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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Henry St. George Tucker

Professionalism in America has lost
one of its outstanding leaders with the
death, at IS, of Right Rev. Henry st.
George Tucker, retired Presiding Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Church and
Bishop of Virginia During his long
career as church dignitary Bishop
Tucker had won the respect and affec-
ton not only of members of his faith
but of persons in other lands.
In describing him as "a great Vir-
ginian," the Richmond Dispatch
had in mind the bishops descent from
two of VirginiaS most distinguished
families, the Washingtons and the Tuck
erS. His mother, Maria Washington
Tucker, was the last member of the
Washington family to be born at Mount
Vernon. She was the daughter of John
Augustine Washington III, a great
nephew of George Washington. His
father, also a Protestant Episcopal
Bishop-o of Southern Virginia = traced
his lineage to St. George Tucker, who
was wounded at Yorktown and who later
became a justice of Virginia'S Supreme
Court of Appeals.
His church was so impressed with
his leadership that his original term of
six years as presiding bishop was ex-
tended by special action for three more
years. While heading the national
church organization he also served as
president of the Federal Council, of
Churches of Christ in America. man
of great personal charm and wit, along
with the dignity of his high office, he
counted among his friends many of the
country's leaders in government and
business as we'll as in church circles
Virginia has good cause to mourn the
passing of this native son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Mr.. Inouye of Hawaii

1t is pleasure to welcome to Wash
ington RepreSentative-elect and Mrs.
Daniel K. Inouye. He is the first
Japanese-A American ever chosen to serve
in Congress. He comes to us from far
away Hawaii, our newest State-the
50th. He comes to us, moreover, not
only as holder of the Distinguished
Service Cross Che lost his right arm
fighting for the United States in the
Second World War;, but also as a leg
iSlator with refreshingly modest dis
inclination to pass snap judgments on
large and complicated issues Educated
here at George Washington University
Law School, he has made clear, for in
stance, that he has reservations about
home rule for the District and that he
wants to study the problem in detail
before making up his mind on it.
Similarly, as man whose Hawaiian
background has made him we'll aware
of ethnic and racial questions, 34-year-
old Mr.. Inouye has spoken as mod
crate in declaring that Il am certain
that the people of the South have a
story to tell, and I would like to listen
to their story because I don't believe
indignation in itself is solution to the
problem of civil rights" He has been
elected as Democrat only for a one
year term, but we suspect that his con-
Stituents will give him another vote of
confidence when he runs again for Con-
gress. In any event, we hope he and his
attractive wife enjoy every minute of
their new experience-off1cial and I'M
off1cial-here in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Santiago Donnybrook?

Tension in the Caribbean area is
the prime item on the agenda OF the
special inter-American conference open
ing tomorrow at Santiago, Chile. I'm
happily, however, there is some reason
to fear that the meeting, instead Of
pacifying the situation, may actually
tend to aggravate it.
In any event, although everything
may turn out much better than most
observers expect at the moment, some
of the participating foreign ministers
(there will be 81 in all, including Sec
rotary of State Herter) have indicated
that they are ready to set off fireworks
against each other This applies par
ticularly to the representatives of Vene-
zuela, Cuba and the Dominican Repub-
lie, but others are involved as we'll.
The fireworks, if they materialize as
threatened, will take the form of sui
phurouS speeches in which regimes like
Fidel CaStro's in Havana may call for
economic and military sanctions against
such relationships as that of Generals
Simo Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
undoubtedly will reply in kind, and the
Santiago gathering thus may become
sort of oratorical Donnybrook, increaS-
ing tension and doing violence to the
ideal Of genuine good neighborlineSS
throughout the Americas. What has
particularly poisoned the situation, of
course, is the fact-aS noted by Mr..
Herter on his departure for Chile-that
bitter rivalrieS have flared up in the
Caribbean within recent months, and
these rivalrieS have involved not merely
virulent war of words, but also armed
force.
Since June, for example, the Do
minican Republic has had to cope with
two invaSionS, both launched from Cuba
with Venezuelan help. In addition,
Panama has been subjected to military
attack (also of Cuban origin) and so has
Nicaragua. Meanwhile, as reliably re-
ported, GeneraliSSimo Trujillo-wholly
apart from his propaganda offensive
has been engaging In all sorts of in
trigue against Premier Castro in Havana
and the Betancourt regime in Caracas.
With these and similar factors in
mind, friends of inter American har-
mony and cooperation can do little
more than keep their fingers crossed.
Mr.. Herter has his work cut out for him.
In some respects, he may find the San
tiago meeting more trying than the one
with the Russians in Geneva.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Chides Us
Eric ReiSfeld

Why was it necessary to
mention that Jack Rathbone
is a segregationist in report
ing the story of his reScuing
those people from a capsized
boat in Southern Maryland?
Was it just an opportunity to
give a backhanded slap at
segregationiSts?
The heading, Segregation
list Leader Helps Save Six
Negroes as Boat CapsiZes, /"
conveys the idea that this was
a most unusual thing for a
segregationist to do.
If the newspaper concep-
ton of a segregationist were
correct, he would have sat
there in his boat and watched
the people drown without lift
ing a finger.
Newspapers when writing
of a segregationist use Ian
guage that will put him in as
unfavorable light as possible.
When left alone the races
segregate themselves, just as
they had done the day the
boat capSized. All of the peo-
pie on the capsized boat were
colored, and those on the
other two boats were white.
Here is living proof that
voluntary segregation is not
born of hostility toward other
races.
Kitty L. Reynolds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Landlords Rights

II tnOSe oemanQlng Iand-
lords rights" read the Dis
trict Code and applicable
case law, or still better re-
tanned counsel to represent
them in Landlord and Tenant
Branch of Municipal Court.
they would realize that land
lords do have certain rights
which originated in the old
English common law, car
ried over to our own common
law and almost entirely codi-
fled in the D. C. Code. The
Municipal Court of Appeals
for the D. c., the United
States Court of Appeals for
the D. c., and the U. S. Su-
preme Court have clarified
the common law where nee
essary.
Being a landlord carries
with it certain duties and
risks, profits and losses. One
of these risks is that a ten
ant may not pay his rent.
In such an event the land
lord may file a summary &C
ton in Landlord and Tenant
Branch Of Municipal Court
or file an action for eject
ment in the u. S. District
Court for the District of
Columbia. In any event the
proper way to proceed is to
follow counsel'S advice.
We have the finest judicial
talent available in all of our
courts and especially those
within the District. Our jul
dicial system allows recourse
to the Municipal Court of
Appeals, U. S. Court of APP
peals and finally the Supreme
Court if landlords are dis
satisfied with the Landlord
and Tenant Branch. Inf1u-
ence from the real estate
board will not and should
not affect our courts.
Landlords already have re-
ceived special privileges as
landlords; namely, they can
file actions in the Landlord
and Tenant Branch. The Act
creating this branch does
not allow a tenant to file an
action against the landlord.
In filing an action in any
court, the burden of proof is
upon the party initiating the
action. 1t is not the duty of
the judge to assist either
party but merely to hear the
evidence and the law. Land
lords who fail to obtain what
they want in the Landlord
and Tenant Branch, do so
only because they fail to
prove their cases.
Jack A. Hillman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

Constantine Brown. as
usual, finds nothing right
with the United Nations and
everything wrong. In his lat
est dire pesSimism" of Au-
gust 6, ~. N. Near It's Turn
ing Point" he continues to
blame all the worlds dis
putes on the U. N.
The columnist is guilty of
not publiciZing the existence
and work of the other organs
of the United Nations, e.g.,
UNESCO. He does not pub
licize the many achievements
of the specialized agencies
of the U. NJ, e.g.. the World
Health Organization, Inter-
national Monetary Fund,
and the Universal Postal
Union.
There is more to the
United Nations than Sensa-
tionalism and great spec
tacularS.
Leonard S. Brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Getting by Bethesda

AS one who drives through
Bethesda nearly every day,
l would like to make a sug-
gestion concerning the prob
lem of Wisconsin avenue.
1t seems to me that a
Wisconsin avenue underpass
which would go under George
town road and East-West
highway would alleviate traf-
fic congestion, and speed up
driving through Bethesda.
This would divide through
traffic from local traffic in a
manner satisfactory to all.
Elizabeth L. Lyon.
The Bethesda Chamber of
Commerce is again attempt
ing to force public opinion to
favor the Wisconsin Avenue
Corridor" despite the record
ed opposition by hundreds of
affected homeoWnerS.
This organization vehe-
mently opposes the parking
ban on Wisconsin avenue
during rush hours. Such a
ban would eliminate most of
the traffic congestion. These
merchants and businessmen
in their SelfishneSS apparently
would prefer to see hundreds
of homes destroyed and sew
eral thousand persons up
rooted in order to save a few
sales on their overpriced
merchandise.
Bethesda HOmeOWner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Steel Profits

Your July 81 editorial,
steel Profits" suggests that
the steel companies might
we'll consider a wage increase
without a price rise in view
of the current high profits.
Spokesman for these compa-
MES have argued-and their
full-page advertisements have
stated-that profits must be
sufficient to pay for needed
new facilities and for the
modernization of old ones so
that steel can be produced
cheaper at competitive prices
and thus safeguard the
workers jobs and wage scale.
Such reasons for new and
modern facilities may we'll be
valid, but profits cannot be
justified to any extent to
provide new facilities.
The cost of replacing any
facilities used or consumed
in steel manufacture may
properly be charged against
net income but not the cost
of facilities required at some
future date. Capital for new
facilities should be provided
to the steel companies by in
vested savings of individuals
or by their own savings. In
dividualS acquire savings by
withholding part of their in
come from expenditure, and
corporations acquire savings
by Withholding part of their
profits from the stockhold-
ers. But to increase profits to
provide these savings would
merely be an attempt by the
steel companies to force cap
ital contributions from either
the wage earners or the
consumers.
When the steel companies
say in effect to the unions
that they are unable to pay
a wage increase and thus
reduce their profits because
some of these profits must be
used to provide new and
modern facilities, they are
really saying to the unions:
We need more capital for
new facilities. and your con-
tribution will be no wage
increase.
Zalie V. Warner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Paying for Schools

Recent reports indicate
that instead of the expected
leveling off. the school popu-
lation of Montgomery Coun-
ty still increases - thereby
creating an almost intoler-
able problem for the county's
taxpayers.
1t might alleviate some
pressure were we to cease
to give away our capital re-
sources. New residents pay
their share of taxes, designed
to operate public services,
such as schools. Evidently it
has not occurred to anyone
that it might be only fair and
equitable to have new citizens
contribute a lump sum in
consideration of gaining use
and part ownership of al
ready existing facilities-pro-
vided by other peoples taxes.
Our Sanitary Commission
charges an initial sum Tor
connecting their lines to new
houses-to cover the capital
investment needed to provide
such services. Were they to
limit themselves to only
charging operating costs as
represented by their periodic
bills, they would be bankrupt
in short order.
There is no reason to be-
lieve that another public
body-the county-can any
better afford giving away its
substance, constantly dIluting
the equity of its citizens by
expanding the ownership base
of its public facilities-simply
admitting new owners for
the price of participation in
current operating costs only.
Our real estate men use
the quality of our schools as
a very real salespoint, con-
tributing substantially to the
pressure for new schools. I'm
doubtedly they will cry out
loud against the idea of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

praying mantls, catching and
eating a hummingird,
This reverses the usual
bird and insect relationship.
What fooled the hummer,
of course, was what fools
smaller insects, the immo-
bility of the mantis and its
green-bronze coloration, so
like bark of shrubbery.
Our guess is that the hum
mer caught by a mantis was
a sick hummingbird, to begin
with.
Stories that hummingbirdS
never light on branches or
wires are incorrect. Such
tales are based on the fitting
quality of this birds flight,
plus the plain fact that one
does not often see the bird at
rest because it is so easily
overlooked.
Flowers of the trumpet vine
are among the birds favorlte
blossoms.
Petunias are another, and
almost any brightly colored
flower of bell shape pleases it.
In flowers of this shape
there is more opportunity for
the very smallest insects to
crawl around and be caught.
While the tiny birds will
eat the nectar of flowers, this
substance does not give them
much nourishing material,
and for this they are de-
pendent just as we are on the
proteins of animal matter.
This is the reason for put
ting out walls of sugar water
to attract hummers to the
garden.
1t is not so much the sweet
as the meat of the insects at
tracted to the sugar.
So if you place colored test
tubes in the yard, hung to
branches of shrubs about
four feet high. do not re-
move the craWlers, since
these are what these littlest
birds are after.
Among the folktales of the
hummingbird is one that says
they have been seen chasing
hawks.
Well, maybe: but if so, a
fascinating sight, surely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Theoter Gift

A story headlined ID. c.
Heads Hit as Cool to Thea
ter Gift" stated that Rem
resentative Mcdowell, Demo-
crat of Delaware, was puz-
zled and surprised.
Many people in the WASH
ington area are extremely in
terested in having a civic per-
forming art center" There
fore. it is important to have
a few points cleared up.
Mr.. Cafritz purchased the
Keith building for $780,
900. He made a down pay
ment of $4,000 and now
carries a $1,500,000 mort
gage on the building he has
offered the District for an
art center. Who appraised
the property at $3,800,000?
Downtown property has not
doubled in value since Mr..
Cafritz purchased this build
ing a short 2l2 years ago.
What happens to the $685.
900 derived from present
rentals if the building no
longer runs movies as it
does at present? What would
be the cost to properly re-
decorate the building so that
the building could be used as
an art center?
While Washington is the
most important capital in
the world. our local govern
ment is still run on a small
town basis. There are no in
dustrial giants to get behind
the proposed $35,000,000 art
center which the city badly
needs.
Many art groups in the
Washington area would get
behind this project if given
the opportunity. 1t need not
be completed in a single
year. 1t can grow as it is
financially able to do so.
Washington Cathedral has
been under construction for
many, many years.
The only condition under
which the Keith building
should be accepted is to
find a buyer who will pay a
price near the appraised
value of $3,80O,000 and sell
it after taking over Mr.. Ca
fritz's building and use the
profit to start a modern art
center befltting the Nations
Capital.
If Mr.. Cafritz is interested
in Washington having an art
center, l would like to sug-
gest that he contribute
$4,000 (hiS investment in
the Keith building) toward
it and earmark the profits
from the Keith building to
further substitute the center.
The District government is
not in the real estate busi-
ness. Mr.. Cafritz is.
Harriette Anderson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
THE POLITICAL MILL
No Munich in Woshinqton
By GOULD LINCOLN

and Communist domination
OF the world.
Premier Khrushchev has
said he intends TO talk peace
and TO avoid saber-rattling
in his visit to this country.
If he follows this course,
some good may grow out Of
1t. There is one thing the
Russian leader will do, If he
does not keep his eyes closed.
He will get a real under
standing of the tremendous
productive capacity of this
C cunt n "a bulwark Of
strength in any kind of con-
test, whether a hot war or an
economic struggle. He is to
have a free hand to travel
where he desires, to talk
freely with Americans, to see
factories and military install
lations.
Understanding Needed
1t would be folly to be too
optimistic about the results
of the Khrushchev visit to
this country. However, if the
United States and Russia are
to live at peace, some better
understanding, some better
approach than has existed in
the past must be found.
President Eisenhower is ex-
ploring such possibilities.
If his efforts bear fruit,
particularly with reference
to the German problem, an
other foreign ministers con-
ference might take place in
preparation for a summit
meeting, or the plans for a
summit meeting might go
forward Immediately. But a
summit meeting would be
agreed to only after the
President had fully informed
the Western leaders and had
found they were willing to
proceed with such an under
taking.
Vice President Nixon's
recent visit to Russia, fol-
lowed by his visit to Poland,
has given some hope that the
Russian people-and their
government-are willing to
let down the iron curtain so
far as knowledge and under
standing among the Russians
and Americans are concerned.
He was permitted to state
Americas views directly to
the people, via television and
radio. Certainly a concession
on the part of the Commu-
mist leaders.
The chief concern remains.
however. That is the tradi-
tional and many times re-
peated determination of the
Russian Communists to COM
munize the world. AS long as
they persist in this ambition,
and continue to stir up
trouble for this purpose in
the Middle East, in Asia, in
the Americas, there will be
no end to the cold war, no
assurance against a hot war,
and the world will remain
an armed camp. 1t will be in
teresting to learn whether
Mr.. Khrushchev in any de-
gree appears to modify this
position, and why. The Khru-
shchev invitation remains a
gamble-but a bold one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

@. Is Rus-n thistle one
of the "tumbleweed" type of
plants?-H. o.
A. Yes. This weed SAL
sofa pestifer) has tumbled
its way across the country,
but is most serious as a pest
in the Middle and Far West.
It is a red stemmed, many
branched plant, tender
enough to serve as cattle
feed when young. At matur-
ity a plant curls its dried
stems into a ball, breaks of
from its roots, and scatters
thousands of seeds as it
rolls with the wind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

please tell us something
about the hummingbird, y
writes B. S. of Annandale,
Va. I'VE have always thought
he had green feathers, but
one has shown up that APP
pears to be grayish colored
with a tiny white ring near
the tip end of his tail.
"Is this a hummingbird, or
is it some other small bird
that resembles the hum
mingbird?
Where do these little
birds nest, and do they feed
their young as others do?
What food?
Would certainly appre-
ciate any information you
can give"
x y X X
The only hummer we know
hereabout is the rub y =
throated, whose background
color is green in the male.
The other is the female or
the young.
There is a form of a moth
(the sphinx which greatly
resembles a hummingbird
and has the same habit of
standing in the air before a
blossom.
Hummingbirds love bell
shaped flowers, and find in
them both nectar and the
small insects that like the
nectar.
These are the baby food"
served up to the young hum
merS, no longer than the tip
end of your little finger.
The nest is about the size
of a walnut shell. 1t is one
of the best camouflaged of
all bird nests, since it looks
like nothing so much as a
wart on a branch.
Usually it is so placed that
it resembles the protuber-
ances often seen on trees.
Only the very sharpest of
human eyes will ever dis
cover such a nest. Thousands
of persons who admire birds
have never seen it.
= u y
AS small as they are, hum
mingbirdS are real birds, not
just cute little limitations.
They can fight as well as
most species, and this is not
very well, of course, since
few birds really fight, their
battles being mostly a chas-
ing and a fleeing, perhaps
the best and most sensible
way of fighting, after all.
Hum mers have been
known to chase larger birds
in this way, when they seem
to threaten the miniature
nest.
We can imagine that even
birds mostly fail to spot this
nest.
There is an account some
where of a hummingbird
nest placed at the base of g
large electric street light. The
babies must have been kept
warm.
y = =
There is on record an in
stance of the insect, the