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Evening star., 1960-06-02
Dual Responsibility

The Eisenhower administration, in
asking Congress for an additional ST
million Federal payment to the District,
has chosen an equitable course to
finance needed public works improve
mentS in the Nations Capital. The ST
million already has been fully authorized
by Congress, and its appropriation would
restore in large measure the concept of
Federal-DiStrict partnership to finance
the public works program. Such part
nerShip was agreed upon several years
ago, but Congress has defaulted on it
on several occasions since.
This approach is far more salts
factory than that proposed early in the
session, when the Commissioners asked
for local tax increases for public works
improvements which would have totalled
$8.3 million in the year starting July
and $12.7 million thereafter. Under the
new arrangement, the Commissioners
propose that the tax increases still will
be needed to finance pay raises this
year for District teachers, police, fire
men and classified employees. Thus, the
possibility exists that the ST million
Federal payment might be more than
Offset by new levies on local residents.
1t is to be expected, in view of past
experiences, that pot shots will be taken
on Capitol Hill at the new adminiStra-
ton proposal. IN the name of all that
is fair, however, the Federal payment
should be appropriated-particularly if
there also is to be need for new local
taxes this wear
Evening star., 1960-06-02
Amused by FuIbriqht

The Nation received a les
son in ethics from a United
States Senator. In a tele-
vision appearance, Senator
Fulbright revealed that Pres
ident Eisenhower had made
the unprecedented mistake
of telling the truth. Never
before in our history, said
the Senator, has a PreSi-
dent admitted responsibility
for espionage.
Of course, no one is naive
enough to expect politicians
to tell the truth. The end
less daily espousal of the lie,
big and little, by our elected
representatives is an axiom
of political success well un-
derstood by all and explains
the cyniciSm and disgust
often held by the public for
members of the profession.
Nevertheless, as a lifelong
Democrat, it is painful to
witness a leading member of
the party abandon publicly
even the pretenSe that our
Nation is or ought to be
guided by principles of truth
and honor. There is little
comfort in Eisenhower's state
ment. He did not tell the
truth out Of choice; there
was no other reasonable al
tentative. But at least he
was not so ShortSighted as
to attempt to deny the cir
cumstances when caught red
handed. as Senator Fulbright
suggests he should have done.
Well, the big thing these
days is entertainment, and
you will have to give our
leaders this much-it is Ger
tainly amusing to observe
their antics as they play their
funny little games.
Citizen Kane.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
LeqoIize Eovesdroppinq

The Supreme Courts agreement to
rule on the legality of electronic caves
dropping prompts us to urge once more
that Congress legalize overlapping by
both Federal and local law enforcement
authoritieS-under court supervision.
For the fact is that, with the develop
ment of such electronic "earS" as that
used in the local gambling case before
the Supreme Court and in the plugged"
eagle at the American Embassy in Mos
COW, ban on overlapping seems some
what absurd. We do not think that
Federal investigators and police should
be deprived of eavesdropping techniques,
new or outmoded, so long as they are
used under proper supervision and only
In major crime cases or for counter
espionage.
In the case under consideration by
the high tribunal, three local gamblers
were convicted on evidence obtained by
police through employment of spike
microphone" embedded in the wall of
row house adjoining a gambling hide
out The lower and appellate courts
upheld this method of eaveSdropping
Cne laCCer Dy CWO-CO-one vote. (One
appellate judge held that use of the de-
vice was a violation of the constitutional
safeguard against illegal search and
seizure.) But the "bug" placed by the
Reds in the wooden eagle presented to
the American Ambassador was of even
a more advanced type, since it required
no wires to convey its picked-up sound
to the Soviet listeners.
Our own counterespionage agents
ought to-and no doubt do-make use
of such eavesdropping devices, just as
they continue to tap wires of foreign
spies-deSpite the senseless ban on use
of wiretap evidence in Federal courts.
All such evidence should be legally ad-
missible in the prosecution of spies,
Saboteurs and other major criminals.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
How About Our BeItwoy?

Maryland'S State Roads Commits
sion, in response to pleas of Baltimore
ans, has decided to advance the sched-
ule for construction of the Baltimore
beltWay. This is circumferential high
way similar in purpose to the proposed
outer beltway around the District. We
are glad that the Baltimore project will
be Speeded up, for all motorists travel
ing in that area will benefit from it.
However, we would be happier if the
Roads Commission, in response to the
urgingS of those of us who live in the
Washington Metropolitan Area, would
expedite also completion of the Mary
land portion of the District beltway.
Originally the commission had
planned to complete both of the belt
ways within the next year or two,
but shortage Of funds resulted in a re-
arrangement of prioritieS. The beltways
were among the projects deferred last
February. Now, however, under the
revised plan, the Baltimore bypass will
be hurried to completion by 1852 Mean
while, the Washington beltway, eS-
pecially the important leg in Prince
Georges County to connect with the new
Jones Point bridge, remains Shelved
until sometime after 1865. This defer
ment is unrealiStic, to say the least, since
the Jones Point bridge, to be known as
the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, is due to
be finished next year and Virginia al
ready is building its section of the cir
cumferential highway. Our beltway de-
serves priority rating, too.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
Intrusion in MONGOLIA?

IL is interesting, and probably Signif-
icant, that Red China and Outer Mon
golia have just signed treaty of friend
ship and mutual assistance. Supplement-
ing an earlier aid program, the treaty
operable from 1861 to 1965-commitS
Peiping to extend long-term loan of
$50 million to the Mongolians and help
them construct number of agricultural
and industrial projects, including irriga-
tion and public utilities.
The men of the Kremlin can hardly
fail to be interested in this development,
and they may even be little bit dis
turbed by 1t. After all, Outer Mongolia
which borders on Siberia and which has
population of only about / million in
an area more than twice that of Texas
has long been regarded as a sort of
Soviet protectorate, or colonial province,
even though it puts on the airs of an
independent, sovereign state. Hence
Nikita KhruShchev and Company may
well tend to take somewhat suspicious
view of PeipingS political and economic
agreement with the Mongolian regime in
the capital city of Ulan Bator.
lin has not posted any "No TrespaSsing"
signs to keep Peiping out of Outer Mon
golia. AS matter of fact, Moscow seems
to have blessed the 1855 arrangements
under which some 10000 Chinese fami-
lies have moved into the country to
provide it with the labor needed to build
public works. Nevertheless, although
there certainly will be no open Soviet
objections to the new Chinese -Mongolian
treaty, the KhruShchev regime con-
ceivably is taking a dim view of it, in
secret, because of just such possibilities
as President de Gaulle of France out
lined last year in the following state
ment:
No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of
having aided communism to take root
in China, recognizes that nothing can
change the fact that she is Russia white
nation of Europe which has conquered
part OF Asia, and is, in sum- richly en-
dowed with land, mines, factories and
wealth, face to face with the yellow
masses Of China, numberless and i'm
poverished, indeStructible and ambitious,
building through trial and hardship a
power which cannot be measured and
casting her eyes about her on the open
spaces over which she must one day
spread.
In any event, the leaders of the
Soviet Union must certainly think some
long, hard thoughts, every now and then,
about how Communist China is expected
to have population of at least / billion
(aS against its present total Of $50 mil
lion) before the century ends. Such a
nation, ambitious and hungry for living
room, will almost inevitably exert pres
sureS on the world surrounding it. That
is why the Kremlin, having in mind the
wide-open spaces in the Soviet east, has
reason to be wary about such things as
Peiping's strengthened ties with Outer
Mongolia.
Evening star., 1960-06-02

The proposal that we edu-
cate and indoctrinate in en-
terprise and the profit mo-
tive several thousand of the
brightest young Africans, to
counteract the Russians, as
advanced in a letter to The
Star by H. L. Hunt, is in
deed a most important sug-
gestion.
Mr.. Hunt, in his capacities
as author, oil producer and
leading citizen of Dallas, is
in an ideal position to initi-
ate this project Immediately.
With just a fragment of his
ready cash, he could set up
an African Study Founda-
ton. right there at Southern
Methodist University in Dali
las, and have it operational
by this September.
Think what an outstand-
ing contribution to both in
ternational and racial rela-
tions Mr.. Hunt could make
with just a few strokes of his
pen on the bottoms of some
blank checks.
E. Wayles Browne, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
PerHous Haven

Owing to the timing of the
lights at 18th Street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, a
pedestrian crossing the Ave-
nue. from the north is COM
PEELED to interrupt his pas
sage part way and stand in a
safety zone" with his fellows
like a ten-pin in a bowling
alley, as eastbound traffic gets
the signal to resume hurtling
by. The other day a car
slightly Sideswiped another
while a cluster of us were en-
sconced there, though luckily
it didn't swerve toward us.
Another time we might not
be so fortunate.
Is there no way to regulate
the lights to eliminate this
danger?
MNuawnR4 HyzI.-
Evening star., 1960-06-02

public relations programs lit
orally steamrollered the pub
lie into buying everything
from new laundry soaps to
new Presidents. I want to
choose my President, not be
pressured into accepting just
another candidate.
Adlai Stevenson would
make the best candidate and
the best President. The
professional politicians have
written off this great Ameri-
can with the trite observation
that "a two-time loser has
never won." This meaningless
statement fails to consider
that probably no candidate
could have beaten President
Eisenhower in either cam
paign because of his peculiar
popular appeal.
Betty Campbell.
Summit, N. j.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
Making Parents Poy'

To your editorial of May
q concerning vandalism, as
regards Making Parents
Pay" I say, Amen" 1t is so
nice to know that a neigh
boring community is not
afraid to place the blame
where it belongs, in the laps
Of parents when children
become vandals.
When parents try to bring
up their children in the way
God tells us according to the
golden rule, it is very sell
dom that they will stray too
far from our teachings.
We can save our children
from themselves if we de-
mand respect, give praise for
goodness and enforce correc-
tive measures when they are
disobedient.
If we do these things con-
Stantly, delinquency can be
curbed and we will have a
better community because
parents will be doing the job
that they took on when they
gave birth to a child.
Why don't our citizens in
w ain gton get on the
"band wagon" and try to
stamp out vandalism here
today?
Evening star., 1960-06-02

I dislike having my per-
sonal opinions decided for me
by hucksters, pollsters, ana
lysts, commentators, psychol-
ogists and biased party politi-
clans, all of whom place their
own existence before the we'll
being of the Nation. I can't
believe that this is what
Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin
Franklin and John Adams
had in mind when they de-
clared the United States a
democracy conceived in po-
litical and religious freedom,
nor what Abraham Lincoln
meant when he called for a
government "of the people,
by the people and for the
people,"
I am appalled, by the man
ner in which the organiza- =
ton man has by osmosis, by
innuendo, by advertising and
Evening star., 1960-06-02
News Tip

If American newspaper
reporters and newScaSterS
were as diligent in finding
out and interpreting to the
Communists what Americans
think and say about them as
they are in reporting to us
what Mr.. K. and associates
say about us, they would in
crease their service to Amer
icaniSm and lessen their aid
to the Vaccinations of COM
muniSm.
Further. if they would
throw their great influence
toward gaining freedom of
the press in Russia and a dis
continuance of the jamming
OF programs in which our
country tries to present to
the Russian people our side
of a controversy with their
government, they would also
be doing world peace a great
service.
1t must be a great salts
faction to Mr.. K. to know
that any statement he makes
damning the United States
will be broadcast to every
city and hamlet by our dill
gent newsmen and that at
the same time he can keep
anything that is said in reply
from reaching the Russian
people. Surely the members
Of the professions that deal
with news in this country
have some influence with
their counterparts in Com
muniSt countries and could
use their power to break
down the iron curtain
against news from this coun-
try. If their Communist COL
leagues do not cooperate in
this, they can reciprocate by
being a little less generous in
their reporting of Commu-
mist TRADES, lies and accusa-
tions against the United
States. A two-line item in the
paper and one sentence on
the radio or TV is sufficient
to let us know that Mr.. K.
and company are continuing
to sing the same old tune.
Ora MarshinO.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
Pioneer in Culture

The account of the dinner
for the National Cultural
Center in Washington
prompts me to recall an Incl
dent which should be of
interest to all Washingto-
mans.
On February Is, 1899, in
Constitution Hall the Wag-
merriam Opera Lohengrin was
staged before an overfowing
audience. The leading role
was sung by the native WASH
ingtonian Emma Redell. The
late Senator Sheppard of
Texas was attracted to the
performance by an inter.
view given by Miss Redell the
day before to the Washing
ton Times-Herald outlining
her dream of a National
Musical Center in her native
Washington as inspiration to
the people in respective
States to organize similar
institutions and make Amer
lea the worlds cultural
center.
The day after the perform
ance he invited her to the
office for a discussion. The
writer was with her. Senator
Sheppard requested she sub
NIT a detailed outline of the
project she had in mind. I
worked together with her on
it and the Senator was so
impressed that he inserted it
into the Congressional Rec
ord. The exact date escapes
me.
In view of the fact that the
dream of that great American
opera star of worldwide fame
is now certain to become a
reality, it might be a matter
of justice and pride for all
Washingtonians to bring
Emma Redell into the pic
ture. The artist died suddenly
on February 2, 1910, in her
New York home at the An
sonia Hotel.
j. Anthony Marcus.
New York Citv
Evening star., 1960-06-02

They are difficult to bear
with. They come in, always
in a hurry, as if late, when
really they are well ahead of
time.
They say good morning"
in a tight Tipped way, if they
can't get out of it, that is, if
you look directly at them.
If you don't, they are glad
to escape the added burden
to their already heavy duties.
Perhaps it is this pretense
OF theirs that irks us most.
Their heavy duties, blah!
They have no more work
than anyone else, but to see
them at it you might think
the world itself was on their
shoulders.
y
Another score against
them is that they always
manage to see those they
want to see, that is, those
they think can give them a
boost at Just the right time.
OF course, this is all very
human.
Offices today are oriented
this way. No doubt they
always were.
There is something wholly
unedifying, however, about
the guy-(and the gal of
this type is a little bit worse)
who never has anything to
say to the rest of us-but
never misses a chance to be
a jolly fellow when the Big
Guy comes along.
See his smile!
Watch his conversation
sIltCer. He is all-out for
something or other, and the
B. G. ought to see through
him as easily as through a
pane of second-grade glass.
Actually, he often doesn't.
that's the sad part Of it.
The ancient idea of retri-
button should prevail, one
may think.
1t should floor the silent
ones with their deep-laid
plans, and lay low the apple
poliShers.
Give us the man who says
Good morning" as if he
means it. and stops for a bit
Of Office gossip, on the side.
He gets along. as far as
we can see, about as well as
the tight-mouthed lads, and
certainly he has more fun
as he goes along. and pleas
anter dreams, we bet. Above
all, he doesn't have to bo
ashamed Of himself.
Evening star., 1960-06-02
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

The world of workers is di-
vided into two types. One
type says as little as possible
and plays his cards close to
his chest. The other talks to
every one, and often gets
slapped for his pains. but we
believe he has the best of it.
These tight-mouthed fell
lows. found in every Office.
who seldom speak, and who,
if they do, act as if it hurts
them, are suffering from
something.
They look unhappy, and
they probably are, for the hu-
man being is not made to
keep a tight mouth, no mat
ter what the sageS of old said.
Those sagesl
They were forever lectur-
ing all and sundry on the
necessity for saying little, or
preferably nothing.
What were they afraid OFF
Giving themselves away, or
something!
The ancient sages must
have suffered severely from
an inferiority complex, as we
say nowadays, though not
one person in ten thousand
knows exactly what the term
means.
Nine out Of ten who use
the phrase 'inferiority COM
plex" would say that old Sig
mund Freud invented it, hut
we believe it was somebody
else.
Anyway, it is a good term,
one that seems to say a lot
but actually means very
little. This is always a salts
factory state of things.
Those that say little, but
mean a great deal, are more
difficult to handle.
4 X X
This generation can say
smugly, "Aw, he has an in
feriority complex" and that's
that. But in the old days, the
sages had nothing much to
work with except that SLAM
der about the loose tongue.
After hammering at it for
about two thousand years.
they have scared most civ
ilzed people into accepting it.
at least in public, and in Of
fees.
So we have these fright
ened boys and girls who walk
around in a sort of daZe, and
if they say anything at all,
they seem to expect the CELL
ing to fall on them. Maybe it
will, and serve 'em.
Evening star., 1960-06-02

Apology for IdlerS wherein he reproaches
extreme BUSINESS" and adds that "a
faculty for idleneSs implies a catholic
appetite and a strong sense of personal
identity" Meanwhile, we are of the
opinion that a few chores-although
perhaps not "too many"-for the
younger folk will not unduly bruise their
spirits.
Evening star., 1960-06-02

been swallowed up by the
Democratic Party. Not all
Of its members, however,
have left the Republicans.
The farm issue plaques the
Republicans. But this wear
the outlook for good crops
in North Dakota couldn't
be better. If this holds until
election day. it could help
Gov. Davis. 1t looks now as
though voters will turn out
in this election in large num-
berS. On the question of
the summit conference COL
lapse and the U-2 incident.
North Dakotans are likely to
go along with President Eli
senhower. They have no use
for Soviet Premier Khru-
Shchev.
Stiff Fights for G. 0. p.
South Dakota Republicans
face stiff fights in this years
general election. Four years
ago the State was in bad
shape, due to severe drought.
Indeed, 81 of its "a counties
were. declared drought-dis-
treSSed areas. The State cast
its vote for President Eisen-
hover and reelected Senator
Francis Case, Republican, but
elected George McGovern, a
Democrat, to Congress from
the lSt congressional district.
In 1858, still plagued by the
farm problem, the State
elected a Democratic Cover
nor and Lieutenant Governor,
a Democratic controlled State
Senate, and reelected MIR.
McGovern to the House.
Senator Karl B. Mundt, Re-
publican, is up for reelection
and will be opposed by Rep
reSentative McGovern. Mr..
Mundt served five terms in
the House and is completing
a second term in the Senate.
He is a good campaigner and
the Republicans believe he
will win reelection, although
they admit it looks like a
close race. The G.. o. P. also
hopes and believes it will re-
gain the House seat now oc-
cupied by Mr.. McGovern, and
that it will be able to regain
control of the State Senate.
While the farm issue, as in
North Dakota, remains i'm
portant, the crop outlook is
good. Furthermore, many of
the South Dakota farmers
who had hoped for remedial
and helpful legislation from
the Democratic controlled
Congress, have been diSillu-
stoned. Whether the Repub-
licans S can regain the Office
of Governor, however, seems
more doubtful. South Dakota
has a tradition which looks
to a second term for a Gov
ernor. The G. o. P. is putting
forward Speaker H. Gubbrud
of the State House of Repre-
sentativeS as its candidate
for Governor to run against
Gov. Ralph Herseth, Demo-
crat. Mr.. Gubbrud is from
Norway Center and is an
outstanding farmer. Like his
Democratic opponent, he is
of Scandinavian blood in a
State which has a large Scan
dinavian population.
South Dakota, like North
Dakota. has supported Presi-
dent Eisenhower strongly on
foreign policy and voted for
him in 1856, despite the bad
farm situation. Even should
the special senatorial election
in North Dakota go against
the G. o. p, the Republicans
in South Dakota believe it
would have little or no effect
on the general election in
their State next November.
Politically, the two States
have not always gone along
together.