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How One Japanese City Was Sold on Americans

say that he would like to mount
an old-fashioned American-style
Fourth of July celebration in
Hiroshima so that its citizens
might see it and thereby get an
other glimpse into the American
spirit; a celebration with speeches
about liberty and freedom and,
when the sun went down, a fire.
works display.
Then he concluded sadly that
all this was beyond him since, un-
fortunately, he had no funds
available for such a purpose. He
did not say that his representa-
tional allowance (expense ac-
count) for a whole year was only
SIS, although he was the sole Of
fetal United States representative
in an area centering around Hiro-
shima that embraced four major
prefectures corresponding to our
States, each with a governor,
not to mention numerous mayors
and important academic and cul-
tural institutions. Nor did he ever
let it be known that of his $4,000
salary for the year-his sole
source of income-he spent 81 500,
more than one-fourth of it, out
of his own pocket in order to
represent the United States with
dignity and becoming courtesy
among a people who move to
an elaborate code of etiquette
and are Enthusiastically courteous.
A Fourth" Celebration
His listeners expressed surprise
and disappointment upon learn
ing that the American Cultural
Center was planning no Fourth
of July festivities, their disap-
pointment the sharper perhaps
because they knew the day would
be celebrated in Tokyo and else
where throughout the world.
They now decided to act on their
own.
The Japanese, for all their al
legged impassivity, are an emo
tional people and the members of
Fotouhi's group had emotionally
responded to the passionate sin
cerity of their teacher. They had
been touched by many evidences
of his high goodwill toward the
Japanese people; by the identifica-
ton Of his family and himself
with the life of the community.
Fotouhi, moreover, as the sole Of
ficial representative of the United
States in Hiroshima stood out in
the eyes of the class and rank
conscious Japanese and they were
proud to be members of a group
taught by him, factor the more
impressive because a Japanese of
similar rank would be unlikely to
engage in a similar activity.
For all these reasons the mem
bers of the group met and de-
cided to organize an independence
Day celebration and pay for it
themselves although hardpressed
for money. There would be
speeches and a reception for dig
nitaries. There would, of course,
be fireworks. And there would be
dancing by a local ballet group in
order to lend a graceful atmos-
phere to- the occasion and make
Evening star., 1960-07-03
Regional Accents
Are Still Stubborn

make linguistic interview sparkle
with such grammatical offshoots
as two Of 'em 'nough for me-
(New England; "I'd sure admire
to set spell"-(Mountain South
or make the window shut
pennsylvania DutchD.
But this is more and more
the speech of the uneducated,
Mr.. Hubbell says. Grandchildren
of that generation use proper
grammar.
A Language Editor
AS editor of American Speech
Magazine, published by the Mod
ern Language Association, Mr..
Hubbell keeps tab on our changing
ways of talking.
He traces the sloppy articula-
ton and regional variations of
18th Century England which were
transplanted intact to the New
World.
"Watered down." he explains,
these are what we hear now
from New Workers, New England
ers, Southerners, Pennsylvanians
and mountain people who settled
along the Eastern Seaboard, then
moved westward"
Southern dialects resist North
ern encroachment most stubbornly
proof that custom dies hard
among the magnolias. Native
conservatism, particularly in iso-
lated mountain areas, preserves
unique speech patterns.
To unaccuStomed ears, noun
tain talk sounds like a bad case of
molasseS mouth: it is the type of
speech hardest to understand
north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Southern Mountains
But in the southern mountains
too, the influence of time, travel
and teaching is diluting the dia-
lect. Now it is chiefly the older
folks who tend their tayderz
(potatoeS) play kyah-erds (cards) :,
and shy away from ferners for-
eigners).
Across the Nation. the era of
the big sell in advertising through
the penetrating voice of radio and
television has helped standardize
speech.
Anyone with a recognizable
regional accent isn't acceptable
for straight announcing" says a
National Broadcasting Co. execu-
tive. "Unaccented speech makes
for better selling-it doesn't de-
tract interest from the copy"
John Curran, in charge of hir-
ing announcers for NBC, con-
ceded that for network purposes
a regional accent adds to the per-
sonality appeal of master of cere-
mony stars and possibly sports
casters. But otherwise, he adds,
Its handicap"
Genuine dialects are getting
harder and harder to find. To
insure a thick enough PennSyl-
vania Dutch accent in a recent
TV commercial, an actor was hired
instead Of a native to impart the
full flavor of such pecufarities as
dink for think, uhvay for away,
midout for without.
Evening star., 1960-07-03
Declaration Of independence

and Black. Frankfurter, the bril-
liant, sharp-tongued mentor of
the conservatives, is n. Black,
the impassioned elder statesman
of the liberals, is "a. The retire
ment of either could shift the
balance of power on the court.
Court intimates see no sign,
however, that either is ready to
leave the field of battle to the
other. The more likely prospect
is that each will remain on the
bench as long as health and
physical vigor permit.
The Importance of one vote on
the sharply divided court was
demonstrated again in the silver
platter" decision, perhaps the
most significant of the term.
Justice Stewart, the newest
member of the court, has settled
into place, as expected, on the
courts conservative wing. But,
contrary to expectations, his
opinions to date place him sub
stantially to the left of the other
two conservatives named by Presi-
dent Eisenhower, Justices Harlan
and Whitaker.
Writing the courts opinion in
the "silver platter" case. he split
with the conservatives on an issue
which has often identified lib
eral" and conservative" wings,
the rights of Federal and State
authorities in law enforcement.
Fronkfurter Challenged
But he also challenged Justice
Frankfurter on a more funda-
mental level, the philosophic heri-
tage of two of the great names
from the courts past, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Louis Brandeis.
Frankfurter made much in his dis
sent of the fact that Holmes and
Brandeis had supported the doc
trine toppled by the Stewart
opinion.
Implying his intellectual dis
dain for the courts present liberal
block. he said:
1T can hardly be denied that
Mr.. Justice Holmes and Mr.. Jus-
tice Brandeis were the originators
and formulators of the body of
our present constitutional law
pertaining to civil liberties: pro-
nouncements since have merely
Evening star., 1960-07-03

the impulse that flowered in the
celebration of Americas Independ-
ence Day by citizens of city still
suffering from the effects of the
atomic bomb loosed upon them
only a few years earlier by Amer
leans.
Declaration Of independence
In his discussions of 18th CEN
tury America Fotouhi told the
members of the group about
Americas struggles for freedom
from Britain. about Thomas JET
ferson, and the Declaration Of In
dependence. He described what
it meant, told how edition after
edition of the Declaration was
hawked in the streets Of Paris,
and how everywhere oppressed
men began to look to the star of
hope arising in the western sky.
He spoke also of the Fourth of
July and its significance to
Americans, undeterred that some
feared that since relations be-
tween the Japanese of Hiroshima
and Americans were none too
cordial. such talk might arouse
an actively hostile feeling among
a people who now found, for the
first time, an alien conqueror on
their hitherto inviolate, sacred
soil. Indeed Fotouhi went on to
Evening star., 1960-07-03
TIE SUPREME COURTS YEAR
Judicial Restraint in 1860 Decisions
BY ROBERT CLARK
Star stan Mritar

For the Supreme Court there
has been nothing so rare in recent
years as an adjournment day in
June free Of criticism and con-
troversy.
Thus last Monday was a rare
moment for the nine justices
whose marble citadel on Capitol
Hill often looks to critics like
Trojan horse advancing on Con-
gresS across shaded no-man's-
land.
Inner conflict still burned
among the courts members,
whose deepening theological diff
ferences and the bitter dissents
they provoked had enlivened an
otherwise dull court year.
But as the court ended its 1859
go term and adjourned for the
summer, the public clamor which
began to abate last year had been
largely Stilled by the new mood
of moderation on the bench.
With some distinguished ex-
ceptionS, the department of the
court during its just finished term
resembled that Of a repentant
dragon who wasn't really mad at
anybody any more. When the
justices Spat fire it was more fire.
quently at each other than at the
world at large and it rarely singed
their favorite adversary of the
past, the Congress.
The prevailing philosophy was
that of judicial restraint. The
extent to which it had been i'm
posed on the will of the court was,
overall, victory for the conserv-
ative faction led by Justice Frank
furter.
Victories for LiberoIs
But there were impressive tri-
umphs for the liberals too, as in
asst Mondays decision overturn-
ing the silver platter" doctrine
which has long permitted the use
in Federal courts of evidence
seized illegally by State and local
police.
The most significant factor in
the courts future remained the
solidity of its four man liberal
bloc, made up of Chief Justice
Warren and Justices Black, Doug
as and Brennan, with the others
on most issues involving individ-
.ual rights.
The appointment or conversion
Of one more liberal justice would
swing the court sharply away
from the middle = of the road
course it has followed increas-
ingly during the last two terms.
The first appointment made to
the court by new President-by
Richard Nixon, John Kennedy or
whoever is the next occupant of
the White House-may alter the
direction of the court for the next
several years.
Always one vote shy of a ma
jority, the liberals had to per-
suade at least one of the courts
conservatives to their point of
view to win any given case. Their
victories, as their defeats, were
often by 5-4 margins.
AS for many years past. the
chief spokesman for the two fac
tions were Justices Frankfurter
Evening star., 1960-07-03
By NORMA GAUHN
Associated Press Stan Writer

NEW YORK. - Listen to the
roll of States at convention time:
"Ayalabayamah caysts elayuh-
vuhn votes foah MahsSer-
chusSerts cahSts sixteen vuhts
fohuh :. Moo Yawk caasts foidy-
six votes faw -"
When Americans talk, you find
the spoken word is one thing, the
written word another. And a
traveller in the United States may
feel he needs an interpreter for
the unaccustomed dialects he
hears.
But the experts say the ear
catching differences of American
speech are dying out; that a cloak
Of conformity creeping over the
language could even end the
South's great phrase. "Y'awl cum
bayuck naow."
A sameness sitting into our
speech already has visitors to New
York City understanding the cab
drivers "Toidy-toid and Told ave-
moo"
And such Eastern Seaboard
specialties as the "r" that sneaks
into idea and law, the "h" that
falls from Srimp (shrimp) and
sreek (shriek) are fading fast.
It's an inevitable process, the
speech experts say.
They blame natural change,
mass communications, compulsory
education, the mobility of rest
less Americans.
Predicts Uniformity
Allan H. HubbelI, associate pro-
fessor Of speech at New York Uni
versity, resignedly predicts that
within four generations virtually
all regional U. S. speech differ
ences will be gone. In their place
will be the standardized, generally
undistinctive speech of the Amer
lean Midwest,
Midwesternese is not a type of
speech beautiful to the ear. Eng
lish as spoken in the North Gen.
tral States is considered by most
purists as horrible example of
"Ahmerkuhn" at it's worst; they
cringe at the MidwestS "in-
truhst" dnterest), "awfiee" (aw-
fully, "iny" (any).
But it's matter Of geography
and numbers" Mr.. Hubbell says.
Some 80 million speak it-mere
than any other speech form in the
country. And it is spreading while
other dialects are fading"
Mr.. Hubbell was born in Brook
lyn, home of kahlitch for college,
moin for mine, daw for door.
Now It's Changed
But attendance at a New Eng
land College and marriage to an
EngliShwoman have taken away
much of his Brooklynese. He says:
Il do drop my RS as most New
Workers do. But my two children
go and IA years old have ac-
quired r's-another sign of Mid
west speech being adopted"
Researchers ferreting out dia-
lectS like to talk to older folks who
Evening star., 1960-07-03

another. They won over Justice
Clark, who wrote the majority
opinions.
The courts more moderate tack
has quieted congressional demands
for new laws to curb its powers.
Most members of Congress now
appear willing to let the court
hold its own check rein on its
liberals.
The court set a new record for
the total number of cases on its
docket in term-2,178-but the
figures are deceiving. While the
figure was 116 above last year the
increase was mainly in the pau
per's appeals filed for INDECENT
defendants, which occupy little of
the courts time. There were Loaf
cases on the appellate docket, a
drop of 81 from the high of two
years ago.
There were no cases this year
approaching the magnitude of the
desegregation rulings of the last
few years nor of the Barenblatt
and Uphaus decisions of last year,
generally regarded as the turning
point in the courts swing to a
more moderate position. The two
rulings strengthened the right of
both Congress and State legisla-
tive bodies to investigate subver-
sion.
Controversial Coses
Two of the most controversial
cases on the courts docket this
year were put off for reargument
next term. They involve whether
membership in the Communist
Party is in itself a crime and the
challenge to the union shop raised
by the Georgia Supreme Courts
ruling that a worker can't be
compelled to join a union which
uses part of his dues to finance
political activities.
The first appeals by Negroes ar
rested in sit-in protests are ex-
pected to reach the high court
next term. The court has also
agreed to hear several appeals
challenging Sunday blue laws and
the Governments big antitrust
suit seeking to divorce DUPONT
interests from control of General
Motors. There are a record car
ry-over of 356 cases from this
years docket.
Evening star., 1960-09-07

CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. Z
(AP). - Venezuelan Foreign
Minister Ignacio Luis Arcaya
was ousted from his post yes
terday.
Mr.. Arcaya made the an
nouncement himself after con-
ferring with President Romulo
Betancourt. His successor was
not Immediately announced.
Observers predicted the custer
would mean a sharp change
in the foreign ministry's soft
attitude toward the Fidel
Castro regime of Cuba.
AS Venezuela's chief repre-
sentative at the recent Organi-
cation of American States for
eign ministers conference, Mr.
Arcaya failed to sign reso-
luton condemning Soviet and
Red Chinese efforts to use Cuba
as a willing springboard into
the hemisphere.
! Mr.. Arcaya, who had tried tc
soften the resolution to make
Evening star., 1960-09-07
AIcutruz Sitdown
Still q Mystery
To Prison Heads.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7
(AP) Authorities at Alcatraz
Federal Prison continued TO
hunt today for an answer to
why most of the $50 inmates
refused to answer work call
yesterday morning.
There was no noise and no
violence in the strange and un-
explained work stoppage. The
convicts in the offshore peni-
tentiary were kept in their cells
throughout the day.
Prison authorities said each
prisoner denied any knowledge
of who ordered the work stop
page or why it was ordered.
Evening star., 1960-09-07

Latin America needs 100000
priests to combat communism,
says Richard Cardinal Cushing,
back after two weeks in Peru
as papal legate at the National
Eucharistic Congress.
The Boston archbishop said
Communists are very, very ac-
tive" among the poor of Peru.
I'm some cases." he said,
people may be visited by Com
munist agents every day but
see a priest once a month or
every two months or perhaps a
few times a year.
THE people are very religi-
Gus, but they are uninformed.
There are hundreds of thou
sands who have no priest to
guide them"
Evening star., 1960-09-07
Ship Line Quits Cubu

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. Z (AP).-
A Portuguese shipping line,
Companhia Colonial de Nave
gacao, announced through its
American agent yesterday the
suspension of service to Cuba.
The Portuguese luxury cruise
liner Santa Maria will make a
two-day stopover in Miami, in
Evening star., 1960-09-07
THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. c. GanARMI Neuc D-3
Wednesday,, Sept. J, 1860 SShSu~H ANOVS

stead of its monthly stop at
Havana. The vessel provides
service from Portugal and
Spain to the United States, via
the South. Atlantic route to
Miami.
Evening star., 1960-09-07
LATIN AMERICAN NOTES
Caracas Official Out
Shift on Castro Due

it acceptable to Cuba. withdrew
from the meeting. Venezuelan
OAS Ambassador Marcos Falco
Briceno signed the resolution
for his country.
Evening star., 1960-09-07
2 Break With TruiiIIo

BUENOS AIRES. Sept. z (AP)
Argentina and Uruguay yes
terday broke diplomatic rela-
tions with the Dominican Re-
public following the recommen-
dation of the Organization of
American States. The United
States and nearly all other
American republics have taken
similar action.
Condemnation of the Do
minican government followed
conviction of the Trujillo re-
gime on charges Of aggression
against Venezuela.
\ y \
Reds Active in Peru
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27
Cood-uire' With Two
Elegant Perfumes
Destroys Room Odors

does not leave heavy scent or smell
Destroys strongest odors-onion, garlic, cigar,
cooking, bath or sick room.
Works for hours: Invisible vapour floats in air.
Stops odors as they form spreads thru house.
Freshens closets. clothes, drupes-saves dry
cleaning bills-no spotting or staining.
Freshens dir at night for better sleep-keeps
acrid smoking odors from irritating nose, sinus.
Fights Flu and eolds-sprays away airborne
germs for purer, fresher air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

and need "a different kind of assistance in
reaching decisions than their more knowl.
edgeable husbands required.
II widow has this feeling, she should ask
business leaders in her community or her
clergyman to recommend advisers who will
be right for her.
No matter how highly recommended
banker, lawyer or investment consultant
may be, widow shouldn't take him on as
her adviser unless she feels she can con6de
in him and talk comfortably with him. She
has the right to expect clearly understand
able advice.
Fest opinions ore frightening
Women require the reinsurance of rely
ing on opinions which are not only expert
but seem to be thoroughly considered. They
are frightened by hurried judgment, how
ever reliable it may be. They worry - often
unnecessarily - when they are convinced
that their problems are not fully under.
stood, or when they feel that not enough
time or thought has been focused on the
various possible solutions.
However cautious a widow is, she'll
probably make some minor mistakes. Amy
new phase of life holds its share of pitfalls
for the inexperienced. But if widow pro-
tects herself against the four most costly
dangers, and chooses her advisers care
fully, she'll come through these difficult
years in way that would have made her
husband proud. Tbs End
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-27

security values change. And I'm certain
that her husband, if he had lived, would
have made the adjustments which she, in
her mistaken loyalty, refused to consider.
4. The danger Of helpful strangers. Many
business firms keep file of obituaries and
follow up by making special calls on widows.
This may sound cold and calculating, but
there's nothing wrong or unethical about
the practice.
A widow should be prepared for such
calls, and should make up her mind not to
take the advice of the first person who
appears at the door to sell her some
thing. A healthy skepticism about all such
offers might save her later regret. A widow
shouldn't ever be afraid to ask lot of
questions.
She should find out what she's getting
herself into before she signs the contract -
not after.
Obviously, the best safeguard against
this danger would be for her to choose
competent advisers - such as a lawyer,
banker and an investment consultant -
whose opinions and judgment she respects.
When exsro help is needed
1t might seem logical to choose the same
advisers her husband relied on. But often
widows get the impression that these men
are too busy to guide them through the
strange world of investments and money
management. Perhaps widows expect -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Homemokers
Club to Elect
staff Photo

New officers will be elected
when the Montgomery County
Council of Homemakers' Clubs
holds its Bird annual meeting
at 10 am. on November z at the
National All Center, 7100 Con-
necticut ave., Chevy Chase.
Guest speaker for the occasion
will be Mrs. Marjorie Holmes,
homemaker, author and col
umnist.
The nominating committees
slate includes Mrs. Ralph Gill
of Glenmont and Mrs. John
Downey of Falkland, president;
Mrs. Russell Pope of Laytons.
vile and Mrs. Carl Hongell, OF
Olney Norbeck, second vice
president; Mrs. Hank Clay of
Springbrook Forest and Mrs.
Donald Carl of Kensington,
treasurer.
Mrs. Hank Clay is nominating
committee chairman and her
committee includes Mrs. Thorn.
as B. Cooke, Mrs. Andrew T.
Peters, Mrs. Otto Huellhorst
and Mrs. T. G.. Fink.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Coffee Parties
ToHonor FoIeys

The coffee cup trail for Rep.
and Mrs. John r. Foley will
lead through Montgomery Coun-
ty this week end.
Progressive parties are plan
ned Sunday afternoon in Silver
Spring. Mrs. Kenneth Young,
1114 Caddington ave-, will enter
tain from 2:30 to $3.50 PM; Mrs.
Bernard Engleberg, 41S Royal.
ton I'd, from $3.50 to 4:30 pm,
and Mrs. Isadore Feldman,
1911 Glenwild rd., from 4:30 to
$50 pm.
Roy r. Hunt of Drayton
Farms, Spencerville, Nd, will
also entertain for the Foleys on
Sunday afternoon.
Kensington residents will
meet the Foleys on Sunday eve
ming, October 80, at the homes
of Mrs. Shirley Case, 1905 Fay
cite dr., and Mrs. Robert Maurer,
1926 Kensington pkwy., Rock
Creek Hills.
Congressman Foley and Edna
P. Cook, Montgomery County
delegate, will greet neighbors
and precinct workers at a coffee
on Monday evening, October 81,
at the home OF Mrs. Mortimer
Taube, $500 Meadow Ia, Chevy
Chase.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Rockville Juniors
Plan Masquerade

A Halloween costume party
will climax the Junior Woman's
Club of Rockville's welfare
Embarrassing project at $3.50 pm.
on October % at the Rockville
Civic Center. Sometime during
the evening Mrs. Thomas Dono-
hoe, ways and means chairman,
will award Lord and Taylor gift
certificates in connection with
the project.
Arrangements for the celebra-
ton are being made by Mrs.
Roger Henning and Mrs. An
thony Morella, co-chairmen of
the recreation committee.
The welfare committees Oc-
tober project was preparation of
40 pairs of scuffs for Montgom-
cry County Mental Health and
Children's Hospital. In Septem-
Der the committee assembled Is
"self help" kits for women and
children overseas.
Board members folded TB
Christmas seals at their Octo-
Der meeting.
A class in copper enameling
jewelry was conducted by Jack
Reid for members of the Ameri-
can Home and Fine Arts section
when they met Monday evening
at the home of Mrs. Frances
Gospodarek.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

LoUe is the fulfilling of the
latos it is grace, mercy and
jitStice.-MaTy Baker Eddy.