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Evening star., 1960-11-11

have been references to the need or the
desirability Of trimming the wings of
this House group. Generally, however,
this has been the theme song of So
called liberal minority in the House, and
there are good reasons to believe that 1t
will receive no added support next win
ter. BY and large, It is just as well. The
House itself needs legislative traffic
policeman, role that Judge Smith and
his committee have filled effectively in
the past. We do not think there is any
Arm evidence that the national interest
has been harmed by this restraint, and
there Is nothing in sight to indicate that
it will suffer through the next two years.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
Conservative Guardians

The slim margin Of the Democratic
presidential victory, accompanied actu-
ally by small losses in Congress, indi-
Gates that the influence of conservative
Southern Democrats on Capitol Hill will
not be lessened in the new Congress.
For the most part, the Southland re-
turned to the Democratic standard-a
fact not likely to be overlooked by party
leaders-and sent back to the national
legislature most of those who have risen
through seniority of service to positions
, of great power.
Two of these, Senator A. Willis
, Robertson and Representative Howard
w. Smith, come from just across the
Potomac. Between them, they have
more than half-century of combined
service on Capitol Hill. AS chairman of
the Senate Banking and Currency Com
mittee and as member of the Appro-
priations Committee, Mr.. Robertson
speaks with authority in these two areas
on money matters. AS chairman of the
House Rules Committee, the monitor for
much that is done or not done in that
branch, Mr.. Smith long has been con-
sidered one of the most powerful of the
legislators.
In this campaign, as in others, there
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GenioIity in Moscow

In marking the 43d anniversary of
the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet
Union has put major emphasis on the
theme Of peaceful coexiStence. The Gus
tomary big parade in Moscow, of course,
has included a show of armed might, and
a couple of speakers have used threatful
language against the West. On the
whole, however, the military display and
the tough talk have been kept to a mini
mum, much more so than in most past
celebrations of this greatest Of the
USSR'S holidays.
Clearly enough, or so 1t would seem,
the men of the Kremlin, even though
boasting of their perfect" weapons,
have sought to make the most of this
event as a propaganda setting designed
to dramatize them as leaders ardently
opposed to war and eager to live in
friendship with everybody, including
capitaliStic Americans. Thus, at a re-
ception following the traditional show in
Red Square, Premier Khrushchev has
placed himself on record with series of
amiable toasts, condemning armed force
and affirming that peace is inevitable. :"
And he has been at pains at the same
time to declare that Red Russia Is abSo-
lutely opposed to military conflict Of
every kind--and for the simple, practical
reason that such conflict twill not help
us reach our goal" "a Communist world)
but "will spoil it. :. . . We shall win only
through the minds of men. We must
rest on the position of coexistence and
non-intervention. 1t is not necessary to
whip people along this road"
In giving voice to these and kindred
sentiments (Which obviously do not
square with Soviet deeds in countries
like Hungary and the Baltic states),
Mr.. Khrushchev has struck a note of
geniality that has been lacking in him
ever since his torpedoing of the summit
conference in Paris last May. Presum-
ably his changed tune has been keyed to
our national election. After all, he has
reason to temper his mood and improve
his manners if he has any interest in
promoting meeting between himself
and the President-elect.
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Missile Race

Rear Admiral William F.
Raborn. jr.. recently made
the statement that the United
States was about 2la years
ahead of the Soviet Union in
submarine missile warfare.
The information that one
Of these rockets has the
bombing power of all the ex-
plosives dropped in World
War II, is terrifying. It
doesn't take much imagina-
tion to visualize what could
happen to both the United
States and Canada If hostile
submarines were to encircle
the North American conti-
nent.
AS time goes by we see
more and more terrible weap-
ons of destruction being
made. Perhaps this is our
only hope to prevent a world
holocaust, unless, of course,
a madman presses a button
to fire rocket missiles to q
land many miles away.
Let us hope and pray that
the United States will never
have to try out its Polaris
submarines in actual warfare.
G. w. Chinery.
Brantford, Ontario
Evening star., 1960-11-11
Italy Votes

More strength to the strong and less
to the weak appears to be the result of
the Italian provincial elections early
this week.
Making the greatest gain was the
left-wing combination of Communist
and Socialist parties whose popular vote
total increased by 3.9 per cent over that
recorded in 1856. At the same time, the
dominant Christian Democratic Party,
which governs Italy today under Premier
Amintore Fanfani, registered gain of
IA per cent in popular support. The
principal losers were three minor center
tian Democrats in Parliament
In terms of the future, it is possible
to view these results in two contrasting
ways. The fact that the three minor
parties lost ground, for example, may
lead them to hold even more closely to
their relationship with the Christian
Democrats. Fixed in their opposition to
communism and socialism, their princi-
pal hope of surviving as political entities
depends more than ever upon their as
Sociation with what has been the most
powerful single political party in Italy
since World War II. At the same time, the
Christian Democrats may be strength
ened in their resistance to any new par
liamentary elections before their normal
term expires in 1868.
On the other side of the coin, how
ever, is the fact that the largest single
gamer in the popular voting was the
Communist Party-with the assumption
that its new following has come prima-
rily from the generation that has come
of voting age during the past four years.
This is disturbing development in a
country that already had the largest
Communist Party in Western Europe.
1t may, in fact, persuade the leadership
of the Christian Democratic Party that
1t needs to re-Study its position on do
mestic policies and find an area of ac-
commodation with the Socialists.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
Against Foreiqn Aid

AL SplIc OF CIle DeSC excuse
trumped up when foreign aid
was started. its continuance
is questionable now.
The excuse at present is
to help undeveloped countries.
But when they become like
ourselves. will they be any
better off? What have we to
offer them? Our system of
conduct is no better than
theirs.
Think of our lawlessness,
our psychiatrists, our courts,
our gambling, our gangsters,
our heather morality, our
pagan drunkenness, our speed
tragedies, our election frauds,
our rigged conventions, our
Government subsidies, our
communistic price support,
our triple-murder cases, the
undoubted guilty being set
free by dishonest testimony
of experts using the insanity
plea, our Western TV pro-
grams teaching dishonesty,
injustice, greed, violence and
terrorism.
q The main difference is our
false prosperity, the glamour
produced by governmental
waste of public funds to be
paid for by burdensome
future taxes.
1t Is reported from unde-
veloped countries that their
citizens inquire, "Why should
you try to make us better?
Already you violate more
moral codes, you subvert more
Christian precepts, than we
do. Your Christians are more
lnhuman than we So-called
heathenS are. You do things
we wouldn't stoop to do"
How did the United States
become the great Nation that
it is? Not by foreign aid, nor
purchasing good will from
other nations. Not by prodi-
gious waste of public funds.
Not by perpetuating war
time emergency measures.
It was by recognizing in
dividual effort and integrity.
1t was by permitting the law
of supply and demand to rule
in economics. 1t was by adj
herring to George Washing
tons sound advice to avoid
foreign entanglements.
The interest on our public
debt is reported to be $l2
billion per year. How can we
go on like this? Isn't il time
to level off a little? Be nor
Evening star., 1960-11-11
Help for Retarded

Five million people - chill
dren, teen-agerS, men and
women-are a lot of people
to hide, even in a country as
big as this one. But until very
recently the mentally re-
tarded. numbering more than
S million were the forgotten
Americans. the hidden Chill
dren" put away in institu-
tions or quietly isolated
within the family home.
Today we know that the
great majority of the men
tally retarded can take their
place in society. Among the
flouriShing crop of children,
they are the Trailer strain
who require special care and
attention-but we have never
been stopped by the fact that
some flowers require hothouSe
cultivation.
Three out Of every hundred
children born are or will ae-
come mentally retarded. It is
estimated that the lives of
four to 10 other persons are
directly affected by each case
OF mental handicap.
But mental retardatinn Is
much more than a family
problem. Because mental re-
tardation is so widespread
and because it can occur in
any family, 1t is a social prob
lem of concern to all of us.
Until a few years ago, there
was no organized endeavor to
meet the problem. Now, how
ever, the National Association
for Retarded Children and its
member units throughout the
country have initiated an ex-
tensive campaign to support
private and public efforts to
meet the needs of the men
tally retarded. Help for Re-
tarded Children, District of
Columbia, works in behalf of
the retarded children and
adults in Washington D. c. It
maintains a primary school,
sheltered work shop and oc-
cupational and training
center.
During National Retarded
Children's Week, from No.
vember 13 to Thanksgiving
Day, all interested parties are
urged to join Help for Re-
tarded Children, District of
Columbia. Your voice is
needed in the fight to over
come mental retardation.
Your support is required to
assure that retarded children
can be helped.
Walter r. McEwen,
President, Help for
Retarded Children, Inc.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
Justice for Deaf

Insane persons cannot be
legally tried yet an intelli-
gent deaf person cannot OBJ
tain a fair trial in court
unless it is conducted in a
manner in which he can
understand and defend him
self properly.
In order to board a street.
car some years ago a deaf
pedestrian crossed from the
sidewalk to the streetcar
loading platform that does
not connect with the cross
walk. Having no hearing at
all, he paid no attention to
the warning whistle the
policeman blew at him from
behind his back, and was
arrested.
Electing to stand trial the
accused waited in court from
8 am. to 5 pm. his case
being sidetracked until court
adjourned to enable the
judge to hear it in his cham
bers. The trial was not con-
Quoted in writing as it should
have been except for the
brief the accused submitted.
As a result the deafened man
was unable to offer testimony
In rebuttal.
He was adjudged guilty
without learning the nature
OF the verdict and fined So.
Months later the arresting
officer meeting the deaf man
on the street tried to square
himself with an admission
that he would not have ar
rested him had he known he
could not hear at all.
Granting a totally deaf
person a fair trial admitted
ly is a difficult matter and
requires more time and pa
tience than a court is willing
to give. It is a problem for
which a solution should be
found, one that calls for
tolerance and fair play in
Keeping with the ancient
Mosaic command: Thou
shalt not curse the deaf, nor
put a stumbling block in the
path Of the blind" Gev.
19:14.)
Lewis Ludington Young.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
New Forms of Sleeping Sickness
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

EncephalitiS, the dread
sleeping sickness" epidemic
80 years ago, still may be
very much alive in different
forms and due to different
germs.
This has been reported by
DR.. Ludo van Bogaert, Dutch
president Of the World Fed
Grafton Of Neurology, now an
advising scientist at the In
stitute of Neurological Dis
eases of the Public Health
Service.
A case of the old encepha-
litis has not been reported
for at least a quarter CEN
tury, he says. This Is not
true, however. with quite sim
liar aftermath symptoms. He
lists these in four categories.
"Are we dealing" DR.. Won
Bogaert asks, with infecti-
Gus manifestation of more
than one virus or with the
activation of a latent infec-
ton by another virus?"
He lists the apparently new
types in four categories. One
often comes as an aftermath
of severe attacks of "flu." It
follows very close the old
pattern of 1925.
Other Types Described
Three other types are be-
ing reported from all over
the world which he describes
as follows:
Acute necrotizing encepha-
litis. Like the old type, this
starts with general ill-feeling
and fever but, unlike the old
type, rarely shows symptoms
Of pneumonia and intestinal
upsets. Mental confusion and
Differentiation are most strik-
ing.
This type, he reports, diff
fers "by the superposition of
a psychiatric symptomology
with hallucinations, refusal
of food, suicidal tendencies
and fugues. Epileptic episodes
are characteristic. There is
almost complete absence of
biological demonstration of
the presence of any virus.
Autopsy diagnosis from ne
crotic softening of the brain"
A third type is "subacute
sclorosing leucoencephalitis,"
This, DR.. van Bogaert re-
ports, occurs primarily be-
tween 2 and 18 years and
lasts usually from 3 to 10
months but occasionally up
to 81 months.
Parents bring in a child
with complaints Of poor
school work and repeated
falls in the past two weeks.
Such a child soon develops
epileptiform seizures. Such
children soon die. There is
wasting away and rhythmic
jerking OF arms and legs"
A fourth type Is spread by
Evening star., 1960-11-11
BeIuted Start

There is one thing I can
never understand about all
the talk about preventing
sewage pollution of the Pa
tuxent and Potomac Rivers
why wasn't some intelligent
planning about this problem
started about so years ago?
I have seen waterways in
Florida. Texas, Utah, Colo
RADIO and even Oklahoma
that were assets to the COM
munity. The creeks and rivers
not only supported boats and
fish, they watered garden
spots and provided recrea-
tional areas for the people.
The creek in Virginia that I
learned to swim in Is now
only a polluted ditch, filled
with rubbish and sewage.
There are no flowers and trees
planted along its banks. AS
the city grew, no effort was
made to divert sewage away
from the creek, in some spots
it was merely covered over,
at a greater cost than it
would have taken to divert
the sewage and make the
creek area a community park.
I once knew a professor at
a Southern university who
was considered one Of the
worlds best city planners.
This professor gave up city
planning to teach the his
tory OF art. because he
claimed that no city in the
world was giving any serious
attention to planning. The
professor returned to his
birthplace in Europe, where
he died, disguised at the Grass
materialism of the United
States, where profits are more
important than the preserva-
tion of natural resources and
the protection of our forests
and waterways.
1t would appear to be a
simple and logical solution
to stop and treat our sewage
before it reached our creeks
and rivers. Is this beyond
the intelligence Of a nation
that could produce an H
bomb?
HUsuh--
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ticks. Reports the neurolo-
gist:: "The natural hosts
are small rodents and the
virus seems to be transmitted
by the tick eggs from one
generation to the next.
Transmission to man is by
the tick. by swallowing in
fected ticks. or by inges-
tion Of non-pasteurized goat
milk.
No New Epidemics
"Typically fever is followed
by a neurologic phase with
recrudescence of headache,
fever, chills, vertigo and
double vision and OCCASION
ally delirium and coma. The
disease is particularly dan
gerous to children and old
persons.
In none of these relatively
new maladies has it been
possible to identify the old
type of encephalitis virus.
ViruSeS, however, are particu-
larly likely to undergo muta-
tions to new forms causing
somewhat different symp-
toms.
There have been no cpl
denies of any of the new
types. Any one, however,
might explode" into a world
wide scourge at any time,
without any warning.
In fact, DR.. van Bogaert
says, certain epidemics un-
der the name of ACUTE polio
myelitis may well belong to
the group of arthropod (tick)
virus diseases.
There easily could be mis-
diagnosis, it is pointed out in
the report. Polio sometimes.
although rarely, has much the
same aftermath as the old
encephalitis.
Evening star., 1960-11-11

@. Legally. is my grand
father more closely related
to me than his son, my un-
Gle? M. J.
A. Yes; your grandfather
is a relative in the second de-
gree from you. and your
uncle is the third degree.
Each generation represents
one degree up (parent,
grandparent, etc. or down
Child, grandchild, etc. Re
lationships of cousins, uncles
and nephewS, and the like
must be computed through
the nearest common ances-
tor. In this case, it is one
step from you to your par
ent, two steps to your grand
parent, and a third step to
his son. your uncle.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
War Seizures

Sylvia Porter said in a re-
cent column that the West
German government should
give more money for foreign
economic aid.
She finds. Germany's sur
plus in international pay
ments "infuriating" at a time
when the United States is
losing gold.
Miss Porter should not lose
sight of certain facts.
One: Signs are that the
Bonn government will pro-
vide more than one billion
marks in its next budget for
foreign economic aid to rn-
derdeveloped countries, thus
tightening the burden on the
United States taxpayers. This
sum appears to be in the
cards in spite of some hesita-
tlon by Chancellor Adenauer.
Two: Bonn is already the
fourth largest tree-world
giver of foreign aid. This fig
ure is a 5-year average COM
piled by the First National
City Bank of New York, and
reported in its October Let
ter. Bonn ranks Immediately
after Washington, London
and Paris.
Three: German hard work,
enterprise and political good
will. as well as relief and
pump-priming by America in
the early postwar years.
made this possible. The Ger
man ability to give today is
not just the result of earlier
allied benevolence.
Four: New German private
investment ABROAD would be
even greater than it is if
there were a feeling of conf
dence among German busi-
nesSmen that their holdings
abroad would be safe from
excessive political risk. Un-
fortunately. the sad, and as
yet unresolved. fate of their
pre-war investments in the
United States acts as a warn
ing to them.
Return of confiscated prop
erty in the United States
might help allay their ex-
treme cautiousness and thus
further amplify Germany's
all-over contribution to the
underdeveloped' areas.
James Finucane,
Executive Secretary.
Committee for Return Of
Confiscated German and
Japanese Property.
Evening star., 1960-11-11
THE WORLD
New Generation Heading u. S.
BY CROSBY S. NOYE.
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star

themselves. Few youngsters"
of 43 have more freedom
from inhibiting completes in
dealing with their elders.
This characteristic, further
more, is sure to become
stronger as time passes. The
automatic weight and author
ity which attaches itself to
the Presidency of the United
States is something which
even the most paternalistic
elder statesman can hardly
ignore. There is every reason
to suppose that Senator Ken
nedy would hold his own very
well in any encounters that
may be arranged. And on
this score there is no reason
to try to avoid meeting at the
summit.
May Break With Pattern
On the other hand. the
new President, for quite diff
ferent reasons. may decide
that it is the better part Of
wisdom to break with the
pattern Of personal diplo-
macy which marked so un-
happily the latter days Of
the Eisenhower administra-
ton. There are plenty of ex-
perienced diplomats in Eu-
rope who think that a return
to less exalted and more ira
ditional negotiation with the
Soviet bloc is long overdue.
Far from signaling intensi-
fication Of the cold war, these
experts argue that most of
the outstanding problems are
far more likely to be settled
on a lower level than at q
summit meeting. Mr.. Khru-
shchev's recent performances
have not borne out the theory
that he is the only man capa-
BILE of making the conces-
sions necessary for agree
ment on such questions as
Berlin and disarmament. On
the contrary, his attitude has
been that Of a man deter
mined to win the greatest
possible propaganda victories,
regardless of what they might
cost in terms of East-West
understanding.
A decision to decline an in
vitation to a summit meeting
this spring or at least to set
some very specific conditions
for accepting would call for
real courage. For one thing,
the new President could ex-
pect his critics at home to
renew their charge of i'm
maturity and inexperience in
the international field. For
another it would grievously
disappoint such passionate
advocates of summit diplo-
macy as Britain's Prime Min
lister Macmillan.
Others, however, would ap-
plaud such a decision as the
beginning Of a return to a
saner state of affairs in which
the heads of state play their
traditional roles and avoid
the enormous commitments
and dangers which summitry
involves. The present pattern
will be hard to break. But
a more realistic approach to
the whole question Of per-
sonal diplomacy is one Of real
contributions which the new
generation of American lead
erShip can make.