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Evening star., 1959-12-03
The Birth Control Controversy

olic" be asked the following
questions:
AS President. would you be
bound by the teaching of your
church that lying is a viola
ton of Gods law and a sin?
Would this teaching prevent
you from lying if. as Presi-
dent. you felt that to lie was
in the best interests Of the
United States? What would
you do if your Secretary Of
State solemnly advised you
that Russia might start a
war unless you told a lie?
AS President. would you be
influenced or bound by the
teaching Of your church that
adultery is a violation of
Gods law and a sin? Would
this teaching prevent you
from advocating adultery If
your Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare ad-
vised you that scientists were
convinced that this anti
quated, illiberal, and unpro-
gressive Christian taboo pre-
vented the total development
of the personality, and urged
you as President to encour-
age full and free indulgence
to make your Nation strong?
AS President, would you be
bound by the teaching of
your church that murder is
a violation of Gods law and
a sin? Would this teaching
prevent you from advocating
the right of each man to take
his own life If your Secretary
of the Interior advised you
that you must recognize and
encourage this right and the
free exercise thereof in order
that our Nation might avoid
the disastrous effects of the
population explosion?
Seriously, is it not about
time that we Christians
showed each other a little
charity? Is it not about time
that we Americans showed a
real awareness of our rights
to worship God as we see At
and to run for political Office
without a religious test? May
I, a Catholic, ask Bishop
Pike, a fellow American and
a fellow Christian. to recon-
slider the implications of his
public questioning of Catho-
lie political candidates in
terms of the Constitution of
the United States and the
freedoms which it has
wrought?
Matthew J. McCartin.
For some time, I have felt
Evening star., 1959-12-03
Fumes at Motorists

The Metropolitan Area
transport problem is complex,
but it has a simple solution:
Let the customer pay the full
price for services rendered.
II a transport system is to
be built to permit any resi-
dent of the Metropolitan Area
to go anywhere at any time
at high speed. then. Of course,
the costs per car-mile and
passenger-mile will be very
high. If these high costs are
incurred solely to cater to
hypothetical whims of future
consumers, then clearly they
should be borne largely by
this whimsical consumer.
If shoppers and commuters
are to be encouraged to
lengthen greatly the number
Of miles per trip. and increase
the number of trips per day,
let them pay for their trans
port freedom. Double and
triple the gasoline tax and
the automobile license tax.
Then the beneficiaries will.
bear the costs, and those who
choose to do without a car,
or who choose to minimize
the number of miles logged
per day, can benefit by their
wisdom.
If gasoline at so cents a
gallon or more were to per-
suade some motorists to take
to public transit. why so
much the better. 1t would be
that much easier to make
rapid transit a self-flnanclng
proposition, and it might be
possible to trim the express
way program to boot.
Let motor fuel taxes and
motor vehicle license fees be
high enough to cover the full
social costs Of motor vehicle
use. They should finance
free treatment for lung can
Ger and for fume-induced
respiratory ailments. They
should pay the added cost Of
cleaning and laundry to the
whole community.
The problem of financing
is really political. A sufficient
ly high level Of gasoline taxes
Evening star., 1959-12-03
ALEXANDRIA. VA

n.
II recently saw in your COL
umn something about wal
nuts and the fun of picking
them. 1t brought my mind
back to my own childhood,
and how we used to go to
the woods for all kinds of
nuts.
In an age of high pro-
tein, as it might be called,
the nut occupies a secondary
place, when as a matter of
fact most nuts are power
houses of protein, energy and
good nutrition.
Food cranks of all kinds,
as they are miscalled, like to
eat nuts, some of them
munching seeds such as the
sunf1ower seed and now the
pumpkin.
Nuts of many kinds are
eaten, it is true, but only as
tidbits, when they might we'll
be used as a main source of
protein.
If they are so used, they
must be balanced with plenty
OF vegetables and fruits. be-
cause all of the nuts are con-
centrated.
"One valuable feature of
nuts is that they are natural
and untreated, that is, they
are raw.
"All of us. need some raw
food every day, but many of
us never get any.
There is cult Of entire
raw food eaters, but this re-
quireS a certain determine :
ton I have never been able to
get around to, though 1 know
one woman who swears her
life was saved by going on an
all-raw diet.
Yours truly, G. L. L."
\ Il y
Peanut butter is about as
far as many go in this type
Of food.
WalnutS and filbertS and
Brazil nuts and butternutS-
They all bring up memories
Of childhood.
Kids are crazy about crack
ing and eating them, and
ordinarily not very particular
about the worms that some
times appear in them.
This is one very good rea-
son why grownups fail to eat
them. Plainly, they are too
much bother for many.
On the other hand, there
are thousands of people who
go around munching nuts of
one kind or another, sure in
Evening star., 1959-12-03
Armed Citizens

A loaded revolver in the
pocket of a bus driver is just
as dangerous as when an
ordinary citizen is allowed to
carry a gun. There is abso-
lutely no assurance that they
will not become angered and
fire on us.
The names Of pistol per-
NIT holders should be made
public. One civilian has no
right to assume police powers
under our system Of govern
ment that is not accorded
another, and carrying a gun
merely enables that indi-
vidual to enforce a right by
the threat of gunf1re.
H. A. Sheehan.
Evening star., 1959-12-03
Mrs. Harry A. Layne, Jr.

that Senator Kennedy was
one of the better of the po-
tential presidential candi-
dates. However, because Of
his views anent birth con-
troll in economically depressed
areas of the world, I now
believe that his candidacy
should be strongly opposed.
With the hundreds of mil
lions of awakened have-nots
clamoring for a higher stand
ard of living, failure to ar
rest the population explo-
sion going on in such areas
cannot help but aggravate
the situation, and eventually
lead to certain disaster. 1t
is all too easy for most of us
in America, with our great
material wealth, to feel Sc
cure, and to close our eyes to
suffering and poverty else
where. But any political
leader who is so unenlight-
ened, unrealistic, and blind
to the facts would certainly
be unsuited to bear the re-
Sponsibility of guiding our
country through such dan
gerous times.
Robert Harmon.
y y
It seems a shame that
Senator John F. Kennedy'S
chance to become President
probably faces the ruinous
discount of religious bigotry.
Yet, in politics, there is no
known method of granting
absolution, indulgences or
special dispensations. 1t is in
evitable that the political op-
portunists will use the Cath
olic bishops condemnation of
population control. by birth
control, as a formidable
weapon. Unfortunately for
Senator Kennedy, national
politics will not be subServient
to the Massachusetts, rule:
Birth control is the concern
of the State. Those who prac-
tice it break the law.
The prohibitions of Mas
sachusetts will become the
ready weapon of his rivals.
Those who do not live alone
surely commit no sin when
they smile at the wisdom of
celibateS. They will continue
to smile, even if their own
church, of non-Catholic faith,
frowns upon their levity. The
political damagogue will
change those smiles to rau-
cous laughter. Politics is the
art of the possible. And, when
it attempts the impossible, it
ceases to be good politics.
Thomas e. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1959-12-03

Ralph McGill should be
commended for his attempt
to make us aware Of the
faults in our school system.
Perhaps the day is past that
we can afford the luxurious
wastefulness in our system.
Training and education must
remain but each in its proper
perspective.
I believe Supt. Hansen's
-Four Track Plan" is q
proper approach.
Soon we must revise our
school system; it is no longer
a choice.
IoSeuh RerlanStein.
Evening star., 1959-12-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

the belief that they are good
for them"
AS our correspondent points
out, they are, within reason.
but should not be eaten to
excess.
The proteins they contain
may be better ingested as
meat, milk or eggs, to say
nothing of the ubiquitous
cottage cheese.
+ y -
The heyday of nut trees
seems to have been reached
in this country.
What with natural diseases.
attacking many kinds of for
est giants, and tremendous
forest fires, usually the re-
suits of carelessness, the nut
trees are passing.
Children seldom go to the
woods any more for this pur-
pose, But it was a lot of fun
in the old days, even though
mothers regretted the stain
ing of hands and faces with
walnut Juice.
Most nuts are carefully
packaged by nature, with a
soft or outer covering, and a
hard or inner shell.
Neither of these coats man.
ages to keep the worms out.
In one medical journal
there has been appearing for
years an advertisement of a
modern remedy headed, This
Wormy World"
Berries, apples and nuts
too often have worms in
them. and for sensitive peo-
pie, this is a deterrent.
Fish has it's bones, too.
Milk has a certain per-
mitted number Of germs, but
you can't see them.
To bite into an apple with
a worm in it is an old child.
hood grievance that has
soured many a person on
apples for life.
Perhaps this has some
thing to do with the fact
that so many people fail to
eat any nuts except the pea
nut. which is not exactly a
nut in the ordinary sense.
Peanut butter, beloved OF
childhood, is NOWADAYS
gummed up with cooking oils,
we are told.
1t tastes like bears grease,
to us. Who remembers bears
grease? At one time, it was
held to be a fine remedy, but
now the bears are disappear
ing, and along with them
their fat,
Evening star., 1959-12-03

would be effective as q rev.
enue producer only If levied
throughout the Metropolitan
Area, including parts Of
Maryland and Virginia. Area
wide tax powers would be a
revolutionary departure from
present practice. Not as re-
volutionary, how ever, as
making car and bus users
pay the full costs of their
choice.
CnuA fa1
Evening star., 1959-12-03
THE POLITICAL MILL
Profiteerinq at Public Expense
By GOULD LINCOLN

a union before retiring-T
have for years been on la
boris side and still am. despite
so many abuses of power,
privileges and the dishonesty
of some leaders, / am equally
on the side of the long-suf-
fering public. 1 am afraid
labor is heading the way Of
big public be damned in
dustrial giants of the decade
that brought on the anti.
trust laws. I don't believe in
injunctions, but on the other.
hand, maybe there are times
when an injunction is the
only resort left for the pro-
lection Of the public.
THE steel industry is max
ing millions in what ! think
is exorbitant proflteering. I
say this solely from my own
personal experience with elev-
en- little shares of common
stock in United States Steel.
In less than eight years the
shares have been split into
%; dividends have been in
creased by 100 per cent in
dollar value, and the book
value of the stock has nearly
trebled in value. On my orig
inal investment of $3.50 I
am getting interest at is per
cent-and where can any
one today get is per cent on
any new investment. No doubt
thousands of steel workers
own common stock, too. With
this knowledge Of how COM
panies are profiting, I can
not blame them for seeking
a larger piece Of the pie. But
on the other hand, I think
both labor and industry need
curbing. I can only see the
poor man in the middle
the general public-ground
between these two millStoneS.
If I were a steel worker,
I wouldn't want to yield the
fringe benefits it took so many
years to obtain. But / think
I should be satisfied with
making more reasonable de-
mands than the union now
is making. And certainly I
don't think that the U. S.
Steel Corporation or the
Others should hike the price
of steel. They are making
enough profit as it is"
Workers Well Paid
The writer might have
added that the steel workers,
on the average, are the
highest paid workers in the
country-or any other coun-
try-today.
Kaiser has made a deal, or
agreement, with the union.
which the other steel COM
panieS insist cannot be made
without inflationary increases
in the price of steel. Kaiser
has denied this. But Mr..
Kaiser has fatty refused to
say that he will not eventu-
ally raise the price Of steel to
his buyers-which should be
informative enough to any
one considering this situation.
Steel has for years been the
bellwether in the wage-price
spiral in this country, and it
will be again unless some
reason can be drummed into
the heads Of both industry
and labor.
Which political party would
be hurt the most if the Demo-
cratic Congress should pass
a drastic anti-strike and
anti-price imitation bill and
the Republican President
should sign it is still any,
body'S guess. Neither party
wishes to try this one out,
But their leaders say this
steel strike must not be per-
mitted to resume after Janu-
ary 26, the final day of the
injunction which sent the
steel workers back to the
mills.
Evening star., 1959-12-03
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry iDriterS correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star., 1959-12-03
Icino for the Cake

The grant of $127,00O by the Ford
Foundation to the Arena Stage is
tribute not only to Arena, but to the
expanding stature of the Capital as
home of the arts.
Arena, more than ever with its
newly established nonprofit status, has
Evening star., 1959-12-03

There's a tremendous de-
sire for a settlement Of the
steel strike, shared by both
Republican and Democratic
leaders. President Eisen-
hover is speaking out strong
ly tonight on the vital need
of an agreement between the
steel union and the steel
companies-and no further
work stoppage at the end of
the current 80-day cooling
of" period under the Taft
Hartley Act.
One thing, however, every
one, including the general
public, should bear in mind.
That is, the settlement of
the strike. when made, shall
not bring about an increase
in the price of steel. Price
increases of steel would start
again the inf1ationary spiral,
increasing the cost of living
already at an all-time peak
and shooting the costs of
national defense to heights
which would compel the Pres
ident and the Congress to ap-
propriate far more than the
SAL billion for defense now
expected in the January
budget to Congress.
Price increases for steel,
used in so many products
today, are no idle matter. If
they are to be the price of
peace between the workers
and the industry, the public
and the Congress should take
a look and determine wheth-
er such a price is worth pay
ing.
No Sign Of Solution
While it is unthinkable that
the union and steel COM
panieS will fail to come to an
agreement, there has been
nothing, really, to show that
a solution is approaching
although rs or 26 of the 30
day cooling off period already
have expired. The steel COM
panies submitted a new offel
November IS, which wa;
promptly and arrogantly
turned down by the unior
leaders. On Tuesday, botf
sides began meeting with thu
Federal conciliators and me.
diators. It's high time some.
thing should be in the works
If the strike should be re-
newed at the end of the 80
day period labor and industr!
may rest assured the Presi'
dent and the Congress vii
take steps to end the strike
even if they have to go II
compulsory arbitration O.
plant seizures. If that hap,
pens a wedge will have beer
driven deep into the vital
and freedom-of both la,
bor and industry.
None of the politicians i
anxious for this to happen
But neither the Chief Execu
tive nor the Congress will b,
blind to the interest of al
the people and the countr,
and allow this thing to con
tinue. Members of the Senat,
and House Labor Committee
already have indicated the!
will be prepared to act. Tn,
action may be both quicl
and drastic.
President EiSenhowe
blames both labor and indus
try for the present situation
In this he is entirely justi
fled. A correspondent, who i
both friendly to labor an,
whose small holding in Unite,
States Steel common stoc.
gives more than adequate re
turns on his investment, ha
written: In this particula
situation, I'm with those VIII
say: "A plague on both you
houses While naturally
he himself was a member n
Evening star., 1959-12-03
Commends McGH

Carhater
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-12-24
uled for release this fall.

uled for release this fall.
eff they go over, I've arrived"
Pearce says.
Pearce, SO, played piano with
college bands, but composed
songs solely for his campus dates.
Now the early listening is done
by wife Clare and four daughters.
After nine years of medical
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-12-24
Kentucky doctor
beatnik at night
on piano keys
BY sly Ramsey

Louisville, KY. - By day
DR.. Charles Pearce is dignified
general practitioner.
By night, he composes music
at a piano when the beatnik in
me comes out"
Its a mood swing" he says.
Sometimes l feel real low and
start emphasizing the minor
chords. Other times l feel great
and the music comes out bub-
bling"
Four years ago Pearce found
he could improve the musical
ditties of his Little Theater group.
"Then pickle company paid
me so bucks for television COM
mercial," he says. II guess got
in the groove after that"
Not quite. His first commercial
song, 1--WE Never Been in Love
Before" was a dud.
But tn al didn't discourage
Pearce or his lyricist, housewife
Wanda Receveur. When the doc
tor got a melody idea he played it
over the telephone by tape to
Wanda, who called him back with
the lyrics.
They composed Slip Kitten"
and blue Jean Bop" This effort
took the mild-mannered physi-
clan into the strange world of
A & r ARTISTS and Repertoire).
''The trouble with those songs
is they aren't bad enough" an
AIR man advised.
Pearce correctly translated this
to mean the melodies were too
pretty and the lyrics ineligible.
"We butchered the record and
he asked us to make it just little
worse" the physician says. eve
did, and the record went over"
Pearce says the trend now is
toward songs that aren't too bad,
and he has two ready.
when" and "Are You Really in
Lover" have been recorded by a
well known singer and are sched-
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-12-24

practice Pearce Views himself as
"what people call nice doctor,
someone who listens to you sym-
pathetically."
After four years as tunesmith
Pearce is reaching for Hollywood.
"But even if / get there" he
said, "I'll still be doctor in the
daytime"
Evening star., 1959-11-19
Ford 10 Sell
Two Million
More Shares

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (AP).-
The Ford Foundation today
confirmed its plan to sell two
million more shares Of Ford
Motor Co. stock the second week
in December.
A registration was filed with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission covering the pro-
posed public sale.
The underwriters will be
headed by Blyth & Co.. First
Boston Corp, Goldman, Sachs
& Co., Kuhn Loeb g. Co., Leh-
man Bros, Merrill Lynch,
Pierce. Fenner g. Smith, Inc.
and White Weld & Co.
This is the same syndicate
that f1oated two previous sales
Of Ford stock for the Founda-
ton.
The first sale, 3l2 years ago,
was for 10.2 million shares and
marked the shift of Ford Motor
Co. from one Of the richest, pri-
vately held corporations to the
ranks of publicly held corpora
tions. The shares were listed
shortly after for trading on the
New York Stock Exchange.
The price of the first public
offering on January 10, 1856,
was $64.50 a share, for a total
Of $657.5 million.
A second block of two million
shares was sold March 81 at
$3.50 a share, for a total of
$l13 million.
Ford stock opened today at
$78 a share, unchanged. At this
level, the offering would have
a value of $156 million.
Proceeds of the sale of the
two million shares, as in pre-
vious offerings, would 60 to the
charitable foundation and not
to the Ford Motor Co.
The Foundation said it was
selling the block to further
diversity its investment port
folio. The SEC registration was
filed by the Ford Motor Co. on
behalf Of the Foundation.
The Foundation holds 34,073,-
739 shares of non-voting Glass
A Ford common stock. When an
offering of Foundation owned
stock is made, the Foundation
first converts the Class A shares
into common shares with vot-
ing rights.
Ford Motor has three classes
Of stock. There are 14.336,504
common shares held by the
public. These will be raised to
l6.336,504 after the proposed
offering.
In addition to the non-voting
Glass A stock owned by the
Foundation, there are 6,293, 100
Glass B Common shares held
by the Ford family. The Glass
B stock will have 40 per cent of
the voting power of the COM
pany as long as the family-held
stock exceeds 2,700 shares.
Evening star., 1959-11-19
DIVIDENDS
AeeumulatiVe

NEW YORK. Nov. Is tAPJ Div.
oends announced:
Pc Stk Of Pay.
Rate riod record able
Evening star., 1959-11-19
C-E-I-R Reports
Records And Adds
Smith to Bourd

C-E-I-R, Inc, mas record
sales and earnings in the year
ended September 80 and James
Hopkins Smith, jr., former
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Air, has been elected a
director, it was announced by
President Herbert w. Robinson
after the annual stockholders
meeting yesterday.
The years sales rose to 81
'67S,063 from $1,374,154 in the
previous year. Net income after
Federal income taxes and spe-
cial charges amounted to $83,- :
623 or 20 cents a share, COM
pared with $42,358 or 13 cents
a share in the previous year.
Fourth quarter sales of ST.
O53,554 in contrast to $408, TAO
a year earlier, President Robin
son pointed out.
Evening star., 1959-11-19
OVER COUNTER

Washington liStings on over-the-
counter markets furnished by the Ma
tional Association Of Securities Dealers
as of l pm. Thursday, November 10:
Evening star., 1959-11-19
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Nov. 10 tAP) CUsDAl.-
Hozs 1000: slow and uneven, 25 to
80 lower on butchers, closed mostly 40
TO 80 lower; SowS slow, uneven, mostly
rs lower; % mixed grade and mixed
grade Is, IS and IS 19O-230 lbs 1926
1918, few early 1888; Is and IS
mixed 1-2 10000 lbs 12.65-13 90: q
few lots sorted mostly Is 190-210 lbs
IL. 90 O-13,25; around l35 head at I3 25:
mixed 2-3 and rs 23O-2B0 lb butchers
12.0Q-12 so; few selected lots Is 800
240 lhs l2.5O-12.75: several lots mixed
2-3 and 3s 2R0-300 lbs IL .5O-12. 90;
mixed Rrade 3 33O-4o5 ID sows 10. 90
l1.OO; sorted 2-3 425-55O lbs 925-
Cattle l, 500: calves 100: slaushter
steers and heifers SLOW. barely steady
to so lower: commercial and standard
cows steady to weak; Gamers and cut
tiers strong to % higher; bulls so to
] 90 lower; vealers steady to 90
lower: stockers and feeders slow, weak
at the weeks full downturn: a load
OF mixed choice 100 lbs $3.50; q
Few loads and lots choice ! $50 ID
steers 25 .00-26.75: good to low choice
@3.0O-24 IS mixed commercial to low
GOOD L. .440-l $50 lbs 90 so: standard
200 lbs 2l.O0:' load I,I5O ID
utility steers with a standard end
1850: good to choice heifers 20 90
475: utility and standard 1900
80; utility and commercial cows
25-l 80; Gamers and cutters
iO.oO- 3.75: a few light Gamers down
70 300: utility and commercial bulls
nu-2O.0 90: standard and good veal
er' 24oo-29.o0: culls down to 100.