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Evening star., 1960-07-08

Contrary to the opinion of
some councilmen, there are
citizens in Falls Church who
are concerned over annexa-
tion-and I am one who is
extremely concerned. There
are many questions which I
would like to have answered,
but my anxiety centers
around our school system. I
do not yearn to supply free
sidewalks, storm sewers, street
lights, and garbage collection
to those people who have
chosen to live in the areas of
Fairfax County adjacent to
Falls Church, but above and
beyond these purely none
tary considerations, there is
always the problem of al
ready overcrowded schools,
both in the city and in the
county.
First of all, I am concerned
about the effect of annexa-
tion proceedings on our own
school bond issue, scheduled
for referendum this fall. Will
citizens faced with a reported
300 tax increase to pay for
annexation willingly vote ad-
ditional taxes for the badly
needed school bond?
Next I am concerned about
the effect which the doubling
of our population will have
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Excellent Record

It is no consolation to anyone that
a New York parole board now comedies
it made "a mistake" in releasing con-
victed murderer Frederick G. Wood from
a State prison last June 8. Less than
a month after he was handed his free
dom, while he was the subject of
frantic search" by parole officials, he
stabbed two more elderly men to death.
Wood received a 23-yearS-to-life
sentence for fatal beating and stabbing
in 1943. His criminal record, however,
dated back to the age of Is, involving
charges of thievery, parole violations
and rnolesting of women. From that
time on his life was series Of journeys
in and out of reformatories and mental
hospitals. His parole last month brought
vigorous protests from the citizens of
his home town.
How can man like this be turned
loose? According to the parole board
chairman, the board "was faced with
the problem of what to do with him,
whether to keep him on, feeding and
caring for him for life at State expense,
or letting him out where he could find
job" And in prison, the chairman
added, Wood had IAN excellent record"
If the record" of murderers is to
receive no more consideration than it
did in this case, and if the decision of
whether to keep him on" has no more
basis, the time is long overdue for new
look at the parole system.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

pert, hired to "sell us" on
annexation, 60 the firm of
Wiley and Wilson. engaged
for just what I am not Just
sure; are all being retained
by the city, presumably, one
would imagine to present
facts and more facts about
this vexing problem, but are
there any answers? AS a citi-
zen with three school age
children I have more than a
passing interest in the quail
ity of our schools. AS a citi-
zen, whose duty it is to be
cognizant of all the facts
concerning all public ques-
tions, must come full circle
always to the very puzzling
question: Why this unseemly
haste on the part of the city
fathers TO take upon them
selves the heavy burden Of
administering a large area
when so many grievous prob
lens cry out for solution
right here within our own
boundaries? If mere bignesS
were a fitting solution, New
York, London or Tokyo
should stand out as shining
examples of economy, excel
lence and civic virtue; that
few of these apply in any
case, is perhaps, the under
statement of the year. If we
become bigger will we become
better?
%kathryn Jane Ripley.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
ItoIy's Pain

Throughout it's fourteen years as a
republic-dating from June 10, 1916
Italy has lived in state of constantly
recurring political crisis. Almost score
of governments have come and gone
during that period-Sometimes quietly,
sometimes angrily. One party, that of
the Christian Democrats, has exceeded
all others in popular and parliamentary
strength during these years, but deep
divisions within that party itself and the
existence of at least half-dozen other
parties have served to fragment political
influence and responsibility. At the Left
and Right extremes have been an ag-
greSsive Communist Party and a de-
termined Neo-FaSciSt Party that have
traded on the divided control of the
center to strike bargains of temporary
advantage.
1t is against this background of a
political structure that is inherently
weak, and during the tenure of a coali-
ton government that stirred little pop
ular or professional enthusiasm to start
with, that the country today is suffering
its most violent disorders in more than
a decade. Mob rioting in the streets and
parks of Rome has been matched by
similar outbreaks in other cities of the
North and South. Strikes, purely polit-
ical in their motivation, have inter-
rupted normal operation of business,
transportation and communications.
Fist fights in the parliament itself are
only SideShowS in an upheaval that has
been described as threatening civil war
for the nation as a whole.
In their inception, the disorders had
the pattern of Communist VS.. Fascist
strife only. The pattern has broadened
quickly, however, to support charges by
government Spokesmen that this-as re-
Gently in Japan-iS another Communist
effort to damage, and to destroy if pos
Sible, the whole structure of democratic
government in free nation.
1t is unlikely that the effort will
accomplish its ultimate objective, but
its success in turning the streets into
backgrounds is grave evidence of how
Skillful and ruthless employment of mob
power remains dangerous Communist
weapon. If Italy, as clear majority of
its people have demonstrated in the
postwar period, wishes free and demo-
cratic government, the country'S politi-
cal leaders must understand this chal-
lenge, set aside some of their petty rival
rieS and combine their energies in estab-
fishing a more stable authority.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Not Her Fault

A clipping was sent to me
recently from your paper, of
a letter written by Mrs.
Margaret Worrell as ma
tional President, Ladies of
the Grand Army of the Re-
public"
I feel it should be made
clear that Mrs. Worrell is
a past national president
of our organization.
I do not know Senator
O'Mahoney, whom Mrs. Wor-
rell praised but any opinion
expressed was that of Mrs.
Worrell and not as National
President of the Ladies of
the GAR.
Mrs. Edna Lindsey of Port
land, Oregon, is our national
president.
Harriet Eaton Hughes.
Editor "Bugle Call, Past
Natl. President (51-52) .
Editors Note: Mrs. Wor-
rell identified herself cor
rectly, but The Star mad
vertently dropped the past"
from her title.)
Evening star., 1960-07-08

Your June 80 editorial,
Arrogant Nonsense" would
be the forceful, fearless
journalism it purports to be,
were it not for one major de-
ficiency: 1t is factually in
correct. Most important of
the arbitrary assumptions
you make is that Gen.
Quesada is fighting bellig-
erently "in behalf of public
safety" Clearly, those of us
who object to his way of doing
business are, by your def
milton, against safety. You
can accuse pilots of many
things, but you can't accuse
them of being stupid. Their
lives are at stake every time
they fly, not Gen. Quesada's.
Your editorial also encom-
passes a number of other ac-
cuSationS in one sweeping
paragraph: Pilots are OPP
posed to the 60-year age limit,
to periodic physical examina-
tionS, etc., presumably be-
cause they are not interested
in theirs, or their passengers
safety. This is bad journalism,
because it is contrary to an
abundant factual record, all
of which has been available
to you for some time. This
kind of arrogant nonsense"
as you call it defeats your
own purpose, because if we in
AOPA, and the others in civil
aviation who have leveled
these charges, are to be cas-
tigated, your comments will
carry more weight if they
can stand the light of factual
scrutiny.
All Of us in aviation have
lived under voluminous sets
of regulations and submitted
to periodic examinations, for
many years. We have always
accepted them and, to an ex-
tent greater than you'll find
in almost any other walk of
life, have been just as ag-
gressively law-abiding as we
have been aggressively op-
posed to un-American meth
DDS used in running a U. S.
Government agency Again,
for reasons best known to
you, you have ignored the
factual record.
Max Karant,
Vice President, Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Asso-
citation.
Editors Note: The sug-
gestion that FAA Admin
istrator Quesada has re-
sorted to "un-American
methods" is made of the
stuff one finds out in the
wild blue yonder.)
Evening star., 1960-07-08
For Services Rendered

A letter from H. Kellock
stated that President Eisen-
hover has received medical
care for himself and family
without making any contri-
button on his part. Kellock
must have no idea at all of
the contributions made by
military personnel in ex-
change for any privileges they
receive.
Just a few contributions:
Considerable separation from
their families; pay scales
which always lag behind the
cost of living rise by about
2 or 3 years; increased cost
of living due to frequent
moves (my own housing and
utility costs increased rs per
cent when I moved here, and
I have a place to live which
is about half as desirable as
the last one); hardShips on
children who change schools
during the school year (my
children were in 4 different
schools in 1850: and for
anyone who thinks it is an
easy life, I suggest a few
nights of sleeping in ice-cold
mud, or living in the forward
part of a destroyer during
rough weather, or landing on
an aircraft carrier at 1870
miles per hour on a stormy
night. I'm sure that the
Army in the field makes
similar demands upon its
men.
Mr.. Eisenhower served for
more than 80 years on active
duty, and he, along with
anyone else in the armed
forces. has certainly made a
contribution in exchange for
any medical services received,
and has even more privileges
or payment due which could
not possibly make up for
their personal hardship.
r. Evans.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

A Sixteenth street corre-
spondent wants to know how
a pigeon could get through a
venetian blind.
It's easy-if you are a
pigeon!
Just push a bit at the side,
and you're in.
Birds, after all, can get
through very small spaces,
as many owners of parakeets
know.
The little fellows manage
to squeeze through mere
cracks when doors or win
dows are incautiously opened.
Flash!
Away goes Jackie, or Cutie,
or Cookie, or Mike, or what
ever the bird is called.
The first thing one knows,
the bird is gone, then comes
the dawn. and he has ganged
up with a group of common
SparroWS.
+ 4 +
Very few birds, large or
small, are bold enough to
enter a room.
We have carried here, over
the years, stories from various
hands about birds entering
houses, however.
Uncaged birds, of course,
from the outside.
In some nations across the
seas the entry of a bird into
a human habitation has been
looked upon with fear.
This is because a bird, with
wings, has been grouped with
angelic visitors and the like.
For some obscure reason,
perhaps known to researchers
into occult and legendary
lore, such visits have been
thought to presage a death
in the household.
In all probability, such be-
lief arose after no more than
a coincidence, when a death
shortly followed a birds in
trusion.
1t is easy to imagine how
the news would get around.
Let it happen a second
time, and it would convince
even the most skeptical.
The truth seems to be, here
as elsewhere, that coinci-
dences do not make truth.
but the human mind is so
constituted that it seems to
do just that.
Even the most educated
man, not necessarily the best
educated man, has difficulty
in retaining his intellectual
equilibrium while going be-
meath a ladder.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

II ne happens to break a
mirror, he feels to the depth
of his being that something
will happen to him" unless
he makes counter magic of
some sort.
These counter magics are
interesting to study.
If we look into origins, we
can see that they are based
on magic, not religion, since
magic sometimes fingers in
the best religions.
Experts tell us that magic
calls for a sort of counterrevo-
luton, as one might say. a.
certain set of words or actions
to overcome possible bad for
tune.
Thus, if one steps beneath
a ladder, he is afraid, not be-
cause the ladder may fall on
him, but because he has un-
Willingly violated a religious
conception, that of the trim
ity, as formed by the ground,
the ladder and the wall
against which it leans.
BY walking beneath the
ladder, he has intruded on the
sacred precinct, and he must
say some words in reply that
are believed by him to fright
en- away the i'll fortune.
1t may be seen that 1t is
the belief in magic that re-
sides in the human mind that
makes us afraid.
In the same way, but diff
terent, the breaking of a
mirror is traced back to the
days VIII m there were no
looking glasses except the
Silent surface of a stream.
II a girl was preening her.
self in such a mirror" and
a rival threw a stone into
the water, it distorted her
image, and in the myste-
rious way of such magic
some illness was supposed to
come upon her.
The breaking of a mirror.
then, is still seen as bad luck.
and we see the persistence
OF magic in this process, not
a real intelligent fear at all
A bird that flies into a
house is not harming anyone
except perhaps himself, since
he is better off outdoors.
Let us, then, walk under
ladders, break mirrors. and
invite the harmless and
beautiful birds to enter our
houses, so that after many
centuries humanity may
free itself from the evil ef-
fects of magic and supersti-
ton. A
Evening star., 1960-07-08
UnIodyIike?

Now the readers of This
Week magazine section of
the July 3 Sunday Star have
at last learned that the. ia
miliar but controversial fig
ure on top of the Capitol
dome really is a lady. A lady,
indeed, of too much modesty
perhaps. She appears ex-
posing only her feminine
hands, face and neck, sup
posedly typifying the Ameri-
can woman.
From a close look at our
fair lady, it is evident that
sculptor Thomas Crawford,
who did such a fine job
shaping the folds of her
heavily draped figure, did not
visualize the perspective or
the height where the figure
would be perched and how it
would appear from the
ground. Had he planned it
right. he would have used
less material on the lower
part of her figure and formed
a full size bust instead of a
fiat chest. Oh, we'll! 1t may
have been that women were
shaped different in those
days. However, what really
botherS me are the top-heavy
feathers that look like to-
bacco leaves; they should be
removed to give the lady's
head a more graceful ap-
pearance. The eagle will be
thankful. too. 1t might even
change his painful express
sion to a more pleasant look.
Praises are due to Jefferson
Davis for ordering sculptor
Crawford to outfit the lady
with a chic hat. But, he
goofed with the feathers.
While the Capitol dome is
being renovated, it might be
a good idea to ask Congress
to order the feathers re-
moved. Herman Perlman
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Undmused

An amusement park COM
mitted to AMUSEMENT of some
children deserves none as
customers. My four will take
their stand alongside brown
friends outside Glen Echo
Park. Velma w. Burke.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

Conversely, as the animal
recovered from its intoxica-
ton its learned responses
were reconstructed in their
original order. If the animal
was then made neurotic it
developed a new set of highly
intricate and elaborate reac-
tions-inhibitions, fears, COM
pulsionS somatic Cbodily) dis
functions and SenSory dis
turbances. These, too. proved
relatively more vulnerable to
disintegration by the drugs
than did simpler, pre-neu- 4,
rotic behavior patterns. Anx-
iety reactions and inhibitions
were significantly relieved.
Instead of crouching tense
and immobile in a far cor
ner or showing panic at the
feeding signals. it could re-
spond to the latter by OPEN
ing the box and feeding, in
a somewhat groggy but COM
paratively effective manner,
as though for the time being
its doubts and fears were
wraithS forgotten"
y 4 =
Hungry babies really "cry
themselves to Sleep"
This is not due to phySi-
cal exhaustion, as widely
supposed, but because the
crying seems to have salts
fled the hunger sensations,
according to a report of DR..
Gordon R. Ferrer, clinical
director of the Worthwhile
State Hospital of Worthwhile,
Mich, to the Midwest Sec
ton Of the American PSYCHE
atric Association. The expert
ence, he believes, may have
considerable effects on adult
life and be responsible for
some of the auditory hallu-
cinations, hearing voices of
psychotic individuals for
whom it is a common expert
ence.
1T is a readily verifiable
psychological fact" he re-
ports, that hunger sensa-
tionS. if they are not satiated,
decrease in intensity after a
period, only to recur sub
sequently even more insist
emily. The sequence may re-
peat itself several times as
the perception of hunger
wakes and wanes.
THE observation that the
hungry infant may cry itself
to sleep is due to the phySi-
illogical ebbing away of the
discomfort of hunger. The
infant, if left unfed, ceases
after a time to be aware of
hunger. :"
Same Effect as Food
Thus, he explains, the
sound of its own voice, re-
flected back to it from the
environment, seems to have
the same effect as being fed
by the mother. THE actual
experience of having his
hunger vanish, even as he
cried" says DR.. Ferrer,
g makes it appear to the in
fant that his own cry has
the same satiating effect as
breast milk"
Hearing voices, he says, may
be "a return of the repreSSed
memory of this infantile
hunger cry to consciousness"
He reports experiments in
which eating or drinking I'M
mediately stops these hallu-
cinations, the same effect
being achieved as was asso-
ciated by the infant with the
sound of its own voice.
When affective or actual
hungers," he says in his re-
port, "are symbolically or
actually satisfied by food or
drink, the need which the
hallucination satisfies in the
first place is met in other
ways the hallucination no
longer has a functional role
in the psychic economy"
Evening star., 1960-07-08
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Effects of Alcohol Noted on Cats
By THOMAS r. HENRY
Cats can become drunks.

Cats can become drunks.
They build up much the
same craving for booze as
men, DIR. Jules H. MaSSer-
man, professor of neurology
at Northwestern University,
recently reported to the
American Psychiatric Asso-
citation. He told of expert
ments to demonstrate that
mental and emotional proc
eSses among higher mammals
are essentially the same as
those of humans, although on
a lower level.
One effect of alcohol and
various drugs like morphine,
it previously has been shown,
is to wipe out recently ac-
quired tensions for the time
being without affecting those
acquired earlier and more
deeply imbedded, DR.. MasSer-
man said. It's much the
same with cats. he pointed
out.
In one of these studies in.
which alcohol was used as the
nepenthic (memory-eraSing)
drug, the animals which ex-
perienced relief from neurotic
tensions while partly intoxi-
Gated we're later given an op-
portunity to choose between
alcoholic and non-alcoholic
drinks. To our surprise and
properly subdued delight
about half the neurotic
animals began to develop a
quite unfeline preference for
alcohol, and in most cases
the preference was suffi-
ciently insiStent to warrant
the term addiction More
over the induced dipsomania
generally lasted until the
animals underlying neurosis
was relieved. 1t seems re-
dundant to belabor the hu-
man analogues to these OBJ
servations.
Memory Capacity DulIed
''In another series of expert
ments we observed that hyp-
motto drugs including alcohol
so dulled the perceptive and
mnemonic (memory) capaci-
ties of animals that they
were, while thus inebriated,
relatively immune. to the
neurosis-producing effects of
traumatic experiences. In this
connection it may be recalled
that many a human being
long ere this has been tempt
ed, through subversive ex-
perience, to take a bracer
before boarding the boss,
getting married, flying a COM
bat mission, or facing other
presumed dangers"
Tests with alcohol and the
other similarly acting drugs,
DR.. M a SSerm a n reported,
showed that "in general such
drugs diSorganized complex
behavior patterns while leav-
ing relatively simple ones in
tact. In one series of expert
mentS the animal was taught
in successive stages to open a
food box, to respond to food
signals including signs read
ing FOOD and NO-FOOD, to
operate the signal switch, to
work two switches in a given
order and finally to eraverSe a
difficult maze to reach one of
the switches.
IF the animal was then
given a small dose of barbi-
tai, morphine or alcohol it
would become incapable of
solving the maze but would
still work the food-switches
properly. With larger doses
it could remember how to
work only one switch. With
. still larger doses earlier stages
OF learning would also be
disintegrated until finally it
lost even the simple skill re-
quired to open the food box.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Putting the Lid on His Sugar Bowl
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

be hard to find a vice presi-
dental candidate strong
enough to swing an election.
If the Good Lord had fixed
it so that we all lived under a
single religion, it would be far
less difficult to make up our
minds as to whether a Quaker,
Nixon, or a Catholic, Ken
nedy, should guide our Nation
for the next four years.
IIkA G
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Arrogant Nonsense

Herbert SOmmers.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
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