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Evening star., 1960-09-01

UAR-Jordan tension, one of Premier
Majali's last official acts was to join the
UAR in approving an Arab League reso-
luton promising an end to the inter-
Arab propaganda warfare. In addition,
the two states also had Joined few days
ago in. setting UP league committee
for a fresh study of the Palestine
problem"
Whatever develops, there is reason
able hope that Hussein's demonstrated
capacity for courage and action will prove
equal to this latest threat In the middle
of Arab rivalries, as well as affected by
the deeper currents Of the East-West
struggle, the young king has done well
so far in tough spot. Being in the
eye of a crisis is an experience to which
he already is "battle-hardened."
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Adoms-Morgon Project

The letter you published
from Dallas Irvine, on Au-
gust 10, 1860, against inclu-
sion of Area A into the
Adams-Morgan project area,
requires some answer. For
tunately the Commissioners
have subsequently agreed to
include Area A.
For the public record, how
ever, I should like to reply
to Mr.. Irvine. He said that
those who live out" of the
Adams-Morgan area are un-
qualified to concern them
selves with our problems
here.
For example, John Barr.
jr., the delegate to our Plan
ming Committee from the
Kalorama Triangle Restora-
tion Society, doesn't Give in"
the Adams Morgan area.
Mr.. Barr does own property
in the area and has done an
outstanding job as chairman
of the Land Use Subcom-
mittee. I especially compli-
ment him on his work be-
cause know that he, per-
sonally, was opposed to Area
AS inclusion, as was the So
ciety he represented. Julius
Alsberg, planning representa-
tive of the Mintwood Place
improvement League is not 6
resident, but he does own
property there. Mintwood is
an approved block organiza-
tion and apparently remains
very dear to Mr.. Irvine's
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Oh, to Be q HiLIbIIy!

We heartily concur with Judge JUS
tin Ruark's contention that it is COM
pliment, rather than a disgrace, to be
called hillbilly. Judge Ruark, himself
a product of Missouri'S rugged Ozarks,
paid his respects to the mountain folk
of song and story-and fact-in ruling
that calling husband and his family
hillbillies was no cause for divorce
We especially like Judge Ruark's
ruminations anent life in the hills. "An
Ozark hillbilly," he said, sis an individ-
ual who has learned the real luxury of
doing without the entangling complica-
tions of things which the dependent
and overpressured city dweller is re-
quired to consider as necessities. The
hillbilly is not familiar with new models,
= soirees or Office politics-but he does
have the time and the surroundings
conducive to sober reflection and honest
thought and an opportunity to get closer
to his God"
Those of us who must contend with
traffic congestion and fumes, with noSy
and noisy neighbors, with the din of
low-fying planes, with turned-up radios
and barking dogs next door, with drag
racers and drunken drivers, and with
the thousand-and-oneo other annoyances
of urban and suburban living, join with
Judge Ruark in saluting the hillbilly. It
is understandable, is it not, If we betimes
yearn to share the mountain mans bliss
full solitude, close to nature?
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Numbers Are Clues

The Senate, in insisting on liquor
bottle numbering system in Washington,
has made contribution to effective law
enforcement here. AS Police Chief Muir
ray and other police officials have
stressed, numbered bottles have proved
to be important clues to the solution of
several major crimes To abandon the
numbering system, as has been urged
by group of liquor dealers, would de-
prive the police of valuable aid in
catching criminals.
We hope the House will reject the
recommendation of its District Com
mittee for elimination of the numbers
and will accept instead the prudent
action of the Senate in support of the
police.
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Hussein Under Test Aquin

Few countries in the troubled
Middle East have more often provided
a stage for crisis than the small HaShe-
mite Kingdom of Jordan. It is back
in this familiar role today after the
time-bomb assassination of moderately
pro-Western Premier Hazza Majali and
several lesser government officials Once
more, as has been the case in other
emergencies of the past few years, the
maintenance of order and authority
depends upon the tough decisiveness of
24-year-old King Hussein. His first
action was a reassuring one-the
prompt selection of trusted older
adviser, Chief of the Royal Cabinet
Bahjat Ell Talhouni, as the new Premier
and the swearing In Of government
charged with preserving the peace. The
appointments were Immediately inter
preted as indicating no compromise Of
anti-Communist, pro-Western policy.
Meanwhile, Hussein has charged his
foremost Arab enemy-the United Arab
Republic with "direct completely" in
the bombing and Amman has identified
two suspects now allegedly in Damascus.
The fact that the first of two bombs
exploded only shortly after the time for
King Hussein to attend cabinet meet
ing fortunately postponed) in a room
adjoining Premier Majali's Office indi-
Gates that the King himself may have
been the real target.
Ironically, in the light of this revived
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Advice for Lumumbo

CongoleSe Premier Patrice Lumumba
can hardly be happy with the counsel
offered him by the 13-nation Pam
African Conference. For the conference,
which would not have taken place had
he not pressed for it in an effort to
build up his personal prestige, has ended
It's deliberations in Leopoldville with
resolution exhorting him to cooperate
wholeheartedly with the United Nations.
In effect, this may be interpreted
not merely as piece of sound advice
but also as sharp rebuke to MIR. Luz
mumba, who in recent days has made
insulting remarks about the United
Nations and created numerous Difficult
ties for Secretary General Dag Hammar-
skiold, DR.. Ralph Bunche and other top
u N. officials. Indeed, with the Kren1-
Inns propagandists supporting him, he
has even gone so far as to demand that
the U. MS forces get out of the country
without delay-despite the fact that
they are supposed to remain there, in
keeping with the Security Councils de-
cision, until peace and order are firmly
re-eStab abliShed.
1t is against this background that
Mr.. Lumumba'S gueStS-the representa-
tives of the 13 African states taking part
in the Leopoldville gathering-have re-
minded him that the U. NJ has moved
into the Congo "at the express request"
of his government and that it is SOL
emnly obligated to safeguard the fiedg-
ling republics independence, unity and
territorial integrity. At the same time,
warmly praising the world organization
for its peace-promoting efforts to date,
the conferences resolution implicitly
suggests that the hardest part of the
task lies ahead Accordingly, 1t calls
upon the Lumumba regime to collab-
crate Loyalty and unstintingly with the
U. MS Congolese program.
With the encouragement of his
Soviet friends, Mr.. Lumumba may be
tempted to scoff at all this, or at least
turn deaf ear to it. Yet he must also
reckon with the fact that he can i'll
afford to ALLEVIATE his neighbors in Africa
by seeming to be contemptuous of their
counsel. To that extent at least, the
conference in Leopoldville has served a
useful purpose
Evening star., 1960-09-01

heart despite its "live out"
leadership.
The average businessman
in the Adams Morgan area
probably comes in contact
with more of the residents of
all races and creeds than does
the average resident or owner
of residential property. We
hear the residents opinions,
their complaints. their fears
about the area in which they
live and raise their children.
We know of their hopes for
Adams Morgan. We share
their dreams and a good
many of us are putting in a
lot of time to make de-
mocracy work in the COM
munity in which we have
many friends and customers.
There isn't a single mer-
chant who doesn't realize
that what is good for the
community is good for busi-
ness. That is why the busi-
ness people of this area so
Fundamentally join with
others in the local churches,
schools and street associa-
tions in support of the
Adams Morgan Urban Re-
newal Project.
1t is clear that without
urban renewal assistance, the
admirable goals of the Kalo-
rama Triangle Restoration
Society would be a difficult
achievement in our lifetime.
Donald ID. Gartenhaus,
Chairman, Adams Morgan
Planning Committee.
Evening star., 1960-09-01
THE PASSING SCENE
COP. Makes Straight Talk in South
By RALPH McGILL

Southern Democratic lead
ership, because 1t is trapped
in O power structure Of its
own making, tries Desperate
ly to keep the South out Of
the mainstream Of national
life. This it can do for a time.
But not for long.
The Republican Party,
which is telling the Southern
voters there will be no con-
cessions on civil rights or
voting rights. will show gains
in all States South Of the
Messrs. Mason and Dixon's
line. They will not this time
establish a two-party system.
But they will show that 1t
can be done. They will give
hope to those who are weary
of being governed by DEM
agoguery and inflamed pref
udice. They will demonstrate
that it will be possible to
elect an independent Gov
ernor in the general elections
and overturn the one-party
grip.
May Avoid Primaries
Indeed, we may expect a
great many political leaders,
civic organizations, and news
papers to begin a campaign
to have voters stay out of the
Democratic primaries and
wait for the general elections
when they will have a choice.
The position of the two
parties is perhaps more inn
portant to corporate business
and the industrial future Of
the South than to the political
parties. Since America can do
nothing else than firmly
administer the civil and vot-
ing rights of all its citizens,
corporate business leaders in
the great Eastern centers
where decisions are made
cannot ignore this high-level
political decision without do
ing long-range harm to the
American system of cornpeti-
tive enterprise. There must
be a public philosophy. The
power pattern of corporate
business cannot afford to do
less on a national basis than
the two political power sys-
TENS where the law of the
land is concerned.
The future of this country,
spiritual, political and eco
nomic, demands that law have
the full support, not merely
of newspapers and all media
of information, but also the
business and religious groups.
The experience of cities which
managed to obtain such CO.
operation indicates the trag-
edies such as Little Rock S
and Jacksonville's may be
avoided.
Evening star., 1960-09-01
Not Quite Ready

Israel has just brought to a close
its first international scientific confer
ence at the Weizmann Institute in Re-
hovot. This is highly promising ven
ture, especially as it relates to efforts
to promote progress in the underdevel-
oped countries of Asia and Africa The
great need for such efforts has been
well illustrated by one of the African
delegates taking part in the meeting
the Reverend Solomon B. Caulker of
Sierra Leone, which is to become inde-
pendent of Britain next April.
According to- the New York Times,
Mr.. Caulker, who has been a student in
the United States and who now is vice
principal Of Bay University in Sierra
Leone ION the west coast of Africa),
quietly stole away from one of the Re-
hovot lectures on the future of atomic
industrial power in lands like his own.
He did so, in his own words, for the
following reason: I'm my country you
can see hundreds of automobiles aban-
doned beside the roads. They need re-
pair, but nobody does anything about
them. Everybody thinks the automobiles
stopped because they died. We are not
quite ready for nuclear reactors."
This is something that speaks pretty
much for itself. In effect, Mr. Caulker
has counseled the Western world to re-
alize that Sierra Leone and many other
African states are still primitive in large
measure, even to the point of believing
that automobiles, when they conk out,
have simply died the way human being
dies. Such people, obviously enough, are
not quite ready for either atomic gadgets
or full democratic self-rule.
Evening star., 1960-09-01
ISpend-Don1t Tax

On consecutive evenings this week,
and with an utter lack of success, Sen
ators Williams of Delaware and Lausche
of Ohio took the floor of the Senate to
advance the old-fashioned theory that
Congress has an obligation to provide
revenues for the expenses it incurs.
The subjects of debate were District
pay raise bills for police, f1remen and
teachers and the plea of the two Sena-
tors was to attach 1-cent saleS-tax
increase (already approved by the
House, to one or another of the bills in
order to assure that money would be
available to pay for them AS Senator
Williams put it:
Now it is no more than right that we
extend to these employees the same (pay
raises that we have extended to others.
However, If we are going to raise salaries,
we should be willing to provide the money
to pay for the cost. think the Senate
will be negligent in its responsibilities If
it enactS the salary increases without pro-
viding the necessary revenue. think this
is another illustration of fiscal irresponsi-
bility. -.
And as Senator LauSche added: In
raising pay without providing the reve-
nues I'VE are following the well-estab-
lished precedent, Spend, but do not
tax"
If there was sympathy for these
expressions as a matter of principle,
there was no way to tell by the response.
The revenue-producing amendments
were defeated, and the pay raises sailed
through. Whether the SaleS-tax amend
ment would have passed or not is con-
jectural, but certainly it's only chance
during the short session was as an at
tachment to the pay-raise bills, which
were opposed by no one. For any desire
to bring up the House-passed sales-tax
bill as separate legislation was dissipated
by the threat of Senator Morse of Ore
gon to talk it to death in the waning
days of the session.
No doubt the District will be able
to squeeze through financially until
Congress returns in January. But the
failure of Congress to pass the urgently
needed sales-tax increase has left the
city's fiscal picture in chaos, which will
not be put straight easily.
AS far as Senators Williams and
Lausche are concerned, 1t was losing
battle from the start. But they were
right, and we commend them for it.
Evening star., 1960-09-01

@. What Is polishing
rouge?-C. H.
A. It is a red powder, con-
sisting of peroxide of iron,
used to polish gems, metal,
glass, etc.
@. Did Bob Richards ever
hold the worlds record in
pole vaulting?-L. T.
A. No. Although Bob Rich
ards won the Olympic cham
pionship in 1852 and in 1856.
he never broke. the worlds
championship record (out-
door of Is feet 734 inches
achieved by Cornelius Warm
erdam on May %, 1912, This
record stood until the late
Bob Gutowski broke it in
1857 with Is feet 8 "a inches).
In July 1860, Don Bragg bet
tered this with a vault OF
Is feet 9A inches in the
Evening star., 1960-09-01

1t was good Tor the Soutn,
the Nation. and both political
parties to have G. o. p.
Chairman Thruston Morton
speak with sanity in the heat
of Mississippi's continuous
performance Of flight from
political reality.
Meeting in the capital city
Of Jackson with party officials
from IL Southern States,
Senator Morton said:
"Southerners must make
their choice in the November
election on issues other than
civil rights. The South
cannot expect concessions
from either the Republicans
or Democrats on school de-
segregation and voting. If
elected, the Republican ad-
ministration will vigorously
administer the law of the,
land. There is no choice
here. The voters must
look to other areas. That
is where we believe the Re-
publican Party offers more"
This was honest talk. It
follows equally plain words
spoken by Senator Lyndon
johnson at Nashville a few
days after the Democratic
Convention.
No Fingers Crossed in 80
In former years it has been
the custom to assure the
South that the platform
meant nothing. There was
private understanding. In
deed, so routine was this pol
icy that in 1858, the then
Governor of South Carolina,
James F. Byrnes, became pee
wish about President Eisen-
hover. The South Carolinians
somehow got the idea that
during Candidate Eisenhow-
er's speaking appearance in
the Palmetto State he pri-
vately had promised to recog-
nize States rights. What the
President had done was to
say he hoped to leave as
much decision to the States
as possible. The leaders, used
to the cynical practices of
former years, read too much
into this. Some of them went
around saying they had been
double-crossed.
But in the good year 1860
there are no fingers crossed.
This is important to the Re-
publican Party. It cannot
hope to establish itself in the
South on anything save an
honest basis. 1t cannot be
one thing in the East and
West and something else in
the South.
Evening star., 1960-09-01
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Good Earth Full of Bad Organisms
By THOMAS R. HENRY

There may be racial and sex
differences and increased sus-
ceptibility of persons suffer-
ing from other, apparently
unrelated, illnesses.
y y
Injury by radiation to the
heredity of a race will be
progressively greater and
greater.
Experiments demonstrating
this have just been reported
to the American Genetics So
ciety by Rev. Robert c. Bau-
miller. S. j., of st. Louis
University.
The experiments were with
fruit flies, the very Short
lived usual subjects of genet
ic experiments. These would
be impossible or quite incon-
elusive with higher animals
because of the lapses of years
between generations. But it
can be assumed that the
same general laws apply
throughout life from fruit
flies to elephants.
Gloomy Prospect
It is recognized that one
bad radiation dose produces
mutations. at least 80 per
cent bad, in an animal popu-
lation of any sort. FIR. Bau-
miller's finding is that a
repeated dose of the same
sort and intensity does not
produce an equal number Of
mutations as the first dose
but a bigger one-and so on.
The principle a d d uc e d
from his experiments may
well have human applica-
tions, FIR. Baumiller said-a
rather gloomy prospect in
these days of threatened nu-
clear bombings and as man
enters the radiation age"
Mutations occur spontane-
ously in any population, he
explained. Mutant genes
units of heredity-remain in
the hereditary material of a
population for a period of
time proportional to their det-
rimental effect. The ultimate
fate of any detrimental mu-
tation is its final elimination
by the death of the carriers
before they are old enough
to reproduce. Eventually,
however, incorporation of new
mutants and elimination of
the old reaches a balance.
Evening star., 1960-09-01

Dominican Trujillo, who's
counting the Communists.
threatening the U n ! t e d
States, importing Soviet
technicians, allegedly for
secret missile base planning?
That's the way read 1t in
the papers.
It's Castro, not Trujillo.
who has had his firing squads
banging away, killing of big
Cuban dissenters, m ostly
property owners. In Trujil-
los land the people are happy,
well fed.
It is Castro, or so I read,
who's confscated hundreds of
millions in American indus
trial plants in Cuba; not Tru-
jillo. American investors
haven't lost a dime in
Hispanola.
It's Castro, Fidel that is,
who's pro-Commie; not Tru-
jillo, who may have done
away with a score or so Of
Commies in a fashion similar
to the way the Kremlin does
with kulackS, and peasants.
but who's a friend of the Free
West.
So what gives here? Along
with millions of other anti
Communist Americans, I
wonder what Christian Her
ter meant, did he go amiss?
Or was it the old State De-
partment ,cabal at work
again? Dick Nixon or Jack
Kennedy'd better look into
that.
Charles p. BeaZley,
1t. Colonel, AF CRes.)
y. 1t seems General Trujillo
made a big mistake proclaim
ing himself a bulwark against
communism in Latin Amer
lea. Our country has severed
diplomatic relations with the
Dominican Republic while
still recognizing Cuba. For
the past year Castro has
warmly embraced Commu-
nists, shouted wild insults and
lies at the United States. and
confiscated millions of dol
lars of United States property
in Cuba. Are we trying to
make the world safe for COM
muniSm?
Mrs. L. Hanrahan.
I am alarmed by the fire.
quency with which our
friends in South America
and elsewhere are being elm
mated through diplomatic
channels.
why break relations with
nome o m m unist Trujillc
while we permit Castro to
seize untold millions OF
American property and es-
tablish a Communist mill
tary base a stones throw
from our Florida shoreline? J?
I seem to detect the odor
of oil in the diplomatic air
Could this be the price we
paid for keeping Gov. Rookie
feller out of the political pic
ture?
Charles w. Carter.
Evening star., 1960-09-01

have never threatened us,
while we refrain from apply
ing sanctions against coun-
tries which say they will use
rockets against us, and which
make common cause with our
enemies. If we are to refrain
from applying sanctions to
the latter because to do so
would be an unwarranted in
reference in their internal
affairs, we should refrain
from doing so against coun-
tries that have no designs on
our security. If we are
to embark on a course that
will eliminate relationships
wherever they exist, which is
something we have nothing
to do with, and which. in the
final analysis, cannot sue
ceed, we can think of a few
Red relationships that ought
to be eliminated. Instead, we
are giving these Red dicta-
torships, such as Poland and
Yugoslavia, financial and
economic aid. It doesn't make
sense.
1t would be better to adopt,
If 1t is not already too late
to do so, measures that will
attack communism where it
is most vulnerable.
One Of these measures
would be to keep alive the
hopes of the peoples in the
captive nations that we will
come to their aid If they
revolt. It is there that the
Russians are most vulnerable.
The freedom loving people in
those countries are our real
allies. The leaders Of the
Russian Communists know
that these people are being
held by force and will revolt
if war should break out and
they have an opportunity to
regain their freedom. That,
more than our military bases.
will be our best protection.
It may involve what has come
to be known as brinkman-
ship, but whenever we dis
played craftsmanship the
Communists backed down.
That will preserve the peace,
not endanger it.
We must also train, as
Russia has done, the people
who can successfully present
our message to the peoples
of the world as the Russian
trained students have pre-
sented theirs. There is now
pending a Freedom Academy
bill in Congress to accomplish
this purpose. The develop
ment of this plan will take
time. Whether there is that
much time left is problemat'
ical. But we must not delay
any longer. It would be one
way of halting the retreat
of the free nations.
Marx Lewis.
n y n \
Please pardon me if I seem
a bit naive, but it was Cuba
not the Dominican Republic
with which our Secretary oi
State intended to sever rela-
tions, wasn't it?
Isn't it Castro, not the