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Evening star., 1960-06-13
Briqhter View for West

moderately encouraging appraisal
of political currents in the Middle East
is presented in the final of a series Of
foreign policy studies prepared for the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In brief, the study finds that the
Western position in relation to Commu-
mist maneuvering in the area has i'm
proved steadily since early 1859 as a
result of "a more unobtruSive, discreetly
helpful policy that has allowed the Sino-
Soviet bloc to make the mistakes" AS
a consequence, Anglo-American interest
in the region is looked upon with greater
understanding, with less suspicion and
In climate that is considered more
favorable for new Western initiatives
The report emphasizes two points in
particular on which the committee staff
feels that the Communist cause has been
damaged. In stating the opinion that
the 1raqi revolution caught the Soviet
bloc off guard Gust as it did the West),
the report suggests that the Commu-
niSts underestimate General Kassim
and over-played their own hand to a
point where he has curbed them inter-
nally and looks upon the Soviet Union
itself with mistruSt. Poor performance
by Russian technicianS who were hur-
ried in to operate part of the Iraqi oil
industry has been additional cause for
dissatisfaction. At the same time, the
study asserts that Soviet encouragement
OF 1raq in the intermittent Iraqi-Egyp-
tian quarrel has angered and alarmed
President NaSSer of the United Arab Re-
public. While the Chinese contribution
to this drop in Communist prestige was
an indirect one, the committee says that
the ruthless conquest of Tibet and the
frontier aggreSsionS against India have
offended Arab sentiment.
AS the most urgent need for "new
initiative" which might be taken by the
West, the study proposes that the Pales-
tine Cancellation Commission should
make another determined try at settling
the refugee problem. The commission
was so directed by an 80 to 0 vote Of the
United Nations General Assembly last
fall.
With all this, the committee study
is carefully restrained in its optimism.
1t recognizes that the problems of the
Middle East are complex and ancient,
not product Of the East-West conflict
or even the Arab-ISraeli troubles alone.
1t commends the care and patience of
recent Western policy, and feels that
the same qualities might bring reward
ing results in the future.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
Senate Pool Crowded?

The "hush- hush" ritzy new
swimming pool being planned
in the old Senate Office
Building on Capitol Hill
evokes a protest from this
citizen who resentS the con-
tribution her hard-begot tax
dollars will be making to
this expenditure.
A description has leaked
out of the proposed construc-
ton Of a 20x20-foot swim
ming pool in the senatorial
Health Suite" to replace the
existing pool, which is only
8Xl2 feet. Can 1t be that the
existing pool (Which, we have
been told, is worthy Of the
Splendor Of the baths of
Ancient Rome) will not ac-
commodate the 4 new SEN
atorS from Hawaii and
Alaska who have augmented
this revered body of repre-
sentatives? Would the Sen
atorial Committee in charge
Of this project venture a
statement to shed light on
the cubic foot Of water per
person capacity requirement?
Jessie B. Solomon.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
Pioneer Dubinsky

The time is probably long past for
head-Shaking about strikes and why
some OF them take place. Still, it seems
appropriate to take notice of a brand
new issue" that has put the workers of
chain of Southwest Virginia textile
plants on the picket lines for the first
time since they were organized by the
International Ladies Garment Workers
Union II years ago.
1t seems that the Virginia employer,
the KenroSe Manufacturing Company,
is opening a plant or at least has an
interest in plant, in Ireland-Where
textile wages run about one-fourth of
the $3.50 hourly average in the Old
Dominion State. So, the union wants
the company to indemnify its employees
against possible loss Of jobs or reduction
OF income as result Of what goes on
In Ireland. IF the purpose of firms
opening shops in foreign countries is to
derive greater profits because of lower
wages" Union President David Dublin
sky hypotheSizeS, "the benefits should
be shared with the American workers
who lose out as result"
Mr.. Dub1nSky is aware, Of course,
that the list Of American concerns, in
many lines of industry, that have set up
operations in foreign countries is long
one-and growing longer. He knows,
too, that they have done so in an effort
to meet the lower-coSt competition, and
unless they succeed in one way or an
other there will be no profits" to be
shared by anybody here. 1t is a novel
proposition indeed to suggest that any
margin eked out by this enforced dis
perSal of operations should be diStrib-
uted as compensation for curtailed, or
more costly, production in the United
States.
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nent member Of his own
party.
The world stands aside
for the man, who knows
where he is going. Our man,
Dick Nixon, is going into
the White House in 1861.
Rocky stand aside!
Judy Jewell.
An Independent
. II y
I believe that Gov. Rookie
feller made his statement
not so much in order to pos
sibly advance his candidacy,
but rather out of true con-
Germ for his country. A man
of the Vice Presidents cali
ber should not even be put
within shouting distance of
the highest elective Office
this country has to give.
Eric ReisfeId.
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Happy Worriers

The Survey Research Center of the
University of Michigan has come up with
some worriSome findings about worrying.
interviewing 2,460 adult Americans, and
assuming that they are pretty typical
of all adult Americans, the researchers
found that only IA per cent of the men
and per cent Of the women claimed
that they are worry-free. The rest worry
all the way from sometimes to all the
time. BY far the most of them worry
about economic matters, but quite few
worry about children and health Very
few have any worrying time to spare on
the state of the world, which may be
just as well.
But if this side Of the coin causes
any new worry to mans fellow men,
there is happier aspect about happi-
ness. 1t seems, the researchers say, that
there are more happy characters among
the worriers than among the nom
worriers. These worrierS, the story goes,
have hope. They think things are going
to get better and that makes them happy
though worried. Well, we hope that
things are going to get better too-and
1t makes us happy to think that some
of our most worried looking friends may
be just as happy as can be, without
realizing 1t.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
LETTERS TO THE STAR

influenced by such groups as
the National Education AS
Sociation, National Congress
Of Parents and Teachers, Ma
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie and other questionable
elements. In my opinion, each
of these national" groups
has outlived its usefulness for
the betterment of local pub
lie schools in these United
States.
1t would appear that DR..
Gideonse was attempting to
perpetuate the misleading
fallacy that all modern pub
lie schools are actually and
factually controlled by local
school boards, and also to
provide a further weak and
dubious defense Of educators
for their all-too- obvious lack
of worthwhile results.
Franklin T. Miles
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Up to the House

The House of Representatives, by
two-thirdS vote tomorrow on the con-
Stitutional amendment giving District
residents the right to vote for President
and Vice President, can remove a sup
preston which never was intended by
the founding fathers and which has
violated American principles of citizen
ship for 100 years.
From 1900, the year the seat Of
Federal Government was established on
the Potomac, it has been assumed that
an omission in the language of the
Constitution, which accidentally has de-
prived WashingtonianS Of the right to
help select their President, would some
day be corrected. During the last 80
years, some 65 amendments have been
proposed in various forms to bring this
about. The fact, however, is that not
until the last year has Congress devoted
sufficient attention to the legal, con-
stitutional and political aspects Of the
amendment to advance 1t to its present
brink of fulfllment.
Congress now has done so virtually
without opposition, for the simple rea-
son that no cause for opposition is JUS
titled. The amendment would make no
change in the Constitution except to
eliminate national diSfranchiSement. 1t
is not "home rule" and would not inter-
fere in any fashion with Congress con-
Stitutional duty to legiSlate for the Cap
ital City. 1t would have not the slight
est impact on the so States, either by
altering their own representation in the
electoral college or by raising the Dis
trict of Columbia in any way to the
status of a State.
The House resolution, Furthermore,
has been pared down to the basic mini
munl-one which we wish were strong
enough also to provide for District rep
resentation in the House. A broader
version was approved deciSively by the
Senate on February 2-the first test
vote ever taken on this subject in the
Senate. Tomorrow, the House has its
first turn, and WaShingtonians will be
anxiously awaiting the signal that they
may take their places at the polls along
with every other citizen of the Nation.
Evening star., 1960-06-13

excellent to have a giants
strength, but it is tyrannous
to use it like a giant" Our
country has that strength,
but it has not been misused.
Again to quote Macbeth.
"Merciful Heaven! Thou
rather with thy sharp and
Sulphurous bolt split'st the
unwedgeable and gnarled
oak than the soft myrtle;
but man. proud man, drest
in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant Of what he's
most assured, His CLASSY es-
sence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks
before high heaven, as make
the angels weep"
Finally, I quote Euripides:
Whom God wishes to destroy,
he first makes mad" I am not
angry with Khrushchev; I
pity him. Anthony Trollope
truly said, I'VE know that
power does corrupt"
The strength of our Gov
ernment lies in the limita-
ton of terms of Office. To
mention only a few dictators,
Nero was insane; so was
Caligula, and also Hitler. May
KIN kushchev profit by their
exandplel
Clark Kincaid.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
hksome Reading

OF all the weak and false
excuses and explanations
given by leading education
lists to avoid a true and valid
answer to the question "Why
Johnny Can't Read" a recent
Star item told of the most
recent effusion of such bald
erdaSh.
I refer to the report Of the
weird and unrealistic state
ment to the National Con-
greSs Of Parents and Teach
ers by DR.. Harry D. Gideonse
to the effect that local con-
troll of public education by
thousands of small school
boards Is the greatest weak
ness in American education.
The very few communities
where local school boards act
for the best interests of stu
dents and not merely to par
rot public education fallacies
are indeed fortunate. How
ever, it seems to me that most
modern school boards are
victimized and subversively
Evening star., 1960-06-13
Soft Replies to Shouts of KrenIin's Anory Men

and I do not think many of
us will forget the deal he
gave the Hungarians and
Poles; however, he has not
been accused of being stupid.
I do not believe the power
to initiate World War Three
rests with any one individual
in the Soviet Union-not
even the powerful N. K, let
alone Marshal Malinovsky.
1t was not too long ago
that General Zhukov, Malin-
ovSky's former boss, did the
talking. Right now he is a
member of the forgotten
tribe.
Herbert SOmmers.
y y &A
Allow me to liken Khru-
shchev to one of the greatest
masters of English, william
Shakespeare. OF him, John
Dryden, writing in the 18th
century, said: He is the very
Janus of poets; he wears al
most everywhere two faces,
and you have scarce begun
to admire the one, ere you
despise the other"
Khrushchev mentioned the
fact that our Presidents term
of Office is soon to expire. Is
Khrushchev immortal? Let
me quote Macbeth: 20! it is
Evening star., 1960-06-13

1t seems to me that Mar
shal Malinovsky went in over
his head when he threatened
to destroy with rockets the
bases of countries where
flights take off, if by chance
one Of the planes strayed
over Soviet territory, even
if the airplane were un-
armed.
1 am certain Malinovsky
himself does not believe his
own story, but was prompted
by someone higher up in the
Kremlin who does not want
to be identified for fear of
being caught blufflng or
appearing foolish at some fu-
ture date.
Had the Kremlin wanted
that statement to carry real
punch, it would have gone
out over the signature of Nj
kita Khrushchev, who still
appears to be the boss at this
writing. Both Mr.. Khru-
shchev and our people have
learned enough about each
other during his visit here to
be thoroughly convinced that
nobody wins if we get in
volved in a Third World War.
Amongst other things, Nj
kita Khrushchev has been
caught lying and boasting,
Evening star., 1960-06-13
Home Frauds

The Stars "Homeowner Beware" Sc
r1es provided package of dos and
don'tS" to help homeoWnerS protect
themselves against home improvement
frauds. But the homeowner, as this in
vestigation showed, is not a match for
the high pressure salesman whose ex-
travagant promises can bemuse the best
Of us.
For several years, the District Coun-
Gil on Law Enforcement - the citys
watchdog of criminal activities - has
urged regulations to control the home
improvement business. More than
year ago, the Districts License Commit
tee in its proposed overhaul of the IL
cenSing laws singled out home improve
ment as an activity that should be con-
Sidered for licensing. The concern Of
these groups appears to be justified by
60 per cent increase in complaints to
the Better Business Bureau of Metro
polltan Washington in the past year.
Some other cities Detroit, Cleve-
land and Miami among them - have
come to grips with this problem. En-
forcement officials there report that
their regulations have cleaned up the
home improvement business to a large
extent Memphis, which already has a
statute exceeding the protection offered
Metropolitan Washington homeowners,
is going back to the legislature for an
even more inclusive law.
Washington residents and their
neighbors in surrounding counties are
paying out more than $25 million an
nually to fix up their homes. Business
of this size inevitably attracts the rack
eteerS and requires some form of regu-
lation. The controls which have proved
most effective elsewhere, and which are
most widely recommended here, are IL
cenSing of home improvement contrac-
tors and bonding requirement to in
sure completion Of the job.
Uniform regulations throughout the
area are desirable since the same con-
tractors and the same lenders do buSi-
ness all over Metropolitan Washington.
For the benefit of the homeoWner as
we'll as the long-eStablished contractors
who have suffered in competition with
the high-fying promoters, responsible
officials throughout the area should ex-
anime their enabling acts to determine
how much additional protection they
can offer Immediately without the tedi-
Gus procedure of seeking new legislation.
THE District, with an enabling Sst
which clearly gives authority for licens-
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Annexation Plans

In relation to the study
proposed or being made in
reference to annexation of
small portions Of Fairfax
County lands by the cities
Of Alexandria and Falls
Church, it would seem that
the welfare Of the people
living in the affected area
would be, as a matter Of
course, the important thing
to consider, or is this factor,
only secondary to politics?
Instead of trying to &C
complish the apparently i'm
possible and impractical
thing of stopping progress
and expansion of well man
aged towns and cities, ad-
joining or within it's border,
it would seem far more ap-
propriate and practical for
those in authority in Fairfax
County to look to the vast
and comparatively unde-
veloped Western and South
western area of that county
which comprises approxi-
mately three fourths of the
entire land and of the coun-
ty. All of this vast area is
within easy committing dis
tance to the Nations Capital,
and convenient to, even part
ly adjoining, the new Dulles
International Airport. Also
there are ample railroad, elec-
trio power. and telephone
facilities available and aver
age roads and highways, but
no sewer and water and ap-
parently none contemplated
in the foreseeable future. 1t
does not appear that the air.
port sewer as proposed will
even serve the small part Of
this vast area adjoining the
airport when finished, unless
there is a greater effort and
cooperation by Fairfax
County authorities.
Observer.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

est OF creatures, as he used
to be called. man, himself,
the so-and-So.
During the last hundred
years, due to pioneer work
across the seas. the high sta
tus of mankind has declined,
so that anybody, by a little
honesty, can see him as he
is, a troublemaker, and a
troublesome factor in any
situation.
This disturber of the
worlds peace needs to slow
down, but instead he uses all
kinds Of stimulants to keep
awake.
What man needs, as a spe-
cies, is more siestas.
If young squirrels have
enough sense to utilize this
delightful device, then man,
with all his learning, ought
to be able to rest, too.
The don't worry" aspect
is part of it. If a person really
doesn't worry, it is almost as
good as reposing with the
eyes closed or open.
4
The raccoon makes an ex-
cellent pet. CWe have never
had any experience with
skunks except the human
kindD
The coon, as he is affec-
tionately called by those who
know him best, is an animal
second to none in character.
He is earnest yet playful:
intent, yet happy; beautiful,
yet earthly.
How anyone can kill him
Is something some Of us cam
not understand.
The raccoon's fun loving
is at its best until he is about
a year old. Then he becomes
mature, as the psychologists
say, which means becomes
mean, doesn't it?
So if you can find a nice
baby raccoon. bring him up
with the family, and delight
in his intelligence, beauty
and ability to poke fun at
both himself and his human
friends.
Just how he manages to
do this must be experienced
to be appreciated.
The time will come. OF
course, when nature calls,
and then he must be re-
turned, via the zoo or a
nearby woods, or preferably
to a forest many miles from
home.
1t is good to keep in mind
that Americas raccoon is a
carnivorous animal, related
to the bear; is nocturnal in
habits, and is naturally cfsan.
He even washes his food II
given a chance.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
By THOMAS R. HENRY
Emotion Area of Brain Rules Man

Man and all his fellow
mammals have a submerged
emotion brain"
Within it are the brain
areas of sex, love, fear, an
ger, fighting, appetite - all
the emotions essential for the
preservation of the race and
the individual. 1t is the area
where are mediated the di-
rect, unref1ned expressions of
these emotions, ,unmodified
by thinking" or the putting
Of two and two together.
The latter, in all degrees, is
a function of the top of the
brain. or cerebral cortex,
which is first found in the
chain Of evolution among
mammals.
The top, or thinking,
brain, first appears among
the lowest mammals, such as
Tasmania's egg-laying platy-
pus. 1t reaches by far its
highest development among
humans. The emotion brain
is the "old brain" of animals
which first is found among
reptiles as the highest area
and continues as such among
birds. The cerebral cortex
appears abruptly with the
earliest and most primitive
mammals. There is abSo-
lutely no transition stage yet
discovered in any animal be-
tween old and new brains, a
situation unique in nature
and a quite proper subject
for the contemplation of
philosophers.
Reptilian Brain Intact
These are findings of DR..
PaulD. MacLean and his as
sociates of the United States
Public Health Services Ma
tional Institute of Mental
Health. The old reptilian
brain, they have found, is
retained essentially intact
through the entire mammal
race, including man. 1t re-
tains much the same func-
tionS. But in higher crea-
lures the newly developed
cerebral cortex refines the
expression of these with all
sorts of associations with eX-
perience, memory, racial ira
dition and the like.
The emotion brain, as de-
fined by DR.. MacLean, is the
so = called "hippocampus," "
shaped roughly like a sea
horse, which lies under the
cerebral cortex, and some
times is referred to as its
floor" Throughout time,
he explains, the brain under
went gradual evolution from
the simplest animals to this
point. There it remained
for a time. Suddenly, in
terms of evolution, it "blos-
somed" into the cerebral
cortex-a big flower which
probably is not yet fully
opened.
In the past little attention
has been paid to the func-
tions still retained by this
old brain in higher animals
1t generally has been referred
to as the smell brain" be-
cause of its traceable direct
connections with the olfac-
tory bulb behind the nose
where odor sensations are
received from the outside
world. In the old brain these
are co-ordinated to various
degrees with the sex and
appetite centers.
Some of DR.. MacLean's
explanations, especially Of
the old brains role in sex
functions and it's ramifica.
tiOnS in nnrSona1 affaoIiope
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charlty, parental love, ana
all the qualities tending
toward race preservation,
sound like a reStatement Of
Freudian ideas in physiolog-
ical terms. That, he says, Is
about what they are. Freud
had glimmerings of the truth
without any understanding
Of its physical basis.
The old brain, like the new
brain, has its more or less
specific areas. One old brain
part, the so-called red nu-
cleus of the stria terminals"
for example, seems to control
the fighting instincts Of
animals. Stimuli from the
outside world causing anger
cause an animal to attack
the source, such as another
animal. But, through ma
ture's wise provision, at a
certain stage of strength in
the stimulus the reaction
changes to fear and the
animal is impelled to run or
hide.
There are areas essentially
concerned with mating. There
are others concerned essen
TALLY with appetite, the I'M
pulSion to eat to preserve the
life of the individual so that
it will be able to mate and
continue the race. This
finding, it is explained, may
have some practical sig
niflcance in present clinical
medicine.
The experiments are being
carried out with a colony Of
squirrel monkeys from South
American jungles. These
clever little animals stand
somewhere in the transition
stage leading to the enormous
development of the cerebral
cortex found in man.
"All of the recognized emo
tions." says an Institute re-
port on the work of DR.. Mac
Lean and his associates. now
may be considered from the
standpoint of self preserva-
ton and preservation of the
species. 1t is extremely i'm
portant to attempt to localize
mechaniSms in the central
nervous system that are par
ticularly concerned with the
experience Of emotion and its
elaboration into behavior,
and to attempt to ascertain
how these mechanisms differ
anatomically and function
ally from other kinds of
neural apparatus.
Common Denomination
THE limbic lobe (another
name for the old brain) is
found as a common denomi-
nator in the brains of all
mammals. 1t shows essentially
the same degree of develop
ment throughout the NAM
malian series, suggesting that
1t functions at an animalistic
level in both animals and
man. 1t has strong connec-
tlons with ancient structures
OF the brain stem important
IN integrating the perform
ance of mechaniSms involved
in both self preservation and
procreation."
DR.. MacLean with his as
SoclateS, Drs. Bryan w.
Robinson and Detlev w.
Ploog, of the National In
stltute staff, are now carry
ing out millimeter by
millimeter exploration with
electric needles of this old
brain of the squirrel monkeys
to locate precise sites of amo-
tional responses.
Evening star., 1960-06-13
PeriIs of Presidency

We must protect our PreSi-
dent! We have no perform
ance pattern to assure us
that violence will not again
be the order of the day.
We have put our dedicated
leader up for trial by in
suit" with the extreme re-
ward as death; not as a brave
soldier but as a symbolic risk.
If our symbol is tattered,
then what price peace?
Grant w. Van Demark