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Evening star., 1960-08-17

Nation needs every possible taxpayer
and even Mr.. BoWleS himself probably
is fully aware that the price for "pie IN
the sky" comes high. But, witticiSmS
aside, Mr. Bowles has made serious de-
ciSion that reflects his personal dedica-
tion to the Democratic cause nationally
and to the presidential ticket headed by
Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts,.
Relatively early in the pre-conven-
ton campaign, Mr.. Kennedy selected Mr..
Bowles and Adlai Stevenson to be his
foremost advisers on foreign policy-a
capacity in which each has special quail
flcations. There has been speculation
since that either or both would be chosen
for high post in the foreign affairs
field in event of Democratic preSiden-
tial victory. In announcing his present
decision, Mr.. BoWleS said that it involved
no understanding or commitment on
election appointment but he reiter-
ated his primary and abiding interest"
in foreign policy and said frankly that
he would want to feel free to accept
If an offer to serve is made. If newly
elected to Congress, he added, he would
feel himself pledged to serve out the
term for which he was chosen.
Certainly, if Mr.. Kennedy becomes
President, there will be opportunity for
man of Mr.. Bowles' many and varied
talents to serve at the national level.
Meanwhile, his willingness to devote
himself full time to the interests of the
party at this same national level is in
keeping with his concept of public re-
SponSibility.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Two-Woy Pollution Attack

The Districts request for authority
to borrow $32 million for a new trunk
sewer from Chain bridge to Blue Plains
has special urgency. For this project
is designed to make an important two
way attack on Potomac River pollution.
1t will not only go far toward solving
the sewage-overflow problem from the
central part of Washington but will
convey direct to the municipal treat
ment plant the sewage from the Dulles
International Airport and from many
Virginia and Maryland communities
above the Chain bridge area
The $32 million fund is part of the
$70-million Project c" sewer program
aimed primarily at separating the storm
and sanitary sewers now serving some
of the older parts of the city. The COM
bined system is unable to handle both
sewage and storm waters during periods
of heavy rains, with the result that raw
sewage frequently emptieS into the river
through overflow outlets along the CEN
trail waterfront. The only remedy, sani-
tation authorities say, is to build an in
terceptor sewer line to Blue Plains.
With congressional approval of a
Federally financed trunk sewer down
the Potomac from the Chantilly airport
area to Chain bridge, Project c has been
expanded to take care of this upriver
sewage from the airport itself and from
nearby communities. Congress already
has appropriated $3.50 million for this
trunk line, S27 million of which is
Federal grant and the remainder loan
to be repaid from fee revenues.
Thus, Washington'S water supply
will be safeguarded against the threat
of sewage contamination above the in
take at Little Falls. And, in the tidal
stretch below Rock Creek, the Project c
sewer will make a substantial contribu-
ton toward the cleaning up of the river
in that Important monumental area.
Few sanitation projects have been of
such Importance to the Nations Capital
and It's suburbs.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Stoy Away Mr.. K.

In what capacity would
Mr.. Khrushchev expect to
return to the United States?
AS an official represent
ing his country at the United
Nations? AS a duly accred-
tied diplomat representing
his country? AS a mere citi-
zen arriving as a tourist?
AS an Objectionable and
trouble making citizen of an
other country are we not
entirely within our rights to
refuse him a passport? AS a
representative of his country,
either at the United Nations
or as a diplomat, could he
not be declared persona non
grata. unacceptable to the
United States which he has
grossly insulted in the per-
son of our President? Is this
not the time-honored and
world-used procedure when
one country sends another
country a representative
which that country is i'm
PEELED. for excellent reasons,
to reject?
NJ. B. A.
Editors Note: Selection
of U. N. representatives is not
subject to approval of men,
Der nationS)
Evening star., 1960-08-17
The Better Way

1t became evident long before the
political convention season that medical
help for the aged would become major
issue of 1960-in Congress, in the preSi-
dental campaign or in both. In their
campaign platforms, each party included
a plank indorsing such assistance
differing primarily in their approach to
the financing. In brief, the Republican
commitment is to a Federal-State part
nership approach while the Democratic
preference is for compulsory Federal
program integrated into the existing
social security system.
Significantly, before the convention
recess of Congress, the House had ex-
pressed itself clearly in an overwhelm-
ing vote 1880 to 23) in favor of the
Federal-State formula. The Senate
Finance Committee few days ago rec
commended the same principle, in some
what more liberal terms than those of
the House bill, and Senator Kerr, Demo-
crat of Oklahoma, already has presented
to the Senate persuasive argument in
its favor The committee bill has two
main provisions. One would INCREASE
Federal grants to States for medical
services to "a million persons on old
age assistance rolls. The other would
provide Federal aid to States which
have, or which set up, medical care pro-
grams, with this aid ranging from so to
80 per cent of cost, depending upon per
capita income of the States. BY this
combination, Mr.. Kerr explained, the
committee bill will take care of every
aged person in any State that imple-
ments this program, whether that per-
son is on old-age assistance, on social
security, or on neither, If he has need
for medical care" In keeping with this
breadth of coverage, the Federal pro-
gram approved by the committee would
be financed out of general funds of the
TreaSury-by all the taxpayers rather
than through an added assessment only
upon the more limited number paying
social security taxes.
The committee plan offers way to
help those who need help. 1t spreads
the cost more equitably than would the
grating of massive health insurance
program on the social security system
alone. If there is to be legislation en-
acted in this short, politically ly-tempered
session, the Senate should follow the
guidelineS proposed by its Finance Com
mittee. If 1t does, reconciliation with
the House bill already passed will be
relatively easy and will assure an i'm
mediate start at meeting need where
need exists.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Refreshed by Siesto Idea in This Neurotic 'Aqe

of Newtonian physics and,
later, of Darwinian biology,
abetted by the equally amaz-
ing commercial expansion of
Europeans across the great
ocean seas and the Industrial
Revolution, have all fostered
this great theological myth,
or premise, of great Purpose.
And perhaps one can see in
the latent fury sleeplessly
and electronically spinning
in the mounting piles of nu-
clear bombs, a true refiec-
tion of the resentment seeth-
ing in a humanity exhorted
and coerced these many post
Newtonian centuries into the
unnatural confines of this
Civilization of Purpose.
And when the increasing
pressureS of this distortedly
purposeful civilization finally
press the buttons on those
piles of electron-ridden ami
mostly, if it is not to be a
siesta- observing Spaniar r d
who shall be selected by
Natures inexorable law of
evolution - perhaps not an
inscrutable law but, at least,
methinks, not a man-con-
Evening star., 1960-08-17
For SurviivuI's Sake

: For almost two years now, ever
since the start of the Anglo-American-
Soviet teSt-ban talks in Geneva, our
country-togetherw with Britain-haS de-
barred itself from setting off expert
mental nuclear detonationS of any kind.
Have the Russians done the same? AL
though they say that they have, can we
safely take their word for it? Isn't it
possible that they have been cheating
on us by staging clandestine under
ground detonationS, or conceivably even
detonations in outer space, that could
give them decisive advantage over us?
, The answers to such questions are
purely speculative at the moment, but
Americans, BritonS and all other free
peoples ought not to underestimate the
possibility of Soviet duplicity in this
field. Senator Jackson, the new Demo-
cratic National Chairman and veteran
member of the Joint Congressional
Atomic Committee, has just indicated
that there is considerable ground for the
suspicion that the Kremlin may be con-
Quoting an elaborate series of under
ground shots of sort that are indiS-
tinguiShable from natural earthquakes
If this is the fact of the matter, If the
Russians are really cheating on us in
nuclear testing, then we and our allies
face the grave danger of being bested
in the development of revolutionary "A
and H weapons.
Presumably it is for reasons of this
sort that Chairman McCone of our
Atomic Energy Commission and Under
secretary Of State Merchant have flown
to London for special talks with the
British. The Geneva negotiations, which
President Eisenhower described the
other day as very disappointing and
discouraging, have become almost far
cical. In effect, they have given the
Russians an unpoliced ban on tests, with
no checks at all against the danger of
cheating. This is situation quite as
dangerous as it is absurd. Certainly, if
the Kremlin continues to block real
policing, we and our friends In Britain
ought to resume underground detona-
tions with the least possible delay.
Evening star., 1960-08-17

Your editorial on the insti-
tuition of the Spanish sieSta,
August II, will be noted by
few, I fear, as one of the
more significant in the twen-
tieth century. But if it should
survive a future nuclear holo-
caust, it is just conceivable
that the historian - maybe
Spanish - of some future
millennium, unearthing it
between siestas) might at
tach very great significance
to it.
1t would indeed be a rare
find. AS rare as the proverbial
needle in the haystack. More
rare; because the "haystack"
in this instance Is such a
mountainous one: the mil
lions of tons of printed mat
ter, dating at least from the
mid-fifteenth century, with
it's necessarily tormenting
themes of perfectability. i'm
provement, virtue (the latter
defined in the restricted
sense that it abets the former
two), crusade, ought"
Should" must" ad infini-
tum.
The startling implications
Evening star., 1960-08-17

trived law, whether of Pur-
pose or some other-I think it
may be one at least some
thing like him. Mayhap a
Tibetan monk.
Be that as it may, in view
of the failure of such as Jean
Jacques Rousseau and the
other Romantic dissidents of
the nineteenth century to
defect the ultra -purposeful
course toward the neurotic
civilization" with which we
have saddled ourselves, your
editorial, while. significantly
and refreshingly different,
will be fully appreciated per-
haps only by a future, evo-
lutionally = selected different,
species of homo sapiens. In
the meantime, like you. I
hope the Spaniard keeps his
siesta. And the monk his
monastery. And the hermit
his cave. For only if there
is such diversity can Natures
arch-angel, Evolution. per-
haps find for selection at
least one type pleasing to it's
God for retention on this
Earth.
CLINTON Kenneth LOkey
Evening star., 1960-08-17

Your issue of August II
contained a news item enti-
tied North Carolinians Make
Catholicism an Issue" Let
me quote:
Gov. Luther Hodges told a
Democratic rally in Raleigh
Tuesday: If this issue were
not present, I confidently be-
lieve our party would carry
practically every State in the
Union-if not all"
OF course, this is what
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
called an "iffy" situation, but
it reminds me of the famous
definition of an optimist by
George Bernard Shaw. He
said, IAN optimist is a fellow
who can have a good time
just thinking what a good
time he would be having, if
he were having it." say this
is a very good description of
Gov. Hodges-he is the su-
preme optimist of them all!
Lillian Sinclair Large.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
THE PASSING SCENE
u. S. Politics of World Concern
By WILLIAM S. WHIT

in on what is going on-very
much in the American world
but scrupulously not Of that
world. An antiseptic impair
tiality is his drill; foreigners
must not even seem to inter-
fere.
All the same, diplomats are
men, too. and so, in deepest
confidence, they have their
political favorites here. Some
are very silently roofing for
Mr.. Nixon; some for Senator
Kennedy. But far more are
worrying far more about
what the new administra-
tion's foreign policy line will
be than about the identity Of
the man who will make that
line.
This is especially true of
representatives here of the
allied West. They know the
Western Alliance is in deep
trouble and that whoever
ascends to the presidency will
have an immense job to re-
store its unity and vigor.
Even among those who are
emotionally "anti-colonial,"
for illustration, there is great
sympathy for our old ally,
Belgium-to which we have
given the back of our hand
in her sad troubles in the
Congo. There is concern, too,
that we bring Iran into part
nership and then put Iran on
a thin diet of help while we
give fresh assistance to her
enemy, NasSer's Egypt.
Unpleasant Truth
The plain and unpleasant
truth is this: There is mount
ing evidence-as Belgium bit
terly complains in private
that the best way to get along
with us is to kick us regularly
in the teeth. And this Is the
deepest measure of the dip
lomatic community's true
concern about the American
election.
For at bottom the new
American administration will
have two clear and difficult
choices: 1t will return this
country to a bold and SYM
pathetic and total leadership
OF the West, electing to stand
fast with our friends when
their truly vital interests are
involved even if this should
put us on the wrong" side
in the ferment of African
Asian nationalism. Or it will
decide to withdraw more and
more from the Western Alli-
ance and to put our main
hopes in our own strength
and into the possibility of
bringing the neutral and un-
committed nations into some
kind of quasi-alliance with
us.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Command Chonoe

President Eisenhower has chosen
we'll in nominating General Lyman L.
Lemnitzer to succeed General Nathan F.
TWinmg as chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff. The succession is scheduled to
take place in the early fall when General
TWining, who has served with great dis
tinction in this highest of the Nations
military offices, plans to midway
in the second of his two-year terms
for reasons of health.
Actually, of course, General Lemnit-
zer is so admirably qualified to head the
jos that his selection for the post has
come as no surprise whatever to any of
the armed services. Long before he as
Sumed his present responsibilities as
Army Chief of Staff, he had won wide
spread recognition throughout our mill
tary establishment as an officer endowed
with exceptional talents as commander
in the field, behind-th Lines admins
traitor, planner of major logistical, tao
tical and strategical enterprises, and
scholarly negotiator in the sensitive and
potentially explosive realm of inter
allied relationships. One has only to look
at his record in the Second World War
and in Korea and in other phases of his
"soldier-diplomat" career to understand
why he has been selected by the Presi-
dent to take over from General Twining.
Despite the great and fateful power
reposed in it, the Joint Chiefs is rela
lively a very young American institu-
tion. Besides General Twining, it's only
other chairmen have been General
Bradley and Admiral Radford. These
three men, however, have made the jos
a genuinely formidable instrument of
national security, and General Lemnit-
zer can be counted upon to carry on in
their tradition.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Picture Preview

Coming events cast their
shadows. Recently the press
carried a photo of Senator
Kennedy talking to his 95-
year-old grandmother, who
oddly enough predicted his
election. Then The Star
printed a recipe by the
Nixon girls for butterscotch
bars.
Shortly we can expect the
following photos: Senator
johnson in an Indian war
bonnet shaking hands with
an Iroquois chief. Mr.. Lodge
in overalls hoeing in his lit
tie Massachusetts, pea patch.
And Mr.. Nixon in Confed-
crate cap gazing at the
statue of Robert E. Lee.
Paul McIlvaine.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Enlisted for Duration

One of our column writing "wits,"
the Potomac Fever man, has suggested
that Connecticut Representative Chester
BowleS is not running for reelection be-
cause he feels the country needs fewer
congressman and more taxpayers. This
thoughtful" analysis is based upon the
fact that Mr.. Bowles was chairman of
the Democratic Platform Committee and
principal author of an outstandingly
generous set of promises to the Ameri-
can voters
Well, it is true of course that the
Evening star., 1960-08-17
OId-Age Benefits

Shortly, there Will be pend
ing before the Senate the
social security bill of 1860.
1t is our earnest hope that
the Senate will pass the bill
approved by the House CHR.
12580 with an amendment
that would at least initiate a
program of health care bene-
fits to older people through
the use of the social insurance
principle.
At about the time the Sen
ate. Finance Committee was
conducting its hearings on
the House-passed social Sc
curity bill. we solicited the
opinion of over a score Of in
dividuals, who have long been
identified with the American
system of social security
having served the Govern
ment in administrative or ad-
visory capacities - with re-
spect to the most effective
method for financing health
care benefits for the aged.
The use of the social security
system was unanimously en-
dorsed as not only the most
f1scally responsible approach
but also the most practical
approach from an admins
trative standpoint.
Among the endorsers of this
approach were four past Com
missioners Of Social Security.
three of whom had been ap-
pointed by President Eisen-
hover, and a number of dis
tinguished students of social
security such as: j. Douglas
Brown. Dean of Faculty,
Princeton University; Eveline
M. Burns, Professor of Social
Work (social security, New
York School of Social Work,
Columbia University; Will
bur j. Cohen, Professor of
Public Welfare Administra-
ton, School of Social Work,
University of Michigan: Will
liam Haber, Professor of
Economics, University OF
Michigan; Seymour Harris,
Littauer Professor of Political
Economy. Harvard Univer-
sity; Richard A. Lester, Pro-
fessor of Economics, Prince
ton University, and Herman
M. Somers, Chairman, Politi
cal Science Department, Hav-
erford College.
We think it is significant
that a substantial and dis
tinguished group of admins
traitors and students of social
security consider the social
security system as the neces-
sary and desirable instrument
in meeting the health needs
of older people. We have seen
no similar broad-scale en-
dorsement of the proposal of
the Administration which
seeks to meet these health
care needs through Federal
State grant-in-aid programs
which, since it requires an
income test, has a kinship to
the public assistance or means
test to the needs of the
people,:
1t is our most earnest hope
that Congress will enact q
program of health care bene-
fits to the aged using the
social insurance principle,
Fedele F. Fauri, Dean,
School of Social Work.
University of Michigan
Charles 1. Schottland, Dean,
Florence Heller Graduate
School of Social Welfare,
BrandeiS University
Evening star., 1960-08-17
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Exciting Aspects of Space Research
By THOMAS r. HENRY

not exist In environments
impossible for earthly organ
isms. Such egotism Of q sin
gle egotistic organism on one
minor planet seems to have
been punctured.
The little nine-planet solar
system is a mere speck in one
galaxy of two or three billion
stars which itself is a mere
speck in a Creation of mil
lions of such galaxies. Present
Indications, according to a
recent report by DR.. Otto
Struve, director of the Ma
tional Science Foundations
mammoth observatory at
Greenbank, w. Va, are that
there is a high probability
that several million average
stars in this one galaxy have
planetary systems capable of
sustaining life very similar to
that of the sun.
Hitherto there have been
few speculations on the
physical origin of the life
phenomena. The subject gen.
orally might have been con-
sldered taboo. But within the
last two or three years some
OF the essential elements of
organisms have been created
by man himself. Here again,
the doors for speculation and
experiment have been thrown
wide open.
Biology Lacked Tools"
One of the principal aims
OF space exploration" says
the Academy report prepared
for the Space Science Board
by Drs. Joshua Lederberg
of the Stanford University
School of Medicine and H.
keffer Hartline of the Rock
efeller Institute, lis to secure
detailed scientific knowledge
OF the other planets of the
solar system for comparison
with the physics, chemistry
sn' natural history of the
earth. This knowledge is ex-
pected to give us new insights
into the origin and evolution
OF the physical universe and
the chemical phenomena that
constitute life.
twenty-five centuries of
scientific astronomy have
widened the horizens of the
physical world and the casual
place of the planet earth in
the expanding universe is a
central theme in our modern
scientific culture. The dy-
namics of celestial bodies, as
can be observed from the
earth, is the richest inspira-
tlon for the generalization
OF our concepts of mass and
energy throughout the uni
verse. The spectra Of the
stars likewise testify to the
universally of our concepts
in chemistry. But biology has
lacked tools of such extern
sion. -"
But now the time is at
hand, with the possibility of
at least sending auto-com-
rnunicating miSsile-carried
probes to the moon and
planets, when biology has it's
opportunity.
Extra-terrestrial life of
some sort seems highly prob
able, the report points out.
That it will have much in
common with terrestrial life
is highly improbable. That
somewhere it may be far
advanced over even human
levels is far,5rom impossible.