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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Highway Collapse

If the House Ways and Means Com
mittee had deliberately set out to under
cut the Nations massive highway i'm
provement program it could hardly have
been more effective than by its new
proposal to "Solve" the programs flnan-
cial crisis.
The task before the committee was
to find way to repleniSh the rapidly
diminishing national highway trust fund
so that ~ deficit could be averted
this year and (2) immediate ALLEGATIONS
of Federal aid could be made to the
States, up to an authorized total of $25
billion, for the year starting July l, $780,
But the House committees solution" in
effect, is simply to cut back good part
of the program. It's billion dollar bond
issue scheme would trim the Federal aid
amount for the 1861 fiscal year to less
than fourth of the authorized amount
from $2.5 billion to $500 million. 1t
would slash aid in the two subsequent
years by nearly billion dollars year.
And it would stretch the time for COM
pleting the 41,000-mile interstate high
way system six years beyond its present
target date of 1869.
The committee has been too timid
to adopt the proper solution-approval
of the 11a-cent increase in the Federal
gas tax proposed by President EiSen-
hover. Strong pressure undoubtedly is
being exerted by oil companies and by
highway user organizations against the
fuel tax boost, and the positions of
these groups are traditional. But we
cannot believe that their ShortSighted-
ness reflects the opinion of the ordinary
motorist. Certainly, if he could be heard,
he would express willingness to pay the
small additional charge in return for
fulillment of the bright benefits of the
highway program.
One ironic aspect of the situation
is that the committees inadequate pro-
poSal, even if enacted by Congress, may
we'll be vetoed by the President. The
administration previously has opposed
the concept of special highway bond
issue on grounds that it would cause
inf1ationary preSSureS and would conflict
with sales of other Government Securi-
ties. In addition, the bond issue scheme
would require transfer of part of the
Federal motor vehicle excise tax from
the general fund of the Treasury to the
highway fund-another deficit produc-
ing effect which the President properly
has strongly opposed.
The House committees program also
seems to ignore the fact that a major
reStudy of Federal highway financing is
I,,o To-
been simply to find an answer that would
hold until that time. The most feasible
answer is the gas tax increase. 4s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Good Show in Hawaii

The voters of Hawaii have staged an
impressive demonstration Of political in
terest and independence in their first
popular election as the 50th State in the
Union. With 1873, 900 registered, 10000,
or SO per cent, turned out to vote for
three places in Congress and for a full
slate of elective State Offices. Along with
this remarkable degree Of interest, they
displayed their own political individual
ity by upsetting most predictions to give
Republican candidates some key VIC
tories in the distribution of honors.
AS its first congressional delegation,
the island State will send to the Congress
one Republican Senator, Hiram L. Fong,
one Democratic Senator, Oren E. Long,
and a Democratic Representative, Daniel
K Inouye. The closest to an upset among
these was the victory of Mr.. Fong,
ChineSe-American businessman, who de-
feated his Democratic opponent by APP
proximately 5000 votes.
Perhaps more significant in terms Of
the States future political course were
the results in contests for the State gov
eminent. Republican william F. Quinn,
who has been serving as the islands last
appointed Governor, will be its first
elected one on the basis of narrow vic
tory over John A. Burns, who has been
serving as the nonvoting delegate to
Congress. At the same time, by separate
voting, Republican James K. Kealoha
won the lieutenant governorship, and
Republicans captured the State Senate
by 13-to-12 margin. The local House Of
Representatives went Democratic, 80 to
10. With this initial control, however,
the G. o. P. will be in position to staff
much of the State Observation-Disclosures
ing judges, department heads and mem
berS of boards and commiSSionS-an OBJ
viouS advantage in the formation Of
strong State party.
Apart from partisan considerations,
the campaign and its results showed
the breadth of political consciousness
in a population Of diverse ethnic back
grounds. Many of the candidates were
of Asiatic ancestry, many of old Hawai-
ian families and many from the CONT
mental United States. The results showed,
too, that the political influence of the
International Longshoremen's Union,
controlled by Harry Bridges, does not
necessarily dominate the islands, as
charged, since some Of its favoriteS, in
Guiding Mr.. Burns, were defeated. There
was, in short, a typically American divi-
sion of party and individual preference
that is a wholesome omen for Hawaiian
politics in the years ahead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30

Boss-ridden labor unions.
born of imitation, in forcing
their wage demands to keep
up with it, serve only to
swell it.
A further cause of imitation
lies in our system of land
tenure, an offspring of the
Old World feudal system. 1t
puts public-made values in
private pockets and gives
rein to speculation with the
result of kiting land prices
far above their economic
value for use. Most of our
landowners are paying far
more in multiple taxes than
the rental value of their land,
and should be glad to ex-
change it for relief from such
taxation, or most of it, in
Guiding the nightmare IN
come tax that makes evasion
of its raiding on industrial
gains a crime. The result
of such an exchange would be
cheapening of everything. in
Guiding costs of government,
with the dollar on the way
back to par.
We are spending billions
against the spread of COM
munism while holding to con-
ditions that are a standing
invitation to it.
Walter N. Campbell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Restotes Case

A letter from Mitchell
Joseph George implies that
I criticized Representative
Broyhill of Virginia for a
lack of interest in his con-
stituency. No such suggestion
ever has been made by me;
on the contrary I have been
a supporter of Mr.. Broyhill
and am certain that he has
been admirably attentive to
the affairs of his district.
The sole point of my letter
was this:
When Mr.. Broyhill ex-
pressed dismay at the con-
troll shed on the railroad
bridge, finding that it de-
tracted from the beauty of
Washington, l said that he
would be better employed in
attacking more hideous struc-
lures. For Mr.. Broyhill or
anyone else in a public posi-
ton to express concern over
the bridge shed is a tithing
of mint, anise and cummin
when there is such a crying
need for champions to defend
the National Capital against
the vandalS who are so busily
destroying its architectural
eminence.
Homer Joseph Dodge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30

controlled by them, to serve as a sound
ing board for Soviet propaganda.
Needless to say, these servants OF
the Kremlin would like to0give the i'm
preston that the show is thing full Of
sweetness, light and complete harmonN
Vienna, however, is free city, and there
is no censorship of reports about how
large numbers of elegates-vincluding
Americans, Europeans, Asians and Afri-
cans-are vigorously protesting against
Communist efforts to make the proceed
ings follow Moscow's line. So the per-
Torrance thus far has been rather en-
barraSSing to the Soviet partisanS. Not
all young people-not by long shot
are enraptured supporters of a system
that brushes freedom in places like
Hungary and Tibet. Small wonder that
they are not pleasing Moscow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
'WeItino Pot Culture

I have these thoughts on
reading Betty Beale's article
about Architect Edward D.
Stones opening comments on
what style of concept is fit
ting for the proposed Nation
al Cultural Center.
United States culture is an
amalgam of the cultures of
all those peoples who COM
pose our population. 1t is
the culture of the melting
pot" This amalgam should
be kept flexible for all time.
1t should never jell into any
fixed concept. Its innate
variety is it's great feature,
unique in the world The cul-
lures of most nations are ma
Enthusiastically styled - an
impossible handicap to their
cultural progreSS-as every
United States tourist has OBJ
served. The French are al
ways French, the British are
always British, the Japanese
are always japanese, ETC.,
etc.
But the Americans are al
ways all of those things, i.e.,
everything. which is more.
The goal in a United States
National. Cultural Center,
here in the Nations Capital,
should be to avoid setting up
a perspective of conformity.
Cultural conformity is cul-
tural stagnation and mental
death. Isn't the future sky
outer spaceAthe future limit?
C. A. Castle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
THE POLITICAL MILL:
G. o. p. Gets Break in Hawaii
BY GOULD LINCOLN

mate for Lieutenant Cover
nor Hawaiian born James X.
Kealoha, swamped his Demo-
cratic opponent.
From a strictly partisan
political point Of view, the
Republicans won a major
victory when they elected
Gov. QUINN In the new
State, the Governor will have
wide appointive powers to
important island Offices. This
can be Of great value and
strengthen the Republican
Party in future elections.
Much will depend, however,
on the character and ability
Of Gov. Quinn's appointees
and, indeed, on his own adj
ministration.
Island Legislature Split
In the election Of a new
State Legislature, the Demo-
Gratis won control of the
House of Representatives,
while the Republicans cap
tured control Of the State
Senate by the narrow margin
OF l3 to IL. The Democrats
did a far better job in the
House, winding up with 80
Representatives to 10 for the
Republicans.
With the addition of two
new Senators from Hawaii,
the membership of the United
States Senate has reached
the 100 mark-a round figure
which bids fair to remain the
same for a long period.
Puerto Rico has a Common
wealth status. and it does
not now seem likely it will
be changed. The District of
Columbia is a Federal district
under the terms of the Con-
stitution. 1t would take an
amendment to that docu-
ment to give the District
statehood. For years there
has been a campaign for a
constitutional amendment
that would allow the people
of the District to elect Rep
resentatives in Congress and
to vote for President and
Vice President. While the
District has a population
much greater than that of
either Alaska or. Hawaii. it
would take a tremendous
reversal of sentiment in Con-
gress to give the people here
the right to elect members
of the Senate and the House.
The Hawaiian elections
will increase the over
whelming majority of DEM
ocratic members of the House
of Representatives by one.
At present the Democrats
have 282 House members and
one vacancy, while the Re-
publicans have only 1873. In
the Senate the Democrats,
with an added Hawaiian
Senator, will have IS Sem
ators and the Republicans
by the same token will have
35. This is not much of a
change. but it will make it
more difficult to override a
veto by President Eisen-
hover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Beyond Call of Duty

Congressman Kowalski says
he has hundreds of letters
from Servicemen protesting
they were required to act as
personal servants for officers.
1 wonder how many of these
letters we're from Navy men.
I served 80 years in the
Navy, most of them as an
enlisted man. I performed a
few mental tasks for my Off
GERS, but it was always VOL
untary and no pressure ever
was brought to bear on me.
1 never felt degraded in the
slightest and for these Off
GERS (many of them long
since dead I would gladly
perform these services again.
I'm sure the good Con-
gresham can find other
means of getting publicity.
1 read a good article by him
in the American Legion mag
azine. If he must help the
servicemans let him try to
get a raise in the inadequate
pensions of those officers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Festival in Vienna

The World Youth Festival has had
anything but a festive opening in vi
emma. A spirit of "togetherness" seems
to be lacking in the earnest, hard
breathing young ladies and gentlemen
attending it from all parts of the globe.
Some of the more emotional delegates
have gone at each other with knives,
and most of the others, though eschew-
ing physical violence and mayhem in
general, are divided into two vehemently
argumentative groups full of mutual
contempt and suspicion. The reason for
this, of course, is that the show-just
like its several predecessors behind the
Iron Curtain-haS been organized by the
Communists, and is pretty thoroughly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Back on the Beam

A second successful Atlas test firing,
coming after five disheartening failures,
lends some substance to the deep con-
f1dence" which Lieutenant General Ber-
nard Schriever has expressed in the use
fulness of this mighty weapon.
General Schriever, the Air Force re-
search and development chief, told the
House Space Committee that three of
the five recent fopS were attributable to
random failureS-failureS not related to
any single malfunction and not neceS-
sarily. rejecting on the reliability of the
weapon. The first and fifth failures
severe fuel leak" General Schriever
said he thought this had been corrected,
and the two successful f1rings-one last
week and one this week-tend to sup
port his belief that the Atlas program
is getting back on the beam.
In this missile business, however, it
is important to avoid excessive optimism
as well as undue peSsimism. Our own
country, and one may hope that the
same is true of Russia, is a long way
from having a really significant ICBM
capability. Any successful firing is well
come, but we must expect. that there
will be many more failureS-especially
as we get on with testing the more
sophisticated Titan and Minuteman. Ac-
tually, some of our defense authorities
have said that we could not expect more
than half of our Atlas f1rings to be fully
successful even after this weapon be-
comes operational. General Schriever
told the House committee that we should
have more than 80 per cent reliability"
later on. This would be a very high rate
of dependability, and it may reflect some
wishful thinking. 1t appears, however,
that at least one Atlas bug has been
ironed out, and that is something to be
thankful for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Jeff Davis Stamp

4oAl U ~ dbOuG OAlllC VIC AloA
a &c postage stamp with an
engraving of Jefferson Davis
on it, Mr.. Postmaster Cen
eral? While it may be good
politics, as a postal employee
pointed out, to issue a welter
of stamps with various like
neSSeS of Abraham Lincoln,
the gallant Southern leader
deserves at least one issue
since today he's revered by
10 million children of the
Confederacy.
The patrician features of
Davis are indeed as noble as
those of Lincoln. And if
Northern folk complain, let
them remember Davis, a West
Point graduate, served mag
nif1cently as Secretary of
War 1853-1857 under Frank
lin Pierce.
He improved the Army, en-
larged the Capitol, built Cab
in John viaduct to insure
Washington a good water
supply. Astutely, he backed
rail routes. with Federal
bonds, land grants, opening
the West of the United States
to the Pacific.
Fort Sumter found Jeffer-
son Davis a leader in the
United States Senate. Ac-
cepting the toga of president
of the Confederate States, he
guided them in their heroic
struggle for States rights in
the first total war of man.
kind.
at least a postage Stamp is
due the memory of one of
the great Americans of all
time!
Charles p Roa1Iey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Pool Attendance

On July 10 you published
an article howing that,
since l948, attendance at the
six public swimming pools
operated in the District by
Government Services, Inc,
has dropped by more than
so per cent. You quoted T.
Sutton Jet of National Capi-
tai Parks as attributing this
drop in attendance at the
public swimming pools to two
causes: Cd The increase of
swimming pools built by. COM
munitieS outside the District
which restrict attendance to
members and their guests,
and 90 the fact that some
families in the District are
not financially able to pay
for the admissions charged
at the public pools.
1t would seem to me that
Mr.. Jet would be more hon.
est with the public and your
newspaper would be more
honest with its readers. if
both he and you were more
willing to mention the real
reason for the drastic decline
in public swimming pool at
tendance. This real reason is.
OF course. racial indignation.
In 1913. when the public pool
in AnacoStia was being oper-
ated for white batherS only,
its summer attendance was
liz, 447. The attendance
dropped to 28,610 in 1850
when Negro batherS started
to use the pool under the
indignation policy. Last sum-
meI2 (1958) the total attend
ance was only 1857 and 80
per cent colored. Other for.
merly all-white pools under
went a. similar decline under
racial integration.
Harvey H. Hewitt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
Why Not Ask Him.?

President Eisenhower, with under
Standable circumSpection, is not saying
whether he favorS or diSfavorS the idea
Of inviting Nikita KhruShchev over here.
But he has made clear at his latest news
conference that Vice President Nixon
has "every right" to discuss the posi-
bility with the Soviet Premier, and this
seems to us to leave the latc1String out
conSpicuouSly enough to suggest that
such visit may we'll materialize in the
not-too- distant future
Mr.. Nixon, of course, is not author
lied to extend any kind of invitation in
behalf of the White House. However, he
has had carte blanche to talk about the
. matter with Mr.. Khrushchev, and the
President undoubtedly will listen to him
very carefully if he recommends, on his
return from the Soviet Union, that the
Premier be asked to come to our country.
It then will be up to Mr.. Eisenhower to
decide one way or the other, and we
think he will be doing the sensible thing
if he decides affirmatively.
Some people do not like to contem-
plate situation in which Mr.. Khru-
shchev-who has made no bones about
his desire to visit America and to have
Mr.. Eisenhower visit the USSR-may be
able to win added prestige for himself,
in his own empire and throughout the
world, by having our country treat him
as an honored guest. Yet, although this
constitutes risk of sorts, it seems to be
a risk worth taking.
Actually, riSktaking is unacceptable
in this supremely dangerous world, and
we find it hard to believe-given the
deadly Stalemate now poisoning Ameri-
can-Soviet relations - that Mr.. Khru-
shchev'S presence in our country would
make life any more perilous than it is
already. We think he should be invited.
If an invitation would not serve the
cause Of peace, it could hardly endanger
the existence of our still quite powerful
republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-30
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

People love to interfere, do
they not?
They do, as Starlings and
others have discovered.
Humans who like to feed
the birds soon discover that
they have caught themselves
in a kind of trap.
They feed the species they
like. then they find that the
species they do not particu-
larly care for, including the
common sparrowS, starlings
and pigeons, come to the
feast, too.
4
Really, you can't blame the
SparrowS, starlingS and the
pigeons.
They are hungry, in a hun
cry world, as our correspon-
dent says.
They do not know that they
are unWanted.
They are just hungry, see
the more colorful species eat
ing, and fly down to partake
of the earth'S goodness.
Who can blame them?
If they are really unwant-
ed. there is one way to get rid
of them.
1t is almost sure-f1re, but
it takes perseverance,.
Stand at the window, and
every time they show up,
make menacing motions.
If these motions are ac-
companied with a loud noise
of some kind, they will
achieve results quicker.
If more desirable species
are driven away, too, these
are more inclined to come
back quicker, too.
The determined person will
do this time after time, for
all day. if necessary. and the
next day, too. until the star
lingS refuse to come to such
a noisy, mixed-up sort of
place.
1t may take time, but it
works, and no harm is done,
except maybe to ones pa
thence and vocal chords.
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Information, Please

What has happened to the
splendid offers to the city
Of the two theaters-Keith'S
and Shubert? Isn't it about
time for an interim report to
the 'citizenS on this subject
by the Commissioners?
In the absence of such a
report there are only rumors.
One which I haven't been
able to substantiate is that
these offers were viewed I'M
sympathetically by trustees
of the National Cultural Gen.
ter. The trustees thought of
these theaters not as a well
come addition to the city's
cultural life, but as COMPETE
tive to the Center itself. If
this rumor is true, the trus-
tees lack vision. For Wash
ington itself must be envis-
aged as the true cultural
center of this Nation-just
as Paris is of France; no
single facility, be it the Ma
tional Gallery of Art or the
proposed Cultural Center,
can do more than contribute
to the whole.
Isn't the rejection OF two
fine theaters unrealistic as
well as lacking in vision? In
fact, isn't it of a piece with
the trustees view as to the
ease with which $50 million
(their current f1gure) can be
raised for the Center?
What will happen to the
national drive for funds for
the Center when it is shown
that the City Fathers and
the trustees of the Center
managed between them to re-
ject or turn down two such
magnificent theaters-and to
discourage Mr.. Cafritz and
others of like mind? What
will people think of opr city's
leaders who .grandiloquently
reject a gift of two such
valuable theaters Cor let
them slip through their fin
gers) and, in the same breath,
ask for $50 million from the
public at large?
T. A. WaggOner, Jr.