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Evening star., 1960-07-21
Bigger Biz Leagues?

1t was only after many years of
stubborn Stay-at-home policies that
major league baseball became adven-
turesome enough to spread out around
the country. In the shifting of fran
chises which has taken place during the
past decade, the older National League
has Jared well--first tapping the rich
Milwaukee area and then reaching all
the way to the West Coast to run up its
flag in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
1t has now decided it may click some
more profitable urnStileS-perhapS back
in New York, which once loved its
Giants, and perhaps in wealthy Houston.
Our own American League, which once
traded st. Louis for Baltimore and Phil
adelphia for Kansas City, already is on
record as interested in new fields and
the possibility of two ten-team leagues.
There are many problemS-first Of
them being where to find enough ball
players of big league caliber-but none
appears inSurmountable. We're happy
right now with our own Scrappy Sem
ators and hope there will be no more
suggestions that they would look better
somewhere else On that condition, the
more the merrier elsewhere in U. S. A.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Different Mr.. Taft

1t is appalling to think that man
with the background of Robert A. Taft,
jr., could be so totally ignorant of the
Nations Capital and so inSenSible to the
plight of its residents.
Mr.. Taft, according to reports from
Chicago, has taken the position that Re-
publican support for ratification of the
constitutional amendment giving Wash
ingtonianS the right to vote for President
and Vice President is too trivial matter
to be included in the party platform
His reasoning, as far as it can be fol-
lowed, is that the right to vote in Wash
ington is local problem, no more de-
serving of national attention than local
difficulties in his home town of Cincin-
natl.
Apparently the younger Mr.. Taft
does not realize, however, that Washing
ton belongs not to the people here, but
to the Nation, and that its welfare is
a national responsibility. Apparently he
does not know that the Republicans and
Democrats elected to national office are
its only mayor and city council Appar-
emily he is unaware that Washingto-
nians-alone among Americans-inad-
vertently were deprived of the vote by
the national Constitution, and that only
the people of the Nation, through ratifi-
cation by their State legislatures, can
rectify this ill.,
If Mr.. Taft's lack of understanding,
and lack of concern, were typical, the
plight of Washington would be serious
indeed. We are certain that this is not
the case. 1t is inconceivable that
sounder heads in Chicago will not in
clude in the proceedings of their party
plea to correct this denial of citizen
ship, just as the Democrats did in Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Why Trust Them?

In the next two years, according to
present plans, our country will set off
II underground nuclear explosions as
part of a research and experimental
program designed to work out an effec-
tive detecting system for a ban on
acknowledgement tests of all types.
AS explained by our Government
this program will not involve military
devices, and it will be carried out in
concert with similar undertakings by
Britain and the Soviet Union. However,
although they have agreed to it in prin-
ciple, the Russians have made their
acceptance of the idea so conditional
that there is more than little reason
to doubt that they really intend to CO.
operate with us in effectuating it.
At any rate, after almost two years
of Anglo American Soviet teSt-ban talks
at Geneva, the Kremlin still fights shy
of taking part in measures aimed at
establishing policing methods in which
everybody could have confidence. Mean
while, through all the long months of
these talks, our country-together with
Britain-haS debarred itself from stag
ing any kind of nuclear detonation. This
we have done on the trustful assumption
that the USSR has likewise refrained
from conducting such explosions, but
we actually have no way of knowing for
sure whether or not they have been
cheating on us.
For the simple truth is, as our Joint
Congressional Atomic Committee has
warned, that "for the next several years
at least it will not be possible to detect
and identify various types and magni-
tudeS of highly significant underground
nuclear blasts. Thus it is entirely con-
ceivable that the Russians for months
developmental efforts in this field, have
been carrying out clandestine program
of tests that could give them a decisive
advantage over us in things like missile
warheadS and revolutionary small nu-
clear weapons.
This possibility is not to be laughed
of. The Russians have maneuvered us
into an unpoliced test ban, and we can
not be certain-eSpecially in view of
their record of broken promises and
their present hate America campaign
that they are not violating that ban to
a fare-thee-well. In the circumstances,
we had better start thinking most
seriously about reSuming underground
nuclear detonations, not just for re-
search but for military progress vital
to our security.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Still q War of Words

When our Government makes it
"unequivocally clear" that it will take
any action necessary" to keep Soviet
military forces out of the Congo a
shooting war becomes a definite posi-
bility. Happily, however, this is still
war of words, and there is reason to
believe it will remain so.
The Congo'S Premier, Patrice Lu-
mumba, has put out rather fuzzy
statement to the effect that his cab
met had voted to appeal for Russian
military assistance unless Belgian troops
leave the Congo Immediately" In his
,propaganda-packed address to the Sc
curity Council, however, the Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister, Vastly Kuznet-
Sov, did not say that the SovietS will
move into the Congo. Instead, he urged
the council to require the withdrawal of
all Belgian troops within three days"
This leaves some room for maneu-
yer. AS United Nations troops move in,
Belgian forces are withdrawing from
Leopoldville to their treaty bases, and
1T is hoped to have all of them out
of the capital by Saturday night. OBJ
vi0usly, however, the Belgian soldiers
cannot and will not be withdrawn from
all Of their positions in the vast Congo,
and the U. N. resolution, while COM
manding withdrawal, sets no time limit.
The Belgian troops are there to pro-
tect, as best they can, Belgian civilians
from the atrocities of mutinous Con-
golese soldiers. The Belgian Foreign
Minister has said that Belgian forces
would have been traitors" to the most
elementary human principles if they
had looked the other way while "hor-
rorS" were being committed against Bel
gian women and children in the Congo.
The record on this is too clear to per-
NIT of dispute. Mr.. Lumumba'S govern
forces, and thus the Belgians had to
move in. They must, of course, be with
drawn-but not until the U. N. force
has been built up to a point at which
it can maintain order.
In this situation, the burden rests
on the Russians. They voted for the
Security Council resolution and they
ought to support it. The temptation
to move into the Congo will be great,
however, and if they succumb to it
anything can happen. u N. Secretary
General Dag :Hammarskjold put it we'll
when he said: "We are at a turn of
the road where our attitude will be
of decisive significance, believe, not
only for the future of this organiza-
ton but also for the future of Africa.
And Africa may well in present cir
cumStances mean the world"
Evening star., 1960-07-21
In Appreciation

In be h alf Of Jehovah's S
Witnesses who have Just
completed their "Peace-Pur-
suing District Assembly" at
Griffith Stadium. I wish to
express our sincere apprecia-
ton for the courtesy and
fairness with which you dealt
with this event.
Milton G. Henschel, con-
vention chairman, suggested
to the 28,551 at the final ses-
sion that an expression of
gratitude be made to all who
helped make the assembly a
success, The suggestion was
received with resounding ap-
plause.
We have appreciated the
cooperation you have given
us and hope our news service
department supplied you with
all the information and help
that you may have desired.
All of our associations with
members of your staff have
been very pleasant, and we
are sure they will continue
to be so.
Thomas J. Rice,
News Service Director,
Watchtower Convention
Evening star., 1960-07-21
New Look at Write-OHs

The Treasury Department, assisted
by the Small Business Administration,
has launched limited tax inquiry that
should draw full and prompt co-opera-
ton from the Nations industrial COM
munity. Through queStionnaires being
sent to approximately 5000 firms, the
two agencies are seeking information on
taX-depreciation allowances which might
be used as basis for revising admins
trative regulations or for recommending
liberalization of statutory requirements.
Several circumstances have in
creased the need for new look at the
rules by which industry is allowed to
write off the costs of plant moderniza-
ton and expansion. Despite tremendous
capital investment and great techno-
logical developments in the postwar
period, authoritative surveys show that
the pace of obSoleScence has quickened
in much of the country's over all indus
trial plant A recent Johns Hopkins
University study, for example, empha-
sized particularly the danger in the
machine tool field and trade sources in
that industry estimate that replacement
needs run as high as sos billion.
Imitation has compounded the prob
lem. One study reports that recent re-
placement in single plant of eight
machine tools originally costing 5000
required outlay of 100000, and pre-
tax earnings of S844,000 to cover this
cost Failure or inability to modernize,
on the other hand, imposes the semi
hidden costs of less efficient production
and a cumulative drag on the national
rate of economic growth.
UnderStandably, the Treasury De-
partment has legitimate concern about
potential loss of revenue from liberal
ization of depreciation allowances. Pro-
ponents Of liberalization, however, argue
that the stimulating effect on plant in
veStment would yield off-Setting in
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Francis T. Mcbride
Critic to Critic

The function of the mu-
sic critic, or the critic of
art or literature. for that
matter, is to incite interest
and curiosity in the audience
to pave the way to popular
comprehension, to encourage
reverence and admiration
for the best, to support eX-
cellence of performance, to
praise judiciously, to blame
with intelligent discrimina-
tion, and to aid the perform
ance in arouSing in the au-
dience the noblest feelings,
leading to catharsis in the
ancient Greek sense Of the
word, For this task the critic
needs not only some ability
to write but the too often
sorely lacking knowledge of
the reflnementS of perform
ance, in this case of both
music and opera.
Measured by these stand
ards, The Stars musical
criticisms of the New York
Festival of the Opera sank to
a new low in their almost un-
alloyed vituperation. The
language displayed abysmal
ignorance of any but the most
superficial concepts of these
operas. The well-nigh unre-
lieved venom was inappropri-
ate, indeed disgraceful, in
the Nations Capital; and in
sharp contrast to the reviews
in the Post and in many cities
throughout the Nation which
have enjoyed the perform
anceS of this opera COM
pany, with its distinguished
Metropolitan Opera stars, its
good cast, its experienced
direction and its brilliant
conductor. Fortunately for
Washington's reputation, the
public. by its attendance and
by its enthusiastic applause,
showed far superior taste to
that of the music critics.
DR.. MOllie Ray Carroll.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
For Better Offense

Defense" is defined as
". resistance against at
tack" Our whole military
strategy is based on this re-
Sistance plus a reciprocal
suicide" retaliation philoso-
ply. Retaliation against nom
Combatants may be a de-
terrent to honorable leaders
who have the welfare of their
people at heart. Who but an
idiot would describe the lead
ers of Red China and Russia
as honorable?
Vengeful retaliation against
cities and citizens does not
connote military strength, as
any Of the major nations of
the world can destroy a num-
Der of these targets. Cities
are the most prominent and
easiest of the potential tar
gets to hit. Other than wan
ton and needless destruction,
what is accomplished?
We must revise our strategy
and improve our potential
so that we can hit the op-
posing military force and
take it out" with a few we'll
directed blows.
Victory is seldom won by
defense alone. 1t may gain us
a stalemate for awhile, but
more than likely it would
lead to our defeat and de-
Struction.
Our military must be al
lowed to develop an often
sive strategy and weapons
that are capable of detecting,
attacking and defeating the
Evening star., 1960-07-21

Templeton Jones never
thought he would live to see
the day when he would be
sentimental about street.
cars, but here he was, riding
across the old Calvert Street
Bridge, not exactly with
tears in his eyes, but just
imagining it was the last
Streetcar.
He was on the last car, he
thought. After this there
would be no more.
Nobody would ever see a
streetcar again.
The pleasant broad aisles,
plenty of room Git was on
Evening star., 1960-07-21
THE POLITICAL MILL
Guesses Selecting the No. 7 Man
By GOULD LINCOLN

voting for the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. But
since 1854 the Democrats
have been electing more and
more Governors and Sena-
tors and Representatives
although in 1856, these
States all jumped on the
Eisenhower bandwagon
again. 1t was the farmers
thronging to the Eisenhower
standard. just as they had
kept voting for Roosevelt
some years earlier.
To offset the expected
johnson aid to the Kennedy
ticket in the South, where
the Republicans had hoped
to duplicate the Eisenhower
feat-carrying four or five of
the States of the old Solid
South-it is argued that
Senator Thruston Morton Of
Kentucky. a border State,
will be the proper running
mate for Mr.. Nixon. Senator
Morton has been a popular
and effective Republican Ma
tional Chairman. He is
known throughout the coun-
try. Indeed, he has much to
commend him to the COP.
delegates. He is an excellent
speaker. a decisive forward
looking man.
Rockefeller in Background
In the background Of con-
lectures about the vice pres
idential nomination, however.
hovers the name and figure
of Governor Rockefeller of
New York. Notwithstanding
his many assertions he will
not accept a nomination for
second place. there remains
a strong suspicion in the
minds of many of the Repub-
licans now gathering that
Gov. Rockefeller can be had
at the proper time.
Gov. Rockefeller's personal
staff insists the Governor
has nothing to do with the
frantic efforts of the national
Draft Rockefeller committee
to pin cant win" label on
Mr.. Nixon. Staff members
are inclined to dismiss the
drafters as amateurs"
The head of the drafters'
organization, which has been
at work in 81 States, is VIII
liam c. Brinnton. A San
Francisco lawyer. He is anx-
ious to have Gov. Rockefel-
ler's name placed before the
national convention - for
President.
Sunday night, Gov. Rookie
feller, who heads New York's
big delegation, has called a
caucus of the delegates. Out
of that caucus meeting is
expected to come a decision
on whether the Governor will
permit, or decline a formal
nomination before the entire
convention. Those close to
him insist if his name is to
be proposed to the conven-
ton for President, the move
will not come from New York.
What the New York delega-
tion does-under Rockefeller
leadership - Sunday night
may give a real clue to the
part the Governor will seek
to play.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Ugly Americans

The overwhelming current
of anti-American feeling
sweeping around the world
seems totally Incompetent
sible. We have the blood of
every nation on earth in our
veins, and yet, hardly anyone
likes Americans.
Could it be that they have
not seen evidence of their
own blood in most Of the
Americans sent to their
countries in our foreign aid
programs? An American with
a foreign background, raised
in a home where some of
the old customs are still OBJ
served by his parents and
grandparents, understands
the people of his ancestral
homeland. There is an en-
pathy which no older gen.
Grafton American, far re-
moved from his origins, is
aware Of. AS a first gen.
Grafton American myself, I
have firsthand knowledge of
this.
There is a curiosity to know
from whence you sprung, and
since it is such a natural,
human curiosity, it is &C
cepted and welcomed by the
people you are trying to
know. They are eager to let
you in. because you are not
really an outsider to them.
BY the same token, they are
not odd creatures, with
strange habits to you. It
really works this way with
people.
These Americans of varied
background are a secret
weapon that we have been
keeping too secret. Let's send
them out to make capitalists
OF the people of the world.
Small business, owned by the
local people, backed by our
foreign aid capital, and
stated with American techni-
cal and business advisers can
put these people to work for
themselves. Busy people have
no time for riots and success
full capitalists are not good
Communists.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Potent Postscript to Poll on Pills

the pharmacist. How much
benefit would she derive from
a physicians diagnosis If she
took that piece of paper, put
it in her pocket and forgot
all about it?
The fact is that the practice
Of medicine, on which the
well-being of the commun-
ity depends, cannot be COM
plete and successful, with
out the practice of pharmacy
by skilled pharmacists. That
piece of paper known as a
prescription, which bears the
promise of proper manage
ment of disease or even cure,
is worthless unless you take
it to the pharmacist.
The average prescription
brings the pharmacist the
enormous gross profit of 33
to 40 per cent. 1t costs about
80 per cent to do business,
which should give you a fair
idea how the pharmacist "ex-
ploitS" his customers. It may
also interest the public that
the pharmacist makes a profit
only on the merchandise he
dispenses. He does not charge
for time, labor and skill, the
way other specialists and
craftsmen do. The average
employed pharmacist. after
five years Of study, earns less
than a journeyman carpen-
ter.
The same people who hit
the ceiling when they have
to pay for a medicine which
nine times out of ten will al
lay their suffering, walk next
door into the liquor store and
plunk down $5, $40 or SIS for
liquor which will ruin their
livers.
B. S. BercOvici.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

Those who meet the pub
lie" day after day, know that
the sick person would swoop
down on the innocent phar-
macist and accuse him of
having dispensed the wrong
medicine and probably en-
dangered his life.
No pharmacist I know has
ever been able to pacify a
dubious and frightened
patient by honest, friendly
and professional explanation
once panic, born of doubt,
has crept into a patients
mind. The dissimilarity Of the
tablets attacks his sense Of
security no matter what the
explanation. So the pollster
did not know what he was
talking about when he asked
the question, and the polled
ones did not know what they
were talking about when they
answered yes or no. The only
intelligent answer came from
the 81 per cent who ad-
mitted they didn't know.
They didn't.
The wife of a New England
architect told the pollster
that her doctor knows what
he is prescribing, that she
would trust her doctor more
than her druggist.
She insulted one of the
most honorable and indiS-
penSable professions. Actu-
ally the average pharmacist
is a better pharmacist than
the average doctor is a ply
Sician. Most pharmacists
practice with not one damag-
ing or fatal mistake. l Won
der how many physicians can
say as much for themselves.
That should inspire trust in
Evening star., 1960-07-21

creaseS in revenue and 1t is pointed out
that Canada recently was able to lower
its corporation income tax rate, without
overall revenue loss, after authorizing
greater depreciation allowances. In any
case, industry views as now sought by
the Government agencies should be
helpful in measuring both the need and
the effects in time for either administra-
tive or legislative consideration next
year.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

Your piece People Want
Full Data on Drugs, Poll
Shows" again emphasizes the
truth that polls can be one
sided, depending on what
questions are asked and how.
The unpleasant thing about
that poll which asked to know
if medicines should be pre-
scribed with generic terms or
for brand medicaments, is
that only the minority an
swered correctly with a reply
that makes sense: They did
not know"
From the point of view of
the doctor and pharmacist,
both of whom know what
they are talking about, the
problem is not as simple as
the pollster wants to make it.
Assuming the physician
wants to put his patient on
prednisone, a medicine made
notorious by the Kefauver
Committee, the members Of
which also knew very little of
what they were talking about,
he is confronted with an item
made by at least rs manufac-
turers, each with a tablet
varying in size, shape and
color.
Most patients are not loyal
to one pharmacist; others
are forced to move from one
neighborhood to another,
from one city to another. If
pharmacist x should dis
pense the prednisone tablet
by manufacturer Y and the
patient should have it re-
filled by pharmacist 2, the
patient would have connip-
ton fits if the second batch
of tablets-although identical
chemically-should be of diff
ferent color, size and shape.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

the morning of July 4 and
everybody else but Jones
seemed asleep in bed), the
clickity-clack of the rails,
the slam of the door, the
clang of the bell.
All these struck our pas
senger as something happy
and not to be forgotten
lightly.
Soon he was bowling along
down Eighteenth street, the
newly widened Eighteenth
street.
How different and how
much better the thorough
fare looked.
A somewhat drab street,
in the mixed change from
former residence to not yet
complete business, it yet had
two of the best features, a
hill, and a blocked vista.
The slight turn in the
street, just north Of U, cut
off the view to the South.
So much has been said of
the advantage of vista that
sometimes one may think
it has been overdone.
The famous element of
surprise may be attained
even in a crowded city, if
the straightaway is not too
straight.
4 Il
1t was many years ago, in
the city by the Potomac,
that our friend Jones made
his first acquaintance with
streetcars.
1t is the fashion, of course,
to talk about horse cars, and
the like, when one goes into
"reminiscences of this type,
but Templeton Jones re-
membered the cars much as
they are today.
He will never forget the
time when he stepped blithe-
ly off the rear end of a Four
teenth streetcar, holding a
very heavy suitcase in his
right hand, and how the
weight of the baggage tum-
bled him all over the street.
The memory of it is pain
full yet.
Evening star., 1960-07-21
Ann COlaruSsC
Thank You Note

On behalf of the Virginia
horsebreeders and ourselves,
we want to thank you for
the excellent coverage you
gave the Virginia Tour" on
June 25 and 26. We very
much appreciated having
Mrs. Anne Christmas with
us, and are glad to know
that you have an interest in
this phase of the horse
business.
Humphrey S. Finney.
Evening star., 1960-07-21

opposing force or forces
wherever they may be.
The present defense
strategy makes the free
world the battle pit" This
is borne out by our expressed
military policy: Ito maintain
a military that will effective
ly deter or defeat Communist
military aggression" This by
its very nature is defensive.
1t is undeniable that
strength prevents conflicts;
paSSiveness precipitateS con-
flictS.