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Evening star., 1960-06-12
Misdirected Fire

On the Senate floor the other day,
Senators Clark of Pennsylvania and
Morse of Oregon made impasSioned
pleas for urban renewal in Washington,
and severely chaStiSed the Commission
erS for "curtailing" and slowing down"
renewal in the Northwest.
Such defenSes of urban renewal are
more than welcome. They are Sorely
needed. But in attacking the Commits
SionerS, the Senators had their guns
aimed in the wrong direction.
What the Commissioners did in the
Northwest was not to kill urban renewal,
but - over the initial objections of En-
gineer Commissioner yelling - to keep
it alive. They did this, wisely, in our
Judgment, by deciding that the only
sensible way to attack the big Northwest
Slum was by consecutive series of
projects small enough to be manageable.
And accordingly they approved plan
ming for the first 80-acre project there.
A very real threat to renewal, how
ever, has come from Capitol Hill, where
Representative Rabaut of Michigan has
introduced bill which would forbid
new renewal projects anywhere in
Washington until the Southwest is 10
per cent rebuilt. We hope that Senators
Clark and Morse, both friends of the
District, will use their good Offices to dis
Suade Mr.. Rabaut from a course which
would lead to results they so strongly
oppose.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Ike ShouIdn'tGo

The Associated Press dispatch says
that more than 10000 demonstrators
Stormed unchecked through Tokyo far
into Saturday night. They yelled,
Yankee murderer, go home!" They
screamed, "Ike, don't come" They be-
sieged the private residence of Prime
Minister KiShi, sealing him inside.
They stoned his house and smeared it
with paint. Meanwhile, the police did
nothing.
To us, this means that the Japanese
cannot or will not protect their own
Prime Minister from the lunatic mob
SterS who have, taken over the streets.
| Why assume that they can or will pro-
tect the President of the United States?
But suppose that the President can
be shielded from actual physical assault.
He must still face the rnobs or slip
through back streets to avoid them Can
this possibly bolster a regime which
cannot or will not protect its own Prime
Minister? We doubt it very much. If
the street mobS have taken over in
Tokyo we do not believe that good
will" visit from President Eisenhower
can save the KiShi government. And,
while recognizing what disaster the
fall of the Kishi government would be,
we do not think that Mr.. Eisenhower
should subject the Office he holdS-the
presidency of the United States-to the
1ndignitieS which were heaped upon Mr..
Hagerty and Mr.. Stephens.
In short, we think that Mr.. EiSen-
hover, in the light of all that has hap
pened, ought not to go to Tokyo. The
motives and the considerations which
impel him to make the trip are both
admirable and important. But he is the
custodian of the prestige of this coun-
try, and that is something which he has
no right to entruSt to the tender mer-
cies of the Communicated mobS which
seem to rule the rooSt in Tokyo.
Evening star., 1960-06-12

kept with nom Communists.
Every act of good will, Of
tolerance, of Cancellation, Of
mercy, or magnanimitX on
the part of governments or
statesmen is to be utilized for
their ruin. Then when the
time is ripe and the moment
opportune, every form of
lethal violence from revolt to
private assassination must be
used without stint or COM
junction. The citadel will be
stormed under the banners
of liberty and democracy, and
once the apparatus of power
is in the hands of the
brotherhood, all opposition,
all contrary opinions, must
be eXtinguished by death.
Democracy is but a tool to be
used and afterwards broken"
Mr.. Churchill wrote this
book in 1888, and yet several
years later, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who proclaimed
himself far superior to most
men educationwise, was taken
in hook, line and sinker by
Stain, and thereby erected
for himself a lasting monu-
ment. Thus anything that the
Congress of the United States
might desire to erect for him
would indeed be puny.
James X. Hall.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
100 Years AGO

Another Democratic Con-
vention was about to gather
in Baltimore a century ago
to pick up the pieces left by
the imbroglio at Charleston,
S. c., that rent the party
asunder and ended in a dead
lock. This time Senator Ste
phen A. Douglas was conf
dent he would get the presi-
Dental nomination he had
failed to obtain two months
earlier. Douglas was a keen
and capable politician but his
personal appearance worked
against him, alternating many
who judged men largely on
looks. One observer of the
times described the Little
Giant: HE had a herculean
frame with the exception of
his lower limbs, which we're
short and small, dwarfing
what otherwise would have
been a conspicuous figure.
His large round head sur
mounted a massive neck and
his features were symmetrical,
although his small nose de-
prived them of dignity" But
what he lacked in noble mien,
he made up in self-assurance
and audacity. He had de-
clared himself utterly opposed
to any active intervention by
Congress to protect slave
property in the Territories
and he attempted to recon-
cile popular sovereignty with
the Dred Scott decision.
Douglas then was but At
years old, and this big wheel
in the Democratic political
machine had less than a year
to live when The Star weighed
his chances at the convention
on June Is, 1860: "PartiSans
of Senator Douglas are NOV
ing heaven and earth to
compass the exclusion of the
delegates from the eight eX-
treme Southern States who
sat at the Charleston con-
vention. All hope of even
the pretense of a Democratic
nomination of Douglas hinges
upon the success (of this
strategy. 1t is clear to us
that in case the machina-
tions of the Douglas Free-Soil
managers to exclude the
Southern States from the
convention should triumph,
the entire delegations from
nine States-if not from Is,
which is highly probable
will withdraw in a body,
accompanied by a majority
of the Pennsylvania and New
Jersey delegations and a mi
nority of those of New York,
Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota
and of every New England
State will withdraw with
them, leaving the bogus
Southern delegations to act
with a beggarly minority of
the original Charleston con-
vention in nominating Doug
las-with the absolute GER
tainty that he will under
such circumstances fail to
receive a single electoral vote
in November :" Mote:
Evening star., 1960-06-12

trowel or a test tube ever gets
within celestial hailing dis
tance of June. A whole con-
vention of scientists met to
measure color rays and COM
pute petals could not tell why
one flower is beautiful.
Charles Kingsley, a lover
of the beautiful beyond most
men, in a memorable SEN
tence declared, Beauty is
Gods handwriting. Welcome
it, therefore, in every fair
face, every fair sky, every
fair flower, and thank Him
for it who is the fountain of
all loneliness" 1t is the pure
in heart who can see God
and the godlike everywhere
in a universe where the
Master Musician is beating
out His symphony in stars
and flowers, in birds and
babes, in saints and sages.
And no wonder it was June
which was saying to the poet
'TtS heaven alone that Is
gtUen dlOay
'TtS only God may be had
for the asking.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
reminds us that every COM
mon bush is aflre with God,
but she hastens to warn that
only those who see take off
their shoes. And what hap
pens to those who, having
eyes see not a glory which is
so near? The poet says the
rest sit around and pluck
, blackberrieS. That is not at
all to discount the delicious
black pyramids which lift
their juicy ambrosia with
tantalizing invitation. What
the poet means by her refer
ence to burning bushes and
blackberries is that to miss
the first by exclusive and
greedy attention to the sec
ond symbolizeS life's most
devastating tragedy.
To Moses without the ear
which heard the voice and
the eye which marveled at
the perpetual light, nothing
would have happened, but
perhaps an afternoon siesua
for the tired pilgrim.
While blackberries grow
and wait to be plucked,
burning bushes still blaze
and wait to be seen by those
who, with reverent feet on
holy ground, dusty sandals
removed, have turned aside
to see the supernal wonder.
Blackberries may be had,
and so may June, and so may
burning bushes-and God.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
50 Years AGO

A faVorlte son OF the Ma
ton received a tumultuous
welcome-home half a CEN
tury ago. Former President
Theodore Roosevelt arrived
in New York from a Is
month tour of Africa and
Europe upon which he had
embarked Immediately after
leaving the White House.
The Star of June 18, 1910,
reported: Theodore Roose-
welt, eX-President, states
man, cosmopolite and trav-
eler, was greeted back to his
native land today by such a
demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and personal de-
votion as had seldom, if ever,
been accorded to a return
ing American traveller. Mr..
Roosevelt left the steamer
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
amid the roar of battleship
guns and those of land forts
and a pandemonium Of
whistles from craft and fac
tories along the waterfront.
His trip up Broadway
was through densely massed
throngS extending for S miles
along the main thorough
fares of the city. :" That
he was fit and prepared to
don harness again was indi-
Gated in T. RS statement:
II am ready and eager to
do my part so far as I am
able in helping solve prob
lens which must be solved
if we of this, the greatest
democratic republic upon
which the sun has ever
shone, are to see its desti-
nies rise to the high level
of our hopes and its oppor-
tunities. :"
Kings aren't as numerous
now as they were so years
ago when The Star, on June
19, 1910. took a look at the
financial standing of the
worlds crowned heads: THE
monarch who gets the most
and does the least to earn
it is Nicholas II. A close
copyist of Abdul Hamid and
his methods of rule, the
Car gets a salary of SO
million a year and has a
private income of SO mil
lion, but he has to keep a
Evening star., 1960-06-12
rs Years Ago

Senator Huey Long, a
thorn in the side of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt ad-
ministration, had been doing
more talking than listening
25 years ago. The Democrats
decided it was time to cut
the "KingfiSh" down to min
now size and selected a razor
tongued spokesman for the
job. The Star of June 16,
1885 quoted Senator Henry
F. AshurSt, of Arizona, as
saying ::"Unless Long changes
his ways, the American Eagle
will drop something fatal on
his head and he will suffer
the legendary fate Of
AeschyluS Gather of Greek
tragedy" Ashurst charac-
terized Long "as one of the
host of creatures cast up
after a storm at sea, such
as the grunt, puffer, toad
fish, jellyfish and sawfish."
He said the Louisianan was
"one of the odd fish forced
to the surface from the
swamps of anonymity by the
economic storm" adding that
Long had adopted the apo
thegm of a French drama
tist: calumniate, calumniate,
calumniate - something is
sure to stick. :"
The coveted National Open
golf championship was won
by an unknown" rs years
ago. The Star of June 8,
1885, reported: Sam Parks,
a 25-year-old obscure Pitts
burgh professional, out
stripped a great field at Oak
mont to win the national
golf title with a 72-hole score
Of 299. Two shots behind
was Jimmy Thomson, former
Burning Tree assistant pro,
and third was Walter Hagen,
old master of Is years ago,
who made a fine comeback
with 302 :. :"
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Possessing June
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the United States Senate

June is here and may be
had" So declared James Rus
sell Lowell as he reveled in
a deluge of June loveliness.
1t is pre-eminently the
month when life is in the
saddle. For eyes and ears
June means that
Whether iDe look or lUhether
tDe listen
We hear life murmur and
see it gliSten.
But what does that "mur-
mur" and that "gliSten"
mean for us? June may be
had, but that may be" has
the ominous implication that
we may be in it yet miss it..
Robert Louis Stevenson, in
lifting lines, speaks Of sum-
mer glories that beat upon
the heart in vain" There is
a story Of one who, looking
at a sunset, gazed with un-
responsive heart and stolid
eye; he only knew the sky
was red. What we see and
what we feel depends not so
much upon our environment,
but upon our capacity. Our
character masters our eyes
and declares our kinshipS and
our affinities.
There is always danger of
looking without seeing-even
of coming to June without
possessing it. To Peter Bell
a yellow flower by the waters
brim is a yellow flower and
nothing more; but to
Wordsworth that same lifted
golden cup suggests thoughts
that wander off into eternity.
Seeing the invisible is the
principal business of life and
always
The poem, hangs on the berry
bush
Till there comes the poets
eye;
And all the World'S a mas
QuerGde
When Shakespeare passes BY.
Deity hangs the sign ito
let" in the window of every
star on the summit of every
hill, on the leaf of every
tree, on the petals of every
flower. Each may be had, but
there is a price set. The only
rental fee is the capacity to
enjoy. God leases the uni
verse to all who can pay for
it in the invisible coin of ap-
probation. That is why even
the golden wealth of June
may be had by the poorest
conner.
But beauty cannot be pos
seSsed by any attempt to
explain it. Even June may
not be had simply by ana
lying it. 1t may be had and
it may be missed. 1t is in
f1nitely more than 80 days.
Each day is a goblet of
lovelinesS. The tilt of the
earth does not explain the
lilt of the lark, nor the gilt
of the daffodil, why here is
unrolled a rug of matchless
green and here a cloth of
regal gold, why this spot
purples into velvet violet and
this bush waves back GRIM
son banners to the soft bend
ing blue. But no one with a
Evening star., 1960-06-12

The Stars crystal ball worked
surprisingly well at that.
Douglas actually received
only IL electoral ballots,
although his popular vote
was impressive.)
Evening star., 1960-06-12

Gus end for gang which wrote one Of
the more lurid chapters in the history
Of crime in the terrible" twentieS and
thirtieS.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

best pass receiver and earn a
place on the starting team
before long.
OF the holdovers, Fullback
John Wilt may be the standout
although not a big yardage
man. He's a 215-pounder and
racks up opposing ends we'll
as a blocker. Some of the yard
age credited to other runners
this fall will come because he
clears the way.
The top holdovers in the line
include Center Bob Barbiere,
225 pounds, and Tackles Pate
WaSilewSki and Steve Bart
nicki, both 215-pounders. They
are in the class coaches like
to refer to as "hard-nosed"
players. There just aren't
enough like them at CIV.
The starting Guards are
sophomores, with Ron Cindrick
particularly promising.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
SQUAD LACKS DEPTH
CoIonioIs Will UnveiI
Air Attack Saturday
BY GEORGE HUBER
star stan Writer

George Washington's football
team takes of tomorrow fol
Jacksonville, Fla, where Sat-
urday night against Florida the
Colonials open a bright new
season under a bright new
coach.
Enthusiasm and confidence
are noticeable around the CIV
practice field, and the boys are
acting as though they expect
to win everything in sight.
They certainly should improve
on last years 1-8 record, but
the sober prospects are that
three victories may be the best
they can do this year.
CIV doesn't have much depth
anywhere, and in one or two
positions is dangerously thin.
There are 18 lettermen on a
squad Of 43, and the travelling
squad for the Florida game will
number 35 players.
Substitution Rule Helps
The change in substitution
rules, allowing one player to
go in any time, comes just in
Evening star., 1960-09-15
YOU BE THE
QUARTERBACK
QUESTION
BY FOREST EVASHEVSKI
Iowa Football Coach

It's Navy IA, Boston College
IA, with 8 minutes to go. Nays
ball on Boston Colleges one,
fourth down and goal. You,
the Navy quarterback, decide to
go with a running play. Which
one will you call:
Il. Trap det defensive man
through, block him from side,
opening hole)?
2. Put six men on scrimmage
line, five in backfield, getting
additional blocking ahead of
bail carrier on slant?
3. Put eight men on scrim-
mage line, three in backfielG
and wedge block on play into
line?
4. Reverse?
Answer on Page BID
Evening star., 1960-09-15

time for Coach Bill Elias. He
admits he'll use this rule to
the utmost juggling players
around and that he'll do a lot
of play calling, at least early
in the season, by sending in
messengers.
Elias also promises the accent
will be on passing. a decision
that almost was forced upon
him. The backfield he inherited
is not notably fast or powerful.
He does have, however, a soph-
omore Quarterback. Frank k
Pazzaglia pronounced Psi
Evening star., 1960-09-15
CIV SCHEDULE

Sept. 17-Florida at Jacksonville
(nighD.
Sept. 24-The citadel at Washing
ton-Lee stadium (niRhD.
Oct. William a. Mary at Williams.
burg.
Oct. Virginia Military at Grif.
nth Stadium tnighD.
october 15-Boston University al
Boston.
oct. 29-Air Force Academy al
Denver
Nov. 4-Richmond at Grifith Sta
dium might.
Nov. 11-Virginia Tech at Grif-
nth Stadium (nighD.
Nov. 19-West Virginia at Morsan-
town
Evening star., 1960-09-15
CoIoniuIs Lose
No. Z FuIIbuck

George Washington Univer-
sity's football squad has lost
the services of its No. 2 full
back. Bernie Malta. through
scholastic ineligibility.
University officials said Malta
took less than the required
amount of classwork last semes-
ter and thus is not eligible for
athletics.
The Colonials, opening Sat-
urday night against the Uni
verSity of Florida in Jackson
vile, concentrated on defense
in a 2-hour drill yesterday.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
FIGHT RESULTS

CHICAGo.-Henry Hank, 1852. De-
trolt, and Jesse Smith, 1854, Chicago,
FRANKFURT. Germany Full
mer, 1874, West Jordan, Utah. and
Gustav (Bubi Scholz, 1852, Germany,
drew, 10
Evening star., 1960-09-15

uh), who shows prospects oi
being an excellent passer.
The holdover Quarterback
Chuck Packan. is an adequate
passer. but the real trouble is
catching. The present crop of
CIV ends includes no real good
grabber, and although con-
siderable emphasis has been
placed on pass catching in
practice 1t still is a doubtful
quantity.
Wilt May Stand Out
If Pazzaglia can pass in a
game as he has been doing in
practice, and If the ends hold
onto the ball, Packan will be
shifted to halfback. He's good
ball carrier and at least as
fast as any of the other backs.
Another sophomore who can
help is Paul Munley. a 6-foot-2
end. He may turn out to be the
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-10-21

ly before Michigan audience that Kennedy is making
statements which tend Ito divide America ITO dsparage
America" and to encourage Chairman Khrushchev and
his fellow dictators."
Analysing the Nixon technique the Providence (R ~
Journal commented:
We think this is dirty pool What Mr. Nixon has done
is to wrap in marathon sentence many of the main
lines of criticism Mr. Kennedy has been pursuing in his
plain implication is that any questions asked by the Demo-
cratic candidate about foreign policy and defense under
the Eisenhower Administration while Khrushchev and
pany in New York will smack of rresponsibty if not
fortaby like revesion to the tactics employed earlier
campaigns by the old Nixon whom his enemies accused
of 'white-coar McCarthysm'."
Senator Kennedy has gone ahead with the debate
deferred by Nxons sanderous attacks The soundness eff
his position is summed up in the Providence Journal e
toria which observes that any other would de-
prve the American public of legitimate campaign debate
over issues that certainly need debating"
MANY of the items in Mr.. Nixons package of pro-
posed taboos matters of genuine the
orate it approaches the decision will have to make
in November the Journal adds "Was not the Adminstra
ton ndecsve in its handling first of the U2 incident and
later of President Esenhowers Cancelled trip JAPAN
our military defenses adequate to meet the dangers that
confront us Is it not true that of late the United States
has lost stature in the eyes of some peoples and
tries?
ITO brand such questions irresponsible merely be-
cause Mr. is staggering around the United Nations is,
effect to allow his presence there to shane in major de-
ference would make whether he in New York or in
Moscow? Is this nation in such parlous position that
must be afraid to through traditional healthy
processes of self examination and self-ouestonng?"
Senator Kennedy has give his opponent a concise and
cogent answer to his challenge:
II saw it is wrong and DANGEROUS for American to
keep silent about future if he is not satisfied with what
is being done to preserve that future"
1--WE aoree" the Providence Journal said. "And we
wonder whether American voters will be taken in by
MIR. Nixons unfair political gambit."
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-10-21
THE OLD NIXON IS RUNNING NOW

AS the campaign advances, the real Nxon-sometimes
called 'the Old Nixon'-emerges more clearly.
His aspersons against the integrity and patriotism of
Kennedy the bucket he used
in traducng Stevenson, Truman Helen Gahagan Douglas
and Jerry Voorhis in earlier campaigns.
In 1852 he charged President Truman with federation
and defense of Communists high places which equva
lent to calling him traitor He said that Truman and Stew
TRAITORS to the high principles of the Demo-
cratic Party linking that slur with the charge that they
tolerated and defended Communists in Government"
Now he is accusing Senator Kennedy by innuendo of
serving the of surrender He calls Kennedy naive
toward Khrushchev, just he termed Stevenson naive
about Communism in attacking Stevensons 1856 proposal
suspension of nuclear weapons tesa proposal later
adopted by the Administration of which Nixon is
ber 1856 Nixon charged that Stevenson has been guilty
of spreading proCommnst propaganda" Now he
Kennedy of suppyg gs for the Communist propaganda
MILL "..
Vice President Nixon is travelling his familiar "Low
Road in effort to shut off debate Americas criti
cal foreign policy and defense questions He has called for
moratorium such discussion while Soviet Premier
Khrshchev is in this country Arguing for that curtal
ent of quadrennial national dialogue he implied broad