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Evening star., 1960-12-04
Guards, Bond
Ordered for
KennedyVisit

President-elect Kennedy viii
be greeted by special guard
units from the Army, Navy,
Marines and Air Force when
he visits President Eisenhower
at the White House Tuesday
morning.
The military guards, who will
line the walks and driveways
Of the Executive Mansion, have
been ordered by President Ell
senhower for the occasion, the
White House said yesterday.
There will also be a military
band when Senator Kennedy
arrives for his scheduled 9 am.
call.
President Eisenhower plans
to meet Senator Kennedy at
the north portico, the main
entrance to the White House
and escort him to his office in
the west wing.
Some other details Of the
first meeting of the President
and President since the
election still have to be worked
out. James G. Hagerty. White
House press Secretary. said yes
terday.
When newsmen asked wheth-
er 1t was customary to have q
military guard as o President
meets his successor, Mr.. Hagerty
recalled that, when Mr.. Eisen-
hover came to Washington in
1852 to call on former President
Truman, troops lined Pennsyl-
vania avenue at, Mr.. Truman's
order. ,
Two major television-radio
networks will carry live broad
casts Of the meeting. The Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. and the
Columbia BroadcaSting System
said they would cover the pub
lie portions Of the visit from
about 8 am. until Senator
Kennedy's departure.
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Cornell Club Meets

The Cornell Club Of WASH
ington will meet at 8 pm. Tues
day in the Jefferson Room Of
the Maydower Hotel.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
The Conqo Mess

Together with the United Nations,
our country has every reason to take
an exceedingly serious view of the
brutal beating administered by Congo
lese soldiers" to the unoffending and
defenseless crew of one of our Globe
master planes landing in Stanleyville.
This outrage, an utterly cowardly
act perpetrated in conjunction with
raid on Stanleyvilles U. NJ Office, has
been represented in some quarters as
an unfortunate case of mistaken iden-
tity. That is to say, according to the
apologists, the soldiers" involved must
be excused as primitive illiterates who
thought that the American airmen-
whose mission actually was part of the
U. MS peace-making efforts in the
Congo-were Belgian paratroopers in
tent upon overthrowing Premier Lu-
mumba and his so-called government
But this excuse has become thread
bare. 1t has been used over and over
again, and less and less convincingly,
to explain away CongoleSe exceSSeS, and
even atrocities, that seem now to be
part of quite definite and deliberate
plan. Certainly, speaking for ourselves,
we find it difficult in the extreme to
believe that the Stanleyville incident
an attack on both the U. N. and the
United States-would have occurred if
it had not been inspired, or ordered,
by Mr.. Lumumba or by those Soviet
representatives in Leopoldville who ap-
parently are his close theological cronies,
if not his masters.
In any case, whether or not Mr.
Lumumba is already full-fledged pup
pet of the Kremlin, there can be no
doubt-judging from his own words in
recent days-that he wants to drive the
U. N out of the Congo as quickly as
possible, and in manner that obviously
would serve the cause of international
communism. If this were not so, and
if Moscow were not all in favor of such
trouble-m making, we can be reasonably
sure that the Congolese situation to-
day would not be nearly so tense and
taut as it is.
This is a state of affairs in which
the Lumumba regime and its Soviet
supporters should be told most eX-
plicitly that the United Nations will
use force, if necessary, to protect and
execute the peace-promoting mission
including our Globemaster f1ights-im-
posed upon it by the Security Council
Clearly, unless the U. N. is prepared to
take this stand, it cannot do the job
it is supposed to do, and it ought to
withdraw from the whole Congolese
mess if it hasn't the gumption to do it,
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Nusser and Iran

Constantine Browns story
on Nasser's recent vitupera-
tive attack on the Shah Of
Iran is very interesting and
timely.
The recent violent attack
by Nasser on yet another
provost Middle Eastern
leader is self explanatory.
Col. Nasser's subversion in
the Middle East. which is
now supplemented by similar
pro-Soviet and pro-Commu-
mist activities in the Carib-
bean, should alert the United
States to the imminent dan
ger Of a complete breakdown
of all Western positions in
the Middle East. If Nasser
succeeds in bringing about
the overthrow of the Shah
that would mean goodbye to
CENTO and would result in
the ousting Of the West from
the oil-rich region of the
Middle East. Moreover. it
would create a direct link
between the U.A.R. and the
Soviet Union.
Actually only the U.A.R.
broke off diplomatic rela-
tionS with Iran. which goes
to show again that Nasser is
isolated in his extremist poll
cies even in the Middle East.
Robert G. Garin.
Evening star., 1960-08-29

contributor to our growing foreign trade
imbalance. Americans are travelling to
Europe in increasing numbers. They will
leave over So billion abroad this year.
BY 1864 the amount may be doubled.
This is a serious loss of dollars, which
has increased four-fold in 10 years.
1t can become more serious in the fu-
ture, unless steps are taken to counter
balance it by attracting more tourists
from abroad to the United States.
The ONCE of International Travel
would serve as the source of tourist lit
erature and information about travel in
this country, perhaps setting up govern
ment tourist Offices abroad. Such gov
ernment travel Offices have been stand
ard with foreign countries for many
years. Great Britain spends $2.8 million
year to attract foreign tourist spend
ing-largely American dollars. France
spends $2.6 million. Everywhere the
American travels abroad, he finds gov
ernment agencies available and anxious
to tell him where to go and what to do
over there. But Europeans who might
wish to travel in the United States find
it difficult to obtain the same sort of
information about this country.
Critics of the proposal say it
amounts to another subsidy to private
industry. If this is subsidy, it is a
subsidy which will bring far greater re-
turns to the Nation than the amount
expended, and the proposed government
agency would fill role which seems to
be beyond the capabilities of competing
commercial agencies who are urging
that it be established.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Delinquency in Paradise

Juvenile delinquency is not an evil
that exists exclusively in the United
States and other nations of the free
world. It can be found also, and in large
measure, behind the Iron Curtain. Con-
slider, for instance, the Soviet paradise
of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism and
Khrushchevism. The fact is that many
of its young people are no-goodniks.
They are members of the So-called
"beat" generation-real characters, dad,
and. offensive enough to merit the dis
approving attention of the Young Com
munist League of the USSR.
Thus, speaking through one of its
top officials, the YCL, according to the
New York Herald Tribune, has indig-
nantly declaimed as follows "We still
have young people who lead idle lives. -.
In some of our big cities, one meets fopS
who twiddle their thumbs all day long,
or, even worse, they go to foreigners and
buy all kinds of rags from them, or try
to speculate with currency. One meets
girls who have lost all shame and con-
science, who have not done a single
useful thing, who are wasting their lives
in restaurants or at beaches, who strike
up acquaintance with strangers"
Clearly, youth is a problem on the
other side of the Iron Curtain just as on
our side, and maybe the YCL has rem
dered service in recalling how Peter
the Great, back in 1909, issued decree
ordering that adolescent "ignoramuses"
and "dandies" be f1ogged for violating
etiquette and rules of style" by Haunt
ing themselves in Spanish pantaloons
and jackets decorated impudently." Ger
tainly, it is difficult not to feel that the
old Czar-who never heard of thing
as outlandish as communism-offered
sound advice for our time as well as his
own.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Castro Rebuffed

The Declaration of San Jose,
adopted by 19 to vote of the foreign
ministers attending the meeting Of the
Organization of American States, is de-
scribed as major victory for the United
States. This is true-in the sense that
the declaration might have been weaker
than it is.
Cuba was not specifically named,
and, of course, no political or economic
sanctions were invoked against Fidel
Castro's prof. Communist dictatorship. In
its key points, however, the declaration
condemns emphatically" intervention
or the threat of Intervention by an ex-
tracontinental power in the affairs of
the Americas, and rejects" the attempt
by the Sino-Soviet powers to make use
OF the political, social and economic
situation of any American state, mas
much as that attempt . is capable of
destroying hemisphere unity and jeop-
ardizing the peace and security of the
hemisphere.
Perhaps, considering the internal
situation in some of the OAS countries,
been hoped for. The ministers of Vene-
zuela, Mexico, Haiti and Bolivia wanted
to water down the already cautious Ian
guage of the resolution, but voted for
it when their effort failed.
Although Cuba was not mentioned
by name, the rebuke is plain enough.
If there was any room for doubt on this
score, 1t vanished when Raul Roa, Cubas
foreign minister, Stalked out of the
meeting crying: "Our country is without
friend in this hemisphere" If this
is correct the blame rests, not on the
OAS, but on the bearded one in Havana,
and his association with if not his out
right embrace of international commu-
niSm.
There is striking contrast between
this OAS action with respect to Cuba
and its resolution calling for limited
economic sanctions and severance of
diplomatic relations with the Dominican
Republic. 1t is case, in our Judgment,
of the major and by far the more dan
gerouS dictator escaping with notably
milder rebuke. Still, if the OAS action
has opened the eyes of Latin America
to the real nature Of the Castro regime,
that is something something that may
well be taken into account in both Mos
COW and Peiping. Had the OAS gone
the other way, the Latin American door
would have been flung wide open for the
Communists.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Absentee Voting

In behalf of the Republi-
can State Committee for the
District of Columbia let me
congratulate you on the series
of articles you are running
on absentee voting qualiflca-
tions. The records are filled
with instances in the history
of our country when i'm
portant elections have been
won or lost by just a hand
full of votes, so there should
be an increasing awarenesS
here of the Importance of
voting.
Our Absentee Voters Bu-
reau. under direction of Miss
Mary Jane Pffer, at 1880 K
street NV, is prepared to
help any person apply for an
absentee ballot in any State
where he may have a right
to do so. She can be reached
at Elk. 3-3950, or our Office
is open from 9 am. until $50
pm. for personal visits.
In an ordinary campaign
year our organization handles
some 100000 absentee voting
problems for the Republi-
can National Committee, and
this year we expect to handle
a great many more. We hope
you will continue to pub
licize the Importance of alb
sentee voting so that the
many persons in the Wash
ington Metropolitan area who
Evening star., 1960-08-29

A. The term has come to
mean a rough, low, boorish,
or uneducated person. The
Yahoos were a degenerate
race of mankind described
by the British satirist Jona-
than Swift 1667-1745 in
the fourth book of his "Gul-
liver's Travels" The Yahoos,
deformed creatures with un-
couth ways, were ruled over
by a race of marvellous
horses-courteous, intelligent,
and kind-called the Houy-
hnhnms.
@. Was Mr.. Dooley" a
real person?-B. L.
A. No. 'Mr. Dooley" was
the humorous creation of the
American Satirist Finley Pc
ter Dunno (1867-1936). From
behind the bar Of his myth
cal saloon in Chicago, "Doo-
ley" held forth in his broad
Irish dialect on contempo-
rary events and happenings.
The "Dooley" sketches were
widely syndicated in the press,
with the bulk of them ap-
pearing between 1893 and
1905,
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Transit Pact in Peril

However well-intentioned the ef-
forts OF two Senators to increase the
Districts membership on the proposed
regional transit-control agency are ex-
tremely i'll advised. No better way of
wrecking the interjurisdictional regula-
tory compact could be devised than the
relegation of Virginia's and MarylandS
membership to subordinate status.
1t was a touch-and-go proposition
even to obtain the approval of the Vir-
ginia and Maryland General Assemblies
to the MISREPRESENTATION plan pro-
vided in the compact as it now stands.
A really historic step was taken when
both legislatures finally voted in favor
of the agreement with reservations
permitting either State to withdraw on
one-years notice and requiring the
specific assent of each State to actions
affecting its territory.
To attempt to change the compact
at this late date by giving the District
two members to the single members
allowed Virginia and Maryland would
imperil the whole regional undertaking.
At the least it would delay for several
years ratification of the compact, but
more likely it would kill it, The pros
pect that either State would agree to
give the District larger voice in tran
sit regulation than Virginia or Mary
land is virtually nonexistent. We earn
estly hope, therefore, that Senators
Morse and Murray will drop their plans
for enlarging the commission.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Nixon on Sit-ins

Following his public ap-
pearance at Greensboro.
N. c., Vice President Nixon
is reported to have told news
men that while he believed
stores that offered products
for sale to everyone should
make all their facilities
available to everyone, he also
thought sit-in demonstrations
should be orderly and not
in violation of local laws.
This latter observation, it
seems to me, is a most i'm
portant one. 1t is unlikely,
however. that it will be given
much attention by the radical
liberal news media.
In this whole contrived
racial controversy. RESPONSE
BILE white citizens in the
South are fighting most for
respect and observance of
local laws and customs. Con-
Evening star., 1960-08-29

IL pOlHCeQ up CIle QlSCOuTdS-
ing fact that 20 years of
Christian influence had made
no permanent impression.
In judging these people we
must bear in mind that. up
until a few years ago, the
combination of impenetrable
jungle and inter- tribal sus-
picion of outsiders served to
isolate as effectively as
prison walls. There was no
exchange of ideas, no written
language or recorded culture,
no material progress in thou
sands Of years. The blind fe-
cundity of the rain forest
created an environment so
harsh as to stultify intellec-
tual growth. Even such basic
tools as the wheel, or the sail
with which to propel a boat,
had never been envisioned.
Only the most naive and op-
timistic observer would have
ever concluded that, after a
few years of tutoring, these
people would be capable of
self-government.
To have bowed to the ma
tive demands for "independ-
ence" is roughly comparable
to bowling to a small child's
demand to eat nothing but
candy. We Americans cannot
forego blame for this now
obvious error. Our influence
in this area has been out of
proportion to our knowledge
Of the true situation. The
mistake cannot be undone,
and recriminations will avail
nothing, but we can at least
act realistically now. To
Evening star., 1960-08-29

pecting real trouble" run the
others. The so-called "Catho-
lie issue"-that Senator Ken
nedy is a member of the
Catholic faith-ls endlessly
repeated in these messages.
Another factor mentioned
again and again is the Demo-
cratic conventions markedly
liberal platform. which al
ready has been Tepudiated by
nearly every important DEM
ocratic politician in the
South including Smathers
himself.
Platform "Not Accepted"
Operation Dixie, therefore,
will proceed on this Spartan
pattern: National Democratic
Party speakers will not 60
into the South without
Smathers' prior agreement.
No party handbill, no party
pamphlet, will be circulated
without his knowledge and
concurrence. No effort what
ever will be made to defend
the Democratic convention
platform.
Rather, the purpose will be
to ignore that platform
whenever it is possible.
Wherever there are overpow-
ering local demands that it
be discussed, the Southern
Democratic campaign reply
will be this: The Southern
leaders never accepted that
platform. Instead, they would
point out that any conven-
tion can write a platform but
no convention can make any
platform into law. Only Con-
greSs can do that-and the
South, no matter what hap
pens in November, will still
have power in Congress.
(This doesn't mean that
Kennedy or Johnson will
back up an inch on the plat
form. 1t only means that the
Southern campaign on this
point will frankly leave Ken
nedy and Johnson)
The heart of the Smathers
plan, in short, contemplates
these things:
/. A policy of non -interfer-
ence in the South by North
ern Democrats.
2. A minimum of talk
about who is the Democratic
presidential candidate and a
maximum of talk about the
South's old allegiance to the
Democratic Party as a COL
lective institution.
3. No harsh attacks on
boilers or potential boilers,
on the theory that the more
such people are pushed the
more they will broaden the
bolt by soliciting other re-
Sentful Democrats.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
BIomes Democrats

Dorothea McIntyre's letter
says she doubts that the
Communists have gained so
much ground at any time as
they have in the last eight
years, and plainly infers
they gained it from the Re-
publican Administration. I
want to remind the lady that
the Communists owe almost
everything they have to Dem
ocratic administrations.
After three successive Re-
publican administrations
(Harding, Coolidge and Hoo
ver) annually refused to give
recognition to the Bolshevik
government II for IL years -
who gave them full recogni-
ton in 1888?
1t was not a Republican
President who sat by and saw
the BolshevikS take over, with
hideouS barbarism, Latvia,
Esthonia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Hungary.
1t was not a Republican
administration which acceded
to the Communist demands
that the American flag be re-
moved from food packages
we sent them free. so the
Russian people could be mis-
led as to the benefactor.
1t was not a Republican
Commander in Chief who
ordered our greatest combat
general and his victorious
troops to stop at the gates
of Berlin and invite the Boil
shevik army, miles away, to
be the first to march into
Berlin as its conquerors.
1t was not a Republican
supposedly controlling the
peace conference who agreed
that Berlin would be an
island surrounded by what
the Communists got and still
try to refuse us access.
1t was not a Republican
administration that peopled
the State, and Justice De-
partments, Internal Revenue,
and even the White House
staff, with Hiss and others.
in the public record.
1t was not a Republican
president who said. II like
old Joe" (Stalin).
Miss Mcintyre thinks a new
Democratic administration
would be more competent to
deal with the Communists
than a Republican one. His
tory and facts are the an
swer-not political bias.
Warren w. Grimes.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
Enlightenment on the Dark Continent

Many OF your readers COM
ments concerning the Con-
golese situation, both critics
of and apologists for the re-
cent happenings. have exhib-
tied little first-hand knowl-
edge of Africa. The greatest
single error is the assumption
th"t the native Congolese are
simple under-educated coun-
&c. parts to our American
Nco"oas. The actual differ
ences are so deep rooted and
basic as to preclude any fair
comparison. An observation
made in French West Africa
some years ago will serve to
illustrate just how wide this
gap is. It was at a Catholic
mission school, where the
priest in charge related the
following incident: Two ma
tives. reared and educated
from babyhood at the mission,
had married and the wife
gave birth to a slightly de-
formed baby. Some days later
it was noticed that the baby
was missing. On questioning,
the parents freely admitted
that they had placed the
child by the river bank for
the crocodiles to devour. On
being reminded that Christian
teaching forbade the taking
of human life, they innocent
ly announced: I'VE did not
kill baby, crocodile do that"
AS the priest sadly acknowl-
edged, they we're not crimi-
mails by their own standards,
since tribal custom requires
euthanasia for cripples, but
Evening star., 1960-08-29
City of Monuments

In regard to the contro-
versy over the Theodore
Roosevelt Memorial, what is
an appropriate memorial to
any great man?
Sometimes wish the great
memorialized men of our
country could come back and
comment on their own me-
MORALS! What would Lincoln
say? He, a man from a pioneer
home, a lawyer, President.
who had to make grievous
decisions, and a man of great
personal sorrow.
I ask tourists sometimes
what strikes them most. Of
ten they say the Lincoln
Memorial. Personally I feel
closest to him in the house
where he died-the furniture.
the bed and the sad an
nouncement And now he be-
longs to the ages"
Some of these prancing
horse statues are spirited
and even cheering among
beds of flowers. The Wash
ington Monument is good in
that it at least serves a dual
purpose: A memorial, and a
place for people to see the
layout of the city.
Look at the Taft Memo
rial-a block! Couldn't it
have been a hospital or some
thing to serve the living too?
If old Teddy was the
Rough Rider" maybe the
wild island is the most ap-
propriate memorial left by
itself.
Sylvia DuerkSen.
Evening star., 1960-08-29

start with we must accept the
cold fact that neither Lu-
mumba nor any other native
leader is capable of unifying
that vast and divergent ma
tion. We must further accept
the fact that a few more years
of education will not produce
natives capable of filling the
shoes of 10000 Belgian ad-
miniStrators. engineers.
teachers, businessmen, and
missionaries. Massive doses
of American tax monies will
serve little purpose but to
make the Congolese as de-
pendent on us as they for
merly were dependent on the
Belgians.
Perhaps the most undesir-
able result of our attempting
to financially shore up a nom
governable nation" will be
the setting of a precedent.
Future African states will be
encouraged to rely on help
from the American taxpayer
in preference to working out
their own problems. To date,
the only Congolese politician
with the wisdom to recognize
the need for maintaining a
working relationship with the
Belgians is Tshombe. We
must give our moral support
to such responsible native
leaders as Tshombe, rather
than to the irrational egotist
Lumumba, whose policies are
doomed to failure. What a
fantastic charity project our
Government seems ready to
embark on.
Henry r. Adams.
Evening star., 1960-08-29
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Soviets CIcumnovigote Antorctico
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

ture that a cooling process
has now begun in the Ant
arctic, as well as in the
Arctic"
Fish and squid now are
taking their own movies of
themselves at the bottom of
the sea.
They are swapping pictures
at a rate of one every IS
seconds with an apparatus
just developed by the British
N a tional Institute of
Oceapography, described in
the Scientific journal Dis
covery.
Special Camera
This consists of an under
water camera which will
stand up under pressures
down to 5000 feet attached
to a line with a baited hook.
Every time the line is pulled
a flash of light is produced
and the camera shutter
fiicked. This continues as
long as there is any pull on
the line. With each flick the
film is moved for the next
exposure.
The apparatus was de-
veloped especially for study
of the life habits of squid.
Up to now very little has been
known about the behavior of
these primitive denizens of
the deep. They seldom are
taken alive in nets. While
not rare, they are widely dis
persed and the chances of
photography by a diver are
quite remote.
The camera is lowered by
a line from the ship and left
underwater four to five
hours.
Most notable accomplish
ment to date is a film of 80
pictures of a fight between
two squid, each more than a
foot long. The creatures ap-
parently do not hesitate to
attack each other, especially
if one is injured or its move
mentS restricted, as would
be the case when one was
caught on a line.