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, 1960-03-25

It is quite significant that IN
these times 50 many different
kinds of days and Weeks in 4
world-large scale r observed
which intend to call the attention
to the urgent needs of mankind
as a whole.
This certainly reveals the crltl-
cal character Of the situation. The
problems of the world seem to be
terrific and what else is required
from an intelligent Christian as
The genuine interest and under
standing Of what really is going
on around US. Speaking the Ian
guage Of the Bible we should
"kuoW the time of our visitation"
Yet some grave doubts are
creeping into the soul Of an OBJ
server and sometimes am ask
ing myself if the d~enotatlorl
Worlds Day"-be it the Day
Of Prayer or anything else
were properly used-or is it only
d cheap, misleading slogan?
Do the worlds leading men
themselves give a full support to
the challenging projects trying
earnestly to help to relieve the
confused situation? Are h e
worlds idealistic tasks always
backed by the public opinion,
supported BY the broader masses!
IN other words: are these Days
and Weeks always of a real adj
vantage and advancement for the
mankind? sometimes doubt 1t.
/ all your attention to the
challenging words used today
nor often than may be ever be-
fore-words as Liberty Free
DOM Democracy" and SO on
yet which are more confusive
than ever. Yet it seems to be
pretty clear: the nations Of the
world cannot be fooled any more
simply BY using confusive slogans
or Realistically tuned conceptions
without applying them practical
ly-as it could be done in the
past.
The world OF today is awaken
ing as a giant which gets up Of
his sleep and the time has come
to ask ourselves-are we aware
what IS needed to recognize our
visitation
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for BY some mistake they could
be put together in a class with
dark skinned children. What a
disaster in her o~pinion!-Never-
theless she thought she was a
good Christian, because S h e
prayed and offered sometimes a
couple of dollars for the Poor,
needy black children!"
No wonder, this kind of Chris
tianity did not impress Tom
Mboya at all. Nc wonder, that he
turned his back toward Chris
tianity. No wonder also that the
awakening w orld of today
pushes aside this kind of religion
as dirt that clings to their shoes.
Do you know the time of your
visitation? The representatives of
Christianity have a great respon-
sibility indeed, as well as a lot
of guilt when speaking of high
ideals of Christ, but practically
ignoring them.
! suppose, most of you arc ac-
quainted with the article that
appeared some weeks ago in the
local paper Avis" where a ma
tive of the Virgin Islands is de-
scibing his ordeals in the States.
Because Of the color of his skin
he was not served in public eat
ing places. To chase him away he
was charged for a cup of coffee
$1.00-i
Now LET me call your attention
to the simplest fact: the Chris
tan churches are arranging
World Days Of Prayer"-the
world certainly needs them, no
question about that!-yet not z
single prayer is said f. i. for
those politically oppressed ard
enslaved nations behind tie
Iron Curtain!
/ had the chance to read such
a nice book of World Prayer"
where fervent prayers were SAID
practically for everybody, for
every state and sort of men,
even for the Shareholders and
tyrants, yet not for those suffer
ing political violence plainly
say-for the victims Of commur-
ism. Even the word Communism
which mean simply backward
ness and political OPPRESSION
was avoided, not to hurt the
feelings Of those gangsters.
How do you think, the world
could be freed from the monster
Hitler-only by prayer2 If SO,
why did they then fight against
him, why didn't they trust the
power of prayer that could do a
much better job? Do you like ma
to answer this question? Well, it
is because prayer is s~enseless in
case it doesn't activate you to
proper deeds.
Or do you honestly think your
PRAYER has much value Il vol
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Tie separation depending on Tie
color of skin was made as soon as
the time for dinner arrived: an
African boy was not found
worthy to sit down and eat to-
gether with ar European. Tom
Mboya knew the habits and Gus
toms of the rulers, yet he did not
like them. That's why he left the
school. However the deplorable
fact was that he turned his back
on Christianity.
Now do you honestly think that
this type of man can be won
back to Christianity only by a
neutral-worded prayer without
being put into action? Don't you
think much more is needed and
can be achieved by a genuine,
practical, less h~ypocritical Chris
tianity. where a clear proof is
given that a dark skinned be-
lever is as good as a white
skinned Christian, and in reverse?
However Tom Mboya still got
his education. Though, sorry to
say, it was on the same level and
of the same quality of white
people in majority-this means of
those interested more in their
horses, dogs, games, physical we'll
being and health than in the saw
ing power Of the blood of Jesus
for the preserving Of the soul of
man.
It was a peculiar incident that
brought Tom Mboya farther from
Christianity. This time he was
working as an officer in the
health laboratory. One day a
white woman walked in to have
a bottle of milk examined.
Nobody here?' she asked Tom
who was alone in the laboratory.
Misunderstanding seems to be
wrong with your eyes, replied
Mboya. No wonder the woman,
running out, screamed: athe boy
is crazy!"
You may say it IS IN to me-
whom / let my milk examined.
OF course you may and there. is
nothing wrong in it, You may eat
you meal according to your
choice, prepared by a white or
by a black cook. However your
attitude-suppose you are a
Christian-toward your neighbor
counts.-Probably the said lady
was a kind Of those one can meet
everywhere, not only in Africa
who are making a grave mistake,
calling themselves Christians
yet their attitudes and actions are
outspoken unchristian.
This kind Of ladies seldom at
tend church As you see. in this
respect there is no difference in
the color Of skin, white or black,
both are bad, If they are keep
jno fhannsaIvas awav from the
Evening star., 1960-10-30
Treasure Hunt
in Autumn
By EARL PALMER
Sunday Group

W7HEN is in the shock. when killer frosts have
shucked black wanuts and sweetened the
it's time treasure hunt in the Blue Ridge mill
country of Virginia Mothers to their youngsters Son.
want jelly and persmmOn pies in lunch
pail this winter you'd better git busy and fotch the makn
And the young light out into the countryside just their
grandparents did in search of natures blooming treasure
After school and week ends, they the fields for
miles around shaking apple their yield and high
hanging winesaps climbing vines for baskes of zesy
pOssum rang black walnuts and chinqua
pins the sackOad and adding hickory nuts for good
Vacated hornets nests gathered too for boys dens
The youngsters not trespassing In the Blue Ridge
country there thousands of national forests where
gathering of fruits and nuts permitted AsO of aban
doned armlands seldom forbid country children CLEAN among
neglected apple and peach orchards gather permmOns
fox grapes and other fruits of autumn.
All that's needed for hunt like the shown in these pic
tures Floyd Va Indian stretching
few bushe baskets and burap bags and of venture
boys and girls In the joy of going aed to
gather the mans of tasty winter meals they wade
time in the mpond climb haystacks for the sliding down.
and generally live in the carefee world of childhood they
say goodby to summer.
Evening star., 1960-04-02

cantly below those of last
year. Government bond rates
have substantially dropped in
the past two months. The
earlier decline in FILA appli-
cations has ended, discounts
have leveled of and the SUD-
ply Of mortgage money is
steadily improving.
All these, many people
agree, are evidences Of a
healthy convalescence for the
housing economy. Even
though any general decline
In mortgage interest rates
may be some time away. we
can expect that discounts
VIII lessen, funds will be
available for financing with
lower down payments, and
builders will find it possible
to get financing for expanded
BODYBUILDING plans.
My diagnosis for housing.
therefore, is that it is recu-
perating satisfactorily from
Its attack of tight money
last year. 1t is in a basically
healthy condition. I am con-
f1dent we will have a good
housing year, 200, 900 units,
or better, even allowing for
Evening star., 1960-04-02
Mason Sees Housing Upturn Within Two Months or So
By NORMAN P. MASON
Unitsd Stotes Housing Administrator

FoloUiHc is a statement
Of UietIs By the Housing and
Home Finance Administrator
IN opposition TO the EmeT-
peHcy Housing Bin introduced
by Representative Rains,
Democrat of Alabama. and
HolC pending IN the House.
The bill contends that Spe-
ciol home-buiIdiHg financing
aid is needed to insure an
adequate production of homes
SrhiIe a money shortage holds
mortgage interest rates high
and hampers the housing
market. MI Mason attributes
less importance to the cur
rent Downturn in production
than do the bills proponents,
and sayS the supply of mort
gage money is steady i'm
pToriHo" eUeH though a gen.
eTGl decline in mortgage
interest rates may be some
time array" His statement
JOUOtrs:
As every doctor knows,
there are times when medi-
cation is needed. And there
are times when it is better
20 give nature a chance. The
proper prescription depends
on a careful diagnosis of the
case.
Now my quarrel with some
of our housing doctors" is
that they sometimes are too
quick to treat the symptoms
without such a diagnosis.
They make q fetish of
Evening star., 1960-04-02
MeAinsh Speaks
To AU Students

William McAinsh. property
manager of Walker & Dunlop,
Inc, this week addressed the
class in Real Estate Practice
II at American University
taught by Frederick A. Mar
steller. Of Marsteller & Nc
Cabe Co, Inc. The course is
sponsored by the Washington
Real Estate Board and Amer
ican University.
The topic was Property
Management" Mr.. McAinsh
is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Institute of
Real Estate Management.
Mr.. MarStsller's term as pro-
fessorial lecturer started in
February.
Evening star., 1960-04-02

were at a very high level.
Government was borrowing
heavily, and having to pay
the highest rates since the
war.
Inventory accumulation
maintained a higher-than-
expected level, and has les
sened credit demands for this
purpose this year. Bond
yields rose to their highest
postwar level, and mortgage
interest rates and discounts
went up with them. Mort
gage financing was almost
non-existent in many cases,
and builders had to curtail
their plans for BODYBUILDING
IN the early months of the
year.
But these conditions have
changed. The Government
has passed its peak of bor-
rowing. Compared to the
heavy borrowing Of last fall
resulting from a $12 billion
deficit in the preceding fiscal
year, the Governments budg-
ct this year viii be virtually
in balance, and in the next
fiscal year Government will
be putting back into the
market an estimated $4 bill
lion in surplus. That's a big
change, and mortgage A.
nancing will be among the
benefciaries.
Sees Demond LeveIins
Industrial demands for
capital, while still high, have
leveled of and are signifi-
Evening star., 1960-04-02

ing at this time is to give ma
ture a chance. Infiationary
credit would do more harm
than good. The patient is ba-
sically healthy and is pro-
crossing very well. Let's keep
him that way.
Evening star., 1960-04-02

the anticipated lower rate in
the early months.
This is not the time for an
injection of infiationary cred
it, such as that proposed in
the Emergency Housing Act
pending in the House. This
would only exert pressure for
cost rises on a broader front
on materials, labor. and
land = and produce higher
housing costs.
My prescription for hous-
Evening star., 1960-04-02

watching the monthly rate
Of housing starts as If it
were a fever chart. The mo-
ment there is q downward
f1uctuation, the cry goes up:
Quick, Watson, the needle" ;"
But this kind of treat
ment. it seems to me, repre-
Sents a basic misconception
Of how the housing market
works.
Drop Interpreted
Today. with the housing
starts rate, though still high,
at a lower level than past
months. we hear the same
cry for emergency stimu-
lants. But this current drop
of in starts in the early.
months of the year was
predictable-and was pred
icted by myself and many
others. Actually, this decline
is simply a hang lover from a
CONSTRUCTED mortgage money
condition that prevailed in
the latter part of the past
year.
But the situation has
changed. Mortgage money is
steadily becoming more
available. The indicators
have turned in the opposite
direction. Builders can now
expand their plans for home
building, and we can expect
an upturn in the rate of new
housing in another two
months or so.
A diagnosis Of the situa-
ton will show why. Late last
year demands for capital
Evening star., 1960-04-02
BIS ouEsApA ST. NV.

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sscne residence De luxe kitchen,
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Evening star., 1960-04-02
AMERICAN UNIV.
PARK
44oe BURLINGTON PLACE

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tsr hch. } bedroens. finished rec
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right 70 o1es SIEH.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Check on Drivers

Among the accomplishments of the
1860 Maryland Assembly deserving spe-
cial commendation was the enactment
Of law ending the States unique and
much-criticized lifetime permit system
for motorists.
While no driving test or other ex-
animation will be required on each re-
newal, the plan nevertheless is expected
to aid materially in the enforcement Of
traffic laws. This is because the permit
files have become so cluttered with rec
ordS Of drivers who have died, changed
addresses or moved out of the State
that it is extremely diff1cult-and some
times impossible-to locate records of
drivers involved in traffic accidents or
violations.
The Legislature did nothing about
another defect of Maryland's traffic
laws, however. This is the lack of any
car inspection system. Until this safety
promoting plan is adopted the State will
continue to be out of step with most
Notwithstanding those that sur
round it. 1t is unfair to District and
Virginia car owners to require inSpec-
ton Of their automobiles while unin-
spected Maryland cars are given un-
restricted use of District and Virginia
highways.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Herbert R. O'Conor

Public service and the profession Of
law have lost distinguished practitioner
with the death of Herbert R. O'Conor,
6S, Of Baltimore.
A man Of attractive personality, Mr..
O'Conor turned from newspapering at an
early age to the not unusual combination
OF law and politics. In those related
fields, he progressed steadily from local
prominence in Baltimore to Statewide
success and popularity in Maryland-aS
Attorney General, Governor and, from
1947 to 1858, as United States Senator.
During his term in the Senate, Mr..
OConor served for time as chairman
Of the Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee and as chairman of the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee - two
areas in which he was particularly well
acquainted by experience and by per-
sonal interest.
After deciding not to seek re- election
to the Senate in 1852, Mr.. O'Conor con-
tinued his dedicated fight against COM
munism and was a spokesman of the
American Bar Association in its condem-
nation Of lawyers who resort to Fifth
Amendment protection against questions
Of possible Communist affiliation. A life
long Democrat, he was also a devoted
participant in lay activities of the Roman
Catholic Church. In all of these outlets
for his interests and his talents, Mr..
OConor earned widespread respect.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
New Hiuh in SIonder

Once again, Fidel Castro has shown
that, when it comes to slander, he is in
class by himself. Without a shred of
supporting evidence, he has unhesitat-
ingly inSinuated that the United States
Government was responsible for the
munitions ship explosion in Havana
harbor.
Our State Departments reaction has
been prompt and vigorous. The implied
accusation, it says, is "unfounded and
irresponsible" We think there is
shorter and better word for it, But what
is the use of letting ones blood pressure
soar Skyward because the Cuban dema-
gogue has staged another demagogic
exhibition?
This Government would do better to
concern itself with the question whether
there is any prospect of maintaining a
responsible relationship with a totally
irresponsible man. Is there any hope for
mutually beneficial negotiations with a
Castro dominated Cuban government?
We doubt it very much. If Fidel Castro
really believes that the United States
was responsible for blowing up the
munitions ship he would have no desire
to negotiate with us. If he does not be-
lieve this, if his Havana speech was
merely another exercise in mendacity,
why should we want to negotiate with
him?
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Pounds Board

It is too bad that The
Stars article. Tuition Bill
Called Move to Bar D. C. to
Many" was captioned in such
a, casual manner. Since there
has been no reaction to this
column, which appeared in
The Star on February 16, I
am sure that it did not at
tract it's deserved attention.
Actually, it was a report
of the meeting of the Board
of Managers of the D. C. Con-
gress Of Parents and Teach
ers, the local name for the
state" organization. At its
February meeting, you report.
the board was persuaded to
oppose the Broyhill bill, pro-
viding tuition payments for
all youngsters not living here
with either their parents or
legal guardians.
Your paper reports that
the board decided to urge"
free tuition for youngsters
getting principal-but not
necessarily complete sup
port from friends or rela-
tives here. Now how ridicu-
lous can we get?
I hope your readers un-
derstand that the Board Of
Managers was acting on its
own initiative or judgment.
The local PTAs were never
consulted about this matter.
The D. c. Congress PTA with
its innumerable bylaws and
resolutions has a wide ex-
panse Of authority for its
actions: however, this time it
appears they have gone too
far.
Washington is made up Of
people from all parts of the
United States. In my home in
Pennsylvania I have numer-
GUS relatives and friends who
would be delighted to have
their children given the op-
portunity Of living in the Ma
tion's Capital for a year or
so. If the D. C. taxpayers are
willing to open the school
doors to one and all, at no
tuition charge, I, for one,
might take advantage Of the
situation. How many others
might do the same?
How much more will free
= tuition cost landowners here
and in turn tenants? How
could the Board of Education
anticipate school population,
or know how many teachers
or textbooks to provide?
Then suppose nonresident
pupils start to school here
but drop out to become de-
Evening star., 1960-03-07

typewriters Of our own large corps of
foreign correspondents. There is an all
too familiar note, for example, in
the non-Roman complaint in Rome
about bureaucratic red tape, lack of
efficiency, slowness and the tendency of
government officials to be away from
their desks or out of their offices.
For some reason or other, many of
the Americans-the largest single dele
cation in the Rome colony-reported
impatience at the Italian habit of three
hour lunch and siesta breaks in mid
day, an idea that always seemed pleas
ant to us. One American should have
intrigued some of our colleagues here
by saying that he liked life in Rome
because there are fewer ulcers" than
back in the States Offhand, it sounds
to us as If our friends abroad were hav-
ing it pretty good-no blizzards, for ex-
ample, and time for daily nap.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Mr.. Doerfer's Blind Spot

10 put 1t mildly, Chairman John
c. Doerfer OF the Federal Communica-
tions Commission has been less than
impressive or persuasive in defending his
acceptance of George B. Storer's hospi-
tality.
The hospitality has taken the form
OF Vacation-bound ride on Mr.. Storers
private plane, plus several days of pleas
ant living on his yacht in Florida. True,
since the two men have been friendly
Tor some years past, there certainly is
nothing Objectionable about this per Sc,
but Mr.. Storer-a respected businessman
happens to be the owner of IL radio
and television stations subject to the
FCC'S regulations.
Accordingly, as head of the FEC, Mr..
Doerfer seems to us to have shown ex-
ceedingly poor Judgment, blind spot.
In socializing as he has with Mr.. Storer,
from whom he accepted similar hospi-
tality in 1858. Although nothing in the
law debarS him from such camaraderie.
ne occupies position in which a sense
OF the fitness of things ought to make
him feel that he should maintain an
arm'S-length relationship - aloof and
reserved, not intimate - with all broad
casters and telecasters who must do bus
iness from time to time with the commits
sion he heads as a sort of policeman
patrolling the Nations airwaves.
Mr.. Doerfer apparently thinks other
wise. At any rate, in his appearance
before the House subcommittee investi-
eating the radio-TV field, he has de-
clared, my conscience is perfectly clear"
And he has gone on to suggest that he
feels free to hobnob with men like Mr..
Storer as long as he regards them as
friends and they have no business pend
Ing before his commission.
This strikes us as a viewpoint
betraying certain obtuSeness to the
proprieties, certain insensitivity that
Ill becomes anybody occupying a public
office as important as the Craftsmanship
of the FEC.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Man Tries to Copy Natures Bombs
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

A program Tor pro0ucClon
Of about a 30,000th Of an
ounce Of the terribly explo-
sive element californian dur
ing the next 10 years now is
under way.
This will be enough Of the
stuff, which some believe to
be the cause Of the greatest
explosions in creation, to see
under q powerful microscope.
The element, so far as is
known, does not exist in ma
ture on earth. It must be
made. practically an atom at
a time, with the most power
full atom-smashing machines
such as the University of
California's bevatron.
Following the discovery of
uranium flssion, whic h
started the whole atomic age
two decades ago, physicists
started producing, by bonn
bardment Of uranium, still
heavier elements. First came
element 80, neptunium. At
least there was conclusive
evidence that such stuff ex-
listed In the preparations.
Nobody ever saw any. A year
later came production of
plutonium. There Is some
evidence that both neptuni-
um and plutonium actually
exist in the earth's crust, in
very minute amounts mixed
with uranium ores.
Six Other Explosives
Then followed, one after
the other, synthesis Of five
still heavier and probably
more powerfully radioactive
elementS-americium, curl
um, berkelium, californian,
einsteinium, fermium and
mendelevium. A sixth, ele-
ment 102, lately has been
prepared and identified but
not yet named. All these
may exist in nature some
where in the universe. The
clearest evidence is for cali
fornium whose existence Is
indicated in the spectra of
nova-obscure stars which
suddenly explode and become
for a time the brightest OBJ
jectS in the skies. The build
UP of a relatively small
amount Of californian in
their makeup could explain
the explosions.
Hence the interest in get
ting some Of the stuff to look
at, regardless of how long it
requires. There is also, &C
cording to q report of DR..
Glenn T. Seaborg of the Uni
versity Of California, a milli-
gram Of berkelium, which
presumably will take a little
longer, and a thousandth as
much Of the elusive einstein-
ium. The others can be
passed up for the time being.
Presumably all are heavy
metals. Nobody proposes to
make anything out of them,
at least in this century.
Some Of the common newer
miracle drugs" may have
very serious aftereffects which
will not become manifest for
years.
This has been demon
strated by experience with
experimental rats given pro-
longed treatments with some
Of them. 1t has Just been
reported to the National
Academy Of Sciences by DR..
Curt Richter of Johns Hop
kins University.