex-
ample, steel strikes. Past
records show this pattern:
Cd Steel wages are forced up.
co Then next the cost of steel
goes up. 90 Then next the
cost of tinplate goes up. a.
Then next the cost Of tin cans
goes up. go Then when that
happens it affects the cost of
most everything going into
our kitchens and that is only
a small part of the damage.
Once again we are just about
helpleSsly to witness a repeti-
ton of that disastrous chain
reaction, triggered by another
wearying round Of steel wage
increases.
Possibly a good dose Of
education in higher econom-
les would act as a temporary
tranquilizer, enabling us all
to join the economists hap
PLY in sweeping these ugly
facts under the rug. Until.
that is, we sit down to work
out next years family budget.
Then is when we consumers
will be brought forcibly to
realize that we have taken
still another economic horse
whipping, and the banana
oil of some of these econom-
lists will not alleviate the f.
nancial stings one little bit.
Disguised Consumer.
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test or an authorlzed social
event.
1t would appear desirable
that Washington adopt a
curfew rule with a Sliding
scale" similar to those in
other cities. There is al
ready under consideration a
bill calling for an anti
lettering policy to become eff
fective in the District. How
ever, the advantage of the
stronger, more stringent cur
few rule is that it provides a
cooperative method in
which parents and police can
determine that youngsters be
safely off the streets and in
their homes at the correct
time.
Suzanne r. Sailing.
I am deeply concerned over
what has happened morally
to our teen-agers so as to re-
suit in the growing crime
wave, not only here, but
throughout the country, and
thoroughly agree with the
article in The Star on Oct. 6,
by j. Edgar Hoover, saying
the public must stand shoul-
der to shoulder with the un-
dermanned and overbur-
dened law enforcement au-
thorities to combat the youth
crime attack. For this we
need stricter laws, and
more and stricter juvenile
courts.
The crux of the situation
lies in the home and because
of working mothers there is
no discipline. If a mother
must work, her children
should be made accountable
to their grandparents for SUI
perviSion after school, but in
the evening it is the parents
responsibility to know where
they are and what they are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Atoms for Peace

The 72-nation International Atomic
Energy Agency has met once again in
Vienna-itS headquarters city-but it's
eyes have been fixed primarily on Wash
ington. This is so because of the Ameri-
can-Soviet talks that have just taken
place here in an effort to speed up world
cooperation in the peaceful uses of
nuclear power.
Although it came into being with
high hopes in 1857, the IAEA-poten-
TALLY an extremely significant outgrowth
of President EiSenhowerS atoms-for-
peace programmes been languishing,
more or less, for months past. Gener-
ally speaking, it has been bypasSed by
both the Soviet Union and the United
States in nonmiltary atomic matters.
Our own country, for example, instead
of using the agency as clearing house,
has resorted to bilateral agreements in
helping other nations to harness nuclear
energy for beneficent purposes, and the
Kremlin, despite being key member
of it, has virtually ignored the organiza-
ton. Happily, however, this situation
now seems destined to change for the
better.
At any rate, Chairman McCone of
our Atomic Energy Commission now has
completed round of promising nego-
tiations with one of the highest Soviet
nuclear authorities, and they both have
indicated that they favor agreement on
a plan of cooperation that will enable
the IAEA to operate with full effective
ness. The world as a whole has reason
to welcome the prospect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

Not since Andrew johnson,
a Union Democrat from Ten
nessee, succeeded Abraham
Lincoln has the United States
had a President from the
solid South" the eleven
States which seeded from the
Union in 1861. The closest to
such a Chief Executive was
Woodrow Wilson, born and
reared in Stanton, Virginia,
and educated at the Univer-
sity OF Virginia. Elected to
the White House, Mr.. Wilson
was no longer rated a South
erner, having been President
OF Princeton University and
Governor Of New Jersey. Had
he been Governor Of Virginia,
instead, he would not have
been nominated for President
in 1912 by the Democratic
Party.
Andrew johnson went out
Of Office in March 1869-more
than 80 years ago frustrated
in his efforts to follow Lin
coins program for dealing
mercifully with the South by
the Republican radicals in
control Of Congress. In all the
years since johnson, the
Democrats have feared to
place in nomination for the
Presidency a Southerner, at
first because Of the intense
feeling growing out of the
war and more recently be-
cause of the attitude of the
radical Democrats of the
North. Indeed, under the
leadership of Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Paul M.
Butler and other violent pro-
civil rights Democratic lead
ers, a vigorous fight may be
expected in the Democratic
National Convention next
year against nomination of
either a Southerner or a So
called moderate Democrat.
Able Men Passed By
Some of the ableSt men in
the political and official life
of the Nation who would have
= been outstanding in the Office
of Chief Executive have been
passed by, simply because
they did not live north of the
Mason and Dixon line. For
example, there was Oscar w.
Underwood of Alabama, one
of the foremost members of
CongreSs-Democratic Lead
er of the House and then
Democratic Leader of the
Senate. Senator Walter
George of Georgia and Gov
ernor and then Senator Harry
Flood Byrd of Virginia were
others.
In all this long period of
presidential drought in the
South, that section has stuck
firmly to the Democratic
Party and to the teachings o.
Thomas Jefferson. Only when
outraged by candidates and
platforms of the Democratic
National Convention has the
Solid South rebelled. In 1923,
when Alfred E. Smith, a great