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Evening star., 1960-06-07
Gold in Your Attic
Sinclair Lewis Hike q Prize
By Van Allen Brodley

or in part to book collecting
are the American Book Col
lector, 1922 School street,
Chicago 13; the Booklovers'
Marketplace, 9 Glass street,
Suncook, N. H.. and Hobbies.
1905 S. Michigan avenue,
Chicago.
G. B.: Your first edition Of
j. Ross Brownies Adventures
in the Apache County" New
York, 1859 is a scarce West
ern item. A fine copy is worth
about $25.
BIS: There is no hard
and fast rule for identifying
a first edition? A general
guide is this: If the publica-
ton date Con the title page)
and the copyright date (on
the back of the title page)
agree, chances are it is a
first edition. Your librarian
can give you additional help
on difficult books.
Miss F. H.: Autographed
books are generally worth
more than unsigned copies,
how much more depends on
the authors Importance.
Signatures Of persons other
than the authors lessen the
value of books, unless the
signers are themselves of i'm
portance.
W.B. S.: Your j. Evetts
Haley's THE KIT Ranch of
Texas" Chicago, 1929 is
worth SIS or more in fine
condition. Signed copies bring
up to $125.
B. T. r.: Your paperbound
first edition of j. r. Simms'
The American Spy" CAL
bany, 1846) is a scarce book.
worth $35 or more if in fine
condition.
Selected reader questions
WiH be dnSwered in this COL
unln. Address: Van Allen
Bradley, in care of The EUe-
ming Star.
tcopyright, 1860, oen1 Features Corp,
Gold in Your Attic oppeon eoeh
Tuesdoy.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
WHEATON. MARYLAND

WHEATON. MARYLAND
Stewort's c1mero Shop, Inc.
ll2lA Georgia Avenue
Montgomery Ward and Co.
Wheaton Ploza
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
sob's comsro Supply
7le King Street
Duke comsro Shop
72s King Street
Henry's camsra Center
722 King Street
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
A. All Drug Foir Stores
Crown Photo Service
2lol Wilson euloevord
Dominion camera
2925 Wilson Boulevard
Al Both Duke Comero Shops
ludwig Cemsro Shop. Inc.
2lol Wilson Boulevard
Newberry's Comsro
Repair Shop
4765 lee HiehwoY
Seors, RoebUck ond Company
$500 Wilson Bovlevord
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killing drugs and sedatives
are needed at this time.
=
Practical Pointers for Cor
ondry Patients" tDiH be mailed
on receipt OF q stamped, self
addressed envelope and 10
cents In coin for handling
charges. Address DR.. Stein
crohn in care OF The EUenino
Star.
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Tomorrow: Going stsody"
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Have a Question?

Mrs. E. A. S.: Your ]. Feni-
more Cooper's "The Path
finder" philadelphia, 1840),
two volumes, is a complicated
book. There we're four issues
Of Vol / of the first edi-
ton. The first-and most
valuable tup to 500 for
fine copy has the printers
imprints on Page 2 in the
middle of the page: in the
second issue they were low
cred to near the bottom of
the page.
Mrs. K. L. F.: Your A. M.
Cohn's George Cruikshank:
A Catalogue Raisonne" Lon-
don. 1920 is a scarce item
and worth around $40 in fine
condition.
Mrs. 6. M: Among the
publications devoted wholly
Evening star., 1960-06-07
WORLD ECHOES
North American Newspaper Alliance

Odd items from the world
press:
NIELS MULLER was di-
recting documentary film
about fishing for herring
when he fell into the water
and almost drowned. He
shouted to the cameramen to
keep shooting as he went
down for the third time, and
was dragged unconscious
from the wares. The scene Is
now the cliElax of the film.
Critics iusiS it must be a
fake.-Morgenavisen, Bergen.
THREE YEARS AGO a
man picked up his daily
newspaper in the Strand and
said: "I'll be right back to
pay you" Just the other day
he returned with his 4 pen
nies and an apology. 1t seems
that he had been arrested
and forced to spend SO
months in prison-for nom
payment of debts. Evening
Standard. London.
RALPH DE LUCOWICH,
South African planter. had
three swimming pools in
stalled on his property. One,
with his initials carved at the
bottom, is for himself. The
second, without initials, is
for his wife. The third. in the
shape of a bone, is for his
dog. Cape Times, Capetown.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
FALLS CHURCH,
VIRGINIA

FALLS CHURCH,
VIRGINIA
Porter Studios and
Photo Supplies
ll2 West Brood Street
FREDERICKSBURG,
VIRGINIA
r. A. kishpoush Stationery
2l4 Williom Street
FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA
Trout Drug compony
Church and Main Streets
MlDpLEBURG, VIRGINIA
Allen Svdio
Washington Street
SPRINGFIELD. VIRGINIA
Comera Croft
$40 Brondon Ave.
WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
lomp's Photography
ia South LovdoUn Stress
vollsy Photo Centre
us South loUdoun Street
CHARLES TOWN,
WEST VIRGINIA
Nichols and Stuck
Phormoeis's
IA West Washington Street
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BROOKLYN PARK,
MARYLAND

BROOKLYN PARK,
MARYLAND
Hooks
Brooklyn Park Shop. Center
Ssors, Roebvek and Company
500 Gov. Richie Hishwoy
HYATTSVlLLe,
MARYLAND
Duke Comeru Shop
Prince Georges Plazc
loehners Rodio and
TslsViSion Service
52os Bol'imors BoulsVord
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
Tronseolor Photo Center
al North Washington 81.
SILVER SPRING,
MARYLAND
comero, Inc.
1857 Georgia Avenue
Gilbert Studio and
Comero Center
2442 Resdie Drive
hoynes Comsro Center
eole Fsnton Street
S'eweri's comsFo and
Gift Shop
e2o5 Georgia Avenue
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WASH, D. c. tcont.)
Duke Comero Shop
Penioson Building
Dupont Comsro Center
l346 Connecticut NV.
Embassy comero Center
20l0 S Street NV.
Esdo Solss ond Service
lo7 carroll Street NV.
friendship camera Shop
1905 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
A. All Frone JswslrY Stores
Fuller end d'Alberi. Inc.
BIS 10th Street NV.
IrVings Ccmsro Exchange
700 D Street NV.
Al All kay JewsIrY StoSes
Ludwig Comsro Shop. Inc.
1892 IA Street NV.
Modlon Comsro Center
l2l2 Good Hope Rood Sc,
Penn comero Center, Inc.
943 PsnnsyIVoni1 Ave. NV
A. All
Peoples Drug Stores, Inc.
Potomac Photo Supply, Inc.
l734 Pennsylvania Ave. NV
Evening star., 1960-06-07
DEAR ABBY
Life's What You Make 1t, Honey!
BY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

DEAR ABBY: My parents
are starting in on me again
this year about going to sum-
mer camp. 1 went last year
Il am 12 and 1 hated it like
poison. I didn't have one
friend.
Do you think it is fair for
parents to FORCE a child to
go to summer camp even if
she hates it? .
They tell me it is very ex-
pensive and I should appre-
ciate going, but l think they
just want to get rid of me for
six weeks. Oh, Abigail, what
shall I do?
HATES CAMP.
There is no better age than
yOurs-and hardly a better
place than camp for young
people to learn how to get
along with others. The ex-
perience Of living away from
home will encourage ma
turity and develop independ-
ence that will be invaluable
In later years. Change your
attitude, Honey. and go.
You'll discover that you need
only to offer your friendship
and it will be accepted.
&&
DEAR ABBY: Can a man
LOVE his wife and BE IN
LOVE with another woman
at the same time? Please an
Swer YES or NO.
Yes.
DEAR ABBY: There is
nothing anyone (including
you, Abby can do about my
problem because it's too late
but I'd like to give a word of
warning to the girl who is so
much in love with a man
that she'd gladly work her
fingers to the bone" for him.
When I was married, I
agreed to work for a year
until we got established"
That year has stretched into
13. My husband has come to
depend on my income to pay
the bills. He works steady,
but no one seems to know
where his money goes. (Ex-
cuse me, he pays the insur-
anceO
I don't believe in divorce,
but I'm ready to walk out
because I feel like a work.
horse. No children. We can't
afford them. Il make $3.50
q month and he makes $500
I wish someone had told me
years ago that when a man
encourages his wife to work
when they are first married,
chances are he's selfish. She
won't respect him very long,
either. And when respect is
gone-love soon flies out the
window.
STUCK.
y X 4
DEAR ABBY: We Just
bought a new home and I
told a friend of mine that l
was planning on having a
house-warming party. She
looked Mortified and told me
that it was not proper for a
person to have a house.
warming party herself. That
was supposed to be done by
her friends.
How can my friends possi-
bly, have a party in my home
without my help and permis-
Evening star., 1960-06-07
WASHINGTON, D. c.
CITY AND SUBURBAN

WASHINGTON, D. c.
CITY AND SUBURBAN
Boxer. Photo Supply, Inc.
4ol1 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
PuUl l.. Br1nd and Son
2lS3 K Street NV.
Brenner Photo Company, Inc.
S33 PsnnsyIvunia Ave. NV.
A. All copital camsro
Exchanges, Inc.
Cosislberg's
1904 2 Street NV.
Color Art Camera Center
5S34 Connecticut Ave. NV.
Columbia Photo Supply
lA24 New York Ave. NV.
Conn. Camera, Inc.
1929 Connecticut NV.
District comero Shop
BAL 18th Street NV.
A. All Drug Foir Stores
Evening star., 1960-06-07

The Family Council consists Of o
Judge, q psyehiotrist. three clergy
men, three editors and a women'S
editor. Eoch orticIe is q summary
Of on oetuoI eose history. The
council reports on problems thot
hove been deolt with by respon-
sibIe oeencies ond eounseIors.
Evening star., 1960-06-07
FAMILY COUNCIL
Dad YeIIs
At Isabel
And Date
THE PROBLEM

THE PROBLEM
ISABEL R.-My father
hits me.
MRS. L. R.-She's getting
to be a problem child.
THE DETAILS
ISABEL RI am Is and
miserable at home because
/ can't get along with any,
one in my family-especiaaly
my father.
My mother and my kid.
brother are against me. but
Evening star., 1960-06-07

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The Brownie Starmie Camera takes the extra-sna A fash
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Evening star., 1960-06-07

Gold in Your Attic oppeon eoeh
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Inteqrotion and Demonstrations

slavery-had been accepted
as fully legal by Congress.
1t has. always been the
duty of the Secretary of
State to issue q proclamation
when a constitutional amend
ment has been duly ratified.
Yet Secretary of State Sew
ard, in his proclamation Of
July 20. 1858, said, in effect.
that the Fourteenth Amend.
ment could be regarded as
ratified If legislatures Of six
Southern States could be con-
sidered to be legally consti-
tuted. and If Ohio and New
Jersey, which changed their
minds, were bound by their
original resolution of ap-
proval. This expression Of
doubt caused Congress to pass
q Joint resolution the next
day declaring the Fourteenth
Amendment as adopted and
directing the Secretary Of
State to promulgate it as
legal.
No such power exists in
Congress under the Constitu-
ton to say what constitu-
tional amendments have been
legally adopted, or to order
the Secretary of State to de-
clare an amendment ratified
If he has legal doubts about
it. This is a function Of the
Supreme Court of the United
States. 1t was, therefore,
both legally wrong" and
morally wrong" for the
Fourteenth Amendment to be
proclaimed as legally ratified
after the Southern legisla-
lures had been coercsd
Oddly enough, the Supreme
Court, which is supposed to
decide legal controversies,
has consistently refused from
that day to this to pass upon
the constitutionality of the
actual process by which the
Fourteenth Amendment was
legally ratified. The court
has repeatedly lodged the
issue and called it a 'politi-
cal question" preferring in
stead merely to assume the
validity Of the amendment
itself for all practical pur-
poses. This is an example Of
something that can be called
morally right, yet legally
wrong" 1t is precisely this
doctrine which has prompted
many rulers in history to
claim that "the end justifies
the means"
tcopyrlght. 1s6O)
Evening star., 1960-03-22

ZURICH, Switzerland. CBy
Air Mall. Nowhere. along
Swiss highways. does one see
signs reading. This road will
be closed in case of enemy
attack" and there are no
civil defense shelters. There
is no panic of the mind,
which creates the need for
civil defense, in this country
less than four minutes from
Red launching pads,
The real concern in switz-
,erland is what the Western
allies will do when (there is
practically no ifl Premier
Khrushchev decides to hand
over to East Berlin the lines
of communication between
West Berlin and Western Eu-
rope. Political and military
leaders to whom this reporter
has talked believe Mr.. Khru-
shchev will not only do ex-
actly that but will get away
with it unless the United
States and the other major
NATO allies take a firm
stand. This the Swiss, Ger
mans. Italians and Austrians
regard as vital to the future
of the Western civilization.
But the strong feeling here
and in neighboring countries
is that when the present
United States administration
is confronted with a real
threat from the Russians it
may not wish to spoil its
record of peace and pros
perity." The Europeans fear
that some step may be taken
which will save the face Of
the Eisenhower administra-
ton but not save Berlin.
For this reason the Euro
peans regard our November
elections as vital to their own
security. A reporter from
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Whether Agitotion or Calm Discussion
Can Break Custom Called Key Issue
DAVID LAWRENCE

Gov. Leroy Collins of Flor
ida has Just emphasized an
cid conflict IN principle be-
tween what's lawful and
what's morally right" He
says, for instance, that any
company that invites the
public to trade in its stores
can lawfully segregate one
section for certain customers,
but that such a practice is
morally wrong"
Custom and tradition have
long Influenced human be-
havior and. when q majority
decides that custom shall be
broken, it either brings this
shout voluntarily or imposes
its will by law. The Florida
Governor is within his pre-
rogatives in trying to per-
s,iade his fellow citizens that
they should break with ira
dition and custom. but he is
wise in adding that it is law
full for them TO maintain
their individual rights.
Many owners of chain
stores might agree with Gov.
Collins that. once they open
their doors to the public, they
should open all departments
on the same basis to every
body. There is no doubt that
the owners have the right to
do so, but that isn't the real
dificulty. The store owners
are dealing with the deep
seated convictions of their
customers, and are running
the risk Of antagoniZing one
set to please another set. It's
d not the store owners but the
public. which establishes the
social customs that prevail.
Can those customs be bro
= ken down by public agitation
and by demonstrations that
are provocative of counter
demonstrations, or can they
better be adjusted to change
by calm discussions and BIZ
racial conferences of citizens?
These are. the fundamental
issues. t.
Basically, the problem has
many potentialities for fric-
tion. Is it morally wrong to
select ones customers, or to
fail TO invite certain guests
fe: dinner? Many 0 social
function takes place in gov
ernmental circles here with
Evening star., 1960-03-22
DORIS FLEEsON

LOS ANGELES.-The po-
litical news from his home
State has taken an ominous
turn for Vice President Rich
ard Nixon. 1t has over
shadowed the Ike indorses
Dick" headlines which the
President put into perspec-
tive with his common-sense
+ observation about what else
would anyone expect.
What happened here was
} that the Field Poll, a re-
? spected California Institu-
ton, showed a steady decline
IN Mr.. Nixon's popularity.
That decline was not reflect
ed In the undecided column:
1t went to the Democrats.
The trend implied, there
fore, is not just an anti
Nixon feeling, but a Demo-
cratic surge.
The percentages also
showed that the effect Of Mr..
Nixon's Russian trip has
washed out. He achieved
I. a high point in public ac-
ceptance Immediately after
that journey. Today he is
back about where he was in
the spring Of 1859 as COM
pared to both Adlai Steven
son and Senator John Ken
nedy.
The poll shows that Mr..
Nixon's, decline is matched by
Q steady rise for Mr.. Steven
son and Mr.. Kennedy. As Of
Evening star., 1960-03-22
RALPH McGILL
u. N. Tanning a Wild River

edges Of the industrial revo-
luton.
All work is within the
framework Of the U. N. and
its specialized agencies. The
Technical Assistance Board.
the Bureau of Technical As
sistance Operations, the Food
and Agricultural Organiza-
ton, the World Meteorologi-
cal Organization. and the
U. Ms Special Fund have all
Joined to aid the project.
The nine nations, outside the
basin, giving concrete assist
ance, are the United States,
Great Britain, Australia. New
Zealand. Canada, France,
India. Iran, Japan.
longtime international aid
is necessary because the four
small, underdeveloped coun-
tries, largely rice-growinR.
are unable to contribute more
than q small share.
When. IL to 20 years from
now, the dams are completed,
the river will be navigable
from the South China Sea to
the Burma border. Electric
power will open up vast I'M
tapped forest wealth and
minerals for new industries.
Southeast Asia, with new and
varied crops, will have en-
tered q new era.
Here is q project which will
excite many and irritate
those who do not believe in
either the U. N. or interr"-
tional aid. even on a CO.
operative basis. But those
who know that two-thiros of
the world is hungry and who
are aware that, so long as
that is true, tensions and
dangers Of chaotic world
politics will increase, will be
thrilled by the drama and the
possibilities Of it.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Setback Noted as Poll Gives Democrats
Some of His Popularity Ballots

now, it is fatty said that
either Democrat could carry
California. with Mr.. Steven
son the stronger candidate of
the two.
What chiefly interests stu
dents Of CALIFORNIA; difficult
politics are the ratios. They
note that Mr.. Stevenson al
ready is over the so per cent
mark without trying and
without including the unde-
cided vote. Senator Stuart
Symington. who leads a Los
Angeles Examiner poll of the
actual Democratic delegation
to the convention, is not
mentioned in this particular
computation.
1t still appears the Demo-
Gratis must fight 1t out for
the nomination, but Mr.. Nix
on's personal problems will
remain. What he has to fear
in a literal sense Is fear it
self-fear among Republic
cans Of the smell of defeat
attaching itself to his name.
By their own acts, they have
spared him a meaningful
1860 testing which might still
all doubts.
In the absence Of a contest
to arouse the rank and file,
it proved impossible in New
Hampshire to launch him
brilliantly. That States pri-
mary vote showed that even
with q record Republican
turnout. Mr.. Nixon dropped
decisively from the old two
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Swiss Fear Berlin Showdown

yield on the Berlin matter
and to the disappointing
weakness and unbelievable
selfiShness of the London po.
ltical leaders of both parties.
The complaint heard most
frequently against Washing
ton is that it seems willing
to follow too readily the Brit
ish policies which are ex-
clusively British and have no
regard for the interests Of
continental Europe. -
The changed atmosphere
since 1858 is readily under-
standable when we take into
account that the influence Of
the French Communists has
been downgraded since their
failure to oppose the coming
to power of Gen. de Gaulle. !.
In Italy there still is q
large number of Communist
voters (some "a per cent of
the total voting populationl.-
But they are not taken very
seriously because they will
never stand against a show
down such as the coup by the
army in France.
President Gronchi's cabinet
crisis arose because he did
not heed the advice of his
political advisers and went,
to Moscow where he was in.s
suited by Premier Khru.
shchev. -
In Switzerland the COM
munist Party was allowed to
become a legal political en-
tity at the end of the last
war. At one time it boasted
nearly 10000 members. To-
day it has barely $500.
The Communists are on
the downgrade in Germany,
too since the Socialist Party's
convention a few months ago
decided that there can be no.
valid connections between
the labor movement as it is
today and the MARKHAM the
ories. And Germany, like
Switzerland, Austria and
Italy, has few if any fellow
travellers.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
DORIS FLEEsON
Nixon Trend Dips in California

Republican-to-one Democrat
ratio to three-to-two.
1t Is true that Mr.. Nixon
was stuck in New Hampshire
with a controversial Republic
can Governor whose last
minute anti-Kennedy antics
divided his own party and
helped to swell the hand
some personal tribute to Sem
ator Kennedy. Nevertheless,
1t is clear that while Mr..
Eisenhower has always been
able to rise above such prob
lens, Mr.. Nixon cannot.
The loss was not fatal in
the small Northeastern State
involved. But in California
a similar drop would mean a
loss of hundreds of thou
sands of votes. In 1856, close
to 4 million votes were cast
in the California primary,
and here Republicans are the
minority.
Mr.. Nixon is the more vul-
nerable here because he does
not have the liberal luster so
long lent to his party by its
longtime Governor, Earl
Warren. now Chief Justice Of
the United States. The War
rem era is passing away, but
a substantial residue remains
all over the State.
That residue never cared
for Mr.. Nixon, and it is in
fluenced by the Chief JUS
tees open dislike Of him. At
the Gridiron dinner at which
the President Endorsed Mr..
Nixon, protocol placed the
Vice President and Chief
Justice side by side. Guests
noted that the two men never
spoke TO each other.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Khrushchev's atom ban proposal has appealing
gmmick. He doesn't ask trust him anywhere the
face Of the earth-only underground.
It's rumored Dick Nixon wants to make Republicans
liberal The trouble with the Republican Party the
conservative the candidates the liberal the contributors
One disc jockey claims bum rap in the House payola
investigation He's accused of taking to play certain
music when everybody knows of the sounds his show
confused with music.
1t isn't the population explosion that the East
West atomic conference at Geneva but the depopuaton
explosions.
Cubas Fdel Castro has devised an unbeatable defense
against his foes Nobody yet has figured revolt
against anarchy.
Evening star., 1960-03-22
Joint Action on 2,625-MiIe Mekonq
Called Thrilling Case of Cooperation

United Nation Notes: On
the slopes Of q Himalayan
mountain in Tibet q noun
tain stream rises. Soon Joined
by many others. 1t quickly
becomes q river. A mad. roar
ing torrent. it flows at 10000
feet above sea level southeast
wards hard by the great east
west caravan route from
China TO- Lhasa. From here
it pluneeS through wild, deep
mountain gorges for 800 miles
to its turbulent, ever-descend-
ing lower basin.
The Chinese call it the
Lan-Tsan-Kaing. But when
it has plunged on to become.
for a brief time, the border
between Burma and Laos, it
takes on the name by which
1t is best known the Me-
kong. 1t forms the long Thai
Laos frontier cuts across
Central. Cambodia and emp
ties into the South China Sea
across an ancient, ever-eh-
larging delta. The Mekong is
2;62S miles long and Is the
10th largest river in the
world. 1t is a stream of many
tributaries and turbulences.
II is affected nightly by
melting SHOWS, monsoons and
typhoons.
During the season of rains
: and melting SHOWS its flow is
: so powerful that it reverses q
large tributary river called
the Tonic Sap. causing it to
run strongly backwards into
b the great lake into which it
normally drains. making it
: food with great damage and
loss Of property and crops.
The currencies of IA ma.