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news that may well be of utmost i'm
portance to them in terms of war,
peace, humiliation or survival. Their
high-andmighty masters, not being
subject to elections or checks and bal
anceS of any kind, quite obviously work
on the principle that their dictatoriaI
rule will remain more safely entrenched
the less the general citizenry is allowed
to know. In short, the Kremlin has
made it an instrument of national pol
icy to keep the Russians as ignorant as
possible about the real truths of inter
national life.
This surely is not sign of strength.
Despite their apparent proves in space,
and despite all their outrageously
threatful talk about how their missiles
can destroy anything anywhere, includ-
ing the AcropoliS, Mr.. KhruShchev and
his tough-talking cabal in the Kremlin
must feel certain sense of inferiority,
a certain sense of weakness, a certain
spirit of uneaSineSS and unSureneSS. If
not, why then do they act so furtiveIy?
Why do they find it necessary to resort
to elaborate measures to hide their acts
from their own countrymen? Clearly
enough, they are afraid of letting the
truth run loose in the USSR-a fact
that serves as commentary enough on
the baSically evil nature of their tyranny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
More Than Family Affair

Tomorrow is Primary Day for New
York City Democrats and not in many
years have they had as many fascinated
onlookerS. For what the Big City Demo-
Gratis do at the polls on this occasion,
and how they adjust themselves to it
in the following eight weeks, could have
direct bearing on three future political
contests Of overwhelming Importance.
The city'S general election in November,
New York States gubernatoriaI vote in
1862 and even the presidential race of
1864 are subject to fallout effects from
the results on this weeks fight card.
The main bout in this one is be-
tween incumbent Mayor Robert Wagner,
seeking denomination for a third term,
and State Controller Arthur Levitt,
making his first bid for the City Hall
post. Their campaign has been highly
perSonalized and seldom, if ever, has
been exceeded in venom and vitupera-
ton. Charges of racial and religious
prejudice, of incompetence and corrup-
ton have been traded without restraint.
But at the heart of the contest is the
issue of "boSSiSm" as represented by
ManhattanS Tammany Hall and it's
chief, Carmine De Sapio, plus the party
organizations of Greater New York'S
four other counties All are backing
Mr.. Levitt. Mr.. Wagner, their one time
protege and fond friend, has the support
of jealous reform" factions whose
greatest bond is their desire to over
throw Mr.. De Sapio-poSsibly for the
purpose of setting up party "bossism"
of their own.
The real significance of the pri-
mary, however, is that the fight will not
end there. If defeated, Mr.. Wagner
will not only be an independent" can
didate in November; he will also be the
nominee of two labor dominated Splin-
ter groups, the Liberal Party and the
Brotherhood Party. In any case, the
unusually bitter division within party
ranks is expected to hurt the Demo-
cratic chances in November Hoping so,
at any rate, is Republican nominee
Louis LefkoWitZ, who has nothing to lose
by the chaos and confusion on the other
side of the party street
Whatever the outcome this week
and two months hence, Republicans
look upon the Democratic troubles in
New York City as development almost
certain to help Governor Rockefeller
win reelection in 1862. The margin of
such a victory, if he achieves it, could
in turn be meaningful to the G. o. P.
presidential convention in 1864, and to
national political history beyond that
date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Afraid of the Truth

One Of the significant aspects of the
Kremlin'S resumption of atmospheric
nuclear testing is that the people of the
Soviet Union-up to the present writing
have been told nothing about it.
Their government-contro radio, tele-
vision and press have been completely
silent on the subject Not a single word
has been allowed to leak out to them
about the three detonationS that have
been set off thus far, and they have
been given a grossly distorted version
of the Anglo-American proposal for an
immediate ban on all such atomic
hydrogen experimentation
Here we have what is certainly
genuinely impressive, and somewhat
frightening, Illustration of how the Red
totalitarianS operate their closed So
ciety. 1t is a society closed not only to
the outside world, on the free side of
the Iron Curtain, but also to all those
who have the misfortune of being
obliged to live within it. Thus the So
Wet masses are deliberately deprived of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Dr.. Sobin and Polio

The United States Public Health
Service has taken a significant step in
licensing the manufacture of DR.. Albert
B. Sabin'S live-viruS oral vaccine against
poliomyelitis. The licensing, however,
has to do with only one of three types
OF polio, but it is very formidable type
the type that has been responsible in
recent years for between go and 10 per
cent of all the paralytic forms of the
disease.
For long time past, of course, the
Sabin vaccine, which is taken in LIQUID
or capsule form, has been widely used
and rather strongly, and even enthusi-
aStically Endorsed in countries like the
Soviet Union, but it has been a more or
less controversial substance. AS far as
the United States is concerned DR..
Jonas SalkS shot" -made up of killed
virus and given by injection-have been
the only officially approved treatment
up to now, and they still continue to be
rated very high by the PHS.
Thus, in announcing the Sabin
licensing, Surgeon General Luther L.
Terry, has had this to say: THE vaccine
being licensed produces immunity only
against Type polio. Therefore, it is
of the highest Importance that vac
cination continue with the Salk vaccine
which is the only weapon we have today
to provide protection against all three
types of polio. The Public Health Serv-
ice will continue its efforts to promote
the widest possible use of the Salk
vaccine. When the full series of oral
vaccine becomes available, we will also
help in its promotion"
This is an altogether common
sense approach to the problem DR..
Sabin, like DR.. Salk has been making
an ineStimably valuable contribution to
the fight against polio. Still, although
$4,000 doses of it are being sent to
upstate New York to cope with an i'm
pending epidemic" in the Syracuse area,
his live" vaccine has been center of
controversy, and until it is developed
for all types of the disease, the PHS
will have reason to approve it only on
a limited basis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
ChivoIY Lives!

The age of chivalry is not
dead! I am a firm believer
in the opinion that gentle
men are gentlemen.
Last evening my bus home
was unusually crowded, but
one gentleman arose and Of
fered me his seat. Little did
he know what his kindness
actually accomplished for I
had not been feeling we'll
that day and therefore was
most grateful to him.
When a group of commut-
ers on a bus is ordinarily
the same every day, it is
understandable that they all,
man and woman, be seated
on a first come, first
served" basis. A different
situation exists, however, on
the regular crowded transit
bus COR on a train) on which
the riders are generally diff
ferent. Here I think it most
suitable that young or mid
dle-aged men and all school
children make room for an
eXpectant mother or one
carrying or leading small
children, or an elderly
person.
The courtesy shown me
last evening was above and
beyond the commonsense
everyday courtesy referred to
in the previous paragraph.
1t was a special respect rem
dered by a gentleman to a
woman, and 1 shall remem-
Der it as such. Jeanne M. Dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Charts New Frontier

Recently, some Republi-
cans have been making Snide
remarks about my beloved
New Frontier. They imply it
lies somewhere out in that
never-never land where the
waste begins. Such state
mentS cannot be allowed to
go unchallenged. The New
Frontier is not a nebulouS
fourth dimensional configura-
ton; rather, it is a definite
geographic line passing
through points firmly estab-
liShed by rugged frontiers
men.
Starting in the northeast
sector, our frontier is firmly
anchored on Jacks moscow
cred Boston Navy Yard. From
this bastion, the line swings
southwest and passes just to
seward of Carmine de
Sapio's dark glasses. Here it
veerS to the southwark and
runs past Joe'S Palm Beach
shack and onward to the Bay
Of Pigs. Rounding the bay,
the frontier follows Tractor
Trail to Jacksonville'S lunch
counters and continues west
ward through the Jackson
bus terminal, the New Orleans
School Board and on to the
LBJ ranch. Passing we'll to
the southwark of Rayburn,
our line SkyrocketS over the
Big Rock Candy mountain
country and swings off shore
we'll clear of frankie and his
gang. From Lawford Land,
the New Frontier runs due
north, to the westward of
Goldwater'S shadow and the
Hanford Atomic Power Plant
project. 1t then follows the
proposed Federal power grid
eastward, passing to the
north of lake Arvey his
henchmen, and Shriver of
the Peace Corps. The final
leg runs south of upstate New
York, but north of Hyde Park
and Teddy's Shanty on Squaw
Island. 1t makes a couple of
loops around the family COM
pound and comes to an end
at the erstwhile stronghold
of Honey Fitz.
The New Frontier also has
a vertical component. 1t scars
through space and extends to
the moon. The lower end
plungeS to the nadir of def
icit spending, and is firmly
anchored to the grandaddy of
all debts. But there's no need
to worry about this end; we
will balance the budget-come
next Michaelmas, or later.
Angus Sinclair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Innocents Abroad

At this most perilous mo-
ment in our history, it is
diSmaying but not surprising
to find the Presidents sisters
off for a vacation in Commu-
mist Poland and Yugoslavia.
What a colossal naivete
and what a curious anomaly
that they should see nothing
incongruouS in visiting coun-
tries so Sorely oppressive of
their coreligionists. For this
unusual journey lends tacit
approval to the deSpot rulers
of millions enslaved behind
the Iron Curtain.
1t is not reprehensible
enough that our tax dollars
are bolstering these unstable
regimes without giving them
moral support as well!
Congress must stay in
session if there is not to be
another Yalta.
Catherine 1. DOnnelly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
One-Porty System

Our former conservative
two-party form of govern
ment was far superior in
every way to the liberal well
fare one-party system which
we had from 1888 to 1858,
and which now, after eight
years of reprieve, is back in
power again. Under our old
tWo-party system a farmer
could plant and market his
crops without Government
permission. We could work
without joining a labor
union, and an employer could
hire any man he wished,
whether he belonged to a
union or not, and regardless
of color, at a salary agreed
to between employer and
employe and not set by
the Government. If, at any
time, the hired help proved
unsatisfactory, the employer
could fire him without con-
sulting Government or union
cars. Management didn't
have to wet-nurse and share
profits with labor. A ball
club manager could select
players whom he considered
best able to help the team
without threats of boycott
and /or being denied a permit
to play in Government-con
trolled StadiumS unless he
employed a Negro player.
NiSh Showers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Russia No Utopia

so Lloyd Hatch is plan
ming to take his family of
six children to Russia. He is
unhappy because he can't
buy his children new outfits
for school and he is tired of
the "rat-race" for money.
Well, I have news for Mr..
Hatch! He will not have new
outfits for his children for
school nor be rid of the rat
race" for money in Russia
either. What is more, there
are many more things to be
tired of in Russia than the
race for money.
AS a construction worker
Mr.. Hatch may find himself
in a factory job while Mrs.
Hatch does the construction
work. Then again she may
mix macadam, spread it on
the road-bed and help pull
the roller to roll it down.
Mrs. Hatch will make about
$50 a month. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hatch together will make
about one half as much as
Mrs. Hatch could make alone
if she worked in a cafeteria.
A pair of shoes for Mr..
Hatch will cost between one
and two weeks salary. Rent
will be stiff, clothes are high
and food will depend on what
there is to buy and what
there is left to buy it with.
I suggest that if the
Matches are tired of America
they try another country
from which if they get I'M
happy, they can escape, and
that they not subject six in
nocent children to a life from
which Russians themselves
are dying to flee.
Flo. Hildreth.
Editors Note: Mr.. Hatcl
has since changed his mind
about going to Russia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
Are the Taxpuyers the Poor Fish,?

I want it clearly under
stood that I am not anti
fish. In fact since boyhood
l have admired the fish for
his graceful mobility in clear,
placid waters. The many To-
cal and tropical species are a
sportsman'S delight in their
varied shapes and colorful
raiment. They have high aes-
thetic value for the nature
lover.
However, my early school
ing taught me that human
life was higher on the scale
of values than fish scales:
that the human race ranked
above the piscatorial race in
prestige-socially, intellectu-
ally, and politically; and that
the old-blooded vertebrate,
living in water, breathing
through gillS, having fins
and covered with scales, was
lower on the evolutionary
scale than women and chill
dren, or even mere man.
But Americans are peculiar
in their appraisal of relative
values. Recent news from
Capitol Hill announces legis-
lative approval to endow the
poor fish" with a $20,O0O,000
pool at Hams Point, D. C.
This will provide an exclusive
country club atmosphere for
the piscatorial social set,
while the polluted streams in
that vicinity offer a more
Shiny and slummy environ
ment for the less privileged
masses.
Other species of local fauna,
homo sapiens and insapienS,
which populate the Washing
ton area, and like the river
fish, have limited voting and
other club privileges, are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Precise kidnapping Accomplished
By THOMAS R. HENRY

marine fishes thai also could
be used as a source. Electric
torpedoeS, which also con-
tain large amounts of this
engine are widely distributed
along both our Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and are avail
able in large numbers.
Potent Brain Drug
The potent brain drug sero-
tonin, administration of
which causes symptoms quite
similar to those of the wide
spread brain disease de-
mentia praecox, DR.. NigerIli
testified, is abundant in
clans, octopus and jelly fish.
This has been called the pos
Sible capital clue in the bio
chemistry of sanity and in
sanity.
These, he said, are only
two of numerous biochemicals
which future research with
marine animals is likely to
bring to light.
Basic types of compounds
that have been identified as
derivatives from marine an
imals," he said, include
many new sterols, lipids, car
otenoids, all the known and
some unidentified kinds of
amino acids, vitamins, hor-
mones, engines and anti
biotics. Of special interest are
the many types of toxic COM
pounds known to occur. Their
potential uses as drugs have
Investigators"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
NiSh Showers

If the Representatives who
prepared and backed such a
bill are under the impression
this country has money to
spare, they might try provid-
ing a decent working space
for some of its underprivi
lodged civil servants, rather
than some fish.
A prime example of made
quate working space for some
civil servants can be seen in
the Stewart Building, Sixth
and D streets NV. The Stew
art Building is a five story
building Serviced by an eleva-
tor that rarely works. Our
rest rooms are without venti-
lation or natural light; what
light we have is provided by
bare lightbulb. The air con-
ditioners are like the eleva-
tors; they, too, rarely work.
The general appearance of
the inside of the building
makes one itch. And if this
is not enough, we have to
pay to park our cars.
Poor Fish.
X X y. u
So our good old give-away
Congress wants a $40 million
aquarium for the District.
1 protest such outrageous
ly reckless spending by our
so-called governing body in
this matter and in all the
numerous other m a t erS
where they have taken it
upon themselves to squander
the hard earned money of
taX-paying citizens.
I suggest that Representa-
tive KirWan dig deep in his
own pocket to give the rec
ognition he wants given to
the unfortunate sport fish
ermen. A. L. Beall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
THE PASSING SCENE
Two Gains in School Inteqrotion
By RALPH McGILL

sible had it not been for the
fact that thousands of moth
ers and fathers who were not
cogS in organiZational work
had displayed such a sound,
common sense awareneSS of
the alternatives mobs,
closed schools, chaos.
They did not need the text
from Louisiana that this is
no time to experiment with
ignorance.
They had come to see that
the primary issue was not at
all how they felt about the
1854 court decision. Their
children'S future, not the
parents prejudiceS, had been
seen in proper perspective.
The fact that there would
be few well-qualified Negro
children among the thou
sands of pupils was not, after
all, important. What was,
and is, important is that
every child shall have a
chance at education in a
world where economic COM
petition increasingly demands
SkillS and knowledge.
Common Sense Prevailed
The parents had had time
to think about New Orleans.
They had decided it was not
the place of mothers to be
on the sidewalks about a
school Shrieking curses and
splitting on police and those
students who were going to
school. The fathers had come
to the conclusion it was not
required of them to be in a
mob raging against the proc
eSSeS Of court orders.
Communism and its propa-
ganda had no help from the
school children of Atlanta or
their parents.
President Kennedy has
. said he hopes Atlanta's
steady, quiet display of pa
triotiSm, common sense and
respect for law will be an in
spiration to other Southern
cities.
1t may be helpful in caus-
ing other communities to re-
alize that the problem, under
the law, is not really what
the fanatics have said it is.
The court decision wisely
took into account the diff
culties. 1t required only hon
est beginnings. Southern
business and professional
men and, finally, its polit-
lcal leaders must soon make
a decision. Shall they con-
tinue to coddle the defiers OF
law, the preachers of hate.
the shabby peddlers of
trashy, vulgar printed mate
rial which is mostly lies? Or
shall they lead the way to
community peace and prog
reSS?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry tDrtterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDtH be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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herded into ancient build
ings called schools, dwellings,
libraries, ct cetera. One
such example is located
at Eleventh and Harvard
streets. 1t goes by the
name of District of Co.
lumbia Teachers College.
Though one of the best COL
leges in the country, still its
elderly buildings would not
compare favorably with the
proposed lush fish aquarium.
This institution of higher ed
ucatiOn has been trying for
20 years to get a building ap-
preparation of 81 million; the
fish get $40 million in one
year, This affords an accu-
rate measure of relative val
ues which our culture places
or college students as COM
pared to fish-gazerS.
But maybe the people who
visit the affluent fish at
Hams Point will never see the
various schools of poor fish,
so that the contrast will not
be noticed. knowledge of fish
is an important link with ma
ture, whereas education is an
artificial adornment only i'm
portant to first class world
powers. We wouldn't want to
be one Of those things!
People are funny. l wonder
if the fish think so too. May
be they gaze at us with equal
amusement. but are too
highly cultured to let us
know.
d. B. Lloyd.
4 = x
Kudos to the legislator who
attempted to block a bill to
provide $40 million of the
taxpayers money to build an
aquarium for needy fish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-06

A "breakthrough" in the
science of map-making which
promises to make aerial sur
Veys three to four times more
accurate than at present has
been accomplished by scien-
lists of the Coast and &C.
odetic Survey.
In recent tests with photo
graphs of countryside taken
at an elevation of 10000 feet,
using the new system, errors
in positions and elevations
were reduced from a normal
10 to II feet to approximately
3 feet in actual ground
measurements.
An important part of the
new system is a precise in
Strument known as the COM
parator. 1t measures posi-
lions on the aerial photo
graphs to the nearest 25,-
000th of an inch, or about
Tooth the width of a human
hair. The measured readings
then are transferred to an
electronic "read-out" instru-
ment for review by the oper-
ator, and are simultaneously
recorded on a perforated tape.
Detects Distortions
This tape then is fed into
a machine which converts
the data to IBM punch cards.
At this point the electronic
computerS take over and
compute the correct positions
and elevations from the data.
The great sensitivity of the
comparator requires a con-
slant room temperature of
about 10 F. 1t will detect the
minute distortions inevitable
in aerial photography such
as film distortion, atmos-
pheric distortion, atmospheric
refraction and earth curva-
ture, and measure the
amount o. error.
Tests have been made with
a series of aerial photographs
taken over the Shenandoah
Valley in Virginia at an al
titude of 10000 feet. Pictures
of an area 4 miles wide
and 81 miles long were proc
eSsed. Position and elevation
errors were found to be less
than 3 feet, when checked
by ground surveys.
Several improvements in
the system now are being
considered, dealing chiefly
with methods of combining
pictures to provide maps of
large areas.
4 4
A potent antidote for nerve
gases has been extracted from
the body of the electric eel.
This was made known by
DR.. Ross F. Nigrelli, director
of the laboratory of marine
biochemistry o. the New York
Aquarium in testimony be-
fore a recent hearing of the
House Committee on Naval
Research.
This is only one. he said,
of the physiological chemicals
that may be obtained from
sea animals.
This fish" he said, con
tains large amounts of chol-
ineSteraSe, an engine vital
to the transmission of nerve
impulses. From it a nerve
gas antidote can be synthe-
sized. Although the electric
eel is at present the most
available source of the en-
lyme there are several more
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