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Evening star., 1960-01-01
New Strike Tactic?

AS we see it, David Mcdonald is
talking through his hat when he says
that the issue" in the steel dispute is
whether the companies will be able to
destroy the union as an effective bar
gaining force. This has about it the
ring OF propaganda designed to stiffen
the resolution of the steel workers If and
when the time comes to vote on the last
OFFER from the companies.
Mr.. Mcdonald may not be talking
through his hat, however when he hints
that the union might resume its strike
on a Selective basis after the Taft
Hartley injunction expires on January
rs. AS the union president put it: 1.-THE
Taft-Hartley Act can tell us when not to
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Blow to United Givinq

The Boy Scouts, traditionally the
doers of good deeds, have done a dis
service to the United Givers Fund and
the community at large by their decision
to break away from the once-for-all
fund-raiSing principle. The leaders Of
this fine character building organization
will have delivered serious blow to the
UGF if they stick to their plan to defy a
UGF ruling against a broadened supple
mental drive during the coming year.
1t is true, of course, that the Ma
tional Capital Area Council of the Boy
Scouts has a right to conduct its own
fund campaign If it sees At. 1t has no
right, however, to expect to remain a
member in good standing of the UGF
If it violates the sensible UGF bylaws
against independent solicitation of the
public. 1t is also true that the Boy Scout
Council has not received from the UGF
all the money it had requested as a
minimum quota. Neither have the other
charitable, welfare and health agencies
banded together in the common annual
drive for funds.
Az PCAAIllJ bA1C OOOuOo W lIl
the UGF while conducting an extra
drive among a wider group than Scout
leaders and families Of Scouts would be
to set precedent which probably would
start chain reaction among other
agencies. In fact, other agencies have
requested permission for supplemental
collections and have been refused. They
have abided by the rejection-in the
interest of preserving the united plan
AS Charles E. Phillips, president Of
the UGF, has emphasized, to let down
the bars for the Scout drive .among
friends of Scouting" might well start
stampede which could spell the end
OF united giving" in the Washington
area. Other agencies logically could
demand the right to solicit among their
friends" That would be a major ca
lamity for the many agencies now rely
Ing on one-package campaigning. 1t
would also be calamity for under
privileged children, old folks and others
who look to these agencies for aid and
for the contributing public-long ago
fed up with multiplesdriveS for money.
We earnestly hope that the Boy Scout
Council will reconsider its ill-advised
decision to go it alone.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Fireworks in Fairfax

In the f1gurative sense, Fairfax
County has been witnessing the revival
of an old Southern custom-plenty Of
fireworks for Christmas. It has not been
a very edifying spectacle, however, and
one may trust that the New Year will
see an end to 1t.
The Yuletide show began on Deem
Der % when Mrs. Anne wilkins, member
of the County Board of Supervisors,
raised question as to whether certain
fees paid to Sheriff John Taylor and
Douglas S. MackalI III, an assistant
commemorative attorney, violated
State conflict of interest laws Mrs.
wilkins said she was making no accusa-
tion. But the raising of the question,
by itself, carried an implication of
wrongdoing.
Upon investigation, however, Mrs
wilkins question turned out to be dud.
Mr.. Mackall did not receive any fee. And
the SIS paid Sheriff Taylor for apprais-
ing piece Of property not only was
proper, but had in fact been approved
and ordered by the court. Quite prop
erly, the Board Of Supervisors promptly
ruled that there had been no conflict
of interest.
Appearing before the board, Sheriff
Taylor charged that this malicious and
unwarranted attack" was "motivated by
a craven desire to seek revenge against
the commemorative attorney, who was
directed by the Board Of Supervisors to
investigate Mrs. wilkins husband on
charges of conflict of interest" This
referred to an incident earlier in the
month, when the board dismissed
Donald wilkins as chairman Of the
County Hospital Commission while
holding, at the same time, that conflict
of interest charges against him had not
been sustained.
Mrs. wilkins, of course, diSclaims
any such motivation, and we do not
know what the fact as to this may be.
Certain things, however, are clear be-
yond dispute. The feuding in Fairfax
is unfair to the individuals involved, is
bad for the county, and resolve to stop
1t ought to lead the New Years list of
all concerned.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
New Year, New Decade

With the advent Of 1860 one decade
ends and another begins, and man as
usual, having made his midnight toaStS
and his fresh resolves for the new year.
looks to the future with a mixture of
hopes and fears born of his inability to
divine what will happen tomorrow or the
day after.
But all of us. since we have lived
through them, are we'll acquainted with
the nature of the past ten years. And
so our parting with them now. as far
as international events are concerned.
does not generate much sweet sorrow,
or an urge to cry out Thanks for the
memory" For the 1950s, despite every
thing that was good in them in other
respects, have made history chiefly as
a time of great anxiety in the world,
time of tumult, trouble and tragedy, a
time when a wrong decision here or
there might have resulted in global
catastrophe
Let us look back for a moment on
this bygone decade 1t brought with it
the Korean War. 1t brought with it the
perfection of the indescribably terrible
hydrogen bomb. 1t brought with it Red
China's emergence as a major inter-
national menace. And 1t brought with
it such other things as the Kremlin's
brutal suppression Of Hungary's revolt
for freedom, the continuing crisis in the
Middle East, upheaval in Africa, serious
stresses in Latin America, the grimly
constant development of deadly inter
continental ballistic missiles, the Soviet
led race in outer space, new Russian
threats to Berlin, and a general atmos-
phere of tension as grave and explosive
as the world has ever experienced.
Within recent months, however,
certain changes for the better have
taken place. Soviet Premier KhruShchev
has visited our country. Tensions have
eased a bit A still-incipient thaw has
begun to affect the cold war, and East
and West have agreed to meet at a
summit conference in Paris in the
spring. OF course, 1t must be remem-
bered that the same type Of conference
failed miserably at Geneva in 1885, and
a similar failure may be recorded again.
Even so, all things considered, the out
look at the start Of 1860 is more hopeful
than it was last year or the year before,
and there is therefore reason for
encouragement.
In any event, given resoluteness on
the part of the free world, we can be
confident of the future. The new year,
after all, has no power in itself to shape
or determine our fate. That Is some
thing that depends primarily on us and
on how we react-wiSely or unwisely,
nobly or ignobly-to the challenges of
our time.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Help for the Rural Sick

Virginia'S medical scholarship pro-
gram to provide doctors and dentists for
rural communities has proved to be an
effective means of improving public
health in the State. Since the plan went
into effect in 1912 more than 90 doctors
have hung up their shingles in farming
or other communities where no pro-
feSSional medical help had been avail
able. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
lives have been saved and much suffering
has been relieved as result of prompt
medical attention in such rural areas
Under the program, instituted under
a law sponsored by Arlington State
Senator Charles r. Fenwick, scholar
ships worth 81 900 are granted medical
and dental students who agree to prac-
tice in an area where such professional
services are not to be had, or are willing
to serve as interneS in rural hospital
or a State mental institution. There
are 40 scholarships for white students
and 10 for colored. Graduates of the
system are scattered throughout the
State.
Senator Fenwick has announced
that he will seek changes in the law at
the forthcoming session of the General
Assembly, with view to making the
program even more attractive to medical
students. Any broadening of the plan
that will encourage the flow of more
doctors and dentists to areas where
they are still badly needed would be in
the public interest.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
PeriIs of SMOKING

1 read in your Sunday pa
per of December 81 that
Industry Seen Top Cause of
Lung Cancer.
I take it that DR.. Hueper
says cigarette smoking has
nothing to do with the in
crease in lung cancer. How
does he account that smokers
have lung cancer in larger
numbers than non-smokers?
Smoking must aggravate the
condition that leads to can
GER. I do not believe that lung
cancer would decrease with
the smog-laden atmosphere
cleared to any great extent
If cigarette smoking keeps
increasing. Not only should
the air be cleared of smog but
cleared OF tobacco smoke and
fumes.
Raney COppadge.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
TODAY WOULDN'T COUNT
Time for a New Calendar?

day and Sunday in most
countries. Also. the majority
Of schools and businesses
consider Monday as the first
day of the week, and the
calendar is printed this way
in many European countries.
In this revised calendar.
the months always begin on
significant weekdays: Mon
day. Wednesday. and Friday.
Each quarter has 81 days
with three complete months
Of 80. 80. 81 days.
This calendar has been
widely Endorsed as the most
practical l2-month plan ever
proposed. Its international
adoption will benefit the
entire social and economic
world. 1t will save hundreds
Of thousands Of hours now
wasted yearly due to figuring
with a shifting and unequal
calendar. This present loss
occurs in all scheduling and
comparison work, and in all
business. industrial, and social
accounting throughout the
civilized world.
THE Perpetual Calendar"
will be Of inestimable value.
1t will actually save hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars an
nually. All insurance and
transportation companies. all
banking, bookkeeping. and
tax people. and all schools
and colleges throughout the
world will benefit. Also. think
how much easier 1t will be to
remember wedding anniver-
saries and all other annual
events. They will always be
associated with both a fixed
weekday and a monthly date.
Willard E. Edwards,
Originator Of The Per-
petual Calendar"
Evening star., 1960-01-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Or a little tablet, no larger
than the end of your little
finger, make all the Diff
ference in the world.
Whereas in the past the
sufferer was frowned upon
and regarded as some sort
Of moral leper. perhaps. to-
day he is regarded as i'll, a
person needing treatment.
Even alcoholic excess.
once looked upon as some
thing to mock and laugh at,
is held to be durable by
chemical means.
Poor souls in institutions,
lost to respectability, can be
given certain tablets that, In
a short time. turn them into
tractable, even social beings.
1t is not all sunshine, of
course. Often the tablets,
som e i'm S disrespectfully
called pills, will not work
their wonders.
Still, the fact remains that
people today have more
chance to be helped than
ever before. 1t cannot be done
by amateurs. Real experts
are necessary. The rub comes
in finding them.
Not every one is an expert
who looks grave and uses big
words, or words at least
strange to the hearer.
= =
No one should regard the
blues" as intractable who
has not tried. some of the
modern marvels of chemistry.
There is another phase of
the matter.
Today we have Freud.
II you get to wondering
about yourself, and feel low
and depressed. try to think
back over what that great
man taught humanity.
Worries of past ages are
faded into something like
their true perspective, if we
know just a little about
modern psychoanalysis.
BY some, this remedy may
be called cynicism. Let us
call it the curative use o.
doubt. Human psychology
is so old that it is very hard
to undo what has been done.
Still, something may be done,
and often it is helpful.
Helping the discouraged is
not, after all, a joke. 1t is
something that needs SYM
pathy. and knowledge. In
the latter category must
come, now, chemistry and
psychiatry.
Evening star., 1960-01-01

365.2425 days. This is accu-
rate enough for all of our
ordinary practical purposes.
There is no need to change
the Gregorian correction for
determining the length Of the
average calendar year.
In fact, astronomy does
not require consideration in
present calendar revision
problems in any way. There
are simply two outstanding
faults Of the current civil
calendar. First, it lacks f1xity:
and second, its internal di-
visions are unequal. These
two fatal faults result in much
inconvenience and great an
nual expense in the social
and business worlds.
But these faults are cor
rected in The Perpetual
Calendar" a proposal for a
new international standard
civil calendar.
The Perpetual Calendar"
begins with New Years Day"
as a day apart from any
week. This is the most logi-
cal day for the purpose. be-
ing already a regular holi-
day. 1t is followed by a 364-
day year starting with Mon
day, January /. This calen-
dar has IS working days in
each month, plus rest days
or Sabbaths. and Christmas
and other proposed holidays
fall on Mondays. The lst
and 18th Of all months fall
on weekdays, and there are
no "unlucky" Fridays-the-
18th.
The Perpetual Calendar"
may be printed with either
Sunday or Monday as the
first day Of the week. How
ever. "the week end" is al
ready considered as Satur-
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Our Objectivity

The Evening Star is to be
congratulated for its timely
placing Of the picture Of two
Arab refugee girls in the edi-
ton for December rs. Your
newspaper once again indi-
Gated that it is willing to pre-
sent its readers with the
whole truth of the Arab
Israeh dispute.
Your objectivity in this
matter should be eulogized
many times. Your many
readers admire your stand on
this matter: may it persist
relentlessly. lr. b. S. Fortner.
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Moscow's Poison Pen
A man may be measured

A man may be measured
by the enemies he makes.
A Pravda article broadcast
by Moscow radio December
% continues the castigation
of Nelson Rockefeller for his
policies based on suspicion
Of the present Soviet cam
paign for friendlier relations
with the West.
The signer Of this Pravda
article is v. Zorin. described
as a leading commentator on
foreign affairs.
Valerian Zorin, deputy for
eign minister of the USSR,
who has represented it in
the disarmament negotiations
and is an outstanding ex-
ponent of peaceful coexist-
ence." should be inerasably
branded in Western memory
as the man who planned and
Evening star., 1960-01-01
To the Editor Of The Stor:

The lack Of fixity of our
present calendar and the in
equalities of its internal divi-
sions are fatal faults. Adop-
tion Of a more logical ar
rangement is highly desirable.
If the United Nations ap-
proves adoption of a new
civil calendar, everyone could
benefit.
Our seasonal calendar was
considered corrected by Rome
in 1882. The Julian Calendar
averaged 365.25 days, where
as the solar year is 365.2422
days in length. An annual
gain in the calendar Of .007S
day had thus occurred be-
tween AID. 325 and 1882. BY
the latter date. spring was
arriving on March IL. This
was two weeks before the
beginning Of the Christian
year at that time. Ten cal
endar days October 5-l4
were therefore dropped in
1882 to make the next vernal
equinox occur on March 81,
1888. At the same time, the
beginning Of the year was
moved from March IS to jan
uary l. These changes were
not accepted by Great Britain
and her colonies until 1852.
Pope Gregory XIII changed
the leap-year rule in 1882.
OF all the years ending in
two zeros. only those divisi-
bic by 400 would henceforth
be counted as leap years.
There are now 81 leap years
Of 366 days and 303 years
Of 365 days every 400 years.
This correction of the Julian
calendar gave us our present
average calendar year Of
Evening star., 1960-01-01
Finds Ways of Government Devious and WostefuI
Raney COppadge.

took physical examinations
and received inoculations
for overseas. Nothing further
was heard. Due to the con-
tinued interest of Senator
Heating, I finally was given
a temporary assignment in
the Washington Office of ICA
at $45 per day as a consult
ing expert" During this
period I have been asked for
only two reports on sanitary
problems zone out of my
field. / prepared ten letter
size pages in all-at a cost
of $5. 400 American tax dol
lars. The worlds leading ex-
pert in the field, DR.. Nc
Donald Of London, could
have been obtained for less!
In the interim the official
who agreed to hire me has
resigned (?) advising me he
had a mutiny on his hands"
in the ICA due to employing
me.
I was asked in a Sneerlng
way by a top official in ICA
why my Honorable Senator
did not appoint me an am
bassador! deeply regret the
lack of respect this outstand-
ing Senator has received.
Now. as I leave the ICA =.
my job is not important, I
personally am not important.
What is important is that
SIS, 400 tax dollars of the
American people were thrown
down a hole, the ICA has
stood firm against me, and it
is important that the Ameri-
can public knows that the
hammer and sickle still casts
a shadow In Washington.
PanteIis T. MilOus.
Evening star., 1960-01-01

The American people ought
to know what may happen
to any person today who re-
fuses to lend his name in
support OF one he believes
to be anti-American and
pro- Communist.
I dared in August, 1858, to
refuse to indorse the recruit
ment into a Department Of,
State program of such a
questionable person in Jor-
dan. where I was employed
by the World Health Organi-
cation "a United Nations
agency as a sanitarian.
Millions Of dollars are being
spent in such projects. This
person was being considered
for training in the Interna-
tional Cooperation Admin
istration- World Health Or
ganization Joint training
school.
Immediately I was with
drawn" by the WHO for
failing to establish salts
factory working relations
with the local (Jordan) au-
thoritieS" although I
have a letter written by the
Ambassador of Jordan as
follows: II have been in
structed by His Excellency
the Prime Minister to inform
you that the services of Mr..
Pantelis T. Milous, the ma
laria advisor in Jordan, we're
quite satisfactory. Mr.. Milous
has succeeded in establishing
good relations with the con-
cerned authorities in the
Jordan government"
Upon my return home I
submitted an application In
Evening star., 1960-01-01
LETTERS TO THE STAR

executed the rape Of Czecho-
slovakia.
The attack by Zorin makes
Gov. Rockefeller's star rise
even higher in the estimation
OF alert Americans.
Mrs. Chase S, Osborn,
Evening star., 1960-01-01

February. 1859, to the State
Department, International
Cooperation Administration,
where several vacancies over
seas in my field we're known
to exist. My application and
qualifications we're received
with enthusiastically to be
soon followed by various ex-
cuses, evidently due to check
ing with the WHO. with
which ICA works closely. I
was labeled a trouble-maker,
being unqualified and even
a security risk Though I was
cleared August, 1859, by the
FBI and Navy Department
in connection with job in
Guam. Various excuses we're
offered by ICA for their in
ability to hire me.
/ was advised by friends at
this stage to seek the assist
ance of the courageous SEN
ator from my adopted State
of New York, Hon. Kenneth
B. Keating. whose outspoken
attitude toward communism
is well known. I shall always
treasure deep in my heart
the immediate response of
Senator Keating, who shook
my hand and expressed his
opinion that I was "the kind
of American who should rep
resent us overseas" He urged
the ICA to consider my ap-
plication for employment.
Finally, on July q, 1859,
the ICA agreed to hire me.
Upon being so informed by
Senator Heating I gave up q
position I had otained in the
meantime with the govern
ment of Guam. AS instructed
by the ICA, my wife and I
Evening star., 1960-01-01
"15th STREET.

Dear Sir:
Il am in the dumps. dis
couraged and blue. So I turn
to you, whose cheering words
have from time to time
helped me and others.
Il wonder what practical
thing one can do when feel
ing this way? If you ask peo-
pie. they invariably like to
turn the matter into a joke.
/ suppose that is the easiest
way. 1t makes the queStioner
shy Of ever asking.
1T seems to me that there
is more to- this than Just
something to joke about. The
sad feeling arrives when one
feels best, physically, and
what one has said or done
seems to have little to do
with it.
rs it a moral problem?
Somehow. I do not feel that
1t is, but that it is a situa-
tion I have arrived in, and
do not know exactly how to
work my way out. Can you
help me?
Yours truly, j. S. W."
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Today's people have a
remedy no other age ever
had.
1t is the chemical route.
Chemistry has at last es-
capped the alchemists and
come of age.
Now we know something of
what ails us, and how it may
be corrected. The use of the
remedy is called chemo-
therapy.
In the past, when people
felt this way. it was called
original sin, or something.
Now we know that origi-
nality has nothing to do with
it, or very little.
The trouble may be the
lack of a certain hormone,
or vitamin. or engine.
Without this entity, the
tiny cells in a certain place,
say the chest, cannot breathe
correctly.
That will be all there is
to it, in certain cases.
Poor things. poor cells!
How can they function
properly, when they cannot
breathe?
Supplying the proper foods
may. through the chemical
route. make up the def
cheney.