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Evening star., 1960-07-27
PiersoII's Antics

The madcap antics of Jimmy Pier
sail are the particular problem of Man
ager Joe Gordon of the Cleveland In
dianS, and it usually is the better part
OF valor, as in the case of the neighbor-
hood scamp who needs a spanking, for
those outside the family to observe such
matters with discreet silence.
In this instance, however, Joe Gro
min, the American League president,
already has summoned Master Piersall
to the Woodshed for some "fatherly ad-
vice" And since Mr.. Cronin was such
a Washington fixture in the happy, pen
ant-winning days of the Senators, we are
Seizing the excuse of his intervention to
deal ourselves in, too.
The text of this message is that
firm measures are in order, and that
Manager Gordon has violated one of the
oldest parental maXimS by backing down
on his threat to soak his irrepressible
outfielder with a $500 fine every time he
gets thumbed out of game Almost as
soon as the threat was made, PierSall
went on another of his patented ram
pageS-umpire batting, yelling at fans,
Squatting behind the center-field flag
pole and finally ripping apart the sta
dium- equipment. Instead of clamping
down, Gordon got himself elected as well
from the same game and, perhaps some
what SheepiShly, ignored his $500 threat.
After his Dutch-uncle session with
Mr.. Cronin, PierSall expressed a deter
mination henceforth to keep my mouth
shut and play ball" No bets are being
made on how long this resolve will hold
up. When Cleveland visits here next
week, Washington fans may have a
chance to see at first hand Under ordi-
nary circumstances, especially with our
Senators gaining ground, almost any
trouble for the Indians would be well
come. But Piersall, who is an extraor-
dinarily fine outlielder when he is play
ing ball, is doing neither himself nor the
game any good And there is suspicion
that a price of $500 per performance
might well snap him out of it,
Evening star., 1960-07-27
All Alone

Probably it is too late to do anything
about it now, but the public hearing
scheduled for 10 am. tomorrow at the
District Building is one of the SillieSt in
history.
Its sole and specific purpose-to give
the Commissioners a first-hand expIa-
nation of the complexities of the con-
troverSial Adams Morgan urban renewal
proposal-was far from silly.
The only trouble is, not a single
Commissioner will be there. So the hear
ing will be conducted by Assistant Engi-
neer Commissioner Fullerton, who, as
the Districts urban renewal chief, al
ready should know more about the sub
ject than anyone in town.
1t may be that when the hearing
was set, it was not realized that Com
missioner Mclaughlin would be attend
ing the festivities in Chicago, Commits
Sioner Karrick would be off to his new
post as Ambassador to Ecuador and
Commissioner yelling would be pack
ing. There has been ample time to real
ize these things since, however, and
either to postpone the hearing or simply
to ask the dozens of interested citizens
to write letters.
If hearing was justified in the first
place, and we assume it was, certainly
no decision should be made on the basis
Of the fiasco tomorrow. And we hope,
in the meantime, that the witnesses
retain control of themselves as they
explain their positions to the public
Stenographer.
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Speaking of Spies

Only maSSively ignorant and naive
people can have been impressed by the
Kremlin'S gaudy show of shock and
outraged innocence in connection with
our U-2 "Spy plane" After all, as far as
espionage is concerned, there is little
or no doubt that the Soviet Union-at
least in terms of Efforts supreme
among the nations of the world, and it's
propaganda to the contrary therefore
amounts to mere hypocritical bilge.
Striking evidence on that score can
be found in the 63-page document pre-
pared by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
and made public recently by the Sen
ate Internal Security Subcommittee. In
the documents words, Soviet agents
long have engaged in extensive eSpio-
mage activities against the United States
and through the years have procured
a volume of information which would
stagger the imagination"-inf
including many aerial photographs of
our major cities and vital areas. A SIM
liar report has been presented to the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee by
Secretary Herter. AS he has put it, "the
Soviet Union has built the largest of all
intelligence machines and maintains an
unparalleled network of agents through
out the world" These agents, according
to reliable estimates, include no fewer
than 100000 trained officers operating
on a full-time basis. Further, informa-
tion of sort kept secret in the USSR-
maps, patents, industrial data, etc. is
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Young Veterans

The Star obituary of Will
liam Galloway said: Believed
to be the youngest Spanish
American War veteran at the
time of his death, Mr.. CAL
laWay managed to enlist in
the Army at Is years of
age -.
Younger Ehan Mr.. Cal
laway is John w. Ticknor,
who enlisted at Claremont,
New Hampshire, as a drum
mer boy at IA, and served
throughout the Spanish
American War. According to
my information, Mr.. Ticknor
was born June %, 1888, so
has just turned II.
He is still very active in
business as the treasurer and
and assistant to the president
of the Chemurgic Council,
New York, N. Y. He is a
frequent visitor to Washing
ton on business, and is well
known in both farm and in
duStry circles.
Douglas Dies
Evening star., 1960-07-27

Fairfax County is often re-
ferred to as the wealthiest
county in Virginia and one
of the most desirable resi-
dental areas. Northern Fair
fax County is preferred by a
great number of residents
of Metropolitan Washington
who desire refinement, con-
tentment and enduring value
in their residential environ
ment.
What is causing the whit
ting away Of this prestige,
chip by chip? 1t is that the
horse and buggy type of gov
ernment of the county ap-
pears to be blind to the ne
ceSsity of preserving for its
residents those values which
are the cornerstone of safe
and sane growth.
This governments think
ing and planning seems to
be in terms of the profits to
be derived from land specu-
lation instead of planning
the use of the vacant land
of the county in the best in
terests of all of the residents
rather than in the interest
of merely a chosen few.
Such blindness can only
bring about early and rapid
blight of outstanding resi-
dental areas. Competent
community planners the
country over agree that a
high class residential area
can not be ringed by apart
ments and other commercial
type building without suffer-
ing destruction of its desir-
ability and loss of it's value.
Does Fairfax County de-
sire to follow the easy dollar
road and become a slum
area? Certainly the perma-
nent residents who have in
vested in fine homes in
Northern Fairfax County
have the right to a voice in
the rezoning of adjacent
areas. This voice has consist
emily been denied and the
only alternative is for these
residents to carefully look
into the future and decide
now whether they are con-
tent to ride along with an
inconsiderate government or
should support a movement
for annexation.
Leland F. Noble.
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Douglas Dies

authorized to conduct the
physical examinations for
non-professional pilots.
Mr.. Karant believes this
to be the American Way"
I and many others agree, in
cluding, I understand, the
present administration.
The General now proposes
to undo all of this freeing of
the private citizen from bu-
reaucratic control. Examina-
tions of non-professional
pilots by other than doctors
designated by him have al
ready been outlawed. He has
established a new Bureau of
Air Medicine and it is under
stood he expects to employ
100 or more physicians. This
despite, the fact that the
military services have had
the equivalents of this Bu-
reau for many years and are
doing a good job. The use of
designated fight and air.
plane inspectors is being
curtailed and presumably
will be eliminated. Their
places will have to be filled
by more Government en-
ployes.
If this is the American
Way" as your note would
imply, then we are much
closer to a dictatorship in
this country than most of
us believe.
John H. GeisSe.
Editors Note: The Fed
eral Aviation Agency is try
ing to protect the lives of the
plane-riding public. We con-
tinue to believe that it is
ridiculous to say that Mr..
Quesada's methods are "un-
American
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Mr.. rs Progress

Having headed Mr.. rs
Washington Office for the
past five years, I am some
what familiar with Mr.. Zeck-
endorf's efforts to get South
west underway; and I felt
that it was only careless
ness that led you to include
in an otherwise understand
ing editorial-"Mr. z and
Washington"-the statement,
I'm fairness to private devel-
opers, not all the blame for
the snail-paced progress can
be laid at their feet"
Contrary to your implica-
cation of shared responsible
ity for snail-paced progress,
Mr.. Zeckendorf during the
past six years has been con-
cerned to see his overhead
continuing and prospects for
construction always sometime
in the future. Frequently he
gave me a bit of what for"
because it took so long. In
fairness to the private devel-
operS" you should look at
the facts.
Mr.. zeckendorf made his
proposal for Southwest in
January 1854. The plan for
Southwest was approved by
the Planning Commission in
April 1956-two years and
three months later. Our con-
tract to lease the first parcel
OF land was not ready for
signing until June 1859
three years and two months
after plan approval and the
land on which we were to
commence building was not
available so that we could
start construction until De-
cember l959-almost six
years after the submission of
our proposal. We commenced
construction one month later
in January 1860 and are, as
you point out, well along with
the first two apartment
houses and the Town Center.
Within the next two months,
we shall have two more
apartment houses under con-
struction and a couple of
months later 81 Town Houses.
In fairness" I don't see
how Mr.. z can be expected
to share the blame" for
"snail-paced progress"
william L. SIaytOn.
Editors Note: Mr.. Slay-
ton has added nothing to
The Stars knowledge of "the
facts" and we applaud his
optimiSm.)
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Commentator

The recent article by
Charles Yarbrough on the
outstanding job being done
by Washington Airport Di-
rector Burton was very much
appreciated. % The article
portrayed a part of our local
Government activity little
known or recognized. (2) 1t
obviously gave credit where
substantial credit is due or
has been overlooked. go The
article was written well, and
well illustrated.
Congratulations all around.
It's easy to see why The Star
has the leadership it does.
John FOrney Rudy.
Evening star., 1960-07-27

to wonder over life and how
it is here one moment and
gone the next.
1t had been Just one of the
nameleSS creatures, one of
the many which seem to pre-
fer paper and paste and ink
for SuStenance.
1t had been slightly larger
than the mite often found in
old books and had possessed
perfectly visible legs.
Now it was Just a blob on
the paper, totally without
form or feature, or even
blood.
Life crops up everywhere
and is in everything.
A city is filled with it.
When one speaks of the
"teeming CITY," usually he
refers directly to the people.
The people, ah, the people,
are the show" wrote the poet,
but they are only a part. al
though a very conspicuous
one, indeed, of the life of a
city.
There are dogs by the
thousa d, most of them
named, a few unnamed; there
are cats, friendly and lost;
there are birds. insects of a
thousand kinds; there are
germs, to use but one term
for the strange bits of life
everywhere.
Man, the ruthless killer of
his own kind, kills at the
drop of the hat.
There are, in every age,
h wever, many who have
grown soft. so the pagans
would say.
They despise killing and
pain, suffering and termina-
ton.
If they stop to think about
it, as the man at the type
writer did, they resolve to
have nothing to do with it.
Then, out of nothing, they
Evening star., 1960-07-27
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

put a finger on a living crea-
ture and put it to death need
lessly. 1t is in the blood. No
wonder the cry perpetually
is, out, damned spot"
The hard part of it is, to
the gentle soul, that it grows
to be a sort of disease. Maybe
he should be proud of it, but
at times it becomes a, strain.
He longs for the old days,
when he could put a rifle to
shoulder and bring down a
rabbit or bird without
thought.
- -
Yes, thought does it.
Thought off on a tangent
of its own.
If intelligence means any
thing, it means building up,
it means conservation, it
means love and kindness, alb
stractly and concretely.
This is the true field of
intelligence. All else is ashes
in the mouth. The thinker
stands or falls on this plat
form.
Yet such will realize that
out of death and destruction
have come reform, better
ment, growth, building. 1t
is all very puzzling.
1t is an old mystery and
the loving soul stands
abashed before it.
Not his kindness, which
the world judges a sort of
weakness, but their harsh
ness has resulted in all this,
the visible world Of men.
Kindness and light are
stolen, as it were, from the
field Of blood and suffering.
Look down that cellar door
in a busy downtown block.
There are four kittens
asleep on the freshly white
washed steps.
A thousand might pass and
see them not, or, If seeing,
walk on without a thought.
The quartet lifts heads,
blinks, sinks back to sleep,
while the rumble Of the city
goes on above them. They
are only 4 weeks old and life
is mostly sleep.
How the squirrels love the
summer!
There is one sitting on a
favorite limb.
No place else will do him
to eat a walnut.
All around him the birds
are flying. They are glad he
is eating a nut, not trying to
catch them.
Life lives on life. The
more the sensitive soul re-
solves not to hurt, the more
he is hurt.
Evening star., 1960-07-27
THE POLITICAL MILL
G. 0. P. Liberals Still in Command
By GOULD LINCOLN

CHICAGO. - The liberal
wing of the Republican Party
is again winning out in a
national convention. This it
has done since the days of
Harding and Coolidge. The
national convention of 1860
is nominating for President
Richard M. Nixon, who has
been an important figure in
the Eisenhower administra-
ton for more than seven
and a half years.
Unless all signs fail, it will
choose United States Am
baSsador to the United Ma
tions Henry Cabot Lodge for
Vice President. Mr.. Lodge
was one of the trainers of
the Eisenhower victory in
1852 over the darling of the
standpatters-Senator Taft
of Ohio.
The convention, under the
leadership of Vice President
Nixon, is producing a liberal
Republican Party platform
after battle, it is true, with
the Old Guard.
1t would. indeed, have been
strange had the national
convention not followed the
ideas and wishes of its can
dldate for President in franz
ing the platform. The candi-
date is expected to stand
firmly on the platform in his
campaign for election. Mr..
Nixon has said he will do
this-and go even further in
developing issues that are to
be fought out with his Demo-
cratic opponent. Senator
John F. Kennedy of Massa-
ChuSetts.
But even in its victory for
the more liberal cause, the
convention is not going to
the length of accepting that
ultra-liberal Republican. Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York, for its presidential
nomlnee-unless there should
be a political upheaval of un-
precedented proportions to-
night, when the nominations
are formally made. It prob
ably would have gladly had
the New Yorker for its vice
presidential candidate. But
he has Steadfastly refused to
accept such a nomination.
While it is not putting Gov.
Rockefeller on the national
ticket, the convention is writ
ing into the platform impor-
tant parts of his proposals.
But these proposals have, for
the most part. closely par
alleled those of Mr.. Nixon.
Conservatives BaIk
While Mr.. Nixon and Gov,
Rockefeller have been draw
ing closer together, the ultra
conservatives, who travel
under the banner of Senator
GoldWater of Arizona. have
been drawing away. What it
will mean in the campaign
and election next November,
will depend largely on Mr..
NlXon's ability to bind up the
wounds suffered at this con-
Vention.
One thing should be borne
in mind, the Republican Par
ty is not going hog wild on
the subject of liberalism.
President Eisenhower-never
an Old Guard standpatter-
once described his aims as
progressive conservatism. -
That phrase can be applied
to the Republican platform
which will be adopted today
by the convention. There are
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Eisenhower Niqht

For the Republlcan delegates and
an estimated 100000 ChicagoanS, it
was Eisenhower night-a night for
full -throated, uninhibited display of af-
fection for the President and his wife.
If it is true, as some would have us
believe, that Mr. Eisenhower has fallen
from grace, that he and Americas pres
stige have declined, there was precious
little evidence of it in Chicago yester-
day and last evening.
Z The President was equal to the oc-
ycaSion. His speech, we thought, was one
iof his best effortS-a partisan speech,
of course, but not meanly or cuttingly
so. Mr.. Eisenhower paid his respects in
no uncertain terms to the Jobs boils"
of this generation, to the cult of pro-
fessional peSSimiStS who taking counsel
of their fears, continually mouth the
allegation that America has become a
second rate military power"
= In his view, when our capabilities
are summed up, I'VE have become the
strongest military power on earth" Nor
was the President disposed to concede
anything to the political opposition on
other fronts. The irrefutable truths are,
he said, that the United States is en-
joying an unprecedented prosperity; that
it has, in cooperation with its friends
and allies, the strongest security system
in the world, and that it is working
eeaSeleSSly and effectively for a peace
with justice in freedom"
: This is not, of course, an appraisal
which is universally shared. Governor
Rockefeller and perhaps Mr.. Nixon, too,
will disagree in some respects. The
Democrats will hack away at it with
might and main. 1t will meet with little
favor and less concurrence in Moscow
and Peiping.
Still, when ones mind ranges over
the broad spectrum there is a great
deal that is baSically true in what the.
President has said. Despite the setbackS
-U-2, summit collapse and Tokyo riots
the United States remains tremen-
douS influence and force in this world.
Obviously, some ground has been lost in
the relative SenSe-in the sense that
Russian and Communist Chinese power
is growing and will continue to grow.
main true in the years to come, regard
less of who occupies the White House.
On balance, however, and when all fac
tors are taken into account, the Presi-
dents case is strong one. The critics
who would sell him and America short
are going to have a hard time finding
many satisfied buyers.
1t was not our impression, however,
that the Republicans in the convention
hall were. thinking very deeply about
these things last night They had not
assembled to weigh the United States in
the world scales. They were there to
pay roaring tribute to Ike and his
secret eapon"-Mamie-t the man
who led the G. o. p out of the political
wilderness nearly eight years ago. 1t
must have been-and we hope it was
a heart-warming evening for the EiSen-
hoWerS.
Evening star., 1960-07-27

At the start of the period,
every individual airplane
produced by the industry
had to be approved by a
Government employe before
it left the factory and at
regular intervals thereafter.
Every pilot and mechanic
was also examined and GER
titled by a Government EN-
ploye. All pilots had to take
physical examinations at
regular intervals from espe-
cially designated doctors. At
the end of the period, Ameri-
can citizens-without ever
seeing a Government en-
ploye-could get a physical
examination from their fam
lily doctor, learn to fly, get
a pilots certificate, and fly
an airplane which had never
been inspected by a Govern
ment employe.
Congress provided for a
transfer Of safety RESPONSE
bilitieS in aviation to quail
fed private citizens in the
Air Commerce Act of 1926
and continued to do so in
all subsequent civil aviation
acts. Under this authority,
responsible aircraft manu-
facturers were permitted to
certificate their own aircraft
and qualified mechanics we're
authorized to inspect these
aircraft at regular intervals
thereafter or after repairs
or notifications and to re-
new their airworthiness GER
tificates. Qualified pilots
were authorized to fight test
applicants for pilot certifi-
Gates and to issue such GER
tificates. Family doctors we're
Evening star., 1960-07-27
Air Safety Measures Now and Then

You added the following
Editors Note" to Max
Karant's letter commenting
on your previous editorial
criticizing the Airplane Own
ers and Pilots Association for
having the temerity to criti-
cize the administration of the
Federal Aviation Agency by
General Quesada in its own
magazine pilot: THE sug-
gestion that FAA AdminiStra-
tor Quesada has resorted to
'un-American methods is
made out of the stuff one
finds out in the wild blue
yonder."
Your editorial was unjuSti-
fed, Mr.. Karant's complaint
was valid and your note after
his letter was inexcusable.
I was associated with the
predecessor agencies of the
FAA from 1888 to 1850. Dur
ing that period my major
interest was in the fostering
of what is now known as gen.
eral aviation. I considered
AOPA as the representative
of this major part of all civil
aviation and welcomed it's
suggestions and criticisms. 1t
was also so considered by
others, as its representative
sat on all, or practically all,
Government advisory COM
mitteeS concerned with civil
aviation.
In the period from 1888 to
1850 much progress was made
in passing back to private
industry and private individ-
uals the responsibility for
safety in the air and this
was accompanied by an ever
improving safety record.