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Evening star., 1960-03-22

On behalf of the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton, permit me to express our
sincere thanks and appre-
citation to your distinguished
paper for bringing to the
public's attention present sit
uations and problems con-
fronting the public and this
great and beautiful city. Your
subjects are timely, well writ
ten and Informative.
I wish to make special COM
ments on Your Home and
Real Estate" section. This
section is most important to
the homeowners in all areas
and I should commend the
very well written and imagl-
native articles of Robert J.
Lewis, Real Estate Editor of
The Star. He is indeed con-
tributing greatly in the area
of community service, COM
bining the artistic and imagi-
native with concepts which
are and should be followed.
His recent article, The Art
full Magic of Public Places"
was fascinating, Many peo-
pie commented on it very
favorably. I also exhibited
several others, one of which
certainly deserves high rec
ommendation, and that was
the one entitled "a Micro
Neighborhood' Concept for
Urban Renewal in Washing
ton" These articles are Great
ing new interest. but the
greatest thing Mr.. Lewis is
doing is inspiring the home
owner to do something. He is
helping TO retain faith in the
future.
Margaret A. Fischer,
President, Mount Pleasant
Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
1t Was q Bad Mistoke.

Senator Mundt of South Dakota. a
leader in the killing by Senate Ap-
preparations subcommittee of proposed
funds for continuing the Capper- Cram
ton program of stream valley parks in
nearby Virginia and Maryland, later told
reporters that the subcommittee might
have made mistake" He stressed that
he had no intention of terminating the
parkland- purchase program. But the sad
fact is that unless the money is appro-
.priated this year the opportunity to save
some vital Stream-valley areas from pri-
vate exploitation may be gone forever.
The subcommittee majority appar-
emily agreed with Senator Mundt that
the S2.2 million asked for the park prof.
ects was too much of an expenditure"
In view of the budgetary situation. How
ever, there is no economy In deferring
the purchases until next year or the year
after. Land costs are rising steadily and,
at the present rate, the purchases will
be even more expensive in the future.
And the budgetary situate is not likely
to be any better then than it is today
Members of the subcommittee ma
Jorlty are said to have objected espe-
cially to requested 81 million loan to
Montgomery County for park purchases,
in addition to grant of 100000. 1t
would have been more realistic, there
fore, to have eliminated the loan item
while retaining the grants for both
Maryland and Virginia. We hope that
Congress will approve the grants at
least, so that the land-buying program
may be continued, even though at a
reduced rate.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Sinister Hovono'

In relation to your editorial
Of March 9; titled Sinister
Havana" I would like to
make the following COM
ment: r,aH
Since Fidel Castro took
power in Cuba. and even dur
ing his revolution. warned
that it was a Communist
movement at the service Of
Moscow and Peking. Govern
ment officials did not pay at
tention to my warning, but
the facts have justified my
saying.
The American people and
Government will never be
able to understand the acts
Of Castro until they accept
the fact. already admitted by
the majority of the Cubans:
Fidel Castro has been and is
a militant Communist and
has established a Communist
regime in Cuba. II one admits
this. then all Of Castro's ac-
tons have a logical explana-
ton for those of us who have
devoted the best years of our
lives to study and fight Com
munist tactics.
In connection with the ar
ticle by David Lawrence til
tied "Ah Answer to Castro in
Cuba" published in the same
issue Of your paper, I can tell
you that several times we
have tried to make the truth
reach the Cuban people, as
Mr.. Lawrence asks, using ra-
dio broadcasts, but since 1t Is
said that this violates the
Neutrality Act. United States
Government officials have not
permitted it. The Neutrality
Act plays in favor OF Castro
and against the enemies of in
ternational communism and
proved friends of this country.
Apart from that, it is al
ready many years since
Radio Free Europe told the
truth to the Soviet satellites
and none Of them has been
able to liberate itself from
the Communist yoke. To ask
the Cuban people to oppose
by itself the Soviet Union
and Communist China is to
ask the impossible.
DIR. Emilio NuneZ POrtuOndO,
Editor, Latin American
Events; Ex-Chairman. Sc
curity Council, United
Nations.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Safety at all Costs

Your editorial Safety at
all Costs" refers to lawsuits
filed by pilots and the U. s.
District Courts decisions to
uphold FAA's rule which for
bids an airline to employ a
pilot age so as captain.
Nontechnical courts seem
to have relied upon a techni-
cal agency's opinion and have
supported FAA's rule-mak-
ing and enforcement powers
properly delegated by Con-
gress." The basic issues have
not been tried by complete
evidentiary consideration of
all phases such as one might
expect under our great ad-
versary legal system which,
as I recall. was what Joe
WEIGH called 1t in an article
in your paper.
Had there been such a
trial, rather than a re-expres-
sion of a new technical agen-
cy's opinion. the quoted re-
mark Of a judge might be in
better grace. The remark
seemed to me to infer that it
was vulgar for a United States
(ploD citizen to expect his
property or job rights to be
protected because of hazard
to the. flying public.
Something Of this kind
could have been forecast by
anyone who noted the COM
ments Of a Senator during
the recent aviation subcom-
mittee hearings which have
been temporarily recessed be-
cause Of other congressional
business. Senator Engle. while,
not referring specifically to
the pilot retirement issue, had
this to say about the FAA
Act of 1858 which, incidental
ly, was passed in something
of an aviation panic atmos-
phere that had nothing to
do with the age of pilots:
THE Act as written isn't
the law handed down from
Mt. Sinai and might be sub
ject to improvement. I
have been around the courts
a good deal and ! have found
the courts reluctant to inter-
pose themselves in an area
where an administrator had
been given wide authority. ...
! am a little distressed by
any kind of a program that
lets any man in this country
write on piece of paper and
what he writes become the
law subject to the imposition
of penalties" =.
While ! am not an airline
pilot and FAA's rule will not
affect me as such. I have
been around aviation for 25
years and / am distressed as
a citizen that such a ruling
has become the law" in the
manner that it has.
I don't think that we have
heard the last of this ar
bitrary retirement at age so
issue, Notwithstanding round
one decisions. In fact the
whole matter somehow re-
minds me Of the issues of the
Scopes trial which had to go
to the Supreme Court before
the full extent of that mon
key business was apparent.
Robert E. Trimble.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. .TRACEWELL

ing peculiar. who actually
have nothing much the mat
ter with them except that
they are dried out.
Maybe this. is q good tip
to all of US. as we grow older.
Let us drink more water!
Sincerely, H. ]. G."
The position of the old
woman in society is often q
sad one.
Nature plays a peculiarly
dirty trick on women, any,
way. in giving them q certain
amount of beauty. when
young. and then taking most
Of it away from them when
they grow old.
This gives them a psyche
logical block against which
they struggle valiantly, with
resulting harm to the psyche.
Nature deals a bit more
gently with men, in this re-
spect. She never dowers
them with beauty, in the first
place, and often as old men
they retain as much good
looks as they ever had. That's
one way Of putting it.
Old ladies often are Pc
culiar. when they are left to
others.
In little ways they manage
to get themselves in wrong,
all the time feeling that they
are very much, abused.
How much is truth, and
how much is peccadillo, il
hard to say.
1t would be a shame, in
deed, If their hardships and
loss of memory were to be
found due to simple lack Of
drinking water and no one
suspected it.
Our correspondent doesn't
say SO. but we think her let
ter referred solely to water,
not other fluids.
Favored fluids, Of any
kind, are not the same as
plain water.
Plain water, unfortunately,
today is loaded down with
chemicals, but even at its
worst it is good for you, and
does things for the inner
economy.
Probably a great many per-
sons past 60 years are sufo
fering from dehydration ana
don't know it, and would
benefit from drinking more
water.
Withered skins, for in
stance, might tend to plump
out. and hair take on a better
gloss. And minds, above all,
be clearer and less given to
forgetting, the bane Of all
old persons.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
For Safer Mines

The sad fate of so many
miners should command or
result in something more
than pity and sympathy.
BY law there should be
provided in every mine a
positively safe entrance-exit
before a single miner would
be asked to take his life in
his hands in entering it.
F. G. Thorpe.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Protest

I should like to take this
opportunity to register my
strong disapproval of The
Stars allowing publication
of the advertisement Sum-
day labeled. Communist In
filtration Has Been Stopped
In The Dominican Republic"
Obviously, this advertise
ment. which purports to be a
report of the Dominican
Republics Attorney General
to that nations congress, is
a rather crude attempt of
the dictator, Trujillo to ap-
peal to the American people,
over the heads of our gov
ernment, this being done in
the hope that American pub
lie opinion, via the State
Department, will continue to
favor and support the gov
ernment of the Dominican
Republic. The point ensuing
is that l wonder if it is ad-
visable for The Star to allow
itself to be used as a pro-
paganda vehicle for a politi-
cal regime which boasts one
of the cruelest and most
inhuman dictators known
and this in a continent where
dictators are not uncommon.
The impact of the men,
toned advertisement was not
so much anger as it was dis
illusionment that The Star,
which I had considered an
Evening star., 1960-03-22

outstanding example of a
crusading newspaper. should
allow itself to temporarily
degenerate into q propa-
ganda instrument for such a
twisted and hated political
regime.
Larry v. Luther.
Evening star., 1960-03-22

you shove me and I'll shove you
behavior, Ill becomes grown-up nations.
Yet the fact remains that it is policy
that has been forced upon us by the
Kremlin's actions, and it has served the
useful purpose Of demonstrating that
the West knows how to be firm when
necessary and has no intention of being
pushed around in Germany or anywhere
else.
Evening star., 1960-03-22

phrey, or, indeed, any other
potential nominee.
At present, Democrats who
do not believe that Senator
Kennedy can-or should
win the nomination for
President, talk freely of q
Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, q
Symington-Kennedy ticket,
or q johnson Kennedy
ticket. Presumably they will
get around to talking of O
Humphrey = Kennedy ticket,
especially should Senator
Humphrey Of Minnesota do
well in the Wisconsin and
West Virginia presidential
primaries. Undoubtedly any
one Of these gentlemen, II
nominated for President,
would gladly welcome Sena.
tor Kennedy as q running
mate. They might even do
their best to get the MasSa-
. chusetts Senator to say "yes."
Stevenson Must Wait
Mr.. Stevenson. If he still
hopes to be nominated for
President. must play a watt
ing game. He can make no
demands on the party which
twice honored him with q
presidential nomination. But
he can gracefully accept q
draft by his party. Senator
Kennedy, however, is on the
firing line-there by his own
determination to make the
race in the presidential pref
erence primaries. While Mr..
Stevenson continues to insist
he is not a candidate, he
seems to be leaving the door
farther and farther ajar tor
a draft movement at the
Democratic National Con-
vention.
A Kennedy refusal to ac-
cept a vice presidential nom-
ination, in the event he fails
to win top place. could have
serious effects. Such Q re-
fusal. If his party puts the
pressure on him to accept,
seems improbable, despite
his present attitude. A dec.
lination might doom the
: chances Of the Democratic
ticket, even before the cam
paign got under way. This
could happen if millions of
Catholic voters should resent
the defeat of Senator Ken
nedy in the national conven-
ton. Further, q declination
by him to go to the aid of
the party might doom any
chance Of the youthful Sem
ator as a candidate for pres
idential nomination in the
future.
No one seems to bother
much at this point over q pos
sible running mate for Sena-
tor Kennedy If he is the presi-
dental nominee. However, If
he wins the Wisconsin and
West Virginia primaries-as
he may-the speculation will
turn strongly toward Q Ken
nedy and - ticket. The
Democrats would have to look
South or West for a vice
presidential candidate, since
he halls. from the North and
East. The, last New England
President Calvin Coolidge,
wound up with Charles ,eHell
and Maria) Dawes of Chicago
as his running mate in 1924,
after trying vainly to get Sen
ator Borah of Idaho. So it
could be q Kennedy-Hum-
phrey ticket, or q Kennedy
Gore Senator Gore of Ten
nessee) ticket, depending on
whether it was deemed more
important to give second place
to the West or the South
Evening star., 1960-03-22
For Whom Bell Tolls

James v. williams ex-
presses opposition to inau-
guration of kindergartens in
Arlington schools. We will
all have to agree with him
that our taxes are entirely
too high now and a consid-
cradle increase is inevitable
in the immediate future.
A far better arrangement,
and surely less costly and
far more satisfactory to all
concerned. would be to set
up a plan for beginners to
enter school in February as
well as September. AS it is
now. many children are al
most z years old before they
can enter. school. Is it any
wonder parents who can
possibly afford it are send
ing their children to private
kindergartens? Many would
continue to send their s.
year-olds. for instance, but
most would be only too
happy. 70 wait if there were
two entry dates for begin
ners.
II the school board refuses
to do this tand I do not
have any children, I think
a county as we'll off as Ar
lington, with as fine a school
system, and all the money
that is being spent on nu-
merous other things, should
inaugurate kindergartens in
order to help those children
who will be 7 years old before
they can enter school, If
nothing else.
JOelIa Binns.
&&
The installation Of a kin
dergarten program in our
public schools has my strong
support.
If Mr.. Williams is under
the impression that kinder
garten is a "baby-sitter serv-
ice" he has been 'misin-
formed. Kindergarten pro-
Vides an atmosphere in
which the transition from
home to school can best be
made. Studies have shown
that the performance Of
children with kindergarten
experience is superior in the
lower grades to that of chill
dren coming into first grade
directly from the home. The
group experiences, reading
readiness activities and op-
portunities for self-expres-
sion which kindergarten pro-
vides better enable children
to meet the demands of first
grade learning.
A school system which
lacks a public school kinder
garten program cannot be
considered an up-to-date
system. I am glad to see
that Arlington County is
taking this step to improve
the county school system.
Lois B. Lybrand.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
FIFTEENTH STREET.

OCdL OH
II would like to speak I'D
for considerate handling of
all old people. and not find-
ing them peculiar or the like
as so many do.
Many Of these old people
suffer from small blood YES
sci failures not dignified by
the name of stroke, but they
make the person confused,
etc.
In our own experience in
our family, we had an old
lady aunt who saw. people
who were not there, and
heard voices that weren't
there, either.
Everybody said she had
senile dementia. The hoSpi-
tails wouldn't take such a
case, so we had to put her in
a small private hospital.
Most of the patients were
real mental cases. The VIM
dows were barred, and the
stairsteps padded.
y
When we put this dear
old lady in this place. we
wondered what would
happen.
There was a woman doc
tor there, an old gray-haired
lady herself, and she had a
way of looking right through
YOU. '--
II had to give a history of
the case. and while I was
talking, this lady doctor was
looking risht through me,
until wondered to myself,
What have I done?'
Then, all of a sudden, the
doctor gave the sweetest
smile, and said, There is
nothing. at all wrcng with
this. woman except that she
is dehydrated.'
"She put her on a glass of
water every hour.
I'VE knew at home that
she needed to drink more,
but we couldn't get her to
take it.
Nov this doctor was max
ing her.
THE result?
"All the mental symptoms,
= and some Of the physical
ones. too, cleared up IN a
week, and by the end of the
second week she was ready
to go home.
"She hadn't had senile de-
mentia at all, she had just
needed more water in her
system and tissues.
II wonder how many more
poor old ladies there are, and
maybe old men, too, VINO are
going around accused Of be-
Evening star., 1960-03-22
THE POLITICAL MILL
Kennedy, Stevenson Alternatives
: .By,GOULD LINCOLN


In this .'now.you-see-it,
now-you-don't" speculation
about the probable Demo-
cratic nominee for President,
a couple Of things stand out.
First, most of the Demo-
Gratis outside the Kennedy
camp want the Massachu-
sets Senator for the vice
; presidential nomination. Sec
ond, most of the Democrats
outside the dyed-in-the-wool
Stevenson for President
group want the former Illi-
nois Governor for Secretary
of State. Senator Kennedy
has said emphatically he is
not interested in becoming
Vice President. Mr.. Stevenson
probably would be delighted
to serve as head of the De-
partment of State. q depart
ment he has served in the
past. Indeed, Mr., Stevenson
in all likelihood would find
1t much more agreeable to
sit tight. with q pretty def
mite prospect of becoming
Secretary Of. State, than to
engage in another gruelling
presidential campaign next
fall. He has had that expert
ence twice. He knows there is
no other road to the White
House today. He knows. too.
that a rough, tough cam
paign does not always pay
of.
Both Senator Kennedy and
Mr.. Stevenson may have to
come to grips with the prob
lem OF taking second best in
the coming, national CAM
paign. And either of them
may be IN a strong position to
call the turn on the presiden-
tial nomination if he himself
comes to the conclusion he
cannot win first prize. .Sena-
tor Kennedy will in all prob
ability go to the party's ma
tlonal convention with a big
bloc OF delegates in his pock-
ct. The time may come when
they will be seeking advice as
10 where they shall light If
the Kennedy race for the
presidential nomination is
blocked.
, The same thing can hap
pen to Mr.. Stevenson. Since
ne is not an active candidate
Tor the nomination, but must
wait for a call from the party.
ne might even now-or a. lit
tie later-let it be known
what other man he would
prefer for the presidential
nomination. If the Stevenson
followers could be persuaded
by their idol to go along, Mr..
stevenson could become the
power behind an actual nom
ination.
Similarity of Views
1t has been suggested that
Mr.. Stevenson eventually will
go all out for Senator Ken
nedy. This might offend
some of Mr.. stevenson's most
aToent aomlrers-but not all
OF them. Those who believe
that Mr.. Stevenson eyentu-
ally win throw in with the
Senator take the view that
the Kennedy ideas and po-
sitions, on foreign and do
nlestic issues march along
similar lines to those of Mr..
Stevenson. On the other
hand, should the Senator
flnd it impossible to win
the nomination himself, ne
might very well prefer Adlai
Stevenson to Senator Sy-
mington or Johnson or Hum
Evening star., 1960-03-22
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names ntdv be used If
letters carry UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
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LOST YWCA MEMBERS
PLEASE COME HOME

Lost somewhere along the line
over 600 YWCA members. Please
renew or join your YWCA today.
The YWCA a youth serving or
ganization working with adults
also.
Persons joining this week are:
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Alexander, Mrs. T. c. Almore, Mrs.
Margaret Brumfield, Mrs. ]. L.
Braxton, Mrs. T. B. Brown, Mrs.
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Goodman, Mrs. Julia Hubbard,
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Haskin, Mrs. Mayne P. Higgins,
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BILOXI NEWS

The M. F. Nichols High School
Senior Career Day and May Day
Festival was a success. 945 chill
dren heard Professor w. F. Cal
bert, the past president Of the
Mississippi Teachers Association,
speak to % seniors; Subject:
"Your Suitcase for College," He
pointed out what one should carry
to college and how to get there
and etc.
At 1890 pm. the seniors were
guests at a chicken dinner given
them by the principal, Mrs. Fannie
L. Nichols.
At lis pm, the senior and
Junior Band, seated in the grand
stand played and the seniors, led
by sponsor, Mrs. E. B. Hatcher,
marched to their seats on the lawn
where the May Day program was
carried out with the browning of
the May Queen and May King lit
Tie MISS famela burney ana Ralph
Lashley.
Four pretty May poles were on
the lawn where the End grade
children plated the poles and
danced on the grass. At 2:30 pm,
the physical education boys and
girls, in uniform, had many stunts
and activities, this ended the day
until 8 pm. when the 3rd grade
children danced and sang in an
operetta "Under The Sugar Plum
Tree"
Nichols High prom committee
will have the annual dance at
Odd Fellows Hall Friday evening
at $50 pm. where James Bell and
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Mary Jones, Mrs. Martha B. Jack
son, Mrs. Beautye Johnson, Mrs.
Hazel Kinney, Mrs. Catherine
Langston, Mrs. Rubye Lloyd, Mrs.
Lillian Lam, Mrs. Daisy P. Lee,
Miss Vivian Logan, Mrs. Dorothy
R. Martin, Mrs. Ruby L. Mimms,
Mrs. Emma H. Miller, Miss Petsye
L. E. McCune, Mrs. M. o. Mer-
rift, rs. Jessie Myles, Mrs. Mary
Winfield, Mrs. A. H. Mccoy, Mrs.
j. B. McLaurin, Mrs. Florence
Neyland.
Mrs. Henrietta Owens, Miss Ora
L. Ports, Mrs. Freida Powell,
Mrs. jamie P. Patrick, Mrs. A. D.
Rogers, Mrs. ]. L. Reddix, Mrs.
Edith c. Rhumes, Mrs. Elsie Smith,
Mrs. Alease Swayze, Mrs. Ernes-
tine Suits, Mrs. E. D. Sanders,
Miss Barbara Stating, Mrs. Fay
w. Stokes, Mrs. Mildred Turner,
Mrs. Rubye Tillis, Mrs. Arnetta
Tillman, Mrs. Argyle S. Wells, Mrs.
Olivia Wallace, Mrs. Anna Will
son, Mrs. Ruth w. Woodson, Mrs.
Annie M. Wells, Mrs. Idell Wat
kins, Mrs. Nancy SWeathersby.. =.
Mrs. Rosie A. Washington, Mrs.
Dorothy Williams, Miss Mary Lynn
Williams, Mrs. Johnnie P. Young,
and Mrs. B. D. Rushing.