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Evening star., 1960-04-13
Brave New World

In a letter, entitled "Afri-
ca Advances" the writer
called attention to the prog
reSs being made by the sew
eral new Negro republics in
Africa. 1t referred to Africa
as the homeland of the Ne
gro Ton scriptural authority,
I believe) and pointed to the
possibility of a great Negro
civilization developing there.
This thought was reminis-
cent of the hopes and ambi-
tions of the late DR.. Marcus
Garvey, one of the great Ne
gro leaders and educators of
the past generation, who en-
visioned a great Negro civil
ization with it's own charac-
teriStics and culture, and in
its own land, which would
ultimately, he believed, en-
brace a large part of the
continent of Africa. the
original home of the Negro.
He compared the status of
the Negro in America to
that of the Children of Is
rael in Babylon. During the
300 years of the Babylonian
captivity, he pointed out, the
1sraelites learned the arts
and sciences of the Baby
lonians, and although a
primitive, pastoral people
when taken in captivity to
. Babylon, they returned some
300 years later in a more
highly civilized status to
reclaim their homeland and
rebuild the Temple. They
thereafter retained and i'm
proved this civilized status
to become one of the great
civilizations of the Mediter-
ranean world of old.
The developing Negro re-
publics in Africa need. he
said, not only teachers and
skilled craftsmen of all
kinds, but doctors, nurses,
lawyers, writer's and artists.
He appealed to Negroes in
the Americas, with a con-
sciousneSs of race pride and
the spirit of the pioneer. to
forsake their present status
as a parasite group on an
alien race in a strange coun-
try, and return, to their
homeland to contribute their
bit to the great epochal
movement (which now seems
to be getting under way) to
develop q Negroid civiliza-
Evening star., 1960-04-13
For EquuI Riqhts

No sit-down demonstra-
tionS have taken place at
lunch counters in Northern
Virginia. However, the same
conditions of unwarranted
and rude exclusion exist
which have provoked the
Shutdown" actions elsewhere
in the South. With a reason
able effort to make orderly
progress in this important
human relations matter, our.
area can and should be able
to escape the heightened ten
sions and unfavorable pub
licity which may result when
our neighbors must resort
to public protest to secure
their rights and human
dignity.
Store owners and man.
ayers should carefully re-
consider their practices in a
spirit of good will and con-
Germ for orderly progress in
our area. Our citizens have
always shown a basic spirit of
fair play and concern for the
equal rights of all. Most of
our white residents work, eat
and otherwise sit down on an
equal basis with Negroes in
Washington D. c., or at
Federal installations in Vir-
ginia. The vast majority
would undoubtedly accept
lunch-counter desegregation
with good grace and a spirit
of neighborliness. Further,
there is no need in our area
to fear public disorder or
organized economic reprisals
against proprietors who cease
exclusion practices.
Morton Liftin,
President, Arlington Council
on Human Relations.
Carl RigdOn,
President, Community Coun-
Gil for Social Progress.
Bert Seidman,
President, Fairfax County
Council on Human Rela-
tionS.
Evening star., 1960-04-13
Good v. Bad PIunnino

Medals should be awarded
to the District employe who
devised the four-lane rush
hour plan for Memorial
Bridge and to the Commis-
Sioner who pushed it into op-
Grafton,
Then a scalping party
should be arranged for the
person or persons who con-
structed the four-lane north
bound 14th Street Bridge
with a three-lane bottleneck
at the District end and then
left the bottleneck for pos
terity. Four lanes from Poto-
mac Park to the Bureau of
Engraving would do as much
for morning commuters as
the additional incoming lane
on Memorial Bridge. Powers
that-be, please take note.
Wiley s. MeSSick,
Evening star., 1960-04-13
Pay Discrimination

It's time for the Civil SerV-
ice Commission to be more
realistic about boosting engi-
neer starting salaries in Grade
5 and 7 categories, and pro-
viding additional increases for
other grades. Current think
ing by the commission pur-
ports that gains resulting
from the Governments 1858
increases in engineer starting
salaries are wearing off and
that SO per cent of all engi-
neers who turn down Govern
ment jobs do so because of
low salaries. Industry has and
will always offer higher SAL
aries to engineers, and the
percentage gain in the num-
Der of engineer graduates who
accept Government employ
ment because of a higher
salary-which is still about
two to five hundred dollars
below starting pay rates Of
fered by industry-is hardly
enough to justify another
round of increases for engi-
neerS.
Apparently. the supply and
demand criteria, and the al
legations of various agency
officials of the crying need
for more and more engineers,
plus a boat load of propa-
ganda put out by technical
societies, has strongly in
f1uenced the thinking of the
Civil Service Commission
and even Congress on this
matter. Surely, someone at
the commission or on Capt.
tol Hill must realize that.
to grant salary hikes to engi-
neers, and to forsake other
professional employees in the
Government, is not only dis
criminatory, but completely
demoralizing. The commits
sion and the Civil Service
Committee in Congress should
seriously consider legislation
to rectify this deplorable sit
uation which makes the
lawyer, statistician, econo-
mist, and a host of other
professional employees in the
Federal service second -class
citizens as regards prestige
and the pay check.
Government EmpIoye.
Evening star., 1960-04-13

ton which should soon rank
with and command the re-
Spect of the other great. civ
iliZationS of the world.
1t is a challenge to which
Negroes today may we'll give
thought!
Parmee Graves,
Evening star., 1960-04-13
Hope of Survival

The TV presentation of
ALAS, Babylon" was a NOV
ing dramatic production. 1t
was also a real public service
IN presenting the realities of
a nuclear attack.
1t seems; somewhat anti
climactic that adult fare such
as this should be followed
with an appeal by Civil
Defense Administrator Leo A.
Hoegh, for better Civil
Defense. Would it not be
wiser to put the emphasis on
the settling of disputes, on
international disarmament,
and on preventing war,
rather than by creating an
illusion of security through
building shelters? Many
responsible scientists have
said there is no defense
against nuclear attack except
the prevention of such an
attack.
They indicate that an
analysis of present conditions
shows that: l. The time be-
tween an alert and reaching
shelters would be less than 10
minutes. 2. Some shelters
would be sealed tombS, due to
debris blocking exits. 3. The
unfortunate survivors would
emerge from their shelters"
to a poisoned atmosphere,
without available food, water,
shelter, or medical attention.
To many people an appeal
for civil defense seems to
contain an element of intel
lectual dishonesty, since it
induces a false sense of secu-
rity. Atomic war is total war!
That is a fact we must ac-
cept-and that is an event.
uality we must prevent. Steps
toward this end are now in
the process of negotiation at
Geneva in the Test Ban
Treaty Conference and the
Ten Nation Disarmament
Conference. Further steps are
being worked out for the sum-
init meeting. 1t is the respon-
Sibility of thoughtful citizens
to encourage such construc-
tive steps in this direction.
Only in this way is there
hope of survival.
Dorothy MedderS Robinson,
Chairman. Legislative Com
mittee United States Sec
ton Women's International
League for Peace and Free
dom.
Evening star., 1960-04-13
Racial Ups and Downs

Two headlines of signif-
icance recently appeared
which invite comment. One
told of a number of white
students who were fined for
sitting down and eating with
Negroes in a Negro restau-
rant in Alabama; the other
headline told of the brutal
whipping with bull whips and
clubs inflicted on the natives
of South Africa by members
of the police force, under au-
thority of law, to force them
to return to work. This last
act of inhumanity amounts
to slavery and bondage COM
parable to the ordeals of the
Dark Ages.
What has David Lawrence
to say about the situation in
South Africa, as reported by
the Associated Press, on
which reports he relied when
he. condoned in his column
the mass murder of 10 natives
by the South African police
force in Sharpville? I wonder
if he considers this action
legal, as he did the impoSi-
ton of the degrading pass
system on certain members
of the South African popu-
lation. And what are we do
ing in this country? Our
representative at the United
Nations Joined with other
countries in what was prac-
tically a censurApf the South
African government before
the Security Council of the
United Nations. The South
African representative re-
sented this, and justly so, be-
cause we have to do a lot of
cleaning UP in our own back
yard.
The greatest threat of all
to the freedom of all people
is that the denial of elemen-
tary human rights in certain
portions of this country and
in South Africa is being sane
toned or enforced by public
authority.
Abe Shefferman.
Evening star., 1960-04-13

where they received no input
from eyes and ears and as
little as possible from the
skin. All other needs, sucA
as food. fluids, rest, etc., were
provided for in abundance.
These men developed "illu-
sionS. delusionS, a mood Of
fearfulness, and many of
them discontinued the ex-
pertinent"
1t has been known before,
says the report, that prison.
ers may develop a syndrome
very similar to the more COM
mon brain syndrome" due
to physical causes. Says the
report: They cease to care
about their utterances, dress
and cleanliness. They be-
come dulled. apathetic and
depressed. In due time they
become disoriented and con-
fused. Their memories be-
come defective and they ex-
perience hallucinations and
deluSions. Their capacity for
Judgment is much impaired
and they Succumb readily to
their need for talk and COM
panionship."
1t would seem like an ideal
situation for the enemy brain
washer. without resorting to
real cruelty of any sort. But,
says the report, their abil-
ity to impart accurate infor-
nation may be as much i'm
paired as their capacity to
resist an interrogator."
Traditionally, says the re-
port of the Air Force investi-
gators, isolation has been
used as a means of making
a man talk, because it is
associated so often with de-
terioration of thinking and is
accompanied by such an in
tense need for somebody to
talk to-even an enemy intel
llgence agent. 1t has seemed
like an ideal way of breaking
down a prisoner. The pris-
oner himself may be taken in
by the technique and stoutly
maintain that the interroga-
tor never laid a hand on
him.
Everybody Breaks in End
Some, the report points out,
have shown a capacity to
endure isolation for a long
time without breaking, by
creating for themselves an
active world of fantasy, but
probably everybody breaks in
the end. But when the break
comes the individual can't
think or remember clearly
and the information a cap
turpd Soldier gives tho ey1erov
may turn out to be complete,
even if unintentional, de-
ception and there is no way
of separating true from false.
So solitary confinement in a
dark, soundproof cell doesn't
seem an effective BRAIN
washing technique, in itself.
however well it seems to
succeed.
Evening star., 1960-04-13

party in 1884 in protest
against the presidential nomi-
nation of James G. Blaine.
Regular Republicans accused
the boilers of regarding them
selves as of superior intel
ligence, and dubbed them
mugwumps. One facetious
definition of the word, in the
1884 campaign, was "a person
educated beyond his intellect"
The word was derived from
an Algonquin Indian word
(mugquomp or muckquomp)
meaning chief" and came to
mean a person of Importance
or one who was conceited and
self-important.
Evening star., 1960-04-13
INDEPENDENCE AVE.

INDEPENDENCE AVE.
Dear Sir:
What do you do when you
see the capable, brash young
man go into the inner office,
where you had wanted to go,
but didn't get?
IF you are wise. and wis
dom doesn't always wear a
sign, you do nothing, I guess,
except calm down after a
little inner fuming. Such
things are between you and
the Creator. They are no
body elSe's business.
I'm large modern Offices, no
matter what they are called,
or where located, there will
always be injusticeS. They
are a part of the game. The
crying clown of the little
opera knew a thing or two
when he beloved that the
show must go on.
1T must, and it will, de-
spite the hurt, and the tears.
+ Il \
There are so many factors
in today's work that nobody
knows the half of them.
What is sure is that there will
be a hard core of resentment.
Thinking things over will
show that while no one is
fired any more because the
boss doesn't like the color of
his hair, there still are many
unspoken resentments.
Perhaps you didn't make
it, my friend, because some
one thought your shirts
weren't the right kind or
size, or he didn't regard you
as his kind of gentleman.
You never can tell. Perhaps
he had his own ideas of those
he wanted around him, and
you didn't quite measure up
to his invisible standards.
Sincerely, HENRY j. S."
+ y = 4
1t is always good, Henry,
to put yourself in the other
guys place.
Try to look at yourself from
his eyes, and you may be sur
prised.
Maybe he sees you as crude,
whereas you see yourself,
God help you, as bold and
adventureSome.
You should have taken a
postgraduate course on his
whims.
His Whims are legion.
That little idea may soothe
your resentment.
Evening star., 1960-04-13

@. Why is the Williams
burg (Va,) Award in the form
of a bell?-O. j.
A. The bell. a silver copy Of
the town criers' bell, was
chosen as a symbol of "peo-
pies vigil in defense of their
liberties" In the 18th CEN
tury, the town crier sum-
moned citizens to play their
part in carrying out the deci-
sions of the government.
@. How old is the political
term "mugwump"?-B. T.
A. In its meaning of an
Independent in politics, it
goes back to the Independent
Republicans who bolted their
Evening star., 1960-04-13
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
PreIiminories to Bruinwoshino
By THOMAS R. HENRY

A little-understood "isola-
ton phenomenon" may be q
part Of brainwashing.
Nothing physical is dis
turbed, yet effects are much
the same as those Of a
temporary brain disturbance
due to physical reactions.
This is reported by inves-
tigatorS for the Unite d
States Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, studying
means that might be used by
a prospective enemy in get
ting information from pris-
oners. But, as in the case of
the so-called physical brain
syndrome," confessions and
other information obtained,
even If given voluntarily,
would have little reliability
or value.
People who experience
the effects of isolation, IA
tigue or sleep loss show no
measurable disturbance in
their general homeostaSis
physical and mental bal
ance)," says an Air Force re-
port. They may nonetheless
exhibit impaired brain func-
ton, for the brain has spe-
cial vulnerabilities over and
above those it shares with
other organs.
"The brain of a man is an
organ that deals with in
formation. Accumulation and
transmission of information
in this sense are character
istic of all living organisms.
The nervous system of higher
animals is a specialized ap-
paratus capable of dealing
with information in COM
plex ways, thereby greatly
increasing general adaptive
capacities.
Experiments Cited
The exceedingly complex
nervous system of man has
this fundamental function.
1t takes in information from
the organs of special sense,
like eyes and ears, and trans
mitS this information to the
brain. There it is analyzed,
organized, evaluated, stored,
and used as a basis for or
ganizing the activities of man
as a whole. One might say
that information arising from
the conf1gurations of minute
amounts of energy is the
substrate for the activities of
the brain, in somewhat the
same sense that food is the
subStrate for the activities
of the gastro-i tie final
tract"
So, the report points out,
Withholding of this informa-
ton is much the same as
starvation.
The report cites expert
ments of DR.. D. o. Hebb and
his associates of the Univer-
sity of Toronto in which men
were put into situations
Evening star., 1960-04-13
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1960-04-13
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Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25
BY VIVIAN BROWN
AP Newsfeofure Writer

NEW YORK (P)-Floors, walls
fabrics and color highlight the
Decorator and Design, 1867
show. More than 100 exhibits re-
fleet the efforts of members of the
New York Chapter of the Ameri-
can Institute of Decorators.
The furniture is elegant and
perhaps a little precious for the
average homemaker, but ideas are
unlimited for a talented amateur
decorator.
A Provincial Spanish family
room with built-in hibachi has
sheet flooring of pink vinyl with
an elaborate black inset, resem-
bling Spanish grillwork. A POr-
tugese family room is done in
colors taken from floor tiles dec
GRATED with fruits in amber, bitter
green and Portuguese blue. A room
keyed to black, white and red has
floor of parquet walnut, combin-
ed with black Groutite in which
black mosaic vinkl is set A floor
of Scotch plaid vinyl is also shown.
One floor has planks of varying
widths painted gray with half inch
strips of carpeting inserted be-
tween each board Leona Kahn
paints the wide wood floors of her
country house bright coral, a
charming effect with her color
scheme of yellow, pink and white.
Everett Browns country kitchen
has floor ~and ado in Delft de-
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25
ROXANA
Mrs. Alice Lockwood
Phone Selbyville S557

The Roxana Firemen's Auxiliary
supper was well attended Sat-
urday, November 10, at the church
hall. Thanks to all who made this
such wonderful success.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frances Rich
ardson of Georgetown, were din
ner guests Saturday of Mr.. and
Mrs. Millard Macklin.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Long of
Phila., spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel LeKites.
Mrs. Belle Marvel of Federals-
burg, Nd, visited Mrs. Elsie Ben
nett over the weekend
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Lynch
visited her father, Ed Murray at
the Spring Hill Sanitarium near
Salisbury. They also visited Mrs.
Daisey JONES at the Peninsula
General Hospital, Saturday.
Wayne Murray of Frankford,
spent the weekend with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell MUIR
ray.
Rev. and Mrs. Guy H. McWill-
Jams of Cambridge, Nd, a former
pastor here, were guests at the
morning worship service here Sun
day. They also visited many
friends here after service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Murray
of here and her sister, Mrs. Andrew
Murray of Georgetown, attended
the annual Homecoming at Show
ellis Methodist Church, Sunday
morning. The girls are formerly
of Showel1
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25
Food Preservation
Great Mankind Boom

The Pilgrim homemaker boiled
and toiled for days to prepare for
! the first Thanksgiving dinner in
/ 1921. But, thanks to methods of
food preservation she never dream
ed of, her modern sister can put
a similar feast on the table in a
matter of hours.
1t was almost 200 years after
Governor William Bradford deere
ed day of thanksgiving that
canning was invented A candy
maker named Nicolas Appert pub
lished the report of his invention
in 1910, after collecting the prize
of $4,000 francs that the French
government had offered for a met
hod of preserving food for its
| troops.
| Now the housewife can simply
open a can of mincemeat, pumpkin,
or cranberry sauce-Or any of the
foods that bring the yearly retail
value of canned foods to approx
mately $4.5 billion
| Or, she can roast frozen tur-
key and open a package of frozen
corn, part of the 81 billion worth
of frozen food that is produced
annually, according to World Book
Encyclopedia. The Pilgrims pro-
badly kept some foods on ice, but
it was the mechanical refriger-
alton developed in the late 1800's
| and the quick-freeZing process of
Clarence Birdseye developed in the
| 1920's that made freezing an i'm
portant means of food preservation.
| In Thanksgiving dinners yet to
come, the housewife may serve a
| freeze-dried turkey, one that has
been quick-froZen and the mois-
ture removed. Freee-drying was
used in the days of the Pilgrims
but only for preserving biological
specimens in the laboratory. Just
a few decades ago, scientists be-
gan to apply this method to food.
A shipment of freeze-dried food
currently is nourishing the World
Book Encyclopedia Scientific Ex-
pedition to the Himalaya, led by
Sir Edmund Hillary.
Recently scientists have been ex-
perimenting with irradiation as a
method of preserving food. If
further experiments are successful,
| tOmorrOw's turkey dinner may be
| chock full of gamma rays.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25

sign vinyl, handsomely Offset by
walls of black and white checked
gingham, and shelves of American
pottery and pewter.
Many walls are dark-black,
brown, red, deep blue-and treat
ed with unusual effects. Lloyd Bell
uses small strips of green wood
crossed and recrossed to form a
mural trellis decoration. Jens Ris-
ON has a wall of tree bark cork
Stuart Blaine and Robert Booth
panelled two walls of their "coun-
try salon" in cane with walnut
frames. The third wall is entirely
covered in antique French panell-
ed cabinets.
Patricia Harvey shows a wall
covering of black on black vinyl
another of white on white vinyl
Another setting was highlighted
by a brown and black tile cover
ing walls and furniture. John Wis
ner uses deep blue grassclOth as
a background for an antique con-
sol table. Hector Grants 18th CEN
tury foyer is draped in wall COW
ering of elegant striped gray satin.
Melanie Kahane uses leather on
the walls and a unique floor COW
ering of real rosewood laminated
over cork with a vinyl surface.
Newly developed adhesives make
it possible to use the fabric wall
coverings seen throughout the
show.
Brilliant reds, blues, green's,
puppies and pale yellows and pinks
are predominant in all exhibits.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25

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Milford chronicle., 1960-11-25
CEDAR NECK
Mrs. Serena Hayes
Phone: GA 2-474o

Praise the Lord; for the Lord
Is good; sing praises unto His
name; for it is pleasant" Psalm
1858
Thought for the Day-"A merry
heart doeth good like a medicine. .
Mrs. Thomas Carroll went to the
Johns Hopkins" hospital in Balti-
more on Sunday. She will be
there for awhile under observation
Mrs. Lillian Rogers of Dover
was a weekend guest of Miss Alice
Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Osborne and
daughters of Dover, and Miss Bar
bara Ashton were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius
Webb.
Robbins Webb was in Philadel-
phia, Thursday and Friday, attend
ing the Interstate Milk Producers
Association meeting held in the
Ben Franklin Hotel.
Life is like a mirror-you
don't get any more out of it than
you put into it,"
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hayes en-
tertained to a pre-Thanksgiving
dinner on Sunday, their three sons
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hayes and chill
dren, Linda, Nancy and Kathy
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hayes and
children Gloria Jean and Jimmie
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Hayes and
son Charles Gilbert, Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Horvat, Mrs. Carolyn Haw-
kins and daughter Bethany. In the
evening, they entertained Rev. and
Mrs. Milbury, son Bill and Preston
Tyler to a six o'clock dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Drummond
visited Mr.. and Mrs Ernest r.