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Evening star., 1960-06-22
Finishing q Ruq
Mrs. w. NJ. Il. Al

Mrs. w. M. H., Alexandria
Can someone direct me to
an individual or organization
which could finish making a
braided rug? I have the ma
terial on hand to complete it.
n u n -
Evening star., 1960-06-22
READERS CLEARING HOUSE

velvet skirt. The top is
stitched to the skirt with an
elastic in the back. 1t would
seem strange that it could
not all be washed, but I'm
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Ledrninq in Sleep

Mrs. W. D. B. Bethesda
Has anyone else tried to
learn from records during the
sleeping hours? Is it possible
to learn a foreign language
in this way? Is this method
very expensive?
Evening star., 1960-06-22

velvet from the kind that
has to be dry cleaned? My
little girl was given a lovely
dress that has a white cot
ton and lace top and a red
Evening star., 1960-06-22
JUNE GIFTS OF LOVE
STERLING SILVER
FLATWARE
by Heirloom

The gift she'll cherish all her life,
Heirloom sterling silver from
our Silver Room. Grated by
Oneida siIversmiths, every style
enbodies enduring, classic beauty
coptured in q true ort form. The
ideoI gift for the beautiful June
bride, sterling silver oIso ex-
presses perfectly your love no
matter whot the season, what the
occasion. Reodine from left to
right: Sentimental, Young Love,
Flower Lane, Lasting Spring,
Domosk Rose and Silver Rose.
Apiece place setting, 21.82
Evening star., 1960-06-22

afraid to try it without be-
ing sure. All the tags had
been removed from the dress
before it was sent to her.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

gether and turn better if they
are allowed to cook very thor
oughly before turning.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

meath is turned up. The op-
ponent leads from the dummy
on the left.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
He Can't Win

Some of the Rockefeller people have
been trying to boost their mans pros
poets by using against Richard Nixon
the he-can't-win tactic which was en-
ployed so successfully against Senator
Taft in 1852. And Secretary of Agricul-
ture Benson is making common cause
with them
In 1852, beginning with his smash
ing victory in the New Hampshire pri-
mary, General Eisenhower had all the
earmarks of a Sure-f1re winner. And this
was tremendous help to him in slowing
down and finally stopping the Taft
bandwagon. It wasn't so much that the
G. o. P. delegates thought Senator Taft
couldn't win, but rather that they were
sure General Eisenhower could win.
Nothing of this sort is in the picture
today. Maybe Mr. Nixon can win; maybe
he can't. But there is not a bit of evi-
dence that Governor Rockefeller could
do better. He pulled out of the race for
the nomination last December, he has
not entered single primary and he has
not shown any significant strength in
any poll that we know of. If Nixon can't
win, that, we are inclined to think, goes
double for the New Yorker.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Control at ChontiIIy

1t makes good sense that the Federal
authority which will operate Dulles Air
port has been given full control over the
thousand and one complex and practical
problems involved in it's construction.
This Is especially so since the new au-
thority-the Bureau of National Capital
AirportS-also will direct operations at
Washington National. BY the construc-
tion and planning decisions it will make
now on the new jet base, the bureau can
go long way toward co-ordinating
activities of the two airports.
E. R. Quesada, the Federal Aviation
Agency administrator, fully realized this
when the bureau-the Washington
regions first transportation authority
was established last year. In April,
General Quesada assigned the bureau
number of planning and supervisory
functions. His recent transfer of full
responsibility for Dulles completion to
the bureau, headed by L. w. Burton, was
the final logical step to consolidate
decision-making power where it can be
most effective.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

tionalize the country's insurance compa-
nieS, tea and rubber plantations, mostly
western owned; to investigate" news
papers which had been hostile to her,
and to be militantly neutralist in the
cold war. She asked astrologerS to ad-
wise her of an "auSpiciouS time" to
assume office. .
Actually, the anti-Western drift in
Ceylon has been under way during most
of the past four years. 1t was inter-
rupted only briefly last March when the
United National Party won an election
victory but fell few weeks later on its
first test of confidence In this weeks
voting, the United National Party fell
from so to 80 seats in the House of Rep
reSentatives while the Freedom Party
won rs with the added assurance of six
friendly delegates to be named by the
government in the 157-member House.
AS member of the British Common
wealth, Ceylon ostensibly is member
OF the Western community. To what
degree it will remain SO apparently is
now IN the hands of Mrs. Bandaranaike.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Tears of Victory

An over-crowded island, wealthy in
natural resources but unstable in both
its politics and its economic manage
ment, should attract much world atten-
ton in the months Immediately ahead.
Ceylon, with an area only slightly larger
than West Virginia and a 10-million
population of many nationalitieS and
religions, has chosen the modern worlds
first woman prime minister. She is
Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 44-year -old
widow of former premier.
In less than year after the assass-
nation of her husband, Mrs. Bandara-
make has taken over leadership of the
minority Freedom Party and carried it
to an election victory that assured her
of becoming the head of government.
To the West, there are reasons for mis-
givingS. In her election campaign, in
which tears were described as a formid-
able weapon, she reached "no-contest"
agreement with left-wing splinter par
ties Of Trotskyites, Communists and
Socialists. As policies of her new gov
ernment, she announced plans to ma
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Question of Verocity

In bitter hour-long speech before
the Security Council, Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister KuznetSov has accused our
country of endangering the peace of the
world with such espionage" flights as
that on which one of our RB-47 planes
was shot down, according to Moscow,
while violating the airSpace of the USSR
Ambassador Lodge, our chief delegate
TO the United Nations, has responded to
THIS with brief interim statement fatty
branding the tKremlin's story as a "sin-
lister fabrication" designed to cover up
the fact that the plane in question was
subjected to criminal and piratical"
action while on legitimate mission over
international waters.
As he has explained to the Council,
Mr.. Lodge will have "a great deal more"
TO say about this monStrouS perform
ance" at tomorrow's session. In effect,
he has charged the Soviets with COM
plete lack Of veracity, and he has in
timated that there is solid factual proof
to back up the charge. We earnestly
hope that this is so and that the evi-
dence will be incontrovertible enough to
leave no doubt in anybody'S mind about
the Kremlin'S cruel mendacity. Beyond
that, OF course, if such evidence is pre-
Sented to it, the U. N. should lose no
time and soften no words in condemn
ing the Khrushchev government for the
wanton crime.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Peoce-It's Wonderful

AS we read the reports of Mr.. Nixon's
Journey to Manhattan, it seems to us
that the Vice President, ever a practical
man, has done what he thought he had
to do.
Governor Rockefeller, a goth CEN
tury Achilles, was sulking in the Repub-
lican tent. He didn't like the partys
platform, or what he understood was to
be IN the platform. There were rum
blingS to the effect that he might with
draw from the political war, or that, in
any event, he would not belabor the
enemy with full might and main. 1t
does not require any great exercise of
the imagination to visualize the concern
which this provoked in the Nixon camp.
For victory in New York this November
probably is essential to Mr. Nixon'S pres
1dential hopes. And the outcome in New
York, without wholehearted effort by
Governor Rockefeller, certainly would
be very much in doubt.
So the Vice President took the OBJ
viouS course. He went to the New York
apartment of the diSgruntled Governor
Rockefeller and held an eight-hour pa
laver with him. When 1t was all over
the Governor issued 1,000-word state
ment which is susceptible of various
interpretations. Essentially, however, it
says that he and Mr. Nixon agreed on a
platform which, if adopted, can be sup
ported with pride and vigor" by Mr..
Rockefeller
The reasons for this seeming sat-
iSfaction on the Governors part are not
readily apparent to us. With reference
to defense spending, for example, there
is nothing in the statement which Sug-
geStS that Mr.. Nixon is prepared to 60
along with Mr.. Rockefeller'S notion that
we should boost the ante by about $35
billion. The chances are, however, that
a meeting of the Nixon and Rockefeller
minds, to the extent that this may have
been achieved, is concealed in the de-
tails of their private understanding, and
will not be found in the statement which
was put out for publication. The latter
is testimonial to the genius of political
men for bridging gaps, for finding small
areas of common ground, for clothing
their differences in the wonderful gar
mentS Of peace and harmony.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

more. Not a tithe of the dis
position to break up the
Union now exists in the slave
holding States that was rife
at the time of John Browns
raid, nor does any other pub
lie man of the South. except
Mr.. Keitt. openly counsel the
destruction of the Govern
ment If Lincoln triumphs.
The position they occupy on
the subject is that, if
elected, and his Gincoln's)
government shall initiate un-
constitutional and aggressive
measures against the South.
it will be her duty to resist
them at all hazards We
have no doubt whatever that
the election of Lincoln would
unite the South in her own
defense, as she has never be-
fore been united, and.
further, that she can and
will compel a settlement of
the slavery question upon
terms consonant with her
rights and honor, in the
Union A."
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Is Years Ago

NaZiiSm was growing ug-
lier by the day Is years ago.
The Star of July 81, 1885,
reported from Berlin: "A
new Nazi purge of 'reac-
tionary' opposition-thus far
bloodless swept through
the Reich with increasing
impetus today, its chief VIC
tins or threatened victims
being Jews, clergymen and
war veterans. Nazi publlca-
tionS and official spokes-
men Jumped Hebrews, Cath
olic and Protestant men of
the cloth and members of
the Steel Helmet veterans
organizations with hated
Communists and other re-
dictionary or 'subverSive'
elements in the determined
fight to make National So
cialism the faith and the re-
ligion of unified Germany.
Julius Streicher, leading
JeW-baiter and publisher of
a bitterly anti-Semitic news
paper, said he personally
would head the drive. >"
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Parking Policy

There probably will not be an early
answer - nor should there be - to the
question the Commissioners have revived
as to whether the zoning code should be
extended to require that new downtown
commercial buildings must provide their
own off-Street parking
In the first place, no sensible deci-
sion can be made unless it is based on
findings of the broad study now under
way to develop plan for revitalizing the
entire central business district. It may
be, for example, that automobiles will be
banned from certain areas. This has
been done in other cities The downtown
plan might we'll call for pedestrian
malls" particularly in shopping areas, in
which individual buildings would be in
accessible to cars. In any event, specific
parking proposals will be an integral
part of the downtown plan, and the
enforcement provisions of zoning can
hardly be determined until these pro-
posalS are submitted some months from
now.
1t is well, nevertheless, that Engi-
neer Commissioner yelling has alerted
the new Citizens zoning Advisory Com
mittee to the seriousness of the prob
lem. When the Commissioners adopted
the revised zoning code few years ago,
they exempted downtown buildings from
off-street parking requirements largely
on the basis of economic hardship
caused by high land costs. This &C
ton, however, did nothing to develop
rational city policy on parking; it
merely was retreat from the problem
AS a result, parking facilities in some
areas now are critically short In others,
ugly parking lots are Springing up hap
hazardly with a speed that is wrecking
valuable eSthetic values of the entire
city.
The time is overdue, therefore, as
Gen. yelling suggests, to take a brand
new look at the requirements. But the
most valuable service the Advisory Com
mittee can perform is to help develop
policy which for the first time will regu-
late parking in terms of the needs of the
city as whole, and this will require both
time and the closest coordination with
the several agencies at work on related
aspects of the problem.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
100 Years AGO

The ugly word secession"
was appearing in public print
with disturbing frequency a
century ago. Most Southern
flrebrandS who favored this
drastic course discussed the
matter privately. Among the
relatively few outspoken ad-
vocates of secession was Rep
reSentative wrence M.
Keitt, of South Carolina.
This explosive tempered
gentleman (who was to lose
his life leading a Confederate
regiment at Cold Harbor)
had figured prominently in a
case of violence on the floor
OF Congress in 1856. Tipped
off that his friend, Repre-
sentative Preston Brooks, an
other South Carolinian, in
tended to cane the daylightS
out of the rabid abolitionist,
Senator Charles Sumner, of
Massachusetts, Keitt invaded
the Senate chamber. When
the assault took place, he
strove to prevent anyone
from stopping Brooks. The
House censured Keitt and he
resigned. He was reelected
promptly, however, and re-
turned. Now Keitt was back
IN the news. The Star of July
26, 1860 commented: The
New York Herald is positively
sure of the existence of an
organized plot throughout
the South to dismember the
Union in case of the election
OF Lincoln. Its proof is con-
tanned in a letter from the
Hon. Mr.. Keitt, urging that
the South should not remain
in the Union in case of the
success Of Republican party
ism in November, and an
other from the Hon. William
l.. Yancey, Of Alabama, say
ing the South is gradually
awakening to the pressing
necessity Of being prepared
for any future contingency
that the progress of aboli-
tionism in nonslaveholding
States may bring about.
While sure that such senti-
ments are re-echoed in the
breasts and minds of many
thousands in the cotton
producing States we are
very sure that the Herald's
organized move m en- t is a
mares nest and nothing
Evening star., 1960-07-24
so Years Ago

A 900-mile rainbow with a
real pot Of gold waiting at
the end for some intrepid
aviator was painted on the
sky by the press SO years ago.
The Star Of July II, 1910,
announced: The New York
World and the st. Louis Post
Dispatch will give $4,000 to
the first aviator who, be-
tween August Is, 1910, and
January /, 1911. flies from
New York to st. Louis, or
from st. Louis to New York,
within 100 consecutive hours,
using the same aeroplane
from start to finish. The dis
tance between the two cities
is 300 miles as the crow flies
and l,048 miles as the mails
Evening star., 1960-07-24
It's SmuII-but We Can Stand It!
LETTERS TO THE STAR
The Sound and Fury Generated by Politics

no amount Of "boyish smiles"
can mask the cold eyes of
ambitious Kennedy. After
a seemingly good start, Lyn-
don Johnson lost stature
with each appearance. On
the other hand, for the first
time perhaps, I glimpsed
something of the quality that
has held Stevenson's follow
erS. Hubert Humphrey, whom
I never considered a preSi-
dental possibility, emerged
with more stature because he
did not grovel for End place
or vote for Kennedy. Mr..
Truman did not appear and
thereby held my respect.
In closing I'd like to insert
this plank in both parties
platform - "all bald-heads
(ughD must be covered with
toupeeS."
Mrs. A. L. Snow.
\ 4
David Lawrence's version
Of Senator Kennedy's tri-
umph in Los Angeles is sat-
urated with a blatant disre-
gard for objectivity, and
shows ignorance of the great
American game of politics.
Surely, Mr.. Lawrence, alleg-
edly a WilSonian Democrat.
must realize that without
money, a good organization,
and a hard hitting campaign,
the ultimate success of any
aSpirant for the Office of Pres
ident, Republican or Demo-
crat, is extremely doubtful.
An abundance of money,
however, would hardly be a
decisive factor in guarantee
ing a mediocre candidate a
victory. Primary victories in
seven states and the over
whelming first ballot vote at
the convention would appear
to be concrete evidence that
the choice of the Democratic
Party, rank and file, and
some of the party pros alike,
is Kennedy all the way, not
LBJ.
william F. Clune.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

pendence shall have been
achieved for all the captive
nations of the world" With
whole hearted approval
President Eisenhower sounds
a trumpet which must never
know retreat in his ringing
words, There can be no
true peace which involves &C
ceptance of the status quo in
which we find injustice to
many nations and repression
of human beings on a gigan-
tic scale"
And what does all this
have to do with "Spires?"
Everything. 1t is under the
church spires of America that
there thunderS the emanci-
pating words of the Father
God, to whom all souls be-
long and to whom all souls
are dear, Let My People Co."
Every remembrance of the
captive nations is a prayer.
Their plight ought to be the
subject of prayer in every
temple of worship on the
Sunday of the annual Cap
tive Nations Week.
We can imagine no more
moving scene in any church
in America than the service
at IL am. on the dear Lords
blessed day of that week OBJ
served at Saint Patrick's
Catholic Church in the Capt.
tai of free America. Present
were many whose ancestral
roots are in the nations now
enSlaved. Many of them had
ned from the present tyran-
ny. From the high white pull
pit OF that lovely sanctuary
Bishop Philip M. Hannah
proclaimed the unvarnished
truth in sermon and in pray
er. His was indeed the voice
OF America, and the voice of
the Universal Church as to
the altar of the Most High
the shackled millions were
lifted in the arms of Chris
tian sympathy and interces-
sion.
In such an hour of worship
in any church we are re-
minded of the final judgment
test of the Master who came
preaching release for the cap
tiveS as He asks the piercing
question. when I was in
prison did you come unto
Me?"
In the spirit of that NOV
ing service in Saint Patrick's.
let US pray-Our Father God.
author of liberty, without
ceaSing we would remember
the captive nations in their
cruel bondage-proud peoples
with their precious traditions
stamped into the dust while
alien Caesars exercise their
ruthless sway over them.
Above all the tumult and
shouting of these volcanic
days we hear Thy summons,
even as in centuries past, Let
My People Co." Give us to
see that to acquiesce in the
cruciflXion of freedom any,
where is ultimately to nail
our own liberty on the same
cross, knowing that with what
measure we mete, it shall be
measured to us again. We ask
it in the Name of the Re-
deemer who came to proclaim
liberty to the captives and
deliverance to those who are
bound Amen,
Evening star., 1960-07-24
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Let My People Go
BY DR.. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the United States

AAAS 1CoN Va AAAlCA 1Cd .
boasted freedom is how
much her freemen care for
those who have lost their
liberty. To revel only in ones
freedom, and to forget the
fetters Of others. is a base
betrayal of our own heritage.
Such forgetfulness is an ON
inouS prophecy that those
who do not fight for liberty
everywhere will finally lose
their own. There is abso-
lutely no question more vital
in this day of besieging prob
lens than the attitude of the
free nations toward the lands
Soviet Russia has bound with
the shackles of serfdom.
There is nothing on which
the conspirators of the
Kremlin are more adamant
than their insistence that
their imperialistic robberies
be recognized and the status
OF satellite nations be ac-
cepted as final. That as
sumption is a definite part
OF their strategy to commu-
nize the whole earth. They
have the effrontery to sug-
gest to the free world that
they agree to CO = existence
with those who are using
every foul force to stamp out
the fire of freedom in lands
once free but now under the
Soviet's savage sway.
The greatest imperialists
OF the age so discount the in
telllgence of the human race
and so diStort the facts that
they now charge the very
Republic which gave Cuba its
freedom with plotting its en-
Slavement. The system with
millions of slaves in its iron
hold threatens to free"
Cuba. Could the big lie be
stretched to bigger propor-
tionS?
1t is an appeal to the best
instincts of America which
sounds in the call of Con-
gress and of the President
Tor a specific week of remem-
bering the captive nations
whose anguiShed cry, How
long, o Lord. how long?"
must never be drowned by
the glorification of our own
freedom. Nothing which he
heard in our free .land
aroused the ire of the crude
and cruel peasant who stands
at the top of the Soviet pyr-
amid of brute strength as
much as any reference to
Hungary, and the other CAP
tive nations.
No wonder. for it is the
one heinous blot that gives
the lie to all the fair promises
OF this vast principality of
evil which has invented its
own inverted and perverted
dictionary in which the holy
word peace" means simply
the victory of their tyranny.
Captive Nations Week
serves notice on the Kremlin
that no rocket-rattling will
ever make America forget
her VOW to keep alive the
knowledge of atrocities per-
'petrated, until the submerged
nations are rescued from the
invader and their soil no
longer deflled by this abomi-
nation.
Our Congress has called
the roll of those now under
the Soviet yoke: Poland,
Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine,
Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Es-
tonia, Rumania, East Ger
many, Bulgaria, mainland
China, Armenia, North Ko-
rea, Albania, Tibet and 9TH
ers. To make sure that the
idea of Captive Nations Week
does not prove to be simply
an ephemeral sop to the
American conscience. Con-
gresS specifically declares
that THE President is fur
ther authorized and request
ed to issue similar procla-
nation each year until such
time as freedom and inde-
Evening star., 1960-07-24

Automobile parking meters
made their appearance 25
years ago, relentlessly ticking
off the minutes amid great
clamor by the public. The
Star of July II, 1885, relayed
from Oklahoma City: Nickel
in-the-slot parking was in
troduced here and prompts
precipitated an uproar. Tive
hundred meters, invented BY
Carl Magee. attorney and
publisher, were installed
downtown. Several hours
after motorists began trying
them, the City Council ap-
proved a contract with Ma
gee. Opponents ofsthe plan.
holding that parking space
on downtown streets should
remain free, set out to toss
the issue into court. They
got nowhere.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
FROM THE STAR FILES. .

go. Conditions allow the
aviator to land for fuel. re-
pairs and rest whenever he
wishes or finds it necessary.
Installation of a new pro-
peller, new engine parts, new
struts, new brace guys, etc,
may be made without i'm
pairing the defined identity
of the machine E"
Evening star., 1960-04-21

Burgess sproyer for dozens Of
uses: lacquer, insecticides. paint
use it for wood trim, outo
fender touch-up, screens and
doors oil over the house for
professional jobs.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

Here are four handy tools TO
make those backyard borbecues
eosier than ever! Chrome plotted
with black wooden handles and
leother strops turner, fork
and tones.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

Have your own fence for the eor-
den and elsewhere. Eoch unit is
painted white, place in the
ground to protect eorden, keep
il ottroctiVe.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

A fine assortment Of beautiful
eVerereens for immediote pIont-
ing: japanese Holly, convex and
round Ieof; Juniper; Gold Tipped
Pfitzer; Globe Arborvitoe; Up
right Yew and Spreoder Yew.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

Attaches to garden hose for quick
ond cosy spin-brush washing. s.
foot oIuminum handle hos built
in shut-off valve, spinning head
rototes up to z, 500 rpm. Long,
lasting horsehoir brush.