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Evening star., 1961-12-13
To Deter Drunken Drivinq
With Governor-elect Albertis Harri,

WIFI GOVERNOR AlDerClS Harrl-
son strongly supporting the Virginia
Advisory Legislative Councils recon-
mendation for a So-called implied
consent law to curb drunken driving,
the chances for passage of the con-
troverSial legislation at the next session
of the General Assembly have been
, improved The 1860 Legislature let a
similar proposal die But the arguments
in behalf of the plan put forth in the
councils recent report on the drunken
driving menace are cogent and de-
serving of special attention. Certainly
the accident record calls for drastic
action to deal with the problem.
The council reported that in one
third of all fatal accidents in Virginia
last year the drivers were drunk or had
been drinking intoxicants. The actual
total of such cases probably was higher,
the council pointed out, since police
often do not report that driver has
been drinking if there seems to be
insufficient legal evidence for prose-
cution. Under present law, the suspected
drinking driver may be asked to take
voluntary blood test, but he cannot
be compelled to do so. And a study of
files of the Chief Medical Examiners
Office shows that the number of drivers
. who have volunteered to take the test
has dropped from 6,OO7 in 1858 to 5,279
in 1860. This drop was due not to any
decrease in intoxicated driving, it was
stated, but to growing awareness by
drinking drivers that blood tests may
send them to jail.
The implied consent" law is de-
, signed to meet this situation AS adopted
in 10 States, the law requires the
applicant for drivers permit to sign
an agreement that if he should be
arrested for drunken driving he must
submit to blood test for alcoholic con-
tent or else forfeit his license for 80
a days In other words, by accepting his
license to drive, he is implying his con-
sent to a blood test if requested by
police. The States using the system
have found that the mere existence of
, the law has helped to discourage
: drunken driving. The plan ought to
> prove as effective in Virginia as in New
York and the other States which have
tested it.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Setback for Fitness

President Kennedy's speech
at the National Football
Foundation dinner aptly il
lustrates a conflict between
objectives. The President has
spoken out strongly on the
necessity to provide effective
urban transportation. We as
sumo that the new Four
teenth Street bridge meets
this objective. At the same
time the President breaches
the value of physical fitness
and Washingtonians see the
destruction of the facilities
necessary to achieve this fit
ness. The Maine avenue link
to the Fourteenth Street
bridge took away half of the
tennis courts that were 10
Gated on HainS Point. In ad-
dition. we understand that
the park area on the point
will be further decreased by
the erection of a headquar-
ters and motor maintenance
building for the National
Park Service.
w. H. Pigman.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
'Foce-Sovinq' Policy

Crosby S. Noyes' column Of
December 6, 1861. headlined
Optimism on Laos Un-
founded" was most realistic
concerning our foreign policy.
Mr.. Noyes' statement that
C.. a reasonable face-saving
formula for the Western pow
ers has been found which
will permit them to stand
by and watch Laos go down
the DRAIN" is frighteningly
true and can equally be ap-
piled to our foreign policy re-
garding several other nom
Communist countries.
That this face saving for
mula" has become doctrine
by our State Department is
borne out by the current
events reported from Cuba,
Katanga. the Dominican Re-
public, and South Wet Nam
plus the statement of State
Departments Mr.. William
H. Sullivan that the Laos
Compromise with the Com
munistS represents g. a
pattern for peace not only in
Laos. not only in Southeast
Asia. but throughout the
whole world" OF course the
only kind Of peace" this
muddle-headed type of think
ing could possibly result in
would be the same type of
peace" toward which our
State Department has so
zealously assisted the main
land Chinese and the Cuban
people in the recent past.
Mr.. NoyeS is right when
he says In the light of re-
cent history it is both
wrong and foolish to pretend
to find in this LAOS COM
promise) either a victory or
a cause for celebration" and
l would add g. unless of
course you are actually on
the side of the de facto
victor"
The pattern is clear, the
record is alarming. but we
shall not face ultimate defeat
as long as we retain our two
greatest weapons against the
morons who push us towards
the hell of Communist ex-
istence. our faith in God
and our freedom of speech.
ID, Z, RathbOne, Jr,
Evening star., 1961-12-13
For School Shelters

AS parent OF TWO SCuQentS
in Hillandale Elementary
School in Montgomery Coun-
ty, Maryland. I was recently
Informed by the school that
in the event of a nuclear at
tack during school hours all
children will be sent directly
home on foot and unescorted.
l was also informed that the
dispersal may start either be-
fore or after the blast at the
principals discretion.
Apparently the school au-
thorities decided to adopt
this drastic plan without first
obtaining the reaction of the
parents of the neighborhood
and without giving the
matter very much thought.
Many of the students at Hill
andale live a considerable
distance from the school and
must be transported by school
bus. Most of these children
would not have the slightest
idea in which direction to
walk if they were suddenly
sent home on foot uneScorted
during an atomic attack.
The school is located on
New Hampshire avenue, a
main arterial highway, with a
constant flow of heavy traffic
on this street. In event of a
nuclear attack this traffic
will probably be increased
several hundred fold. More
children would probably be
killed by the confused traffic
on New Hampshire avenue
than could possibly be hurt
from the blast and from the
fallout II they stayed in the
school, the safest possible
place for them.
In many homes both par
ents work and there is no
one to care for a child prior
to 3 pm. Yet, if an atomic
blast occurs before 3 pm, it
is the plan to send a terrified
child home, where there is no
one there to receive him. The
school authorities also ignore
the possibility that a child'S
home might be destroyed by
the first blast. What about
the child who is released from
school and manages to sur
vive the panic and traffic and
who somehow finds his way
home only to find his home
and his parents lying in a
mass of bloody rubble?
There is only one answer
Evening star., 1961-12-13

@. On what occasion did
gorge Washington say,
When we assumed the SOL
dier we did not lay aside
the citizen"?-E. L.
A. Washington used these
words for the purpose of re-
assuring the New York Pro-
vincial Congress in IT'S that
Americans should have no
fear that he and his Army
would act otherwise than to
secure and to preserve the
liberties of the people. Sir
William Blackstone some
time later expressed much
the same thought as Wash
ington in these words: He
puts not off the citizen when
he enters the camp, but it
is because he is a citizen
and would wish to continue
so that he makes of him
self for a while a soldier"
Evening star., 1961-12-13
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Sociological Study of 50th State
By DONALD MIMI

HAWAII PONO, A Social
History. BY Lawrence H.
Fuchs. (Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc, sol pages;
$685.
Hawaii pono" m can S
Hawaii. the excellent" This
is Prof. Fuchs avowed opin-
ion of the 50th State. but
his book is neither paean
nor puff but rather a learned
and dense treatise on the
sociological history of the
islands.
Mr.. Fuchs, Dean of Faculty
at Brandeis University and
presently on leave as director
of the Peace Corps in the
Philippines, begins with a
brief history of Hawaii and
a description of it's aboriginal
social and economic order.
Then, in 1900, the real
story begins. We start with
an ethnic survey that dis
cusseS the roles of the
major racial and national
groups, Caucasians, Hawai-
ians, Portuguese. Chinese,
japanese and Filipinos, up
to the time of the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
The relations among the
various groups were, and are,
inordinately complex. On the
one hand. there is the ira
dition of what Mr.. Fuchs
calls racial aloha" a spirit
of tolerance that has lee to
a remarkable amount of in
ter-marriage. On the other
hand, there is the familiar
qualification of social and
economic life along lines
dictated by ethnic origin.
THIS CONTRADICTION
in Hawaiian Society is one
the reader must face through
out the book. No one doubts
that a social organism can
contain opposed principles
within itself. but it is very
hard to visualize the mech
anism of adjustment from
the mass of statistics and
detail scattered among 500
pages.
The first period Mr.. Fuchs
chooses to treat as an en-
tity, 1900-1941, will strik k e
many mainlanders as rather
curious; should there not be
a caesura at 1888?
The answer is that there
should not, for the N e W
Deal had virtually no effect
on life on the islands.
Neither he Governor Poin-
dextep nor the President
CRoosevelt) who had ap-
pointed him was seriously
interested in Transforming
Hawaii's power structure"
And what a power struc-
ture it was! A tiny elite ex-
ercised almost total control
over the life of the archipel-
ago.
After the end of the mill
tary regime that ruled Hawaii
during World War II. this
structure crumbled, and Ha-
waiian economic life now
bears a reasonably close re-
semblance to that of most of
Evening star., 1961-12-13
WATCHING THE WORLD
BY CROSBY S. MOVES
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor
NATO Torn BY Action in Conqo
2OSBY S. MOVES
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor

First, there has been a natu-
raj tendency to support an
action in which the prestige
and future usefulness of the
United Nations was so OBJ
viously at stake. Though the
wisdom of the original Sc
curity Council resolutions is
open to serious question,
there is no doubt, once they
were taken, of the obligation
to support Secretary General
U Thant in carrying out his
mandate.
Second. there was the OBJ
viouS d mi g er that if the
United States did not sup
port the action against Ka-
tanga, the Russians would.
The action, after all, has been
most loudly demanded by
Congo's leading Communist
leader, Antoine Gizenga of
Oriental Province. There was
every reason to believe that
Russia would not long have
maintained its present neu-
trality in the Katanga affair
if the opportunity had been
open to it to get into the
act.
There is also the realistic
and quite hardheaded argu-
ment that the Congo, in the
long run, can probably not
survive economically or poll
tically unless Katanga re-
mains part of it. And while
this argument hardly solves
all Of the moral or legal OBJ
iections to the U.N. opera
ton in Katanga, it seems to
have weighed heavily in the
decisions taken.
No Guarantee of Success
The sad fact remains. nev-
ertheless, that the United
States-and the U.N., itself,
are in the painful position
of fighting the battles of
some of the most dubious
elements in the Congo, who
are backed in turn by some
of the most violently anti
Western countries of Africa.
There is no guarantee what
ever that success will insure
against Communist pene-
tration" of the Congo. Indeed,
it seems that Gizenga and
his cronies stand to gain
more from President is
hombe'S defeat than anyone
else.
At the same time, defeat
of the U.N. operation-which
at this point seems by no
means improbable - would
awaken most chilling mem
orieS of the Cuban fiasco.
Once again, the prestige of
the United States has been
Staked on the success of an
operation of doubtful wis
dom, whose results are by
no means certain. Once
again. it is necessary to
weigh the risks of apparent
Observation-Disclosures against the
risks of apparent weakness.
And to hope for a relatively
graceful way out of the situa-
ton that becomes more dan
gerous each day.
Evening star., 1961-12-13

to the problem Of what to do
with our children in the
event of an atomic attack
during school hours. Blast
proof fall-out shelters must
be constructed in every
school in the country. Until
such shelters are available,
however, the safest place for
our children in the event Of
an attack during school hours
is still in the school. There
they should remain until the
"all-clear" has sounded and
normal modes of communi-
cation and transportation
have been re-established.
Jacob Sheeskin.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Financing Shelters

President Kennedy's an
nouncement of his intention
to ask Congress for a civil
defense program emphasiz-
ing the construction Of COM
munity fallout shelters is
most welcome. AS chairman
of Annapolis recent Civil
Defense Day Exhibit at the
State Capital, which fea-
tured the city-wide civil de-
fense observance sponsored
by the organization I repre-
sent, the Severn Town Club,
1 am particularly gratified.
In our civil defense pro-
motion we found that the
financing Of fallout shelters
presents the greatest prob
lem to all who wish to pro-
tect themselves and their
families from the dangers of
nuclear attack. Even though
the new liberalized provisions
of FHA'S home loan i'm
provement program ease the
financing of individual shell
ters, the cost is still pro-
hibitive for most families.
More and more we found the
people are becoming inter-
ested in community shelters
which could possibly serve a
dual purpose such as a rec
reational facility in a resi-
dental area or as parking
space in a commercial dis
trict. However, it is recog-
nized by all that the financ-
ing of such group shelters is
hard to come by so we have
concluded that the only ef-
fective way to finance such
construction is through a
Federal assistance program.
Our organization has there
fore requested of Senator j.
Glenn Beall of Maryland
that he introduce legislation
that would first of all en-
power the Community Facili-
ties Administration to make
direct low interest bearing
loans to local governmental
civil defense authorities
which in turn would sponsor
the construction of neighbor-
hood shelters. Such authori-
ties, subject to appropriate
regulations and satisfactory
repayment procedures, would
provide the technical and fl
nancial assistance needed by
organized community groups.
Secondly, we have recon-
mended legislation to amend
the present law that limits
public facility loans to pub
lie bodies within municipali-
ties having populations under
$4,000. 1t would be necessary
to amend the law to permit
such loans to be made to all
municipalities.
Senator Beall has agreed
to introduce the proposed
legislation when Congress
convenes in January. These
recommendations, we be-
lieve, would provide an eff
fective approach to the fl
nancing of community fall
out shelters. 1t is our hope
that the President will con-
slider them in planning a
Federal assistance program
to meet this financing need.
Flora M. COan,
Chairman, Community I'm
provement Committee, Sew
ern Town Club of Annap-
oils.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Polish Elections

AmbaSSador Adlai Steven
son, in his letter of Novem-
ber 25, 1861, addressed to the
President of the General As
sembly of the United Ma
tionS, stated that Poland was
one of the countries which
was swallowed up behind the
Iron Curtain in violation of
agreements and without a
free vote of the peoples con-
cerned.
In reply Mr.. Winiewicz,
chairman of the Polish Com
munist Delegation to the
United Nations, said that the
malicious references to Po-
land and false utterances are
offensive to the Polish ma
ton and are an insult to
the sovereign state of Po-
land.
This accusation by Mr..
Winiewicz compels me to re-
call the manner in which
the first postwar elections
were conducted in Poland by
the Polish Communist regime
on January 10, 1947. The
truth was as follows:
One hundred and eighteen
local leaders of the anti
Communist independent Po-
lish Peasant Party, on be-
half of which I became a
member of parliament, were
murdered by the security
police during the electoral
campaign.
One hundred and sixty
two candidates for parlia-
ment, 1862 local militants,
almost all of our observers
at 5,227 boards of elections
and about 100000 members
of our party were arrested,
Three hundred and twenty
seven of our party offices
we're raided by the security
police who in 48 cases
planted weapons on the
premises and our party was
prohibited from carrying out
its activities in 90 counties;
finally, our lists of candi-
dates were declared invalid
in 10 districts comprising rs
deputies.
In spite of this campaign
of murder and terror. 68 per
cent of the votes were cast
on the list of the Polish
Peasant Party, but due to the
forgery of the voting results
my party received only % out
of the A seats in the parlia-
ment.
The above facts are quoted
from the two protests sub
mitted along with proof to
the Ambassadors of the
United States, Great Britain
and Soviet Russia on Decem-
ber 18, 1916, and January
l8, 1947, and from the pro-
test lodged with the Polish
Supreme Court which, how
ever, never inscribed it on
its agenda.
In all elections" which
were held afterwards no OPP
position party was ever
tolerated and they followed
the well-known Soviet pat
tern.
In view of the shocking
truth about free elections"
in Poland, Mr.. Winiewicz
would have shown more dip
lomatic skill if he had kept
silent.
Stefan KOrbOnski,
Chairman of the Polish
Delegation to the
Assembly of Captive
Eslronean Nations.
Evening star., 1961-12-13

the mainland. This crum-
bling was helped by a num-
ber of forces, organizations
and individuals including the
controversial International
Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union. One of
the most interesting parts of
the book is devoted to a dis
cussion of the nature of the
Communist control of the
union and the attempt of the
union to take over the Dem
ocratic Party.
MIR. FUCHS EMPHASIZES
the role of education in the
defeat of the Hawaiian oil
garchy. The belief in the val
ues of literacy was almost
literally an article of religious
faith among the dominant
group, many of whom were
descended from Protestant
missionaries. Yet widespread
literacy was no small factor
in bringing the mass of Ha-
waiian residents to the point
where they could both con-
ceive and articulate compre-
henSive and reasonably log
ical demands.
Mr. Fuchs writes from a
particular and clear point of
view. He is a liberal who
succinctly defines his con-
cept of a Just society. He be-
lieves that Hawaii is pro-
crossing rapidly towards that
society, and he appears to
believe in progress as such.
None of this is hidden, and
anyone who chooses to dis
agree will have no trouble in
suiting the book to his own
views. The facts are there
and they are objective.
Mr.. Fuchs. although he
does not write like a sociolo-
gist, has a style only one
step above that of his con-
frereS. Fascinating as his
book is, reading it is like
walking through deep snow.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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returned only tDhen accom-
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Evening star., 1961-12-13
Commends CoIumnist

1 Want to congratulate you
for having such an outStand-
ing columniSt, William S.
White, to write for The Star.
l am always looking forward
to reading his analysis.
H. YOlanda Juan.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Hold the Line, Sammy!

If Washington's professional foot
ball fans are less than enchanted with
this years record of their Redskins,
at least they have counter-attraction
on and off the gridiron in New York
City. Indeed, the public feuding be-
tween Harry Wismer and Sammy Baugh,
two old hands with the RedSkin organ
Evening star., 1961-12-13
PretensiOn Questioned

Against this understanding
of what the Katanga opera
ton is all about-an under
standing literally supported
by many U. N. officials on
the scene-the version of the
operation being peddled in
Washington and New York
seems either ludicrously
naive or downright hypo-
critical. depending on the
point Of view.
It is very we'll for Secre-
tary of State Rusk to main
tain - along with the other
ministers here-that the ul-
innate aim is consolidation
of the country under a stable
government W h hich h will be
able to pursue freely the true
national interests of the Con-
golese." 1t is quite another
to pretend that the U. N.
forces in Katanga today are
there for the purpose of pro-
noting peaceful integration"
or that they are acting
purely in self-defense."
1t has never been particu-
larly easy to bring about a
peaceful conciliation" with
mortars and bayonets, even
when they are welded under
the direction of high-minded
international officials. And
so far as most people in this
part of the world are con-
cerned, it is absurd to pre-
tend to be defending the
congo against Communist
penetration" by trying to de-
Stroy the one Staunchly anti
Communist regim e in the
whole country.
The real motives Of the
United States in the Congo
affair would seem to be some
what less high minded and,
at the same time. perhaps
somewhat more realistic than
recent statements in Wash
ington would make it appear.
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

BY THE HASkIN SERVICE
A. reader can get an answer. by
writing The Star Information Bu-
reau, 635 street NV. Washington
4, D. c Please inclose return post
age or self-addressed, stamped
Evening star., 1961-12-13
PARIS.

FAHlS.
tits not surprising that the
four Western foreign minis
ters should have found time
during their meeting here
for a rather heated and thor
ough discussion of the Congo
mess. Not since the Cuban
adventure-and perhaps not
even since Suez-has the
Western alliance been so torn
in its reaction to a major
international crisis. Rarely
have the motives of the
American Government sp-
peared in so dubious a light.
The reason is simply that
In Europe, at least, the aver
age person is under no illu-
sions whatever about what is
happening today in Katanga.
What is happening is a new
attempt by the United Ma
tions force to impose a mill
tary defeat on Katanga
President Noise Tshombe, to
disperse his army and to re-
integrate Katanga Province
by force under the Central
Congo government at Leo
poldville.
Holmes County herald., 1961-05-11
Mrs. Harold Brock

lors were entertained Satur-
day morning at 500 O'Clock
by the WMU at the annual
senior breakfast in the home
of Mrs. V. E. Kealhofer.
The living room of the home
was artistically decorated
with pink and red roses. The
dining room was the center of
attraction with table draped in
white cloth and centered with
an arrangement of African
violetS.
A traditional Southern
breakfast was served by Mrs.
Kealhofer to the members,
Mrs. Harold Brock and Mrs.
j. E.. Brown, WMU president.
Miss Minnie Ola Anmons
and Miss Jimmie Lois Nc
Neer received lovely gifts
from the group.
Holmes County herald., 1961-05-11
Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT
OF HOLMES COUNTY, MIS-
SISSIPPI
IN RE-: VALUATION OF
$50, 5000 ROAD BONDS,
SUPERVISORS DISTRICT
NUMBER THREE, HOLMES
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, DA-
TED MAY /, 1861.
NO. 10,137
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF HOLMES
NOTICE TO
To the Taxpayers of Super
visor's District Number Three
of Holmes County, Mississippi
You are hereby notified that
the matter of the valuation of
the above-described bonds
will be heard on the goth day
of May, 1861 at 1000 o'clock
A. NJ, in the Chancery Court,
at the Courthouse of Holmes
County, Mississippi, at or be-
fore which time and date,
written objections, if any,
must be filed.
By order of the Chancellor,
this s day of May, 1861.
Parham H. Williams,
Chancery Clerk of Holmes
County, Mississippi
(SEAL)
May II, Is