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Evening star., 1960-06-03
No Show Toniqht

1t is only human that a wiSp of
irony should intrude into the non-New
Workers. reflections upon a Broadway
darkened by the dispute of Actors
Equity and the League of New York
TheaterS.
Now, theater-goerS in New York
will know the emptiness which "the
road" has been experiencing for years
with reference to the living drama.
Washington and other Seaboard cities
north to Boston have not been too pain
fully victimized by this contraction Of
theater. How much the rest of the
country has suffered is evident in the
circumstance that there are at the mo-
ment but seven travelling professional
productionS-aS against the % closed
down last night on Broadway.
The touring attractions, incidentally.
are not affected by the New York situa-
ton; presumably including my Fair
Lady" which will begin summer-long
engagement at the National Theater
here on June 20.
The issues involved in the Equity
League conflict are not clear: not even
whether the cloSedown is a strike or a
lockout The first overt act, the calling
out of the cast of "The Tenth Man" for
a union meeting" is broadly identifable
as strike action. It's prompt response,
the ordered closing of all other Broad
way productions by their producers, has
been termed a lockout by the actors.
This fuzzineSS applies to other issues
involved in the conflict-a pension pro-
gram and increases in certain salaries
which range from slightly more than
500 weekly to $500 in the case of
stars. This is reflection of the fact
that of all economies in the fabric of
our society, that of the theater is the
most maverick.
A myStified public, then, is left to
hope that, whatever its cause, the effect
OF the current situation will be of brief
duration.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
It's Almost Official

Lyndon Johnson'S formal an
nouncement, when 1t comes, is going to
be a bit Of anticlimax. For the line
which now divides the Senate Majority
Leaders formal and informal candida
cies cannot be seen with the naked eve,
or even with magnifying glass.
The fact that Senator Johnson is
very much candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination became
virtually official when his Texas COL
league, Speaker Sam Rayburn, an
nounced the formation of a Citizens
for johnson" national committee, which
opens headquarters here today. This
followed on the heels of the Senator's
own successful Western tour, and a Sc
ries Of full-page ads in newspapers
around the country. The ads were
signed by dozens of well-known public
figures, and they urged all who "feel as
we do" to write or wire the Senator and
urge him to become an active candidate
One of the safest predictions of the year
is that the Majority Leader will not re-
main cold and Indifferent to this appeal.
All of this pro-Johnson activity may
NC GAOooOAA4A4S d dIlCdQ O1 SCIeQ-
ule, since the Senator has said that he
did not want to commit himself until
the end of this session of Congress, and
the winding up of his own responsible
ties in that connection. It would appear,
however, that the Kennedy drive, boil
stored yesterday by an Endorsement
from Michigan's Governor Williams, has
made further delay seem inevitable.
Nothing is more dismaying to poll
tician than to wake up and discover that
he has hitched himself to a bandwagon
which isn't there. Senator Johnson un-
doubtedly has much support around the
country from individuals who agree with
his view that the true objective in poll
tics is to get things done, not Just to
create issues, and who also value his
proven leadership qualities, especially
in period Of international crisis. But
these people want to be sure of getting
run for their money. They do not
want to find that there is no Lyndon
Johnson in the race when the Demo-
cratic hopefulS head down the home
stretch, and this, we assume, is the
principal reason for the sudden surge of
activity in the Texans behalf.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Objection Noted

The Star headline May %,
Vienna Survey Group Backs
County Alliance" implie s
something that is not true.
The Vienna Future Govern
ment Commission has not
backed" county alliance. It
has not decided to recommend
that Vienna dissolve its char
ter and go back into Fairfax
County. The commission has
taken no vote on any recon-
mendation regarding Vienna's
future status. No commits
sion member, to my knowl-
edge, has definitely made up
his mind as to how he would
vote on a possible recon-
mendation. AS chairman, I
have not decided how I would
vote. The commission is still
perfecting its financial figures
and completing its analysis of
the various choices open to
the town.
Your story was correct when
1t stated:
"The 11-member group,
created to study the future
of the 65-year-old town, still
isn't sure whether Vienna
should become a second-class
city, remain a town or rejoin
the county.
Before coming up with a
recommendation, therefore,
the commission plans to issue
a preliminary report in about
three weeks, then seek citi-
zens' advice at a public hear
ing. :.
There are advantages to
each of the alternatives for
the town. :"
The story was also correct
when it said, "The group
plans to detail advantages
and disadvantages of the
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Well Done

The Navy has chosen we'll in be-
slowing the Distinguished Service Award
its highest civilian honor-on DR.. Peter
King. For this 49-year old scientist, who
received his Ph.D. in chemistry from
Catholic University and who makes his
home across the river in Alexandria, is
the man who in 1949 provided conclu-
Sive evidence" that the Soviet Union had
secretly set off an atomic explosion-an
event that put an end to our American
monopoly in the nuclear field More than
that, his pioneering work was of key i'm
portance to the development of the long
range detection system that has enabled
our country to keep track of the Krem-
Inns testing operations.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Desecroted Day

Memorial Day is not a holi-
day per Sc, but we do hear
reports as to the number of
deaths over the week end
deaths of folk who set out on
a festive venture because
there is an extra day away
from work.
Memorial Day, feeling peo-
pie feel, is a day of remem-
brance and of remorse. Men,
many unknown, gave their
lives to safeguard the Ameri-
can way of life-a way of life
watched by the whole world
and by the souls of living
people whose dear ones are
located only by graveyards.
Memorial Day in America
is a dissertation of human
kind when the beaches and
resorts are Uttered with beer
bottles and unread obituaries.
Memorial Day to US is a day
of worship of God and of the
patriotic dead who make our
freedom possible.
H day may be around the
corner. and then Memorial
Day won't be a day of artif1-
cial festivity. Then Memorial
Day just won't be at all.
william d. Partridge.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
North Urqed to Be Patient With South

struggle rather than Of arti-
ficial forcing. No race that
has anything to contribute to
the markets of the world is
long in any degree oStracized.
1t is important and right
that all privileges of the law
be ours. but it is vastly more
important that we be pre-
pared for the exercise Of
these privileges I have
found that there is a large
element in the South that
is quick to respond to
straightforward criticism of
any wrong policy. AS a rule,
the place to criticize the
South, when criticism is nee
essary, is in the South-not
in Boston"
We Northerners would do
we'll to consider these author
itative views and respect this
caution concerning criticism.
Whatever may be our per-
sonal convictions concerning
the racial issue it would seem
obvious that the good of all
concerned cannot be served
by acrimonious arguments,
accusations and recrimina-
tions. National order and
unity call for the same cour-
teous patience and wisdom
shown by Abraham Lincoln
toward the South.
Philip Marshall Brown.
Williamstown, Mass.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Strotegist

In tuning in to the Voice
of America and Radio Mos
COW both during the summit
collapse and comparing the
different techniques, the
thought occurred to this
writer (American tourist
here in England) that in
view of the USSR's interest
in our election and selection
Of a new President, we could
turn this USSR interest to
an advantage for ourselves
in a novel and disconcerting
way:
Point out in editorials that
the American people will Sc
lect a President, qualified in
these fast-moving times, to
deal with Khrushchev's sue
cessor.
Such a point could con-
ceivably have N. Khrushchev
out on a limb busy as all get
out listening for rumblings
in the baZaars; hunting
the satellites byways and
eyeing the vines around
peace-loving Moscow itself.
He might even go so far as
to think that the next rocket
is to take him-perSonally-
into space. and before our
election has been resolved.
Amy d. CrantOn.
Upper Boddington, England.
Evening star., 1960-06-03

Der confirm the hypothesis.
the psychologists report, that
field-oriented subjects tend
to be much more highly
aroused and anxious than
do body-oriented subjects.
Much of the data still
awaits analysis. 1t seems
likely. say the Air Force
scientists, that nearly every
one will fall on one or the
other side of the line al
though most will not deviate
very far from middle ground.
Brain fat" can be greatly
influenced by diet.
In chickens this results in
a serious brain disease, en-
cephalomalacia. Similar di-
etary effects are found in
man, but whether there ever
are serious results Is un-
known.
This has just been reported
to the American Association
for the Advancement Of
Science by Drs. Max K. Hor-
witt, Cecil C. Harvey and
Bernard Century Of the Uni
verSity Of Illinois.
Hospital Patients Studied
The experiments with hu-
mans were carried out with a
group of 19 patients at the
Elgin, H., State Hospital who
for two years had been on a
rigidly controlled diet in
which corn oil was sub
Stituted for other fats. The
fat nuclei in their red blood
cells were compared with pa
tients who had eaten freely
of the ordinary hospital diet.
The fat in the blood cells
OF men and the brain cells of
chicks fed on the high corn
oil diet both showed an excess
OF one of the fatty acids,
linoleic acid, compared to
other fatty acids. Fats are
the brains fuel.
1t has been determined
that linoleic acid combines
with oxygen to provide energy
about IL times as fast as
other fatty acids. Apparently,
however, it is stored by the
cells while the others are
burned-a sort of reserve
food supply. 1t is used gen.
orally only when the others
are not available. Then one
would expect a hot blood fire.
Effects in both chicks and
men can be combatted by in
Guiding in the diet an anti
oxidant" which restrains the
take-up of oxygen.
The investigators venture
no SpeculationS as to whether
the different brain fat make
up causes any bad effects in
humans.
Evening star., 1960-06-03

AS a resident for some years
in Washington, DC, I was
actively interested in Negro
welfare as head of the Urban
League. I had agreeable and
sympathetic relations with
outstanding leaders of the
race.
After spending many win
terS in the South, I had op-
portunities to learn the views
of reputable Southerners on
this racial problem. I was
made to realize that many of
us Northerners have been ig-
norant and ungenerous in our
attitude regarding this pain
full controversy.
I desire to indicate briefly
some of what I consider to
be our mistaken misconcep-
tions.
l. The racial problem did
not originate with the present
generation of Southerners. 1t
is a painful inheritance from
several hundred years. 1t can
not easily be solved in a
hurry.
2. Relations between whites
and Negroes have been con-
sistently friendly on the
whole until the racial issue
became agitated by extrem-
lists and embroiled by sub
versive influences. Intimate
and mutually affectionate
relationships, almost Of a
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Let's Skip Politics.

Your editorial May 81,
Let's Skip the Politics." ap-
parently overlooked certain
pertinent facts, giving the
impression of dismissing a
matter of far-reaching signi-
ficance, without the thought
full deliberation customarily
associated with The Stars
editorials.
The matter of the manner
in which Negro electrical
workers were screened by
GSA merits, I believe, much
more than cursory appraisal.
The facts appear to be that
these workers were subjected
to much closer and more ex-
haustive screening than the
records show were used with
reference to white electrical
workers employed on these
jobs.
A matter of public interest
such as this should not have
been shrouded in secrecy. AS
to the panel of experts"
Francis Gregory, assistant su-
perintendent of D. C. Schools,
in charge of vocational ed
ucation, who was identified
as one of the experts asked
to pass on the qualifications
of the Negro electricians, said
that he was given a listing
Of 42 electrical operations,
against which he was asked
to check off skills and expe-
rience listed by the Negroes
on their application forms.
He said that he doubted if
many union electricians could
satisfy such criteria; that on
the-job testing should have
been included in the evalua-
ton, and that despite the dis
qualifying paper" evalua-
ton, he felt that at least
three of the Negroes could
perform satisfactorily IL en-
ployed.
Mr.. Gregory further re-
vealed that at no time did he
exchange views on the mat
ter with any panel mem
bers," or was aware that
there was a panel.
These facts alone should be
sufficient to indicate that the
method and procedures en-
ployed by GSA were question:
able to say the least. The sug-
gestion that GSA run a SIM
liar check on some of the
white electricians is precisely
for the purpose of demon
strating Mr.. Gregory's point.
Berkeley G. Burrell,
President, District of
Columbia Chamber of
Commerce.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
A Friendly Summit

A relaxed and neighborly summit
meeting begins here today with the
arrival of Canada's Prime Minister
Diefenbaker for a weekend visit with
President Eisenhower. It is a meeting
suggested several weeks ago by Mr. Eisen-
hover, with the time fixed to follow his
own expected participation in the ill
fated Big Four sessions in Paris and Mr..
Diefenbaker'S attendance at the London
Conference of Commonwealth Prime
Ministers.
To describe the Washington meet
ing as relaxed and neighborly is not to
minimize its Importance or to disregard
the fact that there are problems of
major consequence to be discussed by
the two chiefs of government. Indeed,
collapse of the Paris conference and the
threatful remarks of Soviet leaders then
and since have given an increased ur-
gency to the expected review of defense
planning and coordination by the con-
ferees here. More than year ago, the
Diefenbaker government set aside plans
for development and production of new
Canadian jet interceptor plane and de-
cided to depend very heavily on United
States built antiaircraft missiles in
its air defense system. The decision
has been under attack politically in
Canada, particularly since hopes for an
easier international climate have fallen
after the Paris f1asco. The possibility of
new joint steps to strengthen Canadian
air defenses is one reported up for dis
cussion here.
Problems also exist in the economic
field, even though the two countries
have long relationship of being each
others best foreign trade customer.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Time for q Vote

Only action by the House Rules
Committee now is required to permit the
House of Representatives to consider
the constitutional amendment granting
WashingtonianS the right to vote for
President and Vice President The Rules
Committee meets next week, and we
earnestly hope that at that time 1t will
give the necessary clearance for floor
debate.
Approval by the Rules Committee
truly will be a historic event. For never
once, during all the years in which Dis
trict residents have sought relief from
the stigma of national disfranchiSement,
have House members had an opportunity
to vote on this basic provision of citizen
ship rights.
The House Judiciary Committee, in
Its report on the resolution, makes it
eminently clear that the Constitution
would be changed to the minimum ex-
tent necessary" to permit participation
in national elections. OF particular con-
cern to House members, the proposed
amendment would mot alter the total
number of presidential electors from the
States, the total number of Representa-
tiveS in the House of Representatives or
the apportionment of electors or Repre-
sentativeS among the States" In short,
1t would have no effect on the so States.
1t would not grant "home rule" to the
District. And it would not interfere in
any other manner with the historic
and unique status of the District as
the seat Of Federal Government under
the exclusive legislative control et the
Congress.
In its earnest and lengthy consid-
GRAFTON, the Judiciary Committee has
modified the amendment to the point
that its provisions, as far as they go,
should command universal support. We
applaud and indorse the committee res
olution, for it is great step forward.
On the House floor, however, we hope
that some of the provisions may be
strengthened somewhat further, espe-
cially in order to remove any doubt
about the authority of Congress, in some
later year, to pass a separate law which
would grant the District a meaningful
delegate representation in the House.
Another question which deserves a Sec
ond look is whether the number of pres
idential electors for the District should
not be determined on the same basis as
those for the States-as provided in the
Senate version of the amendment.
These are matters that may be taken
up later, however. The essential need
now Is for speedy action by the Rules
Committee on the amendment as re-
ported. This session of Congress rapidly
is drawing to close, and adjournment
without completing action would negate
all the progress which has been made
in the House and the Senate during the
last two years. This would be tragic
loss, which we trust the Rules Committee
will not permit.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

OF the hemlock tree, lust
about halfway. The other
climbed slowly. carefully out
as far as his weight would
let him go. There he started
moving his body up and
down. The thin wire with
the suet started swinging
like a clock pendulum. AS it
swung, the squirrel on the
tree trunk edged himself,
head down, into position,
held on with his back legs,
reached out his front paws
and caught the suet as it
swung near enough to touch.
Only a goodly chunk
came off, but this he
promptly carried UP to his
favorite resting branch, and
ate! This went on until they
had their fill. I cannot hon.
estly say that they took turns
as the two squirrels looked so
much alike it was hard to
tell, but with the intelligence
they had shown thus far I
am almost certain that at
least they gave each other
turns at catching their lunch.
This is absolutely true. We
tried our tricks, they tried
theirs, and in the end the
squirrels won!
Sincerely. r. s. T."
y y
The fact that our gray
squirrel belongs to. the rodent
family is enough to prove the
truth of this tale.
The rats are capable.
brainy creatures. Brown rats
have been known to really
think, as we say.
Some of their feats are
legendary. They have out
witted those who have tried
to capture them time and
time again.
If it is not real thinking.
in the human sense, it is
something almost as good.
Temp Jones once had a
big rat in his garage, and set
out for it a plate filled with
ground meat, spiced with one
OF these chemicals to make
the blood thin.
The meat was very fine
ordinary ground beef, the
sort used in a million ham,
burgers, but the canny old
rat would not touch it.
When Jones took round
steak. ground, and put it out
for his rat, the creature did
not hesitate. He was unable
to resist the lure of the better
meat.
Evening star., 1960-06-03
FOSTER STREET.

Dear Sir:
mot long ago I read with
great interest an article in
your column telling Of the
almost human actions of
various animals, including
squirrels. There was some
question as to whether these
actions were the result Of
instinct or of a type of
thought process not too diff
ferent from our own.
From my observation, I
believe that squirrels def
nitely have a great power of
reasoning and planning. One
winter in New Hampshire my
elderly father spent many
hours observing the squir-
rels around our home. We
lived in a deep wood of pine
and oak, hemlock and fir. so
1t was a natural haven for
our bushy tailed neighbors.
MY father took delight in
feeding them, and as he grew
to know them better, he felt
the urge to outwit them.
Over and over they would
rob the various contraptions
we invented for bird feeding,
leaping directly from high
Snowbanks to our windowsills
for suet or seeds, sliding down
wires fastened from tree
branches to eat suet or
doughnutS at the end. We
tried hanging a thin wire
from another wire. They
tight-rope walked the hori-
zontal wire, slid down the
Cnlnner one, and landed on
the food they wanted to eat.
\ Il II
"One day Dad contrived a
perfect squirrel squelch. he
thought.
He hung suet on a very
thin picture wire from the
end Of a fragile hemlock
branch, too fragile for the
weight of any squirrel.
"They shifted, they jumped
for it from the ground-too
high. They tried crawling
out to it over the fragile
branch but tumbled off head
first. We all thought that
for once Dad had outwitted
them. But even as we
watched two big fellows came
briskly over the snow, stud
led the situation together,
and evidently came to a de-
cision.
Zone climbed up the trunk
Evening star., 1960-06-03
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVTCE
By THE HASK1N SERVICE
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D. C. incose

@. What was the origin
Of the custom of giving gun
salutes in honor of important
visitors?-P. j.
A. In his book Military
Customs and Traditions"
Mai. Mark M. Boatner says
that the custom has been
traced to the days when it
took a long time to reload
guns. by firing of all
your guns at the approach
Of a very important person
W.I.P), you rendered your
ship, fort or battery defense
less" in his honor. Through
the years there has evolved
a prescribed number Of guns
to be fired. depending on the
Importance Of the position
Evening star., 1960-06-03
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
OF Withdrawn and Expansive Men
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

Are you body-oriented or
field-oriented?
This may be one of the
most significant distinctions
among human beings, accord
ing to data submitted to the
United States Air Force once
Of Scientific Research by Drs.
S. Cohen and A. Silverman of
Duke University. 1t well may
replace such old-fashioned
for espionage.
The distinction probably
can be made, the Duke psy-
biologists report, by measure
ments of Skin electricity"
without any complicated and
subjective psychological tests.
1t is a variable, they hold,
which may have to be con-
sidered in selecting personnel
for jobs in isolated or re-
stricted environments, such
as may be common in the
coming space age.
Not New in Psychology
They make their distinc-
tionS by wiring a galvanic
skin response recorder on
subjects in a lightproof,
Soundproof isolation chamber.
This kind of differentiation,
say the Air Force scientists, is
not entirely new in psy-
chology. Studies in the past
have shown that it is possible
to differentiate individuals on
whether they depend heavily
on external clues for orient
ing themselves in space or
direction, or whether they
are more directed from with
in their bodies as to location
and activity. To date, how
ever, the differentiations be-
tween field and body -oriented
types have been made by psy-
biologists in tests in which a
subject adjusts a luminous,
tilted rod to the vertical in
a dark chamber. Results of
such a test required a lot of
personal Interpretation on the
part Of the psychologists,
which is always consid-
cred rather dangerous. The
straight physiological tests
put the matter in quite a new
light.
The Duke tests were con-
Quoted on the hypothesis that
persons who ordinarily used
external or field frames OF
reference might tend to
show a more severe stress re-
sponSe to isolation which
would tend to unfit them, re-
gardleSS of their abilities,
to perform tasks in an iso-
lated environment.
Data from the galvanic
skin reflex recordings of sub
jects exposed for two hours
in the Duke isolation cham