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Evening star., 1960-08-02
From Little Acorns

Although anything can and may
happen in this wacky day and age, it still
seems highly improbable to us that
great issue is going to grow from the
tiny acorn of the latest dispute between
MeSsrs. Nixon and Kennedy.
The question Is whether Senator
Kennedy said President Eisenhower
might have apologized to Mr.. Khru-
shchev for the U-2 affair or whether he
suggested the President should have ex-
pressed regrets. In his Oregon statement,
the Massachusetts, Senator certainly
spoke of expressing regret. In subse-
quent statement on the Senate floor,
however, he apparently used that horrid
word apologize"
To all of which, our reaction is:
What difference does it make? There
is shade of difference between the
meaning of the two terms, although our
dictionary defines an apology as being,
among other things, statement which
is expressive of regret. But why split
hairs? It really doesn't make very much
difference whether Senator Kennedy
spoke of an apology, an expression of
regret, or both. We don't suppose that
anyone is going to argue from this that
he Is soft on communism, and we are
quite certain that there are tissues" of
vastly greater Importance to which the
candidates should and soon will be de-
voting their attention. ...S.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
PeriIous Gamble

Fifteen months ago at the Geneva
talks on nuclear test ban, the Rus
slams were asked to say how many on
site international inspections they would
permit each year on their. territory
Now, at long last, they have given their
answer: They would permit only three.
The British and American represen-
tatives have promptly rejected this as
grossly inadequate" In the words of
James j. Wadsworth, our chief delegate
at the talks, such low number obvious
ly could not serve as an effective safe
guard against the possibility of viola
tions and evasions After all, there are
thousands Of seismic occurrenceS-ear
tremors-every year, and If only three
OF these were open to inspection an
nually, violatorS of a teSt-ban agree
ment could stage underground detona-
tions at little or no risk of being caught
In the act. >..-..,-
1t is for this reason that Britain
and the United States favor an elabor-
ate seismic monitoring and policing syS-
tenn under which the nuclear powers
would each open their territories to
about 20 on-Site inspections year. But
Semyon TSarapkin, the Soviet negotia-
tor, has attacked this figure as much
too high, unrealistic and unacceptable"
AS he argues the case, the world must
assume that all parties to a teSt-ban
treaty would be faithful to their obliga-
tions, and there is therefore no real need
to carry out international check-upS as
a deterrent against the possibility that
one or another of the signatorieS might
set of clandestine explosions.
Such danger, however, is very real,
and the Soviet record hardly warrants
the simple-minded trustfulneSS Mr..
TSarapkin espouseS. Actually, even 20
on-site inspections might prove to be
far too few to guard against the menace
of cheating Indeed, the more one looks
at the problem, the more reason there
is to feel that our country-since a
genuinely effective policing agreement
seems far off-should resume under
ground testing for the sake of national
security. Certainly, as matters stand, we
have no way of being sure that the Rus
slams are not staging clandestine shots
that could give them a decisive military
advantage over us.
Under conditions Of this sort, with
the Kremlin resisting every effort to
establish effective policing against bad
faith, we are taking a perilous gamble
in debarring ourselves from under
ground tests. The gamble has been
going on now for nearly two years; we
can i'll afford to continue with 1t much
longer
Evening star., 1960-08-02
Havana and Peipinu

Cuba now is tied more closely than
ever to the Communist bloc. This is
the net effect of the f1ve-year trade
agreement just worked out between Red
China and Fidel Castros "Eevolution-
ary" regime.
Under terms of the agreement
which is expected to be followed soon
by the establishment of full diplomatic
relations between Havana and Peiping
the Chinese Communists are commit
ted to buy 500, 900 tons Of Cuban sugar
every year for the next five years. But
only a very small fraction of this will
be paid for in hard cash. Actually, the
deal as whole will be chiefly barter
operation, with Cuba exchanging the
Sugar-plus some fruits, minerals and
other products-for things like rice,
machinery and certain industrial goods.
In many respects, the new pact is
similar to the one that the Castro die
tatorship signed last February with the
Kremlin, which is supposed to buy
million tons of Cuban sugar annually
over a five-year period. However, al
though a lot of bartering is involved in
the deal with them, the Russians are
expected to put up more cash Tin dol
lar form) than the Chinese Reds. Still,
the price to be paid by the Soviets will
be from two to three cents pound less
than the premium price that Cuba has
long received from our country-an ar
rangement now changed as result of
the import quota cut ordered by Presi-
dent Eisenhower in response to Fidel
CaStros hostile, hate-breeding words and
deeds against the United States.
1t need hardly be added, of course,
that in all this the Havana revolution
aries" have been carrying out policy
full Of the most sinister potentialitieS.
The sugar crop is the main basis of
Cuba'S economy, and they have under
taken to supply about third of it to
the world behind the Iron Curtain.
In no small measure, they thus have
mortgaged their country to international
communism, and at the same time they
have laid the diplomatic groundwork for
MoScowS and Peiping's inf1ltration of
the Western Hemisphere.
This is matter of grave concern
not merely to the people of Cuba but to
our entire hemisphere community, and
the Organization of American States
must therefore deal with it as a clear
and present danger to all the Americas.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
Extrd-CurricuIur

1tS no wonder teachers
can't accomplish more in our
schools. During the course of
the past school year, I have
completed the same two Fed
eral Employment Forms
three different times. Then
there are school pictures,
class pictures, weekly reader
subscriptions, dental check
up forms, polio and OPT re-
ports, consent forms for TB
check-ups, school eye and
ear tests and their results,
room mother requests, daily
milk and lunch money COL
lections, weekly menus, con-
ferences with parents, report
cards, PTA notices - their
monthly meetings, newslet-
terS and current activities
notices, Red Cross donations,
sch oo1 insurance, lunch
money borrowed notices,
whom to notify in case of
accident forms and absent
excuses.
All this time-consuming
paper work must cross the
teachers desk. No wonder
Johnny can't read.
Mother Of Four.
Evening star., 1960-08-02

Your editorial. why Fly
There?", makes a strong
point in the case of the RIB
At. You ask why risk such
flights and say Assuming no
espionage activity. why was
this work important enough
to risk plane and crew 30, or
even so, miles from Soviet
territory?"
I would go further and say
that any fight which could
be considered provocative,
no matter what it's objective,
should be undertaken only
after notice to, and clearance
with, the United Nations, and
that the U. N. be given
authority to weigh the value
of such flights against the
possible dangers to peace, and
to withhold such clearance if
judged wise. An obvious
curtailment of sovereignty,
it does not seem too high a
price to pay for the avoidance
Of crises in the highly volatile
atmosphere of today's world.
1t might be pointed out to
those who treasure unre-
stricted national sovereignty
in an anarchic world, that
any attempt to take the
matter to the international
Court of Justice might well
run into the reciprocity
aspect of noncompliance, to
which we are subject through
our continued insistence on
retaining the Connolly reser-
vation.
Mary-Stuart Chamberlain.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
South America Mapping Adventure
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

The Air Force team now
has the airborne electronic
means to close this link over
the top of the jungle. The
Army engineers, working
with Venezuelan geodesists,
now have established the an
chor Of the "triangulation
net" at La Canoa. Closure of
the net at its point of origin
will enable South American
mappers to adjust all inter-
mediate points within the
net. The portions of the
final results applicable to
each individual country will
be shared jointly by that
country and the United
States,
The air phase of the sur
vey starts at the Venezuelan
end. Measurements taken
from the air by the field
team are recorded and sent
to the United States where
they will be mathematically
adjusted by a digital COM
puter. The team will use At
kinson Field, British Guiana,
as its base Of operations.
Area Largely Unknown
While observations from
the air will be a major part
OF the program, it will be
necessary to establish many
ground stations along the
entire route, according to
the Army engineers. These
will be for precise astronom-
ical observations, requiring
fixed bases, and precise
measurements of gravity.
The area is to a large de-
gree unknown, although
explorers and prospectors
have penetrated the Guiana
jungles for the past four
centuries. Many hitherto
unknown species and plants
and animals still are being
found there. While not Of
ficially part of the program,
both Air Force and Army are
expected to make frequent
side Sorties into the Jungle
areas surrounding the ground
bases. Much of the region to
be surveyed is an area not
only Of extremely dense jun
gle but of high mountains,
rivers probably not yet on
any maps, and some of the
earth'S most majestic water
falls. These have been re-
ported only vaguely in the
past.
Once the map is completed
the South American govern
ments will have very precise
ly located points from which
to extend their own opera
tiOnS inland
Evening star., 1960-08-02

About a half million square
miles, which includes some of
the least known areas of the
earth's surface, now is being
Systematically surveyed and
mapped for the first time.
This cooperative project of
the Inter-American Geodetic
Survey, which is associated
with the Army Corps of En-
gineers, the US. Air Force,
and five South American
governments, constitutes one
Of the greatest map-making
enterprises in history. Its OBJ
ject is to close a gap of about
l,700 miles in a known semi
circle 200 to 800 miles wide
around the vast unknown of
interior northern South
America, including Brazil's
Gran Chaco.
The product of this effort,
which now has been under
way about a month and is
expected to require at least
three years will complete q
foundation upon which fu-
ture maps of South America
will be based. The link will
follow the coast line and ex-
tend for various distances
inland of part of Venezuela,
British and French Guiana,
Surinam and part of Brazil.
All these countries are CO.
operating.
New Mountains Found
Major part of the job is
that Of an Air Force team
from the Air Photographic
and Charting Service, sta
toned at Albany, Ga. The
work will complete the Sec
ond major phase of coopera-
tive mapping in the Carib-
bean, Central and South
America. part Of a long range
mapping program called
Mapplan. This phase has
been pushed overland, larg~
ely by Army engineers on
foot. for the past IA years
through jungles, across
plains and over mountains.
1t has brought the discovery
of several hitherto unknown
mountain ranges and other
significant geographic fea-
lures and contacts with hith-
erto uncontacted Indian
tribes. The Inter-American
Geodetic Survey engineers
were stopped at last by tough
jungle extending from La
Canoa, Venezuela, to Campo
Major. Brazil. This is the
stretch now to be completed.
At Campo Major it will join
up with an arc completed for
some years around Bolivia
and southern Brazil.
Evening star., 1960-08-02

rights as citizens? Where will
this all end?
I have been a lifelong
Democrat but I fully intend
to do everything I possibly
can in my small way to de-
feat the ticket as presented
to the people this year.
The reasons are numerous:
Cd The avowed intention of
the Democratic Party as
enunciated in their plat
form to cram down the
throatS Of the SouthernerS
their so-called Civil Rights
Bill. (2) The avowed inten-
tions Of the Democratic
Party to increase taxes. 80
The intention of the Demo-
cratic Party, as headed by
Kennedy and johnson to ini-
tiate an old-age insurance
program offering free hos
pitaliZation at the taxpayers
expense to all those beyond
the age Of IS regardless of
whether they are millionaires,
multi-millionaires or indi-
gents. This portion of the
Democratic platform alone
will, in all probability,
eventually increase our taxes
by some SO billion and will
certainly be the opening
wedge in a campaign to ini-
tiate socialized medicine or
when we are trying to elect
another President, perhaps in
1864 or 1868, another program
to offer free disqualification,
medical care and other bene-
fits for the entire population
Of the United States at a
staggering estimated cost of
perhaps $75 billion dollars
annually.
The politicians advocating
integration of the races are
hypocrites for the simple
reason that they never in
vite colored families to their
homes for Sunday dinner or
to their churches to enjoy a
sermon and their children
never attended colored
schools or schools where COL
ored children are in attend
ance; therefore, they do not
practice what they preach.
S. Frank Stout.
4 y
An Alabama preacher has
been putting scriptures in
empty whiskey bottles and
floating them down the river
into Mobile Bay. So far he
has sent $4,000 and received
5000 answers, many of these
years after launching.
Perhaps Gov. Rockefeller,
who is waiting until 1864,
should begin now floating
empty milk bottles down the
Hudson with political slogans
like: This bottle is empty
If you want more-Vote for
Rocky-In '64."
Paul McIlvaine.
\ \ AA
May an 80-year-old "slo-
gan writer" contribute two
original slogans to help serve
America?
Don't let Liquor Jack
buy America"
Babe Kennedy sucks his
thumb under the Linden
tree"
Evening star., 1960-08-02

Then your heart leaps up,
something in the manner of
WordSworth's at the sight OF
the daffodils.
Any of the plays Of that
long line of dramatiStS, from
Shakespeare and his con-
temporaries, down through
Browning, Cosgreve, Sheri-
dan, Galsworthy and many
more-any one of them
strikes one as being ones
own.
Read Molnar all you please,
admire the vast cleverness of
THE Devil" thrill to the
subtle beauty of the last lines
of "Liliom," still there is
something about him that is
not yours.
He is not English and that
is about all you can say
against him.
In certain moods he and
others ring the bell when one
desires dramatic entertain
ment, but at the bottom Of
the readers heart, the spec
tator's heart. lies a certain
dissatisfaction in the end.
What can it be but the
plain fact that each one of
us is in a line of tradition
OF whatever race we happen
to belong to?
In no branch of literature
is the kinship more strongly
brought out, because even
the most literary play is but
talk and action and talk is
of the people.
ones own people.
1t iS interesting to delve
for a time in such things as
THE Shoemaker's Holiday"
by Decker; THE White
Devil" by Webster; his
Duchess of Malfi," "The
Knight Of the Burning Pes
tle," by that famous team,
Beaumont and Fletcher. and
Massinger's "a New Way to
Pay Old Debts"
Let us marvel at Moliere
as much as we may and
should. the contemporaries of
Shakespeare just mentioned
mean more to us, in many
ways.
The very words, although
some of them we do not un-
derStand, strike a familiar
note deep in the mind-if
we happen to be English.
n Il Il
Deeper than the words are
the thought processes.
What the characters in
these old plays say is what
we say in a peculiar way.
The springs of national
character are here. 1t is
perhaps easier to understand
them in drama than any,
where else, so close are they
to the universal heart of the
race.
When DR.. Faustus, in Mar
lows play, causes Helen Of
Evening star., 1960-08-02
The CONGO

At a time when presidential
nominees are calling for bold
new programs in conducting
United States foreign rela-
tions. it would appear that
the situation in the Congo
Republic presents just such
an opportunity. One of the
most frequent criticisms Of
the existing foreign aid pro-
grams is that they are piece
meal and. therefore, often
ineffective. If the United
States were to propose, and
agree to underwrite substan-
TALLY a United Nations-reg-
ulated long-range, large-scale
economic and technical aid
program for the Congo, and
to induce other "have" ma
tions to contribute their fair
share of financial support, it
could well prove to be a real
milestone in international CO.
operation. More than this, it
would stabilize a powderkeg
situation in Africa and i'm
measurably increase American
prestige among the impress
sionable. newly-independent
nations of Africa and Asia
who are so often prone to
think that the Sino-Soviet
bloc is in a better position to
understand their economic
problems than the United
States and our Western allies.
Richard G. Weidner, Jr.
Your editorial of July %,
1860, is the best one / have
seen so far concerning Bel
gums part in the Congo
disaster. However, I wonder
if it is realized that when
the United Nations demanded
control Of the Congo. they
became responsible for the
value of all the lives and
property Cor so it seems to
me) of the citizens and
property holders of the Congo
as Of that date?
Personally, I think that the
United States will find its
end Of the Congo deal much
more expensive than the cost
OF constructing the Panama
Canal-and they are using
my money for a bunch of
numbering. raping, robbing
savages.
Melvin E. Beck.
4 y
I have been patiently wait
ing for the NAACP to appeal
to the natives of the new
Congo Republic to show some
mercy and understanding to-
ward the whites there, or a
condemnation of the murder,
rape, pillage and atrocities
committed by the blacks. AS
yet, not a whisper from the
NAACP or our dear politi-
clans, who were fer boycott
ting and picketing South
Africans when whites were
accused of mistreating the
colored natives of that coun-
try.
Un.-~
Evening star., 1960-08-02

4loy 10 appear, ne declaimS
the following lines:
WAS this the face that
launched a thousand
ships
And burnt the topless towers
of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me i'm
mortal with a kiss!
O. thou are fairer than the
evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thou
sand stars"
More than just the name
Helen" establishes a kim
ship between these lines and
those immortal verses of our
own Poe, several hundred
years later, beginning, Helen,
thy beauty is to me-" etc.
This is the way the English
talk when they talk their best
especially on the stage.
English drama is seldom
subtle.
Such sophiStication as has
been its part has been rather
introduced into it by an aping
OF the work of-what shall
we say?-foreigners.
There is a rough-hewn
quality about it which some
how seems better to fit the
national character.
Hence. where it is possible
for any reader to see places
where smoothness and the
like might be interpolated,
merely through taking out,
we would have none of it.
1t is the national character
to have 1t in. John Gals
worthy did as much as any
man in recent years to give
a subtle something to the
English stage, but even he
never lost sight of the essen
tial qualities of his race.
There is one kinship and
quality between them, from
first to last. Times change
and with them the interests
and expressions of peoples.
yet at bottom they are the
same old peoples.
The stage itself and the
character of actors is always
the same in any nations
dramatic history. We can
not imagine, however, Mar
lowe writing Galsworthy's
THE Foundations" or the
latter Marlowe's "Tragical
History of DR.. Faustus."
Behind the differences.
however, firmly stands the
English national character.
manifesting itself in every
word, in every sentence, in
every thought between the
lines, in every action of every
character.
The DR.. Faustus of Mar
loves play is English, not
German. If the reader wants
a German Faustus he must
turn to Goethe.
Translate any of Mohere's
comedies as deftly as you
please, the characters are
French, and remain French,
even in English!
We admire them, love to
read them, to see them acted
but our honest admiration,
our best love, is for the Eng
lish plays of the ages. Some
thing about them is pecul-
iarly our own.
They are us, with all our
faults, with some of our vir-
tues. we may hope, with all
of our dreams and aspira-
tions. Even the modern
vogue for swearing and ours
ing in our dramas has his
tory behind it. Let us not
shrink too much from it; it
is so unnecessary, and 1t will
come out again.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used ii
letters carry Driters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWEu

Ma tiona alism, rampant
around the world today. is
not hard to understand.
1t is mainly just ones own
folks.
You can understand it on
a streetcar If the gentleman
across the aisle happens to
have in his hand a copy Of
Massinger's "a New Way to
Pay Old Debts"
If you are of English de-
scent. of course.
Evening star., 1960-08-02

Mr.. Trocewell is i'll ond in his OBJ
senee The Stor is reprintins some
Of his columns Of other yeors. He
requests thut no telephone or
other messages be sent to his
home during his illness. From The
Stor OF July 81, 1895.
Evening star., 1960-08-02
why Fly There?

j. j. Keane.