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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

hostility to them (that is, to
the regimes of Russia and
China and cease the prac-
tice of moralizing and the
practice of continual lectures
to them by our leaders. ="
What that church leader is
really saying is, let the Red
secret police arrest innocent
peasants by the truckload;
let the interrogators BRAIN
wash and torture them; let
the official butchers kill, or
perhaps merely send them to
a slave camp where the ter
rifled peasants will be re-
formed through labor. But
let no gentle Christian in
America whose life by COM
parison is a bed of roses say
a rough or accusing word
about such atrocities. To do
that might postpone the time
when Red China will be re-
ceived into the United Ma
tons as peace lovers. And
then to thus speak out will
interfere with Russia's ideas
Of coexistence. All that is
idealism without realism.
Now I can tell you, out of
my personal knowledge, that
to the enSlaved people Of the
captive countries for the mis-
Sionaries of the Cross in
Korea, Taiwan and the
Philippines, and for all those
across Asia yearning for
freedom, that sort of a call
from church leaders in
America advising padlocks on
the lips of our churches is
frightening, disturbing, and
devastating to the morale of
Christian churches in those
lands.
l am not charging that any
OF these mistaken church
leaders are Communists. I do
not go into that controversy
at all. I am simply saying
that the thinking of some
who are as prominent today
as spokesman for the church
as the Pharisees were in
Christ's day is akin to those
to whom the Master said:
You do not rightly discern
the signs of the times"
The thing that alarms me
in so much idealism divorced
from realism is that SO many
in the religious forces of the
Nation seem to be affected
by a moral flabbiness, an abb
sence of indignation at ap-
palling crimes, a tendency to
forget, not as God forgetS
when there is genuine re-
pentance, but a forgetting
which indicates a sort of NOR
al blackout-a willingness to
grasp unrepentant, blood
stained hands in co-opera-
ton and partnership.
With the precious things
we hold nearest our hearts
being attacked by sinister
forces without pity or con-
science. let us pray every day
as this struggle RACES: From
a dan gerouS idealiSm
bleached of the common
sense of a sanctifled realism,
good Lord, deliver U.S."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
GroduoIism Advised

The Southern Negro of
today has set forth to make
many political and social re-
forms. One of these aims is
to be recognized as an equal
in the South. His methods of
obtaining these goals should
be condemned. For the most
part, the only results from
passive resistance" move
ments, ETC., have been more
racial hate and violence and
aiding the Ku Klux Khan to
obtain a greater membership.
In order to ascend a fight
of stairs, one must first go to
the first step, then the Sec
ond. etc. What the Negro is
trying to do in the South is
to go from step one (total
segregation Of the races to
the top of the stairs (com-
plete equality of the two
races) without taking the
necessary steps in between.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
To Avoid q BIiqht

Senator Case of South Dakota is
eminently correct when he warns Wash
h1gton to be certain that its solution
to the U. S. Route 240 controversy will
"cure blight rather than create one"
AS he has pointed out to Senate
leaders and to highway officials, how
ever, the facts in this venerable dispute
are still so muddled that careful new
look should be taken at the whole pic
ture. His idea that an immediate con-
greSSional hearing be called for this pur-
pose is most constructive, and should be
welcomed by citizens and officials alike.
Senator Cases main desire is for a
clearer assessment of the damage which
might be inflicted on residential areas
especially old Cleveland Park-by an ex-
preSSway in the Wisconsin avenue "cor-
ridor." District highway officials, to be
sure, never have favored a Wisconsin
avenue route. They are proceeding with
its planning, however, because of the
dictatorial decision of the Bureau of
Public Roads that any other route would
be too indirect" to qualify for Federal
aid funds.
The thing that has disturbed good
many WaShingtonianS about this find-
ing is that it is concerned almost en-
tirely with traffic. AS Senator Case
puts it:
recognize that the Bureau of Public
Roads in passing upon route proposals
must operate within the directive of the
laws relating to the Interstate System
in this instance E. to direct route"
However, If it should be demonstrated
that greater benefits from the Federal
dollar spent would result by deviating
from the shortest line concept, 1t should
not be too difficult to pass authorizing
legislation where the Nations Capital is
concerned.
In other words, the new interstate
freeways are so massive, and their po-
tential for harm as well as for good is
so great, that they should not be eval-
uated in terms of traffic capacity alone
In fairness to the Wisconsin avenue
route, it may be that judicious engineer
ing and planning could minimize its
impact, and highway officials should be
questioned closely on this point. But it
also might be possible, as Senator Case
suggests, that a longer alternate route,
passing through blighted areas, might
cost the Federal Government no more
in the long run and have far greater
advantage to the city.
1t is gratifying, at any rate, that
Senator Case has taken such an interest
in the Capitals welfare His timely and
sensible suggestions have solved several
knotty highway problems in the past,
and we believe he is on the right track
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
100 Years AGO

Journalism had a folksy
quality a century ago not to
be confused with today's
brisk, objective writing. Long
news dispatches were penned
letter-style. Bylines were
rare. The Star of May 3,
1860, led its main news page
with brief telegraphed tidings
that the Democratic Con-
vention at Charleston, S. c..
had adjourned without max
ing nominations, to meet
again later in Baltimore"
Then followed this missive
from our unidentified Cor
respondent" on the scene:
Dear Star: I fear your read
ers will soon come to tire Of
my letters, as I have already
certainly tired Of the vex-
atious pulling and hauling
and arguing back and forth
to no apparent purpose, to
which I in common with all
here have been so busily
engaged for more than a
week past. Pity me, dear Star.
and pity all of us unfortu-
nate mortals now so en-
ployed, of all cliques and
factions of the party. in this
sweltering city. 1t is hard for
an excitable scrap of human
ity like myself-naturally a
perfect tinderbox of conflict
ing emotions, catching fire
from every possible spark
to keep cool enough amid
such circumstances and as
sociations as those in which
! have been immersed ever
since arriving here, to come
to rational conclusions con-
corning the matters to which
it is my duty to write you.
So, if there has been a lack
of method in those conclu-
sions-of methodical har-
mony, I meant pray you
charge the shortcomings TO
the rightful account; to the
hnperfection of my nature
and the perfect hullabaloo of
conflicting struggles of the
most cunning, persevering,
INSCRIPTIONS, mendaciouS.
industrious, oily-tongued, inn
perious and voracious set of
locofoco politicians number
ing thousands, whom the
Lord ever yet permitted to
assemble together. whose
Bedlamite-ish and Babel-ish
clatter has been dinging in
my ears from dawn till dawn,
without an instant's cessa-
ton, for more than a week
past -"
Attesting to the great
popularity of prize fighting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Labor Issue

The Humphrey-Morse CAM
paign in the District primary
highlightS a labor issue that
is not apparent to most peo-
pie, including many labor
people.
This concerns the Senate's
final vote last September on
the labor bill in which Sena-
tors Morse and LANCER (now
deceased) cast the only votes
against the bill. Ninety Sen
ators voted YES" Morse
claims these votes for the bill
were antilabor votes. So do
the Transfers.
The AFL-CIO position,
however. officially stated by
President George Meany last
January. Is that major con-
ceSsions from the House.
passed Landrum- Griffin bill
had been obtained in the
Senate-House conference and
that a vote for the bill on the
final go-round was a proper
vote. This position was
adopted unanimously by the
AFL-CIO in convention later
in September in San Fran
cisco.
The Morse forces, however,
have irresponsibly continued
to label the final votes for the
bill antilabor. Morse insists
that the bills antiunion pro-
visions could have been de-
feated if labor had stood up
to the fight. He has tried to
spread this word through a
well-used movie film and
thousands of reprints of leaf
lets and speeches-all with
the aid of the Transfers.
Morse and his allies, who
now seem to include anti
labor District Republicans,
are now trying to befuddle
the people of Washington,
D. c., with this issue. If
Morse wins the presidential
campaign here, he will un-
doubtedly say that his victory
proves Senators could have
voted against the bill and
carried their position to the
people successfully: that la
Dor lost only because it
stopped fighting. His position
implies, quite wrongly, that
Senators Kennedy, Hum
phrey, Symington and all
other incumbents should be
denied labor support for all
oIIlceS ana CnaC only ne
should be accepted.
Ironically, it is voteless
Washington that has the
first opportunity to show a
public preference between
Senator Hubert Humphrey,
who followed the advice of
the AFL-CIO, or Senator
Morse, who followed the adj
vice of the Transfers.
George L. p. Weaver,
Director of Political Edu-
cation, International I'm
ion of Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers,
AFT-CT0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Enormous LmmensitY'

Dr. Wernher Won Braun has offered
persuasive argument in favor of spend
ing upwards of 81 billion annually
on the ten-year program envisioned
by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration. AS he sees it,
"the enlightened Self-interest of the
United States urgently requires" that
such program be carried out with con-
Stancy, continuity and determination,
not merely for economic or military rea-
sons, but also for reasons Of pure scien-
tiflc research and abstract intellectual
inquiry.
Thus, speaking as director of NASA's
Saturn project, which is to develop a
rocket booster system with thrust of
is million pounds, DR.. Won Braun has
called attention, particularly, to the idea
of solving one of the great and most
fascinating mysteries of existence. AS
he has put 1t, in an address to the
Bureau of Advertising of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, our
space programs major detectives in
clude the following above all: ~ To
study our global environment in order
to understand how the sun controls our
planet; ~ to educate ourselves in the
nature of the solar system and the
universe; and (3) ITO search for the
origin of life and its likely presence
outside the earth" And he has expanded
on this latter point in these somewhat
mystical and moving words:
select the word 'likely" with DELHI
crate purpose. There is good reason to
assume. on purely scientific grounds and
on evidence adduced by observation. that
life Of some kind exists elsewhere in the
universe. In my opinion that is an en-
tirely logical assumption. ! cannot be-
lieve that the Power which created life
and order confined all sensible organisms
to this relatively tiny planet
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars
in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of bill
lions Of galaxies populating the universe.
1t would be the height of presumption to
think that we are the only living things
in that enormous immensityl 1t win
be significant milestone when the first
American aStronaut returns safely to
earth from a flight through the vacuum
OF space. But suggest that it will be
an even more memorable occasion when
the first American meets another being
in space. We can hope the greeting will
be Hello, Earthman," and not "Wel-
come, Tovarisch!"
In any event, regardless of who may
eventually greet us out there, DR.. Won
Braun has not exaggerated in declar-
ing that we must strive unaaggingly to
move forward-upward and outward-in
this enormous immensely" OF course,
as far as the English language is con-
cerned, that phrase is a redundancy.
Yet, considering the Unreasonable dis
tances that surround us on our fiy-speck
sort OF planet, space looks so vast, the
universe so limitless, the heavens so in
finite, that no language seems too ex-
ceSSive to describe it. Maybe, when and
If we meet them, our fellows among
the stars will put us straight on all
matters of this kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Mallory Again

I see where Andrew NAL
Tory, the infamous raper, has
BEEN arrested for his special
ty again. This time this de-
generate. whom the Supreme
Court saw fit to free on a
legal technicality, has been
charged with this heinous
crime in Philadelphia.
I am afraid our country is
in for a rude awakening
when the highest court in
the land turns this kind OF
an individual loose to COM
NIT the same crime on an
other innocent victim be-
cause of a legal technicality. /"
Ralph III. Greenwald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
so Years AGO

Man-made satellites are no
more pulSating than was the
progress of Halley's Comet
half a, century ago. The Star
on May /, 1910, enlightened:
"Halley's Comet now is ap-
preaching its greatest bril-
liancy. During May it will
be visible to the naked eye.
1t will be as close to Venus
tomorrow as it will be later
on to earth. The most inter-
esting day of its visit is May
10, when the earth will pass
through the comets tail. The
head of the comet will then
be II million miles from the
earth, while the tail itself
will probably extend beyond
the earth. 1t will take the
earth about five hours to pass
through the tail :"
Few doubted that the auto
mobile had arrived" so
years ago after The Star on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
To Strophonqers

In all the arguments be-
tween candidates in the up
coming primary as to which
candidate has done the most
for the District, I must say
that the most compelling
question with me is: Who
has done anything to pre-
vent the outrageous CONVEX
sion of our fine streetcar
system to sinking diesel
buses?
I can answer my own
question in two five-letter
words: Wayne Morse!
Mr.. Morse was outstanding
in the closing hours of the
84th Congress when Mr..
Chalk's charter was rushed
through in protesting against
those unusual provisions
which have already cost mil
lions to the 100000 transit
riders. He also tried to in
sert a renegotiation clause,
surely a prudent provision to
put in a hasty piece of leg
islation.
On the 9th day of this
month he made a speech in
the Senate exposing the
whole history of this transit
mess and warned the PUG
that he intends to introduce
a bill in the next session to
prevent any more conversion
, until Congress has a chance
to act on the 81 million mass
transportation survey-some-
thing the PUG should have
sense enough to do without
urging.
He certainly deserves the
support of those of us strap
hangers who happen to be
registered as Democrats.
G.. Nj. KoOckOgey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Induced SPEEDING

Your recent editorial april
23) supporting a stern traf-
fic enforcement program for
the District condemns those
who make raceways of our
streets and highways. I do
not think the individual
speeder should bear all the
blame for the steady rise
in accidents in the District.
Being human, it is not en-
tirely his fault If he sue
cumbs to the temptations set
by the Highway Department
and develops bad habits.
The continual rise in traf-
fic accidents has occurred
along with official efforts to
speed traffic. This may be
only a coincidence, but it
should be studied. For ex-
ample. when new regulations
were effected for traffic on
Sixteenth street Northwest,
the Highway Department
boosted the average speed
had risen to % miles per
hour. Now, with a 30-mile
speed limit on this road, who
is to blame if a driver ex-
ceeds the limit occasionally
to maintain this average
speed? Or, to put it another
way, how can anyone aver
age this speed without fire.
quently going over the speed
limit?
Take another example. In
dependence avenue South
east is an ordinary. narrow,
densely populated sire e t
which the Highway Depart
ment has chosen to be an
"arterial." 1t would he IN
humane, in view Of the
abundance of children who
use this street constantly, to
raise the 25-mile speed limit.
But when the traffic lights
appear to be timed for 80
mph, is it entirely the driv-
er's fault if he speeds? And
is it entirely his fault if he
thus gets a contempt for
obeying the law?
Parking is forbidden at all
times on one side of this
three-lane street. The High
way Department has adopted
standards which require this,
even for the small dribble
of traffic which uses this
road in of hours. The
temptation, therefore, is to
drag-race, and can you
honestly blame the driver of
a loaded oil truck for speed
ing past an already speeding
food-chain delivery trailer
under these circumstances?
We average only about one
collision a week at the cor
ner of Eleventh street and
Independence avenue South
east. so apparently the race
way nature of this road is
somewhat officially justifi-
able. So far, only trees are
being killed. Peter Glickert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Is Years AGO

German submarine wolf
packs that made bloody
headlines in World War II
were being spawned Is years
ago. The Star Of April %.
1885, reported from London:
Confirmation from the Ger
man defense ministry that
U-boat construction is a part
of the Reich's armament
program jolted Europe today
and created the possibility Of
three-power conferences to
consider a new violation of
the Versailles Treaty. =.
Reliable London sources
claimed Hitler had already
begun laying down the keels
of IL small submarines pre-
paratory to launching a more
extensive construction pro-
gram.
William Werber, now an
affable insurance broker here,
was a hot-tempered big
Lacquer Is years ago. The
Star of April %, 1885. re-
ported a trouncing the Sen
ators gave the Boston Red
Sox, for whom Werber played
third base. Bill was horse
collared 20 for ~ by Wash
ington's little lefty Leon
Petit. The Star said: There
is a new feud in the Amer
lean League. Petit and Wer-
Der are at daggers' points.
Petit threw a third strike
past Werber, who yelled You
lucky stiff. Next time I'll
pin your ears backl' Next
time, Werber famed. and
Petit called: Where's that
pin you were going to use on
my ears?' Umpire Dineen and
Boston Manager Cronin had
to restrain Werber. Then in
the ninth, when Bill struck
out again, his teammates led
him off the field, frothing at
the mouth. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

mentioned as dark horse" possibility
for a place on the Democratic ticket.
His liberalism" may be Earring to some
in his own party, but his unanimous
selection by the convention arrange
mentS committee indicates that those
currently in control know what they
want-and feel sure that Mr.. Bowles
will deliver it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
FROM THE STAR FILES.

April IT. 1910. devoted a full
page to snapshots" and text
on the lengths to which the
gas buggy could be extended.
Howard Fisk, then our knight
Of the road. somewhat
breathlessly reported how a
party of local motorists, in
Guiding himself. had sped the
93.3 miles from Washington
to York, Pa, in a scant 6lz
hours. Mr.. Fisk travelled in
a kline Kar roadster" with
Clarence Bernard at the
wheel. by making a forced
trip" he enthused. "the
round trip could be negoti-
ated in one daV. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Realism of Ideolism
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the United States Senate

Al SAAC RACcCA4b WI AZ GALud~
ton we need idealists who
see visions and dream dreams.
But we desperately need
idealiSts who are also realists.
The dictionary tells us that
idealism is "the tendency to
see things as they should be
instead Of as they are" and
that realism is "the tendency
to concern oneself with actu-
atty of fact" A surgeon is
an idealist who is also a real
list. He isn't thelsort of ideal
list who puts a mustard plaster
over a malignancy and just
hopes for the best. He knows
that some things have to be
cut out before the recupera-
tive powers of the body have
a chance to be modified.
Those who understand the
present peril the world is in
because Of the malignant
growth of atheistic commu-.
nism are idealists who dream
of a healed and happy world,
but who wildly realize that
you cannot compromise with a
cancer in the body polite.
Bishop Gerald Kennedy of
the Methodist Church is both
an idealist and a realist. Re-
turning to America after
recent weeks in Soviet Russia,
he declares: THE issue is
joined at last. Either God
is or He is not. Either a man
is of value only as a citizen of
the state or he is of value
because God created him.
Either Christianity is true or
communism is true, but not
both. Coexistence is a pleas
ant term, but one of these
systems is going down"
Again and again church
leaders have failed their
time tragically. because they
were unreal idealistS. Sincere
church people were back of a
British prime minister when
he went to Munich with an
umbrella, but with no right
eoVS sword. 1t was then that
for peace in our time" a
glorious little democracy in
the heart of Europe was
thrown to the wolves of APP
peaSement. And now, in this
year Of our Lord 1860, there
are religious kaleidoscope
cially ecclesiastical bureau
cratS-who are as gullible and
blind as were the church lead
ers to whom Jesus spoke sad
ly. The Master said to the
leaders of His day, You can
propheSy about the weather.
You read the signs in the
sky, but you cannot read the
signs of the times" Now,
remember, He was talking to
religious leaders when He
said: IF thou hadst known
in this, thy day, the things
which belong to thy peace,
but now they are hid from
thine eyes. for the time shall
come upon thee that thine
enemies shall lay thee even
with the ground and shall
not leave one stone upon
another because thou know
est not the time of thy visi-
tation." And Christ's dismal
prophecy came to pass when
the armies of Titus pulver-
lied Jerusalem. Jesus heart
was heavy because those at
the head Of the church were
not reading Alright the signs
of the times.
A leading professor in one
OF our best-known theological
schools some time ago issued
a petulant, scolding message
to all the churches. Because
it has in it idealism without
realism the statement might
just as well have been writ
ten in the Kremlin. This is
exactly what he said: I'VE
should avoid a position of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

Before Supreme Court rulings
labelling racial segregation IL
legal indignation was being
conducted willingly in the
South without eruption of
racial violence Gas there is
today. Teller windows in
banks and elevators in build
ings have been integrated
without violence.
II the American Negro
wants. to be accepted by the
white race as an equal, he
can obtain this goal only
through kindness and under
standing, not through the
methods which only produce
hate and violence.
Charles Dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDrtters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

Attesting to the gre a t
popularity of prize fighting