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PAINTING

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French so-called primitive who
worked in a Paris customs
house-has been a gallery
treasure for 80 years.
The gallery has had two
previous thefets. with recovery
both times. Mr.. Mclaughlin re-
called that 10 or IL years ago,
a painting was stolen and police
caught the culprit and got the
painting. In the second case,
the painting was returned after
two years. 1t was mailed to the
gallery, wrapped in a copy of
the Christian Science Monitor,
with a note saying, 81 trust
this ends two years of torment"
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Nixon, toured the proposed site
beside the Potomac in Foggy
Bottom and held a work session
with Health, Education and
Welfare Secretary Arthur s.
Flemming.
Secretary Flemming, director
of the center's board of
trustees, hopes by next Friday
to present the full board with
a comprehensive program for
soliciting funds.
Nationwide Setup Planned
Details discussed at his pre-
iiminary session Friday after
noon included methods Of
bringing together at least 1000
influential Americans as a COM
mittee to oversee operations in
different parts of the country.
Mr.. NiXon'S help was sought
by Robert c. Dowling, chair
man of the National American
Theater Academy. Neither Mr..
Nixon nor Mr.. Dowling would
comment on their Commute
private discussion in the Vice
Presidents Office.
Speculation was, however,
that Mr.. Dowling might have
asked the Vice President to con-
tribute to the center first, as a
spur to the Nationwide drive.
Mr.. Nixon generally turns his
receipts from writings over to
charitable causes. The cultural
center might be a logical choice
for such a gift, one source close
to the Vice President said.
Mr.. Talbot said he was en-
couraged by the great in
terest" shown by Washington
residents in the center. He
expected within a week to an
nounce names of some of the
Evening star., 1959-12-06

much spadework yet" said Mr..
Kerns.
Meanwhile, Carl L. Shipley
chairman Of the District Re-
publican State Committee,
said he and other officers Of
the committee will be neutral
in any contest that may de-
velop here between Gov. Rock
efeller and Vice President Nix
on.
Said Mr.. Shipley:
I'VE would be cooperative
to both candidates"
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EISENHOWER RIDES
1888 CONVERTIBLE
ON ROMAN TOURS

ROME. Dec. 5 (AP)-
While in Rome. President
Eisenhower has been driven
around in what probably is
the oldest car he has rid
den in for some time.
Italy's President Giovan-
nj Gronchi placed at Mr..
Eisenhower's disposal an
old 1888 Fiat, a soft-top
convertible that used to
belong to the Italian royal
family.
Why the old vehicle for
the visiting American
President?
It's comfortable, Italians
explain, and is bigger than
any automobiles now made
in Italy.
It's in good shape, too.
In its 21 years of service
it has only been driven
$4,000 miles.
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I oIbott to Head Drive
For D. c. Arts Center

Philip NJ Talbot nationally known business leader, will
direct fund raising in the Washington proposed
$50 million national cultural center.
Mr. Talbott's appointment yesterday by
Corrin Strong. national campaign chairman midst
Of busy week end of planning for the memorial
To organize support, sponsors called President
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persons who would help him
make major contacts in this
area.
The deadline for raising Suf-
f1cient funds to begin con-
struction is September 2, 1868,
under the law.
Mr.. Talbott's appointment
was lauded by representatives
of the State Department, the
National Parks Service and
Congress. These officials &C
companied Mr.. Talbot Friday
morning on a site inspection.
They included Senator Wiley,
Republican of Wisconsin, and
Representative Thompson,
Democrat of New Jersey, Spon-
sors of legislation authorizing
construction. Also, Assistant
Secretary of State Andrew
Berding, Park Service Design
Chief Robert C. Horne looked
over the l0-acre tract, directly
opposite the Theodore Roose-
welt Island.
"Of all the cities involved
in the cultural center's coast
forecast coming campaign.
none is more important than
Washington, D. c." Chairman
Strong said.
Leadership Seen Vital
ut is important that we have
exemplary leadership and sup
port for the cultural center
here" he added. Phillip Tai
bolts acceptance of the drive
Craftsmanship here assures us
OF the leadership we need"
Mr.. Talbot, formerly presi-
6ent of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce and the
Washington Board of Trade
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President did not even make
a report about it."
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Don't Add to the Noise

Representative Broyhill of Virginia
was justified in appealing again to Fed
eral officials to take concrete meas
ureS" to reduce the nerve-j angling,
ear-jarring roar of airplanes approach
ing or taking off from the National
Airport But his proposal for a hell
copter patrol to enforce altitude and
course regulations has a serious flaw.
Our experience with the whirlybirds has
been that they are almost as noisy as
conventional planes. To have them
lowering over nearby areas of Virginia
and Georgetown while they watch for
violatorS would only add to the din
overhead.
. The FAA rules imposed on airline
pilots in an effort to abate the noise
nuisance have helped Some-but they
are not always followed. Under the
regulations pilots are required to fly over
the river as far as Chain Bridge, or until
they have reached sufficient height to
ease the impact of propellers and Jet
eXhaustS on the ear drums of persons
below. 1t is temptation to take short
cuts, however, and the aircraft often do.
The racket from low-hying planes is
especially distracting when windows and
doors of homes are open or when resi-
dents are relaxing on their porches or
lawns.
The Federal Aviation Agency has
urged persons annoyed by the planes
to report their identification numbers,
general description and exact time of
the incidents. UNLESS one is prepared
for this sort Of plane Spotting, however,
it is difficult to get the necessary data.
We suggest, in lieu of 'copter patrol.
a small ground observer corps of FAA
experts on plane Spotting and identifica-
ton. A sporadic check by such inspec-
tors, with appropriate warnings to Of
Tending pilots, might help. to make life
pleasanter for earthbound citizens near
the airport.
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Other Bridges to Cross

Governor Faubus is quoted as say
ing he was not surprised by the decision
invalidating his own school-closing law,
which shut four Little Rock schools in
the school year of '57-58. Nor should
he be surprised.
Virginia's Governor and Attorney
General, with comparable law on their
hands-which may have served as a
model for Arkansas-saw the hand
writing on the wall some time ago. They
initiated a test of the Virginia law
part Of the massive resistance package
in the State Supreme Court of Appeals.
Certain children in Norfolk, affected by
the automatic closing of six schools
there, sued in the Federal court about
the same time. Both decisions were
timed to come out the same day. The
State court held the Virginia law invalid
under the State constitution The Fed
eral court made the point that while
Virginia was under no Federal consti-
tutional requirement to maintain sys-
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Residence or Ability?

An important consideration seems
to have been overlooked in the current
intercounty fight over the Craftsmanship
of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission. Whereas the battle so far
has been waged solely on geographic
grounds, the primary factor in choosing
a new head of the commission ought to-
be his fitness for the post.
If the best man for the bicounty
agency craftsmanship happens to be
from Prince Georges County or from
Montgomery County, what difference
does 1t make? The idea that place of
residence should control the selection
land Prince Georges County has had the
honor for many years. is as illogical as
1t would be to hold that the Office should
go to politician.
The commission is a vital public
service agency whose members are
equally divided between the two coun-
ties served. The easiest and most sensi-
BILE way to break the present three-to-
three deadlock over a chairman is to
forget the residential factor and elect
the man the members believe is best
qualified to lead the agency in carrying
out its important functions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Equal Time on Air

My personal congratula-
tons TO the FEC commits
sioners for their vote in sus-
tanning their hearing exami-
ner's decision concerning GER
tain clear statutory provi-
sions regarding equal time
for all political candidates!
Their adamant refusal TO
bow to outside influence and
coercion which had been di-
rected at them in q futile at
tempt to influence and form
their views and decisions
contrary to express statute is
indeed heartening in this era
of influence and judicial
uSurpation Of the rights Of
the Congress alone to legis-
late. The law should be en-
forced as 1t Is written and
the Interpretation thereof is
not honestly to be influenced
by personal whim or caprice
or vagary Of any individual
jurist or other outsider.
II there are inequities or
appropriateness in the law, let
the Congress amend 1t by ap-
propriate legislation-not by
judicial usurpation.
Lawyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
One-Woy Stretch?

Congress appears well on its way to
approving another uplifting movement,
part Of 1t designated as temporary and
part as permanent, on the public debt
ceiling The House version of this
emergency" legislation raises the tenn
porary limit from 1888 billion to S295
billion and lifts the permanent ceiling
from 1888 billion to $285 billion. The
deadline for the House and Senate to
complete action is June 80, and there
is an obvious feeling that there is no
practical alternative If the Government
is to be allowed to pay its bills.
1t is forecast further that Congress
will need to 60 through the same sort
Of exercise year hence-as it has done
roughly score Of times since the first
statutory ceiling was imposed in the
Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. The
present practice of setting a single over
all ceiling was initiated in 1898, at the
relatively modest figure Of $45 billion.
The reasons for the higher public
debt over two decades Of war and peace
and with a greatly expanding population
dAC AldIlJ dllu OuNlUuS. IL ID IlOJ 50 GEAR
that the practice of setting ceiling,
then honoring 1t only by changing 1t,
is serving its intended purpose of con-
trolling the debt. Some argue that 1t
has at least psychological effect on
Government spending. Others argue
that it has positive effects that are
disadvantageouS.
Brookings Institution, for example,
has released study in which 1t con-
cludes that the debt ceiling experiment
has been costly failure. The study
asserts that the statutory limit has:
"Jeopardized long-run national defense
policy; interfered with compensatory
(spending) measures during recession;
hampered proper debt management
policy; fostered budgetary subterfuge;
increased the cost Of financing the Gov
eminent"
This is harsh indictment, and pos
Sibly not fully justified. There is, how
ever, sort of aura of fantasy about
this recurring crisis of having to change
the debt ceiling every year or so, rather
than doing something about the debt
itself.
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give some thought as to how
the inherent rights of free
men. as guaranteed by the
Constitution. can be restored
to them. OF what good Is our
Wanted system Of justice and
equality under the law If it
can be abridged and by
passed by the psychiatrists
and the insanity charge?
r. /. G,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Lure of Moscow

Instead of Maine or Miami,
It's now stylish to vacation in
Moscow, basking meath the
sunshine OF Khrushchev'S
smile. Nikita beams as guilt
BILE Americans swallow his
ballet bait and the ballyhoo
that sojourns in his broken
down hostelries will bring
peace" This is the People
to People" program, or, Look
Nom, no war;"
Presidential candidates vie
for hours spent at killer
Khrushchev's chubby knee.
Dear Hubert talked for eight
hours, but Khrushchev's
tough-he survived. Then
Hubert addressed the Russian
people-via a dead" radio.
Amt cultural exchange"
grand?
Elizabeth Lippitt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

TEN Of public schools, the closing Of GER
tain schools In the circumstances while
others remained open was unconstitu-
tional. Presumably the circuit court in
the Arkansas case reached its opinion
on identical grounds.
In Prince Edward County the local
authorities have voted to suspend col
lection of taxes for the support of public
schools there, which means abandoning
them all, colored as well as white, for
the time being. That will raise other
legal issues, certain to be tested; it will
present other bridges, yet to be crossed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Censoring Books

There is a school Of thought
that cenSors and book-burn-
ers are indeed bedfellows,
and ought to be condemned.
The abuse Of Postmaster
General Summertield follows
naturally.
But what about the manu-
script from which the book
was made? What about the
author? And the editor? And
the publisher greedy to make
money out Of smut? You al
most never hear them men,
toned. But once their BRAIN
children get into print. lib
erals can't stand censorship.
and they'll fight YOU about
1t. They'll call you names
such as bigots, intolerant
demagogues. anything they
have in Stock-mostly re-
served for those who cannot
see eye to eye with them on
political questions.
1t would seem that authors,
editors and publishers ought
to share some Of the blame
for smut in literature. How
about the billions Of written
pages burned by authors
whose sense Of moral values
compelled them to toss such
trashy literature into the fire.
where it belongs2 Yes. writ
ten pages and not printed for
the reason their consciences
were strickenl
Would these same liberals
have condemned the author
as he opened the furnace door
to toss them into the fire?
Probably not. Then what
makes mere print per Sc, sa-
crosanct? Any nitwit with
sufficient cash can print
books. Once he has printed
something. ah! you had bet
ter let it alone. man.
E. II. Alexander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Longs Ordeal

Governor Long should learn
a great deal from the expert
ence he Is having. Being
drugged and transported to
the locked ward of a mental
institution is nothing new in
the treatment Of mental
cases.
The Governor will also
learn that there is no defense
against the insanity charge.
Everyone, including the Gov
ernor, has a few quirks
and personality peculiarities.
Finding a psychiatrist or two
who will lump them all to-
gether under the heading of
a major psychosis should not
be difficult for those who
want Governor Long put
away. Most psychiatrists be-
lieve that everyone Except
ing other psychiatrists) is
crazy anyway. so they can
give sincere testimony to that
effect.
The Governor is really on
the spot, and II he gets away
with a whole skin he should
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FROM THE STARS FILES

magnificent fire balloon IL
feet high and 8 feet in dia-
meter. The balloon was
let of from his residence on
East Capitol street at sunset.
II made a beautiful ascension
of about 200 feet. :" But
later it ran into heavy
weather. descended into q
tree. and burst into flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
An Inexoct Science

Com m EN- d a tion is due
Judge Holtzoff for his APP
pointment of a committee to
study ways and means as to
how justice may be served
best. The committees partic-
ular interest will be directed
toward lesSening the confu-
sion Of juries that have lis
tened to the testimony of
medical witnesses who have
expressed Numerically op-
posed opinions in cases in
volving personal injury.
Occasionally a doctor and
a lawyer have conspired to
deceive the court and jury
and have recovered unjust
and excessive verdicts, but
these cases are rare excep-
tons. 1t is quite possible for
two eminent and honest
medical experts to consider
the identical facts and to
reach entirely different con-
illusions because Of the vary
ing experiences they have
had.
Medicine and surgery are
not exact sciences, and there
remain many unsolved prob
lens connected with the
physical and emotional re-
actions Of people. The wit
ness who is a chemist or an
engineer can testify as 10 his
speciality without fear Of sue
cessful contradiction because
theirs are exact sciences. HUI
man reactions, both physical
and emotional. do not always
follow a pattern. and the
medical witness must depend
on his observation and ex-
perience in professional life
to form his opinions.
Medicine and surgery are
as yet quite nebulous and
many mysteries Of nature are
still unsolved. Not long ago
1t was believed that the world
was fiat. that malaria was
due to vapors. that toads
caused warts, that all en-
larged tonsils should be re-
moved. that people who sue
cumbed TO appendicitis died
OF inflammation OF the
bowels. that birthmarks were
due to prenatal impressions,
that sulphur and molasses
were a must for spring, that
bleeding the patient would
cure most Of his ailments,
that aconite reduced fever,
that death from coronary
disease was due to acute in
digestion, and that spinach
was particularly necessary
for health.
What we feel very sure
Of today may be proved false
tomorrow. A whole new
series Of diseases may soon
appear because Of antibiotics.
To depend. then. upon an
umpire to decide as to which
opinion is correct when two
reputable witnesses disagree
is dangerous procedure. The
knowledge that medical testi-
mony is to be reviewed by a
committee of other experts
will discourage the fringe
practitioners Of both law and
medicine. and cause more
preparation Of cases and more
considered opinions. Medical
witnesses who can be bought
should be severely dealt with.
They are usually recognizable.
Bon voyage to the new
committee. But it may con-
clude that the present system
Of allowing juries TO decide
whom to believe is a pretty
good one after all.
James A. Cannon, ST., MD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Steel and the Public

The Secretary Of Labor has
called on the negotiators In
the steel dispute to close the
controversy in the newspa-
pers and get down to inten-
sive bargaining. because you
never settle any controversy
In the papers"
With due respect for the
Secretary's opinion. this is a
controversy that should be
settled in the papers first, so
that the public may Judge
the merits Of the settlement,
since they have a vital inter-
est in 1t.
Whatever wage increases
are decided on, it is fairly
certain that the cost will not
come out Of managerial sala-
ries. and If they do not come
from higher steel prices they
will have to come out of the
stockholders share. Labor
spokesman have referred TO
the industries big profits. II
there have been such profits.
the record shows that the
shareholders have not been
getting them. While wage
rates in the U. s. Steel Co.,
for instance. have climbed
from a little under % cents
an hour in 1910 to $3.497 in
1858. returns to the COM
pany's shareholders. as shown
in the daily stock market re-
ports. have actually declined.
and in the past three years
have averaged under 5 per
cent on the market price of
the stock.
Even those who, like my
self. own no securities have
an interest in the outcome Of
negotiations between organ
lied labor and big-company
management. For it is not
enough TO reject the collec-
twist system Of communism.
We must follow a system of
our own. That system is
capitalism, and If the name
is to have meaning, the right
Of capital to share equitably
in the increases it makes pos
sible must be observed.
We have the best system in
the world, everything con-
sidered, and we should not
let it lapse by default into
the strong-arm rule Of Let
him take who has the power
and let him keep who can"
BENJAMIN ,Kirs0n.
Holicong. Pa.
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Recess in Deadlock

There still is some hope, though
obviously not much, that the Kremlin
may lessen its obdurateness when the
Big Four foreign ministers reconvene in
Geneva on July Is. In any case. the
fact that the talks have been recessed
rather than brought to a complete
end suggests the possibility that their
resumption may lead to something
slightly better than the present dismal
deadlock.
But even this tenuouS kind Of hope
fulness, this Smidgeon of optimism,
must be viewed with great reserve and
SkepticiSm. For the Soviet position dur
ing the past several weeks of negotia-
ton has been grimly unyielding. Ger
tainly Foreign Minister Gromyko in
Geneva and Premier Khrushchev in
Moscow have made no concessions to
match those offered by the West. In
stead, although extending the eviction
deadline to a period Is months from
now, they have adhered uncompromiS-
ingly to the demand that France, Brit
ain and the United States get out of
free Berlin under conditions plainly
calculated to make that city acutely
vulnerable to an eventual Communist
takeover.
1t is true that Mr.. Khrushchev in
his latest speech has reSorted to a con-
siderable amount of seemingly concilia-
tory and reasonable language He has
said, for instance, that there is no real
significance in the deadline he has set,
and he has disavowed any idea of con-
fronting the West with an ultimatum.
At the same time, however, he has again
warned France, Britain and the United
States that unless they agree to the
substance Of the Soviet proposalS-pro-
poSalS aimed at the ultimate commune
cation OF the whole of Germany-he will
sign a separate peace treaty with the
East Germans and hand over to them
control Of the access routes to Berlin.
More than that, he has repeated his
ugly threat to support them with all
military means If the Western allies
use force to uphold their rights in that
city.
This Is something that speaks for
itself. Small wonder that Secretary Her.
ter. and the British and French foreign
ministers have firmly rejected what Mr..
Gromyko, speaking for Mr. Khrushchev,
has proposed as a four-power agree
ment. They have done so for the very
good reason that such an agreement,
besides reServing to the Kremlin a spe-
cial privilege of unilateral action at the
end of fixed time limit, would oblige
France, Britain and the United States
to "acquiesce in the liquidation of their
rights in Berlin and the abandonment
Of their responsibility for maintaining
the freedom of the people of West Ber-
lin" In sum, in its long-range effect,
the thing would amount to document
Of Western surrender.
Hence the deadlock-and it is a
deadlock full of the most ominous po-
tentialities Accordingly, the world can
do little more than hope that the three
week Geneva recess will somehow help
to persuade the Kremlin to become rea-
Sonable enough to permit at least a
little progress toward an honorable,
tension easing agreement. Given that.
then a summit conference might be
fruitful whereas otherwise the outlook
is likely to become bleak indeed. The
future in that sense rests with Mr..
KhruShchev.