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Evening star., 1960-02-10
Governed to Death

My first reaction to the
article about the Agriculture
Departments police state
questioning of its employees
was What in the world is
this country coming TOP"
This whole conflict-of-in-
terest question is becoming
a farce; depriving our Gov
ernment of the services of
highly qualified individuals.
With our governmental
agencies spreading like Wild
fire, where will we find in
telligent. qualified men and
women to staff these agen-
cles if we disqualify those
who have accumulated prop
erty, stock, etc., or penalize
those individuals by demand
ing that they sell out? Can't
the agencies require their
employees to sign affidavits to
the effect that swear I
won't let my interests con-
flict with my protection of
the Governments interests"
Cor some such statement),
and then prosecute if guilt
is established, instead of in
vading the privacy of every
body?
Also. we now see our Gen.
sus Bureau demanding, un-
der penalty of the law, an
Swers to more and more
personal questions, the an
swers being nobody's busi-
ness but our own.
We're being governed"
to death in this Land of the
Free and Home of the Brave.
Concerned,
Evening star., 1960-02-10
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

though important, is not all
there is to it.
The practical side of bird
watching comes in the sup
plying Of needed food in the
cold.
Since we all eat, we can
all appreciate the good we
do in this way.
Certainly our birds are a
national asset.
We must try to Offset the
harm done them by careless
ness, indifference and mod
ern inventions.
Next to this, however.
comes our own personal ap-
probation.
A great deal has been said
in recent years about musical
appreciation. We have been
urged on all sides to under
stand" music, as if just lis
tening were not half enough.
This is all very good, but
there is another sort of ap-
probation and another un-
derstanding.
1t is appreciation of living
things, and some understand
ing of them from their own
viewpoint. Liking them from
our viewpoint is essential,
but there is another under
standing, and this is their
own.
1t is difficult to put ones
self into a dogs place, or
into a cats, and infinitely
harder to put ones self into
the very mind and heart Of
a bird.
1t can be done, however
and is done every day by
thousands of intelligent peo-
Pile, at least to some small
extent. When one has done
this, if only for a second.
one has attained a supreme
goal.
Evening star., 1960-02-10
ConnoIIy Amendment

Until the American people
have the opportunity to vote
on submitting their destiny
to a world government which
will supersede the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, one
wonders why our Senate
should be holding hearings
on Resolution S-94, a step
further along the path to
world government.
This resolution proposes to
delete the Connally Amend
ment from our treaty to es-
tablish the World Court.
The Connally Amendment,
passed overwhelmingly by
the Senate in 1916, reserves
to the United States the.
right to decide, in advance,
whether or not a dispute
with another nation is a mat
ter within domestic jurisdic-
ton or the International
Court of Justice (the World
Court.
1t is imperative to our re-
public and to the individual
rights guaranteed citizens by
our Constitution that the re-
strictions governing the ju-
risdiction of disputes between
our country and other ma
tions be kept within Ameri-
can legal codes and reserved
to the United States for de-
cision.
The Connally Amendment
is a necessary protection and
a safeguard if America is to
remain a free nation.
The World Court is COM
posed of Is judges of various
theological beliefs. It has no
basic juridical code. For
Americans to expect under
standing and justice from
such a body in matters con-
corning our unique re-
publican system which guar
antees individual rights is
to risk those precious rights
in a losing battle. However
intellectually and humanely
inspired might be the judges
of the World Court, it is ask
ing too much to even hope
they could understand our
American system of respect
for the individual. To ask a
Communist and a Polish
Judge 1.-TWO OF the Is men,
bers of the COURT to fairly
decide problems whose roots
are deep in American con-
cepts Of freedom (knowing
the reverse philosophy of
socialism communism is to
call the day might"
To delete the Connally
Amendment from the, treaty
to establish the World Court
is to tighten the moose on
individual liberty.
Geraldine Berryhill.
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Touqher,' but

CUs
Nikita KhruShchev has recently been
speaking of Berlin and Germany in a
tougher" tone than the one he used
following his September meeting with
President Eisenhower at Camp David in
Maryland. His views in that respect
seem to have hardened appreciably, to
a degree indicating that he will be in no
mood for compromise at the May sum-
NIT conference in Paris.
But none of this should come as a
surprise to the West. Actually, the So
Wet Premier'S latest statements, even
If they have become tougher" amount
simply to a ff1rmation-expreSSed
also in last weeks somewhat threatful
declaration by the Warsaw Pact coun-
trieS-of the position he has stubbornly
maintained since November, 1858. That
position, which he did not abandon at
Camp David, is that the Kremlin, unless
the Western powers can come to terms
with it on Berlin's status and an over
all German solution, will sign a separate
peace treaty with East Germany.
The only concession made by Mr..
KhruShchev, as result of the Camp
David meeting, is that no ultimatumlike
time limit should be attached to his
proposal. And this concession still ap-
pears to be in effect despite the note
of "toughneSs" injected into his recent
remarks on the Subject-a "toughness"
in keeping with the Kremlin's hard
bargaining practice of always taking an
adamant line on the eve of interna-
tional negotiations Nevertheless, even
though there may be some element of
bluff in his approach to the May sum-
nit talks with Mr.. Eisenhower, Prime
Minister Macmillan and President de
Gaulle, the Soviet Premier has left lit
tie room for doubt that he will sooner
or later sign separate treaty with the
puppet East Germans If he cannot
reach agreement with our side on es-
tablishing West Berlin as "free city"
and laying the groundwork for Ger
many's reunification on his terms.
Such unilateral action by Mr.. Khru-
shchev, of course, could quickly lead
to what President Eisenhower has de-
Scribed as grave" Situation-a situ-
alton in which the East Germans, acting
as the Kremlin's tools, probably would
lose no time in attempting to put a
stranglehold on West Berlin by sealing
1t off from the free world. There then
would follow a crisis of the first mag
nitude, with France, Britain and the
United States challenged either to get
out of the city, and abandon it to the
Communists, or take measures that
could lead to war.
True, with a summit conference in
the offing, and with President Eisen-
hover scheduled to visit the Soviet
Union in June, it seems highly unlikely
that Mr.. Khrushchev is planning to pre-
cipitate such a situation in the period
Immediately ahead. Still, the basic hard
ness of his position ought not to be
undereStimated, and we trust that our
country, together with the West as
whole, will not be caught unprepared
when and if the challenge comes.
Evening star., 1960-02-10

Q. How did the Safety
First" slogan originate?-
B. D.
A. The Bureau of Mines
says that the phrase Safety
First" became a national slo-
gan in the year 1911 when
the Bureau of Mines gave a
National Safety First dem
onstration at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Previous to this, the phrase
Safety is the First Consid-
Grafton" was used on the
stationery and among the
employees of the H. C. Frick
Coke & Steel Co. of Pitts
burgh, and the Illinois Steel
Co. of Chicago.
Q. What kind of CONS were
called "hog money"?-B. r.
A. In 1616-24, the English
colonists in the Bermuda Is
lands tthen known as the
Somers islands, struck cop-
per shlllings, six pences,
three-pences, and two-pences
bearing a hog on one side,
with Roman numerals to in
dicate the value, and a ship
on the other side. These
pieces were called "hog
money"
Evening star., 1960-02-10

Having returned from Eu-
rope only recently, I could
not help but be amused by
the comparisons of public
and rail transportation made
by DR.. Erich Buchanan
deter to The Star of Feb
ruary 81.
The crux of his problem,
which I do not for one min
ute doubt, seems to hinge on
the point that there is no
longer a Cabin John carline
because "the owner did not
make enough profit on this
line" Such a statement
would be a laughing stock in
any West European press"
he goes on. Well, let me in
form your writer that times
have changed in the Old
World, too.
There are three daily pa
pers in Munich, and none of
them laughed or even cared
that no public transportation
served the Perlacher Forst
area, where I lived from 1856
to 1858. Although this was a
built-up, urban neighborhood
with many low-income Ger
man families, the city of
Munich, which operates the
buses and streetcars there,
claimed it wouldn't pay-not
enough demand. And the
Oberburgomeister, a jolly, ro-
tund Bavarian, was no more
sympathetic than Mr.. Chalk.
". Brussels to Antwerp
in 80 minutes" DR.. Buch-
mann states, alluding to the
fact that this was prewar
scheduling. Now, 20 years
later, they've cut it down to
an average of As minutes.
But this is still no great feat.
It's only 20 miles from Brus-
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sells to Antwerp. American
trains cover the 80 miles
from Washington to Balti-
more in a brisk AZ minutes.
Even the most famed of Eu-
ropean trains, the Orient
Express, can't compare to the
average American run. While
the Orient takes 6 hours and
35 minutes to cover the 300
miles from Munich to Vienna,
the same distance from
Washington to New Haven
is Spanned in a comfortable
5 hours and 33 minutes.
you cross Denmark in
about two hours" the good
doctor states. Again refer
ring to my 1857 Official In
ternational Timetable for
European Railroads, I find
that 4 hours and So minutes
is the best time from Co.
penhagen to Esbjerg. While
a coaSt-to-coaSt train ride
across a simmer section of
the Danish Peninsula, from
Arhus to Skjern, takes 3
hours and 81 minutes.
I'm Paris you are
cross town in either subway
or quick streetcar, bus or
electric train in a fourth to a
sixth of the time you have to
spend here" Please, DR..
Buchanan! Have you ever
had the need to go from the
Marie de Montreuil subway
station to the Exhibition
Park by the Porte de Ver-
sailles terminal during rush
hour? In addition to fighting
the odoriferous perfume they
use to cover up the sewerlike
stencil that permeates sub
surface Paris and battling the
mobS at three or four differ
ent transfer points, the
Metro" creeps along at what
Evening star., 1960-02-10
No H-Bomb Immunity

The Senate submits a
proposed constitutional
amendment that would en-
power State Governors to ap-
point successors to elected
Members of Congress, if a
majority should get killed by
enemy air bomb attacks on
Washington, a not remote
occurrence Tin the viewpoint
of too many.
But the Governors would
have no protective, atom
bomb immunity, since the
bombers would not confine
their devastation to the Ma
tion's Capital. And in such
case, they would also get
"atomicated" to Oblivion.
Next? Rienzi B. Lemus.
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must be about one-third the
speed of New York subways.
In cities smaller but no less
illustrious than the French
capital, like Vienna, for in
stance, one may have a
unique experience, indeed.
Because, in this town where
the storied Blue Danube
flows, almost the entire
streetcar feet was purchased
from the city of New York
near the turn of the century.
The noise the cars create
might compare roughly to a
fully loaded freight train
rumbling down the streetcar
tracks of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. with the brakes half on.
And those with the money for
taxis will be extremely fortu-
nate if they find anything
more modern than a 1941
Ford - probably a former
Army staff car purchased as
surplus a decade or more ago.
In Munich, Cologne, Frank
furt and other cities they do
have a few Streamlined
streetcars that would COM
pare favorably with Wash
ington's of the 1940s, but the
majority of tram vehicles re-
semble diversified bonneville
Trolleys" that can't be of
much more recent vintage
than their refugee sisters
from the United States that
crate along the streets of
Vienna.
To the rail transit buff,
and I am one of them, Euro
pean trains, streetcars and
Subways are a wonderful ex-
perience, but for transpor-
tation that gets you there.
and fast, give me the good
old y. S. A.
John Trimble.
Evening star., 1960-02-10

n wi lCoPOllOCllI "dIlUS W
know why the evening gros-
beak is so named, as they
appear at her feeding station
on Mckay circle very early
each morning and leave
about 1:30 pm. Why eve
ming?
The name came from the
false belief that the birds
sing only in the evening.
This idea, later found to be
erroneous. is incorporated IN
the scientific name, which
contains the word "vesper."
This black and yellow
beauty has been appearing
in our area now for the past
six years.
In 1911 and later in 1916,
f1ocks of them came East for
the first time.
There then was a long in
terruption, but now these
lovely creatures are seen
every winter in and around
Washington.
Disturbances in their foods
and feeding habits are our
gain.
1t is said that they like
best frozen seeds, particularly
those of apples.
They will eat seedless raj
sins, and sometimes find food
in buds of trees.
The evening groSbeaks ap-
pear in spotty locations, at
one end of a block, for in
stance. but not at the other.
All grosbeaks have large,
thick bills, and in this re-
semble our popular cardinal,
or redbird.
Cedar waxwings often ap-
pear at local feeders along
with the grosbeaks.
The waxwings, so named
from red tips to their wings,
are said to perch in a line
on a limb and pass a berry
along the line.
Few of us have ever seen
such a sight or will, in all
probability.
Such scenes, including that
of a family of young opos-
sums hanging onto their
mothers tail, are seen only
by persistent woodsmen, who
have endless opportunities.
Suburban lovers of nature
have to be content with
lesser sights.
Though what they see
may not be as picturesque,
it still remains marvellous,
just as one female cardinal
on a branch is lovely beyond
compare.
Probably most Americans
come closest to the japanese
way of looking at art in this
very way.
We cannot exactly achieve
what they do, while looking
at one flower in a vase, but
even the crasSest materialist
can see the beauty in one
bird on a bough
In this way, the crude
beginner in art and bird lore
has the opportunity to ap-
preciate something excep-
tional.
y
This is one of the best
reasons, we believe, for watcn-
ing the birds.
Really, knowing their
names, and making q list,
Evening star., 1960-02-10
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry Dritery correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtton.
Evening star., 1960-02-10
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Rodor Waves c ian 'Photooroph' Moon
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

loenIlncaLlon OF various bod
les of water was quite easy.
-
About 80 million meteors,
big enough to be barely
visible or photographable,
hit the earth every "a hours.
They are, for the most part,
far lighter than the lightest
OF down, weighing less than
a thousandth Of an ounce per
cubic centimeter.
This was reported by Drs.
Fred L. Whipple and Gerald
S. Hawkins of the Harvard
Observatory to an Army re-
search conference on the
content of space, as conclu-
sions from the recently con-
cluded Harvard Photographic
meteor problem. The actual
numbers and hardness likely
to be encountered through
out the solar system is signif-
icant for any future space
travel, because of possible
penetration of walls of a
space vehicle and the deteri-
grafton of materials due to
constant bombardment.
Despite the extremely low
density, the Harvard astron-
omers reported, calculations
show that particle Of con-
siderably less than a cubic
centimeter could go through
the thin skin which probably
will be essential for any
future space craft.
Orbit the Sun
Practically all those big
enough to be photographed,
the survey shows, come from
disrupted comets and move in
orbits around the sun which
are essentially the same
orbits as those Of the comets
themselves. All these occur in
definite streams.
1t long has been assumed,
however. that space is filled
with vast numbers Of meteor
like objects which come into
the solar family out Of the
great universe Of stars. This
now seems extremely doubt
full, the astronomers reported.
First, they found, there are
many minor streams hitherto
unrecognized, which also have
come from comet disruptions
and which occur in an
extremely mplex pattern
which as yet it has been
impossible to unravel.
Secondly, their calculations
show that any such objects
from outside the solar system
must come in at the tremend-
Gus speed of nearly so miles
a second in order to escape
being pulled into the sun by
its enormous gravitational
pull. On the whole, they
estimate, less than one per
cent of those likely to be
encountered are of other than
cometary origin.
Evening star., 1960-02-10
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKINS SERVICE

a reader can get an answer. BY
mail, to any question Of fact by
writing The Star Information Bu-
reau 6S5 street NV Washington
4. D G Please inclose return postage
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GdI III OT ulOOn Cdl QlQc
their faces in darkness any
more.
Landscape photographs"
with radar waves can be taken
in complete blackness or any
kind of weather with almost
the detail which can be had
with aerial cameras operating
with visual light.
This is the result of a re-
search program carried out
for the Navy by the Applied
Physics Laboratory of Johns
Hopkins University and the
Goodyear Aircraft Corp.
Combined with the devel-
oping art of photogrammetry,
according to a report to the
Office of Naval Research by
Earl S. Leonardo of the Good
year Co., the new techniques
promise soon to eliminate
night as an obstacle to air
reconnaissance. Experiments
have been carried out over
farm areas, lake lands. des-
erts and meadows. To a
lesser degree identification of
radar wave echoes from cities
has been included in the pro-
gram.
How does a radar terrain
photograph differ from a con-
ventional aerial photograph"
Mr.. Leonardo asks. For one
thing. a conventional photo
graph records almost every
thing that is visible, but nor
mally is obtainable only un-
der certain conditions of light
and weather. Radar, of
course, is not subject to these
limitations.
Similar to Air Shots
However, radar will re-
cord only those features that
reflect back transmitted mi
crowave energy. Furthermore,
the direction from which a
radar scans an area will af-
feet the intensity of the sig
nal return. But despite these
differences remarkable SINH
larities exist between the new
radar photographs and con-
ventional aerial photographs"
There are. however, various
distortions, he stresses, which
must be understood in inter-
preting pictures. Recent ra-
oar photography of New
York City is cited as an exam
pie. The area below Central
Park which has most of the
skyScrapers does not show
up so prominently as Queens
with its smaller buildings.
This is due to a popularity of
radar wave reflection which
must be understood by the
operator before a picture can
be correctly interpreted. In
photographs taken over the
lake region of northern Min
nesota, on the other hand,
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powers come alive. This Is
good psychiatry. and also
realistic religion.
We alter our masks to suit
our emotional needs, and
even to conceal inner truth
from ourselves. During our
days we play the villain and
the hero, a saint and a sim
ner. the lover and the loved.
But there are times when
the villain plays the hero,
the sinner plays the saint,
and the lover hates the be-
loved. We must realize
that we are a combination of
good and bad, sincerity and
insincerity. One way to
strengthen faith in ourselves
is to face up to the fact that
evil is a part of our real self.
The Relation
You may wonder why I am
constantly relating emotional
disturbances to charm.
The reason is that charm
real charms the absence
Of emotional disturbances,
and If these are present, there
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tain personality alterations
are bound to occur. In such a
case the analyst tries to I'LL
them in through restoring
the patients faith in him
self and helping him to assess
his actual abilities realistic
cally.
Since every man has in
side him the saint and sin
ner, it can be very devastat-
ing and wearing to try to
deny the fact that the sinner
in us exists.
II excessive guilt begins
building up as a result Of this,
we get nowhere, we hate our
selves, and the compliment
is returned many times over.
George Christian Anderson
says in his book, Mans
Right to Be Human" these
words:
If we affirm what every
human being should affirm,
namely, Il am something"
then we acknowledge we are
unique creatures in creation,
and hope and faith in our
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Is very little use In setting
UP shop in q charm school.
The removal Of them is OBJ
ligatory before you start
thinking about charm, Just
as a garden must be plowed
and narrowed before seed can
be planted. Nothing pleasant
can grow as long as the
weeds are around.
We are all idiots at one
time or another. We make
mistakes and we'll continue
to make them. Every once
in a while we let our waste
full and destructive impulses
take over. II we forgive our
selves for these oversights,
we'll be we'll on the way
toward thinking of ourselves
realistically as the basically
decent sort of people we
really are.
We can be spontaneous.
We can be ourselves. We
can work toward being a bet
Ter person and stop flagellat-
ing ourselves.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare
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Miss Burke
Is to Wed
Mr.. Kennedy

Mrs. Stephen Patrick Burke
announces the engagement of
her daughter Joan Ellen to
Mr.. Gordon Kennedy, jr., son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy.
Miss Burke is also the daugh-
ter of the late DR.. Burke.
The bride-to-be is a grad
uate of Holton-Arms School
and Wellesley College. She
has studied art at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art and
American University. Miss
Burke made her debut at the
Sulgrave Club and is a men,
Der of the Junior League.
The prospective bridegroom
attended the Slade School,
Sandy Spring, Md, and was
graduated from Westtown
School in Westtown, Pa. He
received his Bachelor of
Science in Commerce from
Washington and Lee Univer-
sity in 1850 where he was a
member of Omicron Delta
Kappa honorary fraternity.
He received his masters in
economics from the Univer-
sity of Delaware.
Mr.. Kennedy is director of
the Economic Development
Committee of the Metropol-
itan Washington Board of
Trade.
A September "a wedding is
planned.
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1THAT CERTAIN SOMETHING >ssss4*@@,. >z: ..1..::
How You Evo|uote Yourself

needs tenderness. love. care
and spontaneous affection.
In the later juvenile stage
he must share experiences
with children Of his own age
in addition to the affection
given at home.
In pre-adolescence he needs
the closeneSs and exchange
of condolences that a friend
can supply, and later in
adolescence he must have a
deep and understanding re-
lationship with a person of
the opposite sex.
1t is said that II any Of
these steps are missing, GER
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patterns of parents and others
close to the child are then
indelibly printed on him.
Once these patterns are
stamped on the child in early
years, they hang around like
an unwelcome guest to con-
tinue throughout puberty and
adulthood.
Share Experiences
All this is based on the
need of the child to have a
very definite pattern of per-
Sonality growth throughout
the various stages of his de-
velopment. Early in life he