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Evening star., 1960-06-07
Make 1t AH-IncIusive

Until Congress has authorized and
appropriated funds for the proposed
Chantilly interceptor sewer system, it
is somewhat premature to discuss de-
tails of route or design. Nevertheless,
the legislation should be explicit enough
to insure "a comprehensive and perma-
nent regional solution of the sewage
disposal problem at Dulles International
Airport and the adjacent communities
in Maryland and Virginia" The quota
tion is from President Eisenhower's mes
sage to Congress asking approval of the
plan.
The Presidents language would
seem to leave no doubt as to the Gov
ernment'S intention of having the in
terceptor line take care of sewage not
only from the new airport itself but
from all the Virginia areas which would
feel the impact of such a huge Federal
installation. Yet Fairfax County author
tiles continue to express concern that
the ultimate plan may not serve the
needs of an important section of the
county between the airport and Wash
ington in the path of the direct impact
of the airport.
1t may be unwise or unnecessary to
clutter the basic legislative authorize
tion with specifications as to particular
communities or areas to be served. But
Congress should make it clear that all.
not merely few, impact areas in the
adjacent communities in Maryland and
Virginia" will be served-in the interest
not only of those communities but of
protecting Washington's water supply
from the threat of pollution from future
sewage plants above the water intake
at Little Falls
Evening star., 1960-06-07

tives Foley of Maryland and Broyhill Of
Virginia in bringing about the long,
awaited House passage. Special COM
mendation also is due Washington at
torney Jerome M. Alper, who drafted
the original compact measure and who
has pushed through numerous perfect
ing changes during the last three years.
The question that now remains is
how the Senate may best complete &C
tion before adjournment. The way to
accomplish this, in our judgment, is for
the Senate Judiciary Committee to sub
Stitute the House version for pending
Senate bills and to report 1t without
hearings. There has been so much tes-
timony already, and there is such gen.
eral agreement on the bill, that nothing
more really remains to be said.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Recitinq an Evil Record

There is little or nothing in the
frustrating history of our relationship
with the Cuban revolutionary govern
ment to encourage hope of improvement
in the foreseeable future
At this point, the Havana govern
ment and its controlled propaganda
outlets remain committed to their bel
ligerently unfriendly party line" and
their distortions of truth about United
States policies and action. Meanwhile,
with notably different face, Premier
Castro and his associates continue on a
broad front-political, economic and
cultural-their program of establishing
constantly closer relationship with Com
munist states of Europe and Asia.
AS of now, the top attraction on
Havana'S future book" is a scheduled
visit by Soviet Premier Khrushchev, by
invitation of Mr.. Castro, at date not
yet announced but expected soon. Re-
ported, although not yet confirmed, are
similar invitations to the government
ch1eftainS of Communist China and
North Wet Nam, where Castro mission
has been travelling. Trade missions
from East Germany and Bulgaria re-
Gently arrived in Havana, where large
Soviet commercial staff has been at
work since Russian Cuban sugar deal
was announced in February
These are, of course, legitimate ac-
tivitieS between sovereign governments
but the pattern is in marked contrast to
that which Havana has applied to Gu
ban-American relations For the record,
our own State Department has given in
an aide memoire delivered to the Cuban
Foreign Ministry timely and accurate
rundown of Havana's violations of re-
SponSible international behavior. It is
sorry story of seizure of property with
out receipt or compensation, of nonpay-
ment for American goods shipped to
the island, of slander and false charges
which have no seeming purpose other
than to destroy relations between the
two countries.
It is unlikely that reciting the rec
ord will have any constructive effect on
those who have made it such an evil one.
1t is not by any means certainty, how
ever, that the Cuban people as a whole
are Indifferent, or will remain So, to the
dangerous mischief that is being done
to their welfare and to the true interests
of the Western hemisphere.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Approves Error

In a story in The Star
May 80 the NAACP is re-
ferred to as the "NCAAP" as
follows:
The NCAAP official was
presented with the AJC Civil
Rights Award for his vigor-
GUS, informed and wise lead
ership in the struggle to bring
to (sic) all Americans the
full enjoyment Of their con-
stitutional rights "
Thus you have rechris-
tened the NAACP with the
name, the National Colored
Association for the Advance
ment of People," and thereby
express the precise purpose
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People which is Ito bring
to all Americans the full en-
joyment of their constitu-
tional rights"
Of course, the colored peo-
pie do not make up the entire
membership of the NAACP,
but this important fact serves
only to demonstrate that the
NAACP Cor NCAAP) is by no
means racially exclusive.
Charles E. Walden, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Interprets President

If I heard President Eisen-
hover correctly in his speech,
he explained very carefully
that the reason for the U-2
flights was the fact that the
USSR was a closed country" "
contrasting it with our own,
where, he said, anyone could
buy maps of our whole eco
nomic complex, and where
our military locations were no
secret at all.
He followed this, however,
with a renewal of his open
skies" proposal.
Whose skies is he going to
open, if we are so open
already? Is the "open skies"
proposal really only to open
the skies over the USSR?
Who can regard this as a
serious peace move? In a
time of extreme tension one
side is expected to surrender
what has been described as a
great advantage without the
slightest compensating con-
cesSion by the other side.
Or is it just possible that
we are not as open" as we
might like to appear?
Janice Holland.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Good News in Moscow

The news that machiniStS and some
other technical workers have gone on
strike at such key intercontinental mis-
sile research bases as Cape Canaveral
and Vandenberg Air Force Base will
make good reading in Moscow. And the
news may astound many Russian work.
erS, who would not dream of walking
off Soviet military job. To do so would
mean baniShment to Siberia-or worse.
Here in the United States, however,
unions have few governmental restric-
tions on their right to strike, on any
job at any time-aS was painfully DEM
onStrated during World War II, to the
detriment of the national interest. And
so, during this most critical period of
the nuclear-era cold war, at time when
Premier Khrushchev and his militaris-
tic aides are Haunting their ICBMS most
threateningly, our military men and
missile scientists are faced with the pos
Sibility of complete shutdown of re-
search and development work.
The dismal prospect arises from the
failure of Federal mediators and Convair
officials to settle wages benefits dis
pute with the International Association
of MachiniStS. Members of the union
thereupon walked of the job at Canav-
eral in Florida, Vandenberg in Califor-
MIA, Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming
and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
At Vandenberg, the Nations only oper-
ational Atlas base, several of the big
1CBMS already on the launching pads
will remain ready for firing in an emer-
gency, but further test f1ringS and con-
Struction of additional facilities are
expected to halt.
1t is unnecessary to stress the
gravity of this cessation of work on the
vital program by which we had hoped
to safeguard the security of the free
world against the Soviet missile threat.
Apparently no immediate move is
planned by either side to renew nego-
tiationS for new labor contract. No
better way of arousing public support
for stronger, more effective bar against
defense strikes could be devised than
the current strike at the countryS vital
missile bases.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Meet This Week

1t is welcome news indeed that
Chairman Smith hopes to schedule a
House Rules Committee meeting this
week on Washingtons national suffrage
constitutional amendment, and only is
awaiting word as to when such a ses-
sion will be convenient to members of
the House Judiciary Committee.
Actually, it had been expected that
the amendment would be considered by
the Rules Committee today, but the
subject was stricken from the agenda
because the Judiciary group was busy
with another important hearing Of it's
own.
Under ordinary circumstances, there
would be no need to rush the normal
legislative pace which prevails in the
House. The remaining life of the seth
Congress is slipping away at such
rapid rate, however, that extraordinary
speed now is essential. For after the
Rules Committee acts, the amendment
must be scheduled for floor debate.
And after House approval, the con-
stttutional resolution must be returned
once again to the Senate for final con-
currence.
We hope, therefore, that Chairman
Celler of the Judiciary Committee, who
already has taken such long strides
this year toward removing Washing
tons shameful national disfranchise-
ment, will contact Mr.. Smith immedi-
ately to arrange a session this week
that will be mutually convenient to the
two committees. In view of the over
whelming support which he amend
ment has received from all quarters,
the Rules meeting need not be a lengthy
or a complicated one.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Glen Echo Policy

While all intelligent
thinking people are appalled,
at the worldwide afronts to
the dignity of man, we, in
Washington, have completely
ignored the segregated policy
of a local enterprise. We re-
fer, of course, to the Glen
Echo Amusement Park.
This segregated park con-
tinually advertises through
all media. including a new
low - children's television
programs. Daily appeals are
made to the moppet audi
ence to come to Glen Echo"
when, in reality, all children
are not welcome.
How can intelligent-think-
ing people be concerned
about the dignity of man
elsewhere and yet accept this
unjust situation in our own
community? We, as mothers,
must protest this dichotomy
of values.
Lila NJ. Gordon.
(For IA Outraged Mothers.)
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Presidents HeckIers
Let's get back our pride

Let's get back our pride.
Certain Democrat leaders
who constantly harp on the
Presidents golf game should
now be very red-faced. In
the first place it is the duty
OF everyone to keep in the
best of physical condition in
order better to discharge
ones responsibilities. There
is nothing better than whole
some physical exercise such
as golf. tennis and other
sports. 1t is certainly better
to engage in wholesome exer-
else and have a clear mind
than to sit up all night play
ing poker and guzzling whis-
key and in the morning fac
ing international problems
bleary-eyed and with a hang
over. Secondly, these same
Democrats have given this
fellow Khrushchev another
excuse to insult our American
leadership. Khrushchev gets
on the bandwagon of insults
to our President by echoing
1.-The golf game" That peas
ant doesn't even know what
golf is. But apparently after
certain Democrat leaders sup
ported Khrushchev's state
ment that we should have
a new President who, with
regrets" for past Ameri-
can "sins," will come to a
summit kowtowing to the
international conspiracy, he
now reciprocates by using the
mud from the same trough
to fling at our President.
Boris T. Pash.
Col, AUS Ret
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Vindicotes Sculptor

Daniel Rings letter ques-
tons the Latin inscription
on the Scott Circle statue Of
DR.. S. c. F. Hahnemann,
originator of the system of
therapeutics known as homo
eopathy, the inscription being
"Similia similibus curentur. 3"
He cites a dictionary definition
which spells the third word
"curantur," and propounds:
Can it be that the sculptor
is guilty of a chiseling error?"
DR.. TIahnemann, who died
in 1843. did not use The
wore "curantur," in the in
dicative mood, meaning that
like is cured, or treated, by
like, in a positive sense; but
always wrote the word cur
entur," in the subjunctive,
meaning "Similars should be
treated by similars".
For many years the word
"curantur" was used in the
profession. but in 1899 the
word "curentur" was given
official sanction by the Amer
ican Institute of domoeo-
pathy; and "Similia simili-
bus curentur" was placed on
the Washington statue in
1900. This version also ap-
pears on the Hahnemann
tomb in Pere-le-C -Chaise cem-
etery in Paris.
This, I believe, vindicates
the action of the sculptor.
Robert Graham MacCartee
Evening star., 1960-06-07
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

popular tune is a test, some.
times it is carried too far.
Recently we heard an old
time popular melody slowed
down so much that it had no
tempo at all.
You talk a song, this way,
whether you sing it or not.
Since practically all popular
music is heavily accented,
taking away the natural ac-
cent, by ignoring the time, is
like taking all the taste out
Of a good beefsteak.
Old timers will feel that the
older composers had some
thing modern tune makers
lack.
1t was, indeed, a certain
sweetness.
1t is hard to define, but
the thing was there, and still
is; it is not a matter of time
throwing a haze over recol-
lection.
Go back to Grandmother's
attic, and find some of the
old sheet music, sold at 35
cents a copy, the old musical
comedy hits of the turn of
the century.
There was a gentleneSs to
the music not heard now
adays, even in the best we
can find.
Call it sweetness, or call
it gentleness, it was a quality
extremely musical, if you
will a something that lin
gered in the memory.
Who will ever remember
the crazy popular numbers Of
the present age?
They are hammered to
death on the radio for about
a week, and then they dis
appear forever, with nobody's
blessing, because they were
no good to begin with.
The old timer can stick to
his old tunes with the Ger
tainty that they were better
music, to begin with, and
better music today than ever.
Trick them up with a new
tempo. and new words, if
necessary. and they would
please the young persons of
this age Just as much as the
raucous numbers they swoon
over.
They would soon find that
music is bigger than Jazz,
and that rock-and-roll is
only a tiny department in
something bigger and betteG
than they knew. ,
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Times Chonoe

Another Memorial Day has
come and gone. Appreciative
Presidents used to lead the
Nation in observance of a
day that had become sacred.
BroadcaSts no longer carry
the Presidents voice from
Arlington, nor are there pic
lures showing him address,
ing them from the beautiful
amphitheater at the National
Cemetery. Theodore Roose-
velt never failed to pour forth
words of gratitude, courage,
patriotism and idealism. Our
Presidents are now recreation
intoxicated. The last Presi-
dent to speak at Arlington
was Herbert Hoover, who
performed this function only
in his first year in Office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt loaned
his presence, once, but did not
speak, likewise during his
first year in Office. Succeed
ing Presidents apparently
have completely disregarded
it. Are the Commanders in
Chief entirely devoid of ap-
probation of the sacrifices,
sufteringS and sorrows of vet
erans?
Evening star., 1960-06-07
Satisfactory Compact

1t was touch-and-go for a while,
but the House passed the Washington
area transit regulatory compact bill in
eminently satisfactory form. If the
Senate now will follow suit, the District,
Maryland and Virginia will be free to
set up single commission to establish
improved route and fare schedules for
existing transit facilities in this region.
Several members of the House Ju-
dietary Committee joined RepresentaS
Evening star., 1960-06-07
United on Aid

The Leagues of Women
Voters in the Washington
area agree Fundamentally
with the position taken by
the editorial in The Star on
May 26. entitled mo Time
for Retreat"
At this critical period of
United States foreign rela-
tions, the Leagues of Women
Voters of the Washington
area unite to urge support for
appropriations for mutual
security. Over $4 billion was
authorized for this purpose in
mid-May but the program is
threatened with drastic cuts.
The mutual security pro-
gram is our basic foreign
economic policy. Under it we
have extended aid to our
allies and to the developing
countries. We have found
that it is good sense to use
our reSourceS-economic and
human-to make our common
world the most favorable
environment for the survival
and growth of our own basic
values: freedom, security,
self-determination, and eco
nomic well-being.
Obviously there are faults
IN the program, as In any
program that grows out of
response to particular emer-
gencies. These faults can and
should be corrected as the
program natures. But, after
the debacle at the summit, it
would be disastrous to slash
funds and cripple the pro-
gram now. We must not let
down our allies who rallied to
us in Paris. We must not fail
the countries that we have
been helping toward eco
nomic independence.
The bilateral and multilat-
eral programs of economic
assistance have proved them
selves in the last few years.
There is no need to defend
them. Aid which is repayable
by the recipients is more &C
ceptable from the point of
view OF human dignity than
outright grants, but such aid
must be on a long-term
basis. The good faith of the
United States would be
doubted if cuts were made in
the Development Loan Fund
which was set up to meet
these goals.
Unless the programs are
continued at the present
level, the gains that have
been made will disappear and
the chances of achieving a
long-range extended program
IN the future will be lessened.
The immediate need is for
Congress to appropriate the
full amount authorized for
the Development Loan Fund,
the technical cooperation
program, and the United
Nations Technical Assistance
Program.
Mrs. Haskell RosenbIum.
president, D. C. League of
Women Voters; Mrs. Thomas
c. Casey, president, Mont
gomery County L. w. ";
Mrs. Robert Wolf, president,
Prince Georges County L. w.
"; Mrs. Wilson J. Hodgins,
president, Alexandria L. w.
"; Mrs. Herbert Sufit, presi-
dent, Arlington County L. w.
"; Mrs. Terry Dalton, pres
1dent, Fairfax County L.
w. "; Mrs. Walter F. Cronin,
president, Falls Church L.
w. V.
Evening star., 1960-06-07

There is nothing like a
George Cohan tune to bring
an Old Timer out of hiding
Just whistle, softly, Mary
is a Grand Old Name" OF
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
or "Give My Regards to
Broadway" or "Harrigan,
That's Me-" and watch him.
A look of delight will come
into his faded blue eyes. He
will throw out his chest, as
from a shot of adrenalin, and
begin to whistle in mis- turn.
There is still magic in
those melodies of the late
roaring '20s and a few years
before, we have forgotten
exactly the years. 1t makes
no difference; a good tune is
always a good tune.
Il **
The other day we heard
one of Cohan's melodies
jazzed up a bit, and it was
still good.
The man had a firm grasp
of a happy tune, right out of
the heart of nature. The
phony atmosphere Of the
stage could not spoil or mar
the sweetness.
Cohan himself mostly talked
his songs, with a note or two
thrown in for good measure.
Many imitators of this type
of singing" have come along
since. but few of them do it
as we'll.
A rock-and-roll version of
Victor Herbert's "Absinthe
Frappe" seemed not at all
bad. 1t takes more than
musical frippery to spoil a
truly good tune.
The flippant delivery of the
late George Cohan threw
some listeners off the track
in hearing his songs.
4 y 4 II
They are not flip, in any
sense, musically speaking.
Actually, they belong in
the same class of American
folk songs as the MASTER
pieces of Stephen Foster.
Cohan and his top hat and
cane, and spats. put the old
songs over in a big way, but
it was his own way.
Now we have nothing left
but the songs.
1t is interesting to hear
how well they go today, if
played more slowly than is
customary.
This sloGing down of a
Evening star., 1960-06-07

rights of property, and have,
in general, been as short in
their lives as they have been
violent in their deaths" Alex
ander Hamilton said: I'VE
are a republican Govern
ment. Real liberty is never
found in despotiSm or in
the extremes of democracy" :"
Samuel Adams warned, Re
member, democracy never
lasts long. 1t soon wastes,
exhausts and murders itself!
There never was a democracy
that did not commit suicide" "
Long live our republic!
Karl o. SpieSs, Sr.
Evening star., 1960-06-07

Is it true that people don't
know why pedestrians cross
in the middle of the block?
I am a pedestrian who walks
miles every day, and I can
tell you. Because it is the
only place where a pedes-
trian feels even a slight de-
gree of safety, as he can look
half a block each way to
find a moment when it is
safe to cross; and all be-
cause of the murderous
drivers who will not give a
pedestrian the right-of-way
at the cross walk. I have
never seen a policeman stop
a driver for breaking the law
this way.
G. WoOding.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
THE POLITICAL MILL
The Uncommitted DELEGATES Role
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Stevenson and Senators SYM
ington and Johnson also have
their followers in the Empire
State. The Democrats stiii
have to determine who win
head their delegation at the
Los Angeles convention. They
still have to determine
whether they act as a unit
under the so-called unit rule.
Presumably the big delega-
tion will wish to exercise all
the influence it can on a
presidential nomination.
In South Dakota, the only
entrant in the presidential
primary today is Senator
Humphrey of Minnesota,
who has now withdrawn
from the race. 1t has not
yet become entirely clear
where the Humphrey dele
gates to the convention will
land, or whether he can steer
them into anyone's camp.
Kennedy's Trading Power
AS Of today, however, Sen
ator Kennedy, obviously the
front-runner and claiming
upwards of 600 delegate
votes on the first or second
ballot, has more to trade
with than have Senator
johnson of Texas, Senator
Symington of Missouri, or
Mr.. Stevenson of Illinois.
Indeed, he seems already to
have done some effective
trading - for example, with
Gov. Williams Of Michigan,
a favorite-son, who has
promised Senator Kennedy
the Michigan delegation.
The Kennedy forces, in
deed, have been able to line
up the Ohio delegation,
through another so-called
favorite-son candidate-Gov.
Mike Disable, who has prom
ised to deliver the whole
delegation to the Massachu-
sets Senator. 1t has not yet
developed clearly whether
Senator Kennedy will be
able to trade with New Jer-
sey'S favorite-son candidate,
Governor Meyner, or with
Gov. Pat Brown who will
head CALIFORNIA; delegation.
Obviously, much will de-
pend on how strongly favor
ite-son and uncommitted
delegations of such large
States as New York and Illi-
nois continue to hold to-
gether at the national con-
vention. Will California, for
example, stick to Gov. Brown
after the first ballot? That
States big delegation, it is
predicted, will split widely,
once it leaves the Governor.
Senator Kennedy may have
from one-third to one-half
of all the delegate votes i'm
mediately. Mr.. Stevenson has
considerable support among
California Democrats, and if
it seems he has a chance,
Mr.. Stevenson might check
a Kennedy sweep of the
California delegates.
The Kennedy estimates of
delegate strength are dis
puted in the camps of Sena-
tors johnson and Syming-
ton. An uncommitted dele
gate today is not a Kennedy
delegate and probably favors
one of the other candidates,
they argue. They contend
Senator Kennedy and his or
ganization have brought all
the pressure available on
delegates, sewing them up for
the Massachusetts Senator.
Where the Kennedy forces
have failed and the dele
gates remain uncommitted,
they cannot be included in
the Kennedy strength. These
uncommitted delegates, in
cluding the favorite-son
delegates, may hold the key
to the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination. Only Sena-
tor Humphrey, so far, has
given up.