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Evening star., 1960-06-14
Going to a Fire, Bud?

1t comes as no surprise to us, in
these days, that the electronic and au-
tomotive industries have now developed
an electronic highway on which cars
will need no drivers. Everybody aboard
will be just a passenger with nothing
to do except relax about the traffic and
enjoy the scenery. Wires in the road
and automatic pilots built into the au-
tomobileS will do the work
Presumably, this offers promise of
some sort or other. Still, it seems ap-
propriate to warn that this kind of tech
biological advance has some "bugs" of
It's own What for example, is going to
Evening star., 1960-06-14
Rejects Theory of Rift Between Russia and China

other areas, including the
United States, if the Com
muniSts have their way, will
be the unfortunate targets
of Red Chinese expansion
ism, and not the Soviet Un-
ion. Indeed, these objectives,
if they are to be at all real
lied. will require the COM
plete cooperation of Red
China and Russia.
In short, the popular rift
theory. can be strongly criti-
cized on three counts. First,
it rejects the more plausible
theory that the Soviets and
Chinese are allied for the
purpose of Self-extension.
The Communists are out to
conquer the world, just as
the Nazis were. This con-
quest, if successful, would
be of immense benefit to both
China and Russia, and
neither power could do it
alone, barring, it would seem,
any serious internal dissen-
sion. Second, the rift theory,
if carried to it's logical con-
clusion, implies that China
must either go-it-alone
against the world (the United
States would ally for a third
time with the USSR against a
new common threat, China
or ally with the West against
the Soviet Union. China, un-
der a Communist regime,
would be in a much weaker
position in either case than
if allied with the Soviet Un-
Evening star., 1960-06-14

ion. Third, why should China
and Russia quibble over local
territory, when, by allying
with the Soviets to fulfill
their objective of world con-
quest, China could carve up
the rich and relatively un-
derpopulated regions of
Southeast Asia? The Sino-
Soviet borderlandS, including
Outer Mongolia, are insig-
nif1cant compared to the
wealth of Southeast Asia, as
tn e japanese militarists
were we'll aware.
1t may very we'll be that
China and Soviet Russia will
eventually split, but if they
do, it will come after the
world has been conquered
and the spoils divided. BY
that time, the rift which de
Gaulle and others apparent
ly predict will no longer be
of concern to the Projectors.
One cannot help recalling
the position of Poland in
1899, situated between Nazi
Germany and Soviet Russia,
but secure in the knowlC 'ge
that a Fascist Communist
alliance against Poland was
impossible because of the ex-
treme differences" between
the two leaders and the two
systems. The fact that Hitler
and Stain later split was of
little consolation to the un-
fortunate Poles.
Maurice KOgOn.
Evening star., 1960-06-14
History-by Castro

AS with all dictators, Fidel Castro
now has embarked upon program of
regimentation and brain washing Of
Cuban children.
Today'S pattern of life and educa-
ton for the youth of the island republic
(if it may still be called republic) is
becoming that of the most efficient"
Of modern totalitarian states. Nazi
Germany saw it in high order of effec-
tiveneSs-until a combination of circum-
stances, including its own evil rotten
ness, caused it to collapse in flames
Communist Russia has lived with it,
poorly and pitifully in terms of human
dignity, for more than a generation. 1t
is pattern in which falSehood becomes
TRUTH" wrong becomes right" and
hate becomes the strongest emotional
experience.
History is being rewritten in Cuba
today, but not in the rehabilitation and
reconstruction of society that is cur
rently destined to be free. 1t is being
rewritten instead for captive society,
whose long-term Imprisonment is sought
IlIouSA couCdVlou III uilIIuCL. LII CLllS
mockery of history, the United States is
"the enemy"-driven from the gates
only by Fidel. To defend this new order
of freedom" children are enrolled
today for military training at the age
of seven, organized at IA into work bri-
gades and herded like sheep to attend
ance on long propaganda philippics.
Study of the English language is being
eliminated and so too, strangely but
perhaps fittingly, is the study of music.
This is CaStroS Cuba for the young
an island penitentiary for the mind.
Evening star., 1960-06-14

1t is somewhat disconcert-
ing to note the recurrent
references in your editorial
pages to would-be strains in
the MoScow-Peking axis,
based, as they apparently are.
on misplaced optimism and
Specious reasoning. The fact
that your editorial on the
Sino-Mongolian Treaty ap-
peared on the heels of Mr..
Khrushchev's rather belli-
coSe sum NIT department,
reminiscent of the old Sta
lin-Mao line, renders its in
ference even more ludicrous.
The significance of the
Mongolian treaty must be
viewed in the overall context
of the Sino-Soviet alliance;
it should not be treated as
an isolated incident from
which a radical political
change could conceivably de-
velop. All available evidence
and reasonable speculation
suggests that the theological
and power political ties
which bind Communist China
and the Soviet Union-the
similarity of purpose and OBJ
jectiveS, the economic and
military interdependence,
inter alia-far offset the rel
atively minor local territorial
conflict in Outer Mongolia.
The Stars apparent obses-
sion with de Gaulle's eloquent
rift" theory ignores the
more probable assumption
that Southeast Asia and
Evening star., 1960-06-14

happen 10 the back seat driver" when
there is nobody to advise? Will there be
any fun in talking to an unattended
wheel? Or will there be a wheel any
way? And how about those who get
most of their morning and evening ex-
erciSe complaining about the "lunk-
head" just ahead or just behind? In
fact, who is going to argue with the
motorcycle officer? If nobody, what will
the motorcycle boys do instead? How
about it, RCA and GIN?
Evening star., 1960-06-14
WoH-to-WuH Taxes

AS an alternative to the
Freedom Wall, l respectfully
propose a Wailing Wall to
which all self-respecting tax
payers can go and cry their
eyes out.
George H. Gibbs.
y
Harry Thompson. who
would administer this Free
dom Monument, and lobbieS
for it, tells us that we need
the monument because it will
be a great asset "in winning
the cold war" This $24 mil
lion monument is more likely
to be a refuge for the star
lingS in the cold weather
than a weapon for the cold
war.
Worried Bird Watcher.
I have noted with diSmay
in recent issues of the New
York Times discussions and
pictures of the proposed
Freedom Shrine to be built
adjacent to the Two Jima
Memorial in Arlington. This
shrine looks Suspiciously like
the Freedom Wall' of a year
or so back-a hollow square
with equal symbolic inappro-
priateness. l note that the
shrine will cost an estimated
$24 million, $12 million of
which, it is proposed, will be
raised from voluntary public
subscriptions.
I suggest, in this age of
ever-increaSing appeals for
public donations, that the
proposed National Cultural
Center, chartered by Con-
gress in 1858 and now in proc
esS of development, merits
prior consideration. In the
National Cultural Center's
symphony hall, opera house,
and theater, the people of
our Nation and of the world
can see and hear, enjoy and
be instructed by the works
of our artists, free men
and women whose cultural
achievements are vital ex-
presSionS of the climate of
freedom in which they are
created. The National Cul-
tural Center will be a living
monument to our freedom.
Leonard G. DOran.
Elmira, N. Y.
Evening star., 1960-06-14
Brave Man

The League of Women
Voters never fails to amuse
me. For the moment 1 am
referring to their comments
on foreign aid appearing in
this column under the head
ing United on Aid" Their
comments represent a typical
example of the girls periodic
flights into the realm of
political fuzzineSS.
Their arguments support
ing the most fantastic give
away in the history of man
kind have the ring of the
usual tear-Studded plea for
suffering humanity. 1t ap-
pears that the good ladies
who penned this piece have
convinced themselves that
the world can be transformed
into a bed of roses by con-
tinuing to scatter the Amer
ican dollar from Timbuktu to
Outer Slobovia! They are
sure that foreign aid, by
whatever name you give it,
is essential to the salvation
of our way of life. or as
they put it so nicely, ". q.
to make our common world
the most favorable environ
ment for survival and growth
of our own basic values:
freedom, security, self-de-
termination, and economic
well being =" Amen.
How can we possibly justi-
fly foreign aid either morally
or logically when it is a fact
that the staggering national
debt of the United States is
greater than the combined
debts of all other nations in
the non-communiSt world!
The desecration of our re-
sources, the outpouring of our
tax dollars-haS been largely
responsible for bringing about
the virtual economic enSlave-
ment of millions of American
women along with their huS-
bands. Can we deny that
without the countless Fed
eral spending programs, the
inefficiency. the unfathom-
able stupidity of the Wash
ington crowd, wives in every
section of the country would
be able to stay at home where
they belong and where their
husbands would like them to
be? But ladies-to pay for
foreign aid and all the rest
you cannot afford to stay in
your homes! You cannot
maintain a reasonably good
standard of living on one
salary alone in the face of
confiscatory taxation which
has been brought about in
part by women who condone
and actively support foreign
aid.
l for one will be glad when
you girls can get back to your
kitchens and nurseries and
confine your political activ-
tiles to the passing out of
voting information which you
have done so we'll until the
past few years.
Robert S. Reiss
Evening star., 1960-06-14
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Now it is these new-fangled
cold tablets and capsules.
Temp Jones believes that
the smaller the effective dose,
the better, 50 he grindS up a
tablet with a spoon, and puts
it into two capsules. Thus he
cuts down on the dose, and
to his amszement gets just
as good results.
Jones says that many per-
sons, supposedly adults. get
as much benefit from a child
size dose of cold medicine as
if they took a whole tablet.
This is worth trying, be-
cause most people feel that
there is some obscure DAN
ger to over-doSing with
drugs, even common Tem-
edies such as bicarbonate of
soda. This latter old standby,
by the way, has long been
superseded by aluminium hy-
droXide and related COM
ponentS.
Common colds make mil
lions i'll every year, and lose
millions of dollars to in
duStry.
Besides, they are an awful
nuisance, Temp Jones says.
One feels so useless, dull.
depressed. (That's what the
half grain of caffeine is doing
in the tablets and capsules.
to help overcome this logy
feeling0
Jones is often asked what
he does, himself, to keep
from catching colds.
You can't" he answers.
But you can do something
about it he says. Warm up
as quickly as possible, and
pop one of the better cold
tablets or capsules adown
your warm esophagus.
If you have a fever, get
in bed and stay there.
Force the liquids, as the
doctors say. In ordinary Ian
gauge, this means drink a
glass of plain water every
hour. Orange juice in it is
not necessary.
Eat as little as possible.
Temp Jones is so old
fashioned that he still be-
lieves that a draft on the
back of his neck will give
him a cold.
He thinks Grandpa had o
good idea about colds, too.
The old man loved to gargle
a salt and soda solution, a
teaspoon Of each in a glass
of warm water. Some gar
gled, some snuffed up the
nostrils. It's a noisy proce-
dure, but it helps.
Evening star., 1960-06-14

Temp Jones recently read
a big article about the COM
mon cold.
When he had finished it,
he knew about as much as he
had before.
The article intimated that
in due time there might be
a shot consisting of about Is
Of the more popular viruSeS.
Tut, tut" said Jones.
"Ill stick to the tablets, cap
Sules and liquids for Symp-
tomato relief"
In the last three years.
much progress has been made
in fighting colds. all in the
field of chemical remedies.
Popular tablets and cap
SuleS consist of one drug to
open the nasal passages, an
antihistamine to dry and
fight histamine-like entities,
an analgesic, an antipyretic
and sometimes Vitamin C and
the now-famouS biof1avin-
oidS.
Big words, these, and the
drugs they represent really
help, if taken in time.
Jones runs an amateur
drug counter in his desk at
the office.
He hands out cold tablets
free to all his friends, warn
ing them at the time that
they may make them sleepy.
The very latest of these
remedies contains the latest
antihistamineS, the type that
does not cause drowsineSs, as
a side effect, as the doctors
call unwanted and undeSired
effects.
Even after a cold has be-
come fixed, or whatever it is
a cold does, the symptoms
may be relieved by these
remedies.
Jones harbors an old
fashioned belief that if the
symptoms are stopped, the
cold is stopped.
Perhaps this isn't true, but
if not, then it ought to be,
Mr.. Jones says.
Dabbling with cold reme-
dies has been one Of the
favorite indoor sports Of
Americans.
Since Grandma's day, when
a hot foot bath and a big
glass of steaming hot lemon
ade we're prescribed by that
dear old soul (who often was
not so dear, really) the Amer
ican people have variously
tried whisky, rock candy,
quinine and aspirin.
Evening star., 1960-06-14
Reluctant 'Veeps'

There are Would-be PreSl-
dents who spurn the Office of
Vice President as being be-
meath their dignity.
The qualifications for Pres
ident and Vice President are
exactly the same and both
offices should be filled with
men of the same high cali
ber.
In addition to the qualifi-
cations set forth in the Con-
Stitution, for the holders of
these high Offices. the people
require patriotism and devo-
ton to duty. The man who
would not accept the Vice
Presidency is certainly not
patriotic enough to be Presi-
dent.
~ ~ U.n-
Evening star., 1960-06-14
Eoton's Views

In the October, 1858, issue
of International Affairs,
which is published in Mos
COW and distributed by Com
munists all over the world,
Cyrus Eaton says in an in
terview, I'm the Soviet Union
the Government speaks in
the name of all of the peo-
pie. In the United States
this is not the case. 1t does
not speak in the name of
the people"
How is it that an Ameri-
can can voice such untruthS
about the United States?
Ted DOrS.
Tbinooo T11inoic
Evening star., 1960-06-14
'Homeowner Beware

We are entering our sixth
year of home improvement
service in the Washington,
Maryland and Virginia area,
and have been plagued by
shady dealers such as Mir
lam Gutenberg has mentioned
in her series, "Homeowner
Beware"
My partner and I have
often wished that the Bet
ter Business Bureau had more
authority to control such
practices, or that there was
some means by which it
could be cleaned up and be-
come known as a good legi-
innate business. We eRjoy
honest competition by honest
dealers, but, to us companies
who are trying to run honest
home improvement busi-
neSses, these ShySterS are a
menace.
Marvin LOwrey,
L&M Supply Co.
= y
The series "Homeowner Be-
ware" has been widely read
and favorably received in
Fairfax County, judging from
the increased number of calls
to the Fairfax County Cham
ber of Commerce.
The public Is not generally
aware of the fact that the
Washington Better Business
Bureau does not handle cases
on this side of the Potomac.
There is no Better Business
Bureau in Northern Virginia.
Our Chamber of Commerce,
as we'll as similar organiHa- =
tions in Virginia fulf1lls this
mission to the best of our
ability.
We maintain a complaint
file and make an attempt to
adjust customer grievances.
We are in a position to
recommend reliable firms
which are members of this
or neighboring Chambers of
Commerce.
r. w. Grow
Executive Director, Fairfax
County Chamber of
Commerce
Evening star., 1960-06-14
THE POLITICAL MILL
COP. Reudies for Hard Compoiqn
By GOULD LINCOLN

The Republican organiza-
ton last week end perfected
plans for the COP. national
convention in Chicago July
25, at which the nomination
of Vice President Nixon for
President now appears cer-
tain. Equally important plans
were made for the national
campaign and the election
November 2. The team"
which will run the campaign
was revamped, and if Mr..
Nixon is the presidential
nominee, it will likely remain
unchanged, with Senator
Thruston Morton of Kentucky
as national chairman-un-
less, indeed, the national con-
vention should pick the Sem
ator for Vice President. To
strengthen the organization,
Albert B. (Ab) Hermann, who
has been executive director
under Chairman Morton, has
been shifted to the Office of
campaign manager, and L.
Richard Guylay, who directed
public relations for the sue
cesSful Eisenhower Nixon
campaign in 1856, has come
back to the national COM
mittee to serve in the same
capacity for the 1860 cam
paign. Hale Short, who has
served as public relations
director for several months,
is now executive assistant to
the chairman. The office of
executive director has been
abolished.
The recent furry over Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller'S attack
on Vice President Nixon and
the Eisenhower administra-
ton seemingly ended Sunday
night when the New York
Governor, appearing on Meet
the Press" MICS televiS-
ion show, said flatly he does
not intend to become a can
didate for the presidential
nomination, that he is un-
equivocally a Republican and
that he will support Vice
President Nixon if he is NOM
mated, as the Governor said
he expects will happen.
Nothing has occurred which
would lead to a belief that
a Rockefeller draft" for the
nomination is at all probable.
Nine Successful Campaigns
Chairman Morton is firm
ly convinced that an auXil-
iary army of workers, out
side the regular precinct
Republican workers, will be
needed in the coming cam
paign. 1t is well recognized
that the Democrats have the
support of such auxiliary
workers in organized labor
in the industrial area and in
the Farmers Union in some
of the agricultural States.
He, therefore, has placed in
the hands of Mr.. Hermann,
as campaign manager, the
organization of workers for
the Republican national tick
ct and other COP. can
didates in a large number
OF important groups of citi-
zens, including the so-called
nationalitieS groups, labor,
the farmers, veterans. mi
noritieS. including the Negro
voters, business. academic
and professional and still
other groups. These workers
are to be a supplemental
army" for the Republican
cause.
Mr. Hermann has had wide
experience in politics. His
early training was in New
Jersey, his home State, where
he managed nine successful
campaigns, three of them
for former Senator H. Alex
ander Smith who retired
Evening star., 1960-06-14
BE Careful What You SpIotter, Boys!
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used il
letters carry DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtiOn.
Evening star., 1960-06-14

from the Senate in 1858. He
was first associated with the
national organization in 1949
as executive director of tia
Republican National Com
mittee, serving in that Ca
pacity until 1852. He was
named assistant to National
Chairman Leonard w. Hall
in 1855 and six months later
became director of the COM
mittee's nationalitieS divi-
sion. In 1857 Mr.. Hermann
returned to the Office of
executive director of the ma
tional committee. A graduate
of Colgate University in
1925, Alb Hermann played
professional baseball with
the Boston Braves. He re-
turned to New Jersey, studied
law and entered politics. A
year later he was State chair
man of the New Jersey Young
Republicans, and later still.
executive secretary to the
late Gov. Hoffman and clerk
of the Court of Pardons.
Lou" Guylay, who has
temporarily sidetracked his
own public relations business
in New York and Washing
ton, is known to thousands
of newSpapermen, publishers
and politicians throughout
the country. He was an able
adviser to National Chair
man Hall during the 1856
campaign.
To Watch % States
The campaign to set up an
auxiliary army of workers
for the Republican ticket
will, it is said, be pressed in
all parts of the country-aS
will the campaign to elect
not only the COP. national
ticket but also a Republican
Congress and Republican
Governors of States. Particu-
lar attention will be paid %
States in which the Republi-
can leaders believe oppor-
tunitieS to overcome the
Democratic opposition in So
called marginal congressional
districts are to be found.
These States have a total of
345 electoral votes. There are
537 electoral votes divided
among the so States, and it
requires a. majority, or 269, to
elect a President and a Vice
President. These % States
are California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, New Jersey,
New York, North Dakota.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, Texas, Washington,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
In these States lie rs marginal
congressional districts, lost to
the COP. since 1852. There
are eight Democratic Gov
ernorS where they were for
merly Republican Governors.
The COP. hopes to regain
these congressional seats and
to replace the Democratic
Governors. They hope, also,
to replace Democratic Sena-
tors in at least four of these
States, in Michigan, Wyo-
ming, Illinois and West Vir-
ginia.
Vice President Nixon has
said he hopes Senator Nor
ton will continue as national
chairman right through the
fall campaign, so highly does
he regard the work already
done by the Kentucky Sen
ator. Mr.. Nixon made it
clear, however, that by this
statement he was not fore
closing the possibility tn
the convention may turn to
Senator Morton for its vice
presidential nomination.
Evening star., 1960-05-08

Great Debate between the candidates of
the two major parties. Its adoption in 1860
would mark an historic turning point in
American Presidential campaigns.
II am sorry, however, that Governor
Stevenson regards Presidential primaries
with disfavor. For have found that my
campaigning in the primary states has
immeasurably strengthened my own under
standing of the needs, the problems, and
the aspirations of the American people. And
| believe that primary campaigns not only
educate the candidate - they give the peo-
pie themselves clearer idea of the quali6-
cations and views of those men who aspire
Evening star., 1960-05-08
lg response

to nomination for the nations highest
Office" Sen. John 2. Kennedy of Mass.
. "Your reasonable arguments against the
fimfam of Presidential campaigns are well
received.
"Your proposal for a once-a-week, 90
minute debate between candidates, how
ever, seems out of line with reality. One
can sit through an exciting, challenging
play or spectacular for 90 minutes - but
flor debatel As minutes at the most, three
times a week, would be a more realistic
approach to an American audience"
Mildred oToole, Rochester, N. Y.
when consider all the grousing have
listened to by my fellow citizens, ] think
they should be willing to listen to discus
sion such as you propose. ..."
- Florence S. ReGdsS, NeW York
1--WE written my Congressman concern
ing their attitudes on this approach and
inquiring about the past history of this
program in Congress. I've made my own
sentiments clear to them and thank you
for helping to clarity them within my mind
and stating plan of action"
Dennis RsnaUIt. Los angeles
Congratulations on your splendid two
part series by Adlai Stevenson on national
political campaigns. There is man with
great ideasi | hope there will be some
national legislation such as he suggests,
especially the matter of national TV politi-
cal telecasts and for great Debates"
Gordon D. West, AssOeioso Editor,
cuppsr Publications, Ine., Topeka, Kan.
u "Your ideas =. . stimulate my imagina-
ton. The face.to-face debate would be
exciting. We voters would lose our leth-
argy and end up with an opinion on the
issues discussed"
-uIIien coIbreuth. Buffalo, N. Y.
. ITO be able to get facts on important
issues, right in ones own living room,
would certainly have far-reaching effects -
especially for the woman.
''This would certainly open up new vistas
of education for her in matters which vitality
concern herself, her family, her country"
Mrs. e. Anshvsz, Cleveland, o.