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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18

Noble County Tournament Manager Hobart Bond of Sarahs
vile is explaining the annual tournament drawing Supt
c. Secres the left and County School Elementary
Richard Douglass, the right
All attended the dinner and drawing held Thursday night
at Oges restaurant, Dexter City.
The tournament Monday night Caldwell
tinues thru Wednesday and Friday nights.
Tournament referees will include Traford Dick
Flannigan Leonard L. Long will be the official
Subray Dahood, the official timekeeper.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18
DRESSING ROOM ASSIGNMENT

Dressing rooms are to be considered
numbered from front to rear of the
gymnasium as follows, |, II, III, w.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18
MVL STANDING
LAST WEEKS RESULTS

Caldwell 60, M & M So
Roseville 64, Glouster Sc
New Concord SO, Philo 81
Crooksville So, New Lex SIS
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18

Photo Observation-Disclosures
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18

Officials-Hursey and Shrider
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-02-18

Friday-8::30 p. m. F
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Price of Peace

Late last year Panamanian rabble
stoned police guarding the Canal Zone,
sacked the United States Information
Agency, and tore down and desecrated
the American flag which had been
flying in front of the American En-
baSsy. An armed Marine guard, appar-
emily under orders to do nothing, stood
by and did exactly that.
Now it is announced that the United
States is ready to make concessions in
the hope of improving relations with
Panama. They are economic in nature
and will not cost great deal of money.
But they will cost more in terms of ma
tional dignity, for, to state the matter
bluntly, they are no better than another
lnStallment in long series of black
mail payments.
These concessions may buy peace"
In Panama for a while. But they will
not command respect for the United
States. And, in the absence of respect,
1t will not be long before the dema-
gogueS who whip up the mobs in Pan
anna will be back demanding another
payment. Furthermore, they probably
will get it.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Professional Thinker

BeardSley Ruml, who died on this
years "due day" (April 18) for Federal
income taxes, is most widely remembered
as the father of the pay-as-you-go plan
for the payment of these taxes. For it was
nearly 20 years ago that this ingenious
social scientist and financier assaulted
the defenders of orthodox procedure
in Washington with his theory that there
would be greater justice and greater re-
turns in collecting taxes while the in
come was coming in - rather than
months later. Too often then, he
reasoned, the money was gone, the tax
payer retired, deceased or even in far
away military service in those times, and
only burdensome debt was a certainty.
Both the Treasury Department and
the Congress were heSitant converts to
the Ruml theory, but an impressive
showing of press and public support for
the plan brought its enactment with the
added innovation of the payroll with
holding feature. 1t paid off from the
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Judge Under Fire

The accusation which James r.
Hoffa has brought against Judge Let's
strikes us as serious piece of business
so much so that it ought to be cleared
up one way or the other.
In sworn statement, Mr.. Hoffa says
Judge Let's told a reporter for Time
magazine that he was going to remove
the TeamSter boss from Office. The re-
porter fatty denies that Judge Let's ever
told him any such thing, and he says
he never told anyone that such a state
ment had been made. The Hoffa charge,
he says, is pure fabrication"
In these circumstances, it will not
be enough merely to ascertain whether
the Hoffa affidavit of prejudice against
Judge Let's is legally sufficient" There
should be finding, in an appropriate
procedure, as to whether it is true or
false. If it is false, Mr.. Hoffa should be
given an education in the hazards of
making false accusations, under oath,
which reflect diScredit on Federal judges.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Bows to Court

1t isn't often one gets an
opportunity to congratulate
this Supreme Court on the
basis of some decision in the
center of the vein of old
fashioned American conSer-
vatism. But here's to the
conSummate good sense of
six of them in upholding the
right of anonymity. 1t is al
ways supremely important in
a democracy to stimulate
thinking. Men must always
have the right in a free land
to think, to form opinions of
their own, and also to express
them and missionize for
them with or without the du-
bious sponsorship of a name.
If the Supreme Court is
really coming to, it is to be
hoped that it will say so
in resounding terms by re-
verSing the anti-thought,
anti-opinion, anti-choice, yes,
and anti-American desegre-
CATION decision of 1854 and
all of its ill-spawned off
spring.
Donald F. Haynes.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Decade of Disasters

To those who look on the brighter
side of things, the past ten years are
aptly regarded as "the fabulous fifties."
To those whose duty it is to look at the
darker side, and to take effective coun-
termeasures, the 195OS were truly a dec
ade of disasters. This being Red Cross
Month, the report on ten years of peace
time relief work by the AmeMcan Ma
tional Red Cross, just issued, is a timely
reminder that this great organization
stands ready at all times to aid victims of
natural or man-made catastrophes.
According to E. Roland Hartman,
chairman of the Red Cross, the f1fties
brought not only great scientific achieve
mentS in many fields but some of the
worst disasters ever to confront Red
Cross relief workers. The report on "a
Decade of Disasters" reveals that nature
laShed out with greater vengeance and
destructive force than in any other
decade of modern recorded American
history" Floods, tornadoeS, hurricanes,
fires and other disasters destroyed rs, 900
homes, damaged nearly 100000 others
and rendered temporarily homeless
about l.6 million persons. The Red
Cross spent more than $117OOO,OOO in
aid to the victims.
We in Washington were relatively
lucky during the ten-year period. The
District Chapter was called on for help on
only few occaSionS-mostly involving
fires. But the local chapter raised funds
to aid disaster victims in West Virginia,
and also sent relief volunteers there and
to Kentucky and Virginia. 1t is good to
know that such an agency of mercy is
ready and eager to render its specialized
services here and elsewhere in the dec
ade of the SOS.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Symington Asset?
Eugene Kelly.

OF our 30-odd Presidents,
only Truman of Missouri was
born in May. Only one
month, June, remains with
out a representative, for no
person born in June has to
this day been elected Presi-
dent. Maybe Symington of
Missouri should make a spe-
cial appeal to the presumably
approximate IL per cent of
the voters of the country
born in June. for Symington
was born in June. Having
been born in June myself, I
know that "Junebugs" gen.
orally buck the sign of the
zodiac that they are unduly
romantic and temperamental,
A. w. Lafferty,
Oregon Congressm n,
1915.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Jersey Makes q Choice

FOR CnoSe VINO are weighing political
StraWS, the result of the Republican
senatorial primary in New Jersey pro-
videS something for the scales. This
contest offered in rather unusual degree
clear choice between modern Re
publicaniSm and Old GuardiSm, the
G. o. P.'s own varieties of liberalism and
conservatism. The preference of the
party voters was made equally clear in
a nearly two-to-one victory for the
liberal candidate, incumbent Senator
Clifford P. Case, over his conservative
opponent, attorney Robert Morris.
Both of the candidates and their
supporters, including out-of-State con-
tributorS we'll known by name, accepted
this issue as the basic one in the New
Jersey campaign. Mr.. Morris attacked
Mr.. Case as too LIBERAL and a "big
Spender." Mr.. Case in turn aSsailed his
opponent as a ''McKinleyite. If there
were other factors in the contest, they
were insignificant, which means that
the Republicans, for whatever signifi-
canoe may attach to one State, have a
clear-cut measurement of liberal VS..
CONSERVATIVE sentiment.
1t is timely manifestation, for it
has become increasingly apparent in
recent weeks that the G. O. P. is facing
another of its recurrent intraparty
struggles over the same issue. Vice
President Nixon, the almost certain
presidential nominee, not only has been
clearly identified as modern Republi-
can in the Eisenhower era; he has also
shown signs of planning to pursue liber-
aliSm even further in the months imme-
diately ahead. BY contrast, Senator
Goldwater of Arizona, who also happens
to be chairman of the party'S Senatorial
Campaign Committee, has served notice
in effect that Republican disregard of
conservatism (of the real Old Guard
Variety would be disastrous to party
and Nation alike.
1t would be both too simple and
unWiSe to consider the question resolved
by approximately $4,000 voters in a
single State. Relatively speaking, New
Jerseys population is sophisticated,
largely urban and much of it industrial
"a combination of characteristics more
likely to turn it toward political liberal
ism than toward the conservatism of
other regions. 1t is not alone, however,
in possessing these characteristics. They
are found in most of the States COM
manding the largest blocS of electoral
votes 1t is probably against this back
ground that Mr.. Nixon and other party
StrategiStS, not including Mr.. Goldwater
and his faction, will weigh the New
Jersey result.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Hack Inspection

District Motor Vehicles Di-
rector George A. England and
Capt. Joseph v. Osterman,
our new hack inspector,
should be congratulated on
the decision to tighten up taxi
inspection procedures. Not
only will the general public
benefit from this approach,
but also, in the long run, so
will cab drivers and the cab
industry as a whole.
At first, some cab owners
will suffer from the necessity
to invest in their individual
cabs, but many drivers who
rent from fleets will profit
Immediately. AS it is now,
owners and mechanics of
many respectable" fleets are
callously Indifferent to the
condition of their cabs, par
ticularly as to tires, and the
not-so respectable" fleets
are maintained essentially at
expense of cab drivers who
do not have the wherewithal
to defend themselves. Re-
spectacle or unrespectable,
the individual cab driver is the
victim of such opportunism,
because it is the cab driver,
who has the personal respon-
sibility for the safety of the
public, who gets the criticism,
and who loses the time and
the money when he gets
stuck.
TheO. DeFebiO.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
City Hail. Support

The fact that so many members of
the House District Committee support
a constitutional amendment to grant
the national vote to WaShingtonianS is
hardly surprising. For these are the
Congressman who know the District of
Columbia best. They legislate for it.,
and they are better aware than most of
the deplorable injustice of the national
disfranchiSement which exists here.
For this reason, their gratifying
declarations of support, voiced in re-
Sponse to reporters questions, should
have special significance to their COL
leagues when the House finally votes
on the amendment resolution now pend
ing before its Judiciary Committee. That
resolution has only two purposes: To
permit Washington citizens to vote for
President and Vice President, and to
pave the way for the election of dele
gates to represent the District in the
House.
1t is entirely natural and proper
that several members of the District
Committee desire to wait until they
see the precise form of the legislation
before they commit themselves wholly
to it. These reservations, almost with
out exception, apply only to a portion
OF the amendment-thatp portion deal
Ing with representation in the House.
No undue concern, however, should be
raised about the details of representa-
ton at this time, for nothing in this
respect is intended. to be Settled-nor
can it be-by the proposal now before
Congress. The constitutional amend
ment would do nothing more than
authorize Congress to pass a law, in
some later year, which would provide
machinery for the election of delegates
and which would define their precise
duties and powers.
Since a majority of the District
Committee members oppose home rule"
for the District, there has been some
speculation as to whether a majority
would indorSe any form of voting rights
for the District. We have never shared
these doubts. For the District Commit
tee members knoW-aS all members of
Congress should know-that relinquiSh-
ing Congress control over the Nations
Capital is vastly different from grant
ing citizens of that Capital the right to
vote for President and to have some
voice in the legislature which exercises
complete control over them.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

indicative of a genuine con-
Germ for the conscientious be-
liefS of millions of loyal citi-
zens. He stated simply that
it was not the business of the
government; and the other
nations (if they ever did seek
such advice could more
properly seek it from the pri-
vate organizations promoting
it. This was the wise decision
of a mature statesman anx-
ious to keep the Nation uni
fed 1t respects the rights
and conscience of each side.
Mr.. NiXon's stand isn't even
considerate of the poor over
burdened taxpayer. Do we
have to be saddled with an
other tax load every time
some inspired group comes up
with an idea they want to
promote-at our expense?
There's a big difference be-
tween Ike and Nixon. We're
going to lose a great states
man-maybe his shoes are
too big to fill.
Anthony M. Madden,
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Tonque-Tied Envoys

Representative John ].
Rooney, Democrat of New
York, branded the State De-
partment's Foreign Service
Institute (for Languages as
using "hocus-pocus and
sham" I agree with Mr..
Rooney, except that he was
too kind to these arrogant
poobahS. Mr.. Rooney should
have hit them over the head
with a verbal sledgehammer.
Before World War II, I
spent four years in Europe.
I met many American en-
basSy workers" and consuls.
Not a single one that I met
knew the language of the
country, with the exception
OF one attache in our Ital-
ian Embassy who was con-
sldered brilliant by his COL
leagues because he knew two
Italian phrases, one of which,
as I recall. was come sta"
But even here he often got
balled up.
I speak, read and write
French, Italian, Spanish and
Greek. When the United
States Information Agency
got wind of what they con-
sidered my impressive back
ground they wanted to send
me to Japan, for which, of
course. I was totally unqual-
ified. This was many years
ago so I cannot report what
this agency is doing today.
Any boob can learn a for
eign language in six months,
or at least achieve an ade-
quate fluency, if he wants to.
1t requires no brains what
soever. I speak from personal
knowledge. My I. @. is about
80. at least it was only two
months ago.
Eugene Kelly.
Evening star., 1960-04-21

start in helping the Government finance
from current taxable income much Of
the massive costs of World War II. And
If tax paying can be considered pain
less" at all, it is due to Mr.. Ruml's simple
theory that the easiest time to pay is
when you have the money.
Actually, Mr.. Ruml was far more
than 'one idea" man. He was at home
in the fields of business, education, pol
iticS, government and finance. He was,
in eject, professional thinker-uncon-
ventional, imaginative and intellectually
energetic. Those who engaged the
services of his stimulating mind" were
the first to say, eve got what we asked
for"
Evening star., 1960-04-21
Cnticizes Nixon

Vice President Nixon's
statement that we should give
birth control information to
underdeveloped nations if
they come to us for it hardly
reflects the practical sense
and mature judgment one
expects of a man of presi-
dental caliber. In the first
place, there isn't a medical
group or government any,
where in the world today that
doesn't know all it needs to
about this subject. For our
Vice President to imply that
they don't, and need to come
to us to learn, must make
other countries wonder just
how much good sense Ameri-
cans have. Other countries
can only take his statement
as an insult TO their national
intelligence, and as another
unfortunate example of the
despised American sense of
superiority that is getting
us into so much trouble
throughout the world today.
A President must be a man
with a deep concern for all
groups in America. Mr.. Nix
on's statement, if followed,
would force many millions of
American citizens (not only
Catholics, but many Protes-
tants and other individuals
who cannot in conscience
promote artificial birth pre-
vention) to unwillingly take
part, through the public tax
levy, in promoting it.
President Eisenhower's
stand was Statesmanlike. and
Evening star., 1960-04-21

BIO rails into Bethesda
should be facilitated, espec-
tally If it would keep traffic
away from the main inter-
section in Bethesda so that
signal lights could be better
synchronized to keep traffic
flowing on Wisconsin avenue.
But existing practice is to
develop maximum expense for
minimum service on two
crossroads that take traffic
across the railroad to get
nowhere, Bradley boulevard
and Old Georgetown road.
while deliberately obstructing
the one and only throughway
across Bethesda, Leland
street, which never crosses
the rails but extends directly
into Little Falls parkway.
This parkway" extension of
Leland street was built, not
to facilitate traffic to River
road and Massachusetts, ave-
nue., but as a barrier or "buf-
fer zone" to aid and abet the
camouflaging of the danger
Gus railway grade-crossing on
DorSett avenue between Ken
wood and Somerset.
I know, from ample con-
facts with officials charged
with planning in the county,
that those officials have been
hampered repeatedly by poll
tical decisions, made by the
County Council, over-ruling
reasonable plans that have
been developed only to be
stymied by politics. Small
wonder that the county lost
its County Manager who, in
reSigning, issued a blast
against kangaroo courts" to
deal with political conflicts
Of interest!
Alden Potter
Evening star., 1960-04-21

started, this expensive high
way has no adequate con-
nection with any business or
employment center even in
Maryland, much less the
District. The relatively small
amount of traffic it carries
is discharged into obviously
inadequate, local arterials
often through dangerously in
adequate connections and
bottlenecks.
Everything possible seems
to have been done to make
the main intersection at
East-West highway and Wis
consin ave. (now route 240
again) in Bethesda, impass-
able. Whereupon a solution"
is planned for the resulting
congestion - a corridor"
which would virtually freeze
out all future improvements
in crosstown traffic lanes in
order to subsidize communter
traffic to outlying subdivi-
sions rather than serve the
connections between the two
existing county centers. The
one and only "90-10" route,
the Beltway (495), not only
stands unfinished but also
barred against truck service
across Rock Creek. If and
when finished it will bypass
Bethesda entirely to expedite
through traffic on a spider
web that has no radials into
Washington from Bethesda,
that are not overcrowded by
bad planning, or rather bad
politics.
It's hard to believe that
corrupt, pork-barrel politics
has not smothered sound
planning by both public and
private engineers. An eX-
ample: just common sense
would say a route which par
allels instead of crossing the
Evening star., 1960-04-21

Public works, specifically
highways, involve considera-
ton of benefits and costs,
not separately, but as a
ratio. High benefits warrant
high costs, but only if the
same benefits cannot be had
at lower costs. Toll roads
afford some test of costs;
free" roads, paid for by
taxes, do not.
Public planning that is
done by consultantS whose
fees rise, not with benefits,
but with costs, give incentive,
not to careful planning, but
to Wasteful extravaganza.
Public officials should not be
allowed to shift responsible
ty for network design to out
side experts. Fees, generally
arranged in personal con-
ferences closed to the press
and public and often &C
companied by shamelessly
legal transfers of personnel
between public and private
agencies, should be sharply
curbed. Let's consider how
such deals have worked,
specifically in Montgomery
County. Have they yielded
maximum ease and safety
for traffic at minimum cost?
Or have they given priority
to expensive white elephants
which, to the extent they
are used are resorted to
largely because lesser high
ways are neglected and
dangerous?
A specific case can be seen
in the tangle of traffic lanes
produced by the notorious
Route 240, now 7O-S, the
Washington National Pike. +"
The essence of economy is
proper priority; putting first
things first. Yet today, eX-
cept for Frederick, where it
Evening star., 1960-04-21

to let others pronounce words
the way they want to say
them.
Part Of this geniality is
due to the fact of travel.
People have got around
more, and met many more
people, so small differences
in speech do not worry them
so. They have heard every
thing!
If they note the differ
ences. they keep them to
themselves.
Really, such differences are
not in the least momentous.
They mean nothing much,
one way or the other.
Still it is interesting to
note the subtle changes Of
the ways words are pro-
nounced.
Radio and other announcers
are interesting specimens
along this line. One popular
announcer pronounces reg
ular" as if it were "reg-oo-
lar"
You have to have a fast
ear to catch it, but Temp
Jones never misses it.
He loves to listen to these
boys who always say:
This IS Station "WXYZ."
Every time one Of them
does, Temp says:
Nobody questions you,
mister. OF course it is sta
ton WXYz. I don't doubt it
in the least"
If the announcer could hear
and reply. he might respond:
We'll, who ever said you
did?"
Another of Jones pet
peeves is the fellow who used
to put the accent heavily on
COTTAGE cheese" whereas
Jones says it should be
spoken evenly and without
stress.
Evidently it is the stress
Mr.. Jones does not like.
There are enough stresses in
the world, without adding any
unnecessary ones.
Evening star., 1960-04-21
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Temp Jones was standing
in the rain, watching a man
park far down the block.
A motorist closer to him
walked up.
do you want to know what
I was doing?" he asked.
Yes" said Temp Jones.
Il was washing my car up
a Bit" the man said. This
rain is soft, and does a better
job"
Good" replied Temp Jones.
-
The man looked at Jones
admiringly.
you never miss anything,
do you?" he said.
Templeton Jones smiled,
he hoped he didn't smirk.
I'm our business" he said,
1--WE have to see things"
The man went away, and
Jones went his way, and
everybody was satisfied.
The point being, that Jones
had not been looking al the
man at all.
His gaze had been far down
the block, but if the man
cleaning his car wanted to
believe somebody was ad-
miring his handiwork. there
was no reason to tell him
differently.
+ + \
This is a bit of common
wisdom Jones has accumu-
lated over the years.
If it doesn't make any diff
ference, one way or other,
why deny anything?
1t saves a great deal of
trouble, and many words.
And often, as in this case,
it gives another human reing
a great deal of small salts
faction.
1t is another instance of
common sense in action.
Correction of others was a
popular indoor and outdoor
sport.
In the old days, children
were corrected" at all hours.
Stand up straight" and
Don't slump in your chair" D."
and Watch your STEP" and
so on.
Today's children miss a
great deal of this admonish-
ing, and they are the better
for missing it, one may feel.
Anyway, in the new days
fewer people seem to think
it necessary to correct others.
Especially is this true in the
field of pronunciation.
Fifty years ago, if you said
something with wrong ac-
cent, score would jump up
to inform you how wrong you
were.
Now, people are satisfied