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Evening star., 1960-01-25
Legislative Eye-Opener

Judging from the apparently sim
cere comments Of many of those who
came, saw and were "conquered"-as
V1rginias Governor Almond put it
the weekend tour of Northern Vir-
glnla by State legislators and KEY off,
Gals was we'll worth the time, money
and effort involved. Some of the visi-
tors indicated they had been voting
on legislation affecting this urbanized
part Of the State without any real
knowledge of conditions here For them,
as we'll as for most of the other sight
Seers, the three-day visit was an eve
opener that should benefit both them
and nearby Virginia.
The Governor, himself already we'll
acquainted with the phenomenal growth
OF Arlington and Fairfax Counties and
the cities and towns of the Metropolitan
area, aptly described the tour as "a
step on the road to better understand
ing and appreciation of the vitality of
Northern Virginia" Others, especially
legislators from some of the rural Sec
tlons, were frankly amazed at the city,
IKE appearance and problems of the
thriving communities along the Po-
tomac and far inland. And they noted,
during rides over narrow and bunny
secondary roads in Fairfax County, the
conditions resulting from inadequate
attention by the State in recent years
to traffic needs Of the area.
Much of the neglect of the nearby
counties has stemmed from a lack OF
comprehension at Richmond of the
needs of such fast-developing sections.
There also has been a feeling among
the so-called country boys" that North
ern Virginia was largely inhabited by
transient Federal workers who have no
interest in the State or its traditions.
They learned during their stay, how
ever, that Northern Virginia is an in
tegral part of the Commonwealth, with
pride In its heritage of Washington
and Lee memorabilia, with rich actual
and potential tax-paying resources and
with needs that are far in excess of
fund ALLEGATIONS under outmoded dis
tribution formulas
II the attitude expressed by most
OF the legislators is indicative of a more
sympathetic consideration of Northern
Vlrgin1a's requirements at the current
and future sessions of the General
Assembly, the money invested by the
local governments in entertaining the
delegation should produce good divi-
dendS.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Tdrqet Nixon

The big guns among the Democratic
presidential hopefulS really cut loose
here Saturday night. Emplaced around
the microphones at the partys $100-
a-plate dinner, they zeroed in on Rich
ard M. Nixon as their prime target, and
they volleyed and thundered against
him as if he were somebody to be held
accountable for practically all the ills
that flesh is heir to, including juvenile
delinquency.
Considering the intensity of this
oratorical barrage, one might have sup
posed that the Vice President could
hardly have survived the weekend.
Not so, however, Actually, at the very
moment that he was being bombarded
from the Sheraton-P Park-with language
designed to cut him to pieces-he was
looking quite hale and hearty, and CIV
Ing an amiable little speech, at the
Alfalfa Clubs festivities at the Statler-
Hilton not many blocks away. Never
theleSS, since he seems destined to be
the Republican presidential nominee,
he must reckon with the fact that he
is almost certain to face heavier and
heavier Democratic artillery as time
-.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Debating the Issues

Even a good Republican
might agree with Democratic
National Committeeman Paul
Ziffren that ocrats
should debate tissues" not
personalities" That it is
through discussion Of
issues" that leaders are
brought to the fore. But why
advise them to challenge just
Republicans?
AS Mr.. Ziffren pointed out,
1t is the President who holds
office in the SOS who must
face up to the great issues
OF our new decade. AS far
as the Republican candidate,
Mr.. Nixon, is concerned,
surely his 8 years as Presi-
dent Eisenhower's right
hand man. and speeches and
activities demonstrating a
thorough knowledge of issues
and a willingness to meet
them head-on, have already
convinced most Republicans
that he has outstanding
leadership qualities plus ex-
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Madness in Havana

There is little or nothing In the
Castro record to encourage hope that
recall of our Ambassador to Cuba, Philip
w. Bonsal, will prompt more reasonable
or responsible behavior in Havana.
Throughout his year in power, the
Cuban revolutionary leader has made
the vested interests" the "imperialis-
tic" foreign policy and the Lying press"
OF the United States his top priority
targets. Whatever his motivation or his
objective-and it is difficult If not i'm
possible to define either-his course has
been one of consistent vilif1cation of
everything relating to the United States.
His own hySterical harangues have been
matched by high-handed action-the
seizure Of American property without
legal formality and the clear threat of
more sweeping confiscation to come.
Our own protests, carefully correct and
still relatively mild, have been brushed
aside officially and referred to unoffi-
cially In words of contempt Against this
background it is quite likely that Prime
Minister Castro does not care whether
Mr.. Bonsal is in Havana or in Wash
ington-unfesS, indeed, he prefers it
should be the latter.
Unfortunately, there is much more
at stake in this extraordinary situation
than merely trying to understand the
tantrumS OF bearded revolutionary.
The relationship between Cuba and the
United States, on a people -to-people as
well as governmental level, has been a
close one through most Of the past half
century. AS next door neighbors in the
western Hemisphere community it is
highly desirable, for many reasons and
despite Mr.. Castro's strange perform
ance, that it should remain so.
If considerations of hemisphere SOL
ldarity and political kinship mean little
to Mr.. Castro, the reciprocal benefits
OF the normal economic relationship be-
tween the two countries should mean
more. Perhaps they do not. But Cuba
must export to live and its biggest
crops-sugar, tobacco, fruit and vege-
taoles-come ordinarily to its closest
and biggest market, the United States
For sugar, which accounts for about
one-fourth of the national income and
20 per cent of exports, Cuba has a pre-
terred status by volume and price in
the United States market, circum-
stance that must be reviewed this year
because of expiration of our Sugar Act
Of 1948.
The State Department is reported
reluctant to employ economic retalia-
ton as a weapon Of diplomacy. Unless
Mr.. Castro is deliberately seeking this
result, however, he must be aware that
there is danger of ito the detriment
OF the Cuban economy and the welfare
OF the Cuban people 1t has been sug-
gested in our own Congress that there
should be careful re-evaluation" of
our current policy toward Cuba. This
much, at least, is justified.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Hospital Problem

I would like to take this
opportunity to com m e n d
your paper for the most in
formative editorial which ap-
peared recently concerning
the area hospitals and their
probe ms with INDECENT
patients.
If these hospitals are to
continue giving the public
the best in medical care, it
seems to me it is necessary
they be reimbursed properly
for INDECENT patients so they
may continue to give such
care.
william s. Hoge, III
President, Arlington Hospital
Evening star., 1960-01-25

goes on, and he must expect to bleed
a little.
Even so, although 1t is understand
able that they should concentrate on
him as the target from now on, the
Democrats who man the guns can
scarcely count on winning the election
merely by firing repetitious and essen
TALLY tireSome salvos of personal in
vective and condemnation at Mr.. Nixon.
They will have to offer a substantially
more affirmative program than that, it
seems to us, If they hope to return to
glory by recapturing the White House.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Fast Spinner, but

Without implying in any
way that Ronnie Robertson
Qce Capades starr is not a
superfast spinner on Ice
skates, I would like to inquire
how your reporter (or per-
haps a press agenD arrived
at the rather startling speed
Of 100 miles per hour, from
the stated figure of four
revolutions per minute.
The figure of So feet per
second for an automobile
travelling go miles per hour
is quite we'll known. It would
seem then that l20 miles per
hour would be 176 feet per
second.
1t is noted that his spin
ming will be the subject of
study by a doctor. presumably
an MD. Before he gets all
wound up in the subject, it
would be a good idea to have
someone who can "f1gger"
tackle the speed question.
According to my slide rule,
which is usually fairly accu-
rate, the neutrality-suspicious.
figure would imply traversing
the circumference Of a circle
IA feet in diameter on each
revolution, and this would not
be exactly spinning.
Old Slide Ruler.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

sell "wildbird feed" and offer
feeders, some of them run
ming to many dollars in cost.
Then there are bird baths,
too. and suet. and sunflower
seed, and some ambitious
homeowners have even gone
to the extent of rigging up
drinking places with warmed
water all winter long.
The humble startling is
usually but not always an
unlimited guest at this sub
urban feast.
He is tolerated by some,
catered to by a few, but re-
sented by the majority.
1t makes little difference to
him.
The starting is a capable
creature. He has been able to
build up totally new migra-
ton routes in a strange land.
He has resisted the drive
against him. and remains
contented, sturdy and eff
cient.
Our correspondent is right
in regarding him as remark
able.
The startling deserves our
praise. and gets it, at least
here.
Looked at properly. and
especially in sunlight, he is
seen to be quite as beautiful
as most birds, though a bit
Waddling in gait. He is one
OF the select group of walkers.
His prowess as a flyer is
SECOND 10 none, and he has
done great good by eating
lnimical insects, especially
the japanese beetle.
Those who wish to help
him in the cold have two
good foods to offer. They are
bread, preferably white, and
SeedlesS raisins.
1t takes only a few slices
to attract starlings. From
then on, a single scout waits
in a tree nearby, and he in
forms the others when food
is put out.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Liqht but Serious

1t was refreshing to see
The Stars editorial comment
cLook, Man. No Handsl")
on the provocative paper de-
livered by DR.. Herman j.
Muller. Nobel Prize-winning
Zoologist, before the National
Association of Biology Teach
erS.
The Star is to be congratu-
lated for recognizing that So
lutions to some of the prob
lens Of our future are linked
to the study of life, in what
ever forms it occurs in this
world or others.
A corollary should be ap-
parent. Space travel" must
involve living travellers, in ad-
dition to vehicles and rockets.
1t remains to be determined
by basic research in the bio
logical sciences, for instance,
whether man can survive pro-
longed exposure to such fac
tors in the hostile interplane-
tary environment as radiation,
lack Of gravity and isolation.
The value Of biological re-
search is something no Sci
enlist would wish to justify
by attaching it to goals or
assigning motives extraneouS
to all search for knowledge.
But it can be noted with
point that Russia now ap-
pears to be stepping up bio
logical science to match It's
strides in the physical SCI
ences.
An article in "Izvestia"
last September disclosed that
a denomination of the bio
logical research activities in
Russia is under way by mem
bers Of the USSR Academy Of
Medical Sciences, that a new
approach" with new empha- =
sis and a new supporting
technology are being called
for. G. Frank. corresponding
member Of the academy,
wrote:
The moment has now ar
rived when we must direct
our research at studying with
widest scope the laws regu-
lating the processes of life.
... Nothing can. for instance,
be more important to medi-
cine at the present time
Evening star., 1960-01-25

tions. the central point
brought forward by the
United States is that, with
out an open world. that is
without 100 per cent foolproof
bomb test inspection systems,
disarmament in nuclear mat
ters is impossible. No one can
seriously deny that this con-
Germs an important issue in
the control Of the nuclear
arms race. But one should
add that without disarma-
ment an open world is i'm
possible, certainly in a world
engaged in a nuclear missile
race (Which, by definition, Is
secret. So it seems that the
differences between the
United States and the
USSR points of view about
technicalities Of inspection.
as important as they are, do
not characterize all that is
involved in the test-ban is
sue. The technical differences
may be, as real as they are,
rather more of a smokescreen
to conceal the deeper issues
involved. And, unfortunate to
say. the United States and
USSR are in perfect ac-
cord in ignoring this deeper
human side Of the issue:
The policy Of threat OF
massive nuclear retaliation,
the development and testing
Of bombs and of missiles to
that purpose, is an unrealis-
tic policy. It reminds one Of
the argument that the hell
ishness OF a weapon makes
for peace because fear en-
forces peace, and no one
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Few Years of Peace Before millennium of Oblivion?

For an outsider 1t is diff
cult to become convinced
. that small underground nu-
clear bomb tests should be of
really significant military i'm
portance, either to the United
States or to the USSR. To
the military. the actually in
teresting tests are, in the
long run. those of superbombs
of newer types, and those of
bombs mounted as warheads
onto missiles, to test the de-
livery Of destruction in actual
performance.
The insistence on under
ground tests seems. to an
outsider, to have the prime
motive. so often stated by
the father of the dirty bomb,
to demonstrate the supposed
impossibility of an effective
test ban.
Apart from that purpose,
underground explosions carry
an element OF secrecy. The
advocacy, by Acc officials,
to continue underground
testing (purely for expert
mental purposes only helps
to drive the nuclear arms
race literally underground.
Such a trend is, in fact, even
If not in intent, diametrically
opposite to the stated United
States objective, that is, to
achieve an ve-board. open
world in nuclear matters, and
1t is difficult for dispassion-
ate observers from outside to
understand such dichotomies
Of objectives.
In the test-ban negotia-
Evening star., 1960-01-25
TOLEDO. Ohio,


Dear Sir:
Il see your pieces now and
then and always like to read
them.
Write a piece sometime
about the way starlings fly.
I love to watch them.
I'VE have them out here,
and some people call them
nuisances; but l like to watch
them fly.
Flying is big business
now, with people flying noisy
planes that shake the earth,
but the fat old starting flies
better and makes no sound.
The fat old startling flies
better because it is something
that comes natural to him.
THE force of gravity,
which the human has to
overcome, does not worry the
startling. The bird just scars
without visible effort.
How does he do this?
Yours truly, S. D."
Europe's startling, now &C
climated in the United States,
is superb as a flyer, indeed.
Even those many persons
who resent the bird acknowl-
edge this.
The night flights, coming
in the twilight to roosting
places downtown, make a
spectacle always worth see
ing.
1t is in the mass flights of
this bird that the wonder
comes.
Then every specimen stays
Just its appointed distance
behind the others, and all
wheel and turn as If by
command.
Just how it is done nobody
knows.
In metropolitan areas the
starlings often fly in early
morning to the suburban
districts, there to pick up a
living.
These canny birds have dis
covered not only the sur
rounding farmlands, such as
are left, but also bird feeders.
Feeding the wildbirds is a
fashionable thing, nowadays.
People who have moved
from the deep city to the out
skirts Of our big cities find
the birds one of the first
big differences noticed.
They suddenly. all at once,
transport themselves from a
place where only a few bird
species came, to a place
where any newcomer, in a
years time, can point with
pride to 10 or more species.
n 4 4
This is always interesting.
The bird feeding station at
the dining room window has
grown to be an institution.
Hardware and drug stores
a
Evening star., 1960-01-25

than the development Of
fundamental research into
the essence of life process
Ses :"
The Stars delightfully."- light
editorial treatment of DR..
Muller's report was not, Of
course, intended to be in
elusive nor responsive to his
main thesis. But in the con-
text Of this country's ac-
acknowledgement of Soviet su-
periority in space rocketry,
The Star appears nonethe-
less to have offered real sub
stance for those thought
fully concerned about our
scientific future.
Hiden T. Cox,
Executive Director, Amer
lean Institute of Bio
logical Sciences.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Jupiter Station Loud but Not Clear
By THOMAS r. HENRY

Russian astronomers in the
Soviet International Geo.
physical Year program. They
are equally at loss for any
reasonable explanation. The
radiation is somewhat SINH
lar to that sometimes received
from lightning flashes. There
can be little doubt, accord
ing to the Russian, that
Jovian clouds are capable of
accommodating electric charges
which can lead to very pow
erful lightning discharges.
But the fact that the broad
casting spot appears station
airy seems to do away with
the possibility of such an
explanation.
Jupiter may be a mass of
the supposed primaeval stuff
OF creation-gas. liquid and
solid hydrogen and helium,
lightest of the elements.
The upper levels of its
atmosphere, all that can be
seen from the earth, GER
tainly consist primarily of a
mixture Of these gases, ac-
cording to spectroscopic
evidence.
The mixture is quite dif-.
ferent stuff from the earth's
air. There is no detachable
oxygen, the gas of life, nor
of the heavy gas nitrogen.
1t is at least allowable to
speculate, Carnegie astrono-
mers say, that there is little
except hydrogen and helium,
in various molecular combi-
nations, in the whole gigantic
mass.
The atmosphere is ex-
tremely dense and hundreds
OF miles deep. The deeper in
this sea of hydrogen-helium
air. the greater the pressure,
until finally a point must be
reached where the gases be-
come liquids. Thus the sur
face of the suns biggest
satellite can be pictured
essentially as an ocean Of
liquid hydrogen which may
reach depths of a thousand
miles or more.
Planet Slow to Evolve
Now, as is the case with air
or anything else, the deeper
in the strange sea the greater
the pressure on the liquid
molecules. Eventually the liq-
uid will change into a soft
mush, then into an amor
phous solid, then probably
into a metallic solid. Thus,
perhaps, the greater part of
Jupiter is metal hydrogen.
Such a substance is unknown
on earth where the necessary
preSSures are unknown and
hardly attainable.
1t is difficult for the imagi-
nation to picture metal hy-
drogen. 1t almost surely
would be lighter than the
lightest cork and would float
freely in the earth's air.
The consensus of astron-
omers is that Jupiter is in
some relatively early stage Of
evolution rather than far ad-
vanced like Earth, Mars Or
Venus. Somewhat more
than halfway in life's Jour-
ney from sun to world" one
astronomer expresses it. It
is likely that it still pos
sesses. unlike the other plan
cts, some considerable heat
OF its own. There may be
great fires in the interior.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Down With Tempos

We and a host of other
dwellers in the Washington
area are sorely perplexed and
diSheartened at the failure
Of the local press to crusade
for the demolition Of at least
some Of the many Govern
ment "tempos" which, Is
years after the end of the
war, are still preempting park
areas and imposing their ugly
appearance on the Washing
ton landscape.
The imminent completion
OF new. permanent facilities
such as the $20,000,00O State
Department Building would
appear to afford an irrefut-
able argument for the de-
struction Of at least some
of these temporary buildings.
What is needed is for you and
your paper to rise to the occa-
sion and force the issue.
AS you we'll know, these
"tempos" will never 60 until
the press relentlessly and
persiStently pursues the mat
ter. The few that have been
removed, as for example
those near the First Divi-
sion Monument. were demol-
ished only after a determined
press forced such action
We believe you have a re-
sponsibility to the communi-
ty as the vocal instrument
through which the existing
preponderance OF public
opinion may bring about
remedial action.
We earnestly request that
you promptly focus atten-
tion on this matter to the
end that demolition will at
least be commensurate with
the new space being con-
structed.
Bruce Uthus,
Alys G. Uthus.
Evening star., 1960-01-25

would ever use such horror
weapons. This argument is
the age-old fallacy of the
deterrent. Let us not fool
ourselves: peace is not made
by Superbombs. arms races
have never led to peace In
the words of E. B. White:
The bomb has given us a
few years of grace without
war and now it promises us
a millennium of oblivion"
But, to come to the central
issue: Should we "have part
IN making millions of women
and children and noncombat-
ants hostages for the behav-
ior Of their own govern
ments"? George F. Kennan
says no to that. The simple
challenge is this: Do we have
the moral vigor to stop this
criminal arms race? We can
stop it only if we have the
integrity to refuse to be
ready to do by remote control
what none Of us could do
with his own hands to in
nocent children.
That moral decision Is
prerequisite for achieving a
true peace. One of the ma
tions of the nuclear club, If
sincere on that cardinal issue.
ican break the vicious circle
OF the nuclear arms race and
rally the world around United
Nations control of that prob
lem.
Herbert Jehle,
Professor of Theoretical
Physics. George Wash
.ington University.