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Evening star., 1961-02-12

Trout once belonged exclusively to the gentle
mans club and on the luxury menus of our finest
hotels. Today trout is supermarket fish, ready
for splurge on anybody's table. Prices are down.
Quick freezing did the trick, plus little Denmark.
The Dones ore raising Voinbows
After the Second World War Denmark, search
ing for new industries to bolster her economy,
considered commercial trout farming as done in
the United States. Denmark had no trout in her
streams, but undeterred bought fertiized rainbow
trout eggs from hatcheries here to give the idea
a try. success from the start. That was IS
years ago and today Denmark has 400 farms rails
ing the rainbows, those aristocrats of fishdom.
The greater portion of her fish are dressed and
frozen for export to the States. Until Denmark
Evening star., 1961-02-12
This Week Food Editor

came into the market, trout here was sold fresh
at around 81 pound. Denmark's frozen product
sold for half the price and pointed the way to a
new middle purse market. US. trout hatcheries
were reluctant to get into freezing 1t meant buy
ing expensive equipment. But what else to do?
Japan saw the new market opening and joined the
parade. In 1859 the latest figures available show
Denmark exported to the United States 2, ,233, ia
pounds of trout; Japan sent 2,562, ,542 pounds.
Iceland, Norway and West Germany sent small
amounts. Trout promises to be goldfish for the
hatcheries, and in the near future budget fish
for the home table.
Last year l was in Denmark, and there I
learned how the trout business had started.
Evening star., 1961-02-12
Jones vAes

cLEMENTINE PADDLEF0RD
farming freeng
Evening star., 1961-10-15

be more extravagant than warranted
Nevertheless the fact remains that his
basic thesis is sound-namely, that
our country, If 1t wishes to hold its
own and be second to none in space,
must do much more than it is doing at
present in both basic education and
actual physical experimentation. AS of
the moment, the Soviets obviously are
ahead of us in rocket thrust-power, but
their overall program apparently is
inferior to ours, and we can wrest the
lead from them, as DR.. Van Allen has
suggested, If we do the things that need
to be done. There should be no hesita-
ton on that front.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Russio's Past

Lee Walsh's series Of arti-
cles, "St. Petersburg to Len
ingrad," is a fine presenta-
ton Of facts as they now
exist in the former capital
of Russia. The moral Of these
facts can be applied to the
entire USSR. In A years
nothing original in cultural
and spiritual life Of the coun-
try has been created by the
Soviet government. Since the
people have retained consid-
erable respect for Russia's
past, much effort has been
made to restore this past, not
only in its physical aspects,
but also in personal culture
and mode Of living and make
it available to the masses.
So far this effort has not
succeeded. and no wonder:
the early Bolsheviks were quite
thorough in destroying the
hated "bourgeoisie" and per-
forming other senseless
atrocities such as numbering
the Car and his innocent
family. 1t will take more
than a generation. perhaps
three or four, to restore what
was ruined.
James s, Sweet.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
The inpatient Ones

The list of those who are finding
fault with Mr.. Kennedy's performance
in the White House is growing longer.
They say that he is not providing
enough leadership. And they complain
that he is not providing answers to the
great questions of the day-at least,
not the answers they would like to have.
This is not entirely a partisan
matter. Some of the criticism, Of course,
is coming from Republicans. But good
bit of it comes more or less anonymously
from people close to the President, from
those who were in the forefront Of the
New Frontiers offensive a year ago.
Whatever their political inclinationS,
these people have one thing in common:
They are impatient. They want answers
to questions for which there are no
ready answers. They demand quick
and clear-cut solutions of problems
which, If they can be solved at all, will
yield only to time and patient effort
If this can be attributed to the dis
appointment of hopes that were overly
stimulated by rosy and too-confident
campaign assurances, the critics will
have to learn, as the President obviously
has learned, that there is vast diff
ference between vote-getting rhetoric
and the proper discharge of the
enormous responsibilities which one
inherits upon moving into the White
House
Mr.. Kennedy summed it up rather
well, we thought, in his remarks at the
University of North Carolina. He said
that I'VE are destined, all of us here
today, to live out most, If not all, of
our lives in uncertainty and challenge
and peril" But, IF we can do our duty
undeterred by fanatics or frenzy at
home or abroad, then surely peace and
freedom can prevail"
BY coincidence, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, with the advantage of eight
years in the White House, was saying
very much the same thing on the same
day in his CHS interview. In short,
there are no ready answers, no easy
solutions. We, and all Of the world, are
faced with long period of stress,
anxiety and uncertainty. The impa-
tient ones will simply have to learn to
live with 1t.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Saved From Renewal

It Is good to know that in this era
of urban redevelopment some of Wash
ington's old buildings with historic
associations are being saved from de-
struction or reconstruction. Latest Of
the citys aged landmarks to be pre-
served for generations to come is the
imposing Federal-style residence, 1901
F Street NV, which was the home of
five Supreme Court justices, including
Chief Justice John Marshall. It's perm
anent status as "a historic place" has
been made possible through the gen.
erosity of its owner, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon, widow of the former New York
Representative.
Mrs. Bacon has decided to bequeath
the big brick home to the National
Trust for Historic Preservation, an or
strumental in saving a number of other
noted properties from the march Of
progress" Among these are the De-
catur House on Lafayette Square, the
home of President Woodrow Wilson at
2340 S Street NV, and Woodlawn
Plantation, part of the old Mount
Vernon estate. The trust, under an
arrangement with Mrs. Bacon, will make
its headquarters on the upper floors
of the F street house, while the lower
floors will be a public museum. Mrs,
Bacon's gift will be deeply appreciated
by all who regret to see the passing of
some of the Capitals fine old buildings
to make way for the new.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Our Place in Space

In his address to the American
Rocket Society, DR.. James A. Van Allen
discoverer of the earth -girdling radia-
ton belts that bear his name-may have
exaggerated a bit in declaring that
there are only about Is genuinely
competent space scientists in the United
States. He may have exaggerated, too,
in saying that our country's ambitious
plans for exploration in the high
heavens far exceed our present scientific
competence to carry out such explor-
alton, and he has suggested that the
Russians are at least equally deficient
in that respect.
Still, regardless of whether or not
he has resorted to hyperbole, DR.. Van
Allen unquestionably has offered good
counsel as regards the need to create
a whole new corps of young scientists
specifically educated for the great and
awe-inspiring projects that lie ahead
projects which such spatial experts
would be fully equipped to handle from
the initial inspirational stage to the
hard planning and final execution. AS
Of the moment, according to DR.. Van
Allen, American specialists in this field
can be counted on the fingers of both
hands, and even If this Is an inordinately
low estimate, it serves the laudable
purpose of making clear to all of us,
to all Americans, that we must do more
than we are doing at present to guard
against the possibility of Soviet suprem-
acy In space.
Accordingly, to cope with that grave
potential danger, DR.. Van Allen now
urges that the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration invest some
thing like $100 million year in
program designed to build up the supply
of space scientists, just as similar in
vestments by the Atomic Energy Com
mission have greatly increased the supply
of nuclear physicists and other key
figures in the harnessing Of the atom
for both peaceful and military purposes.
In the doctors judgment, lack of action
along this line-a failure to train people
right now-will mean that Gin another
ten years we'll just be muddling along"
And he thinks we've muddled too much
already, because nearly half the things
we shoot don't work, and the half that
do don't do what they're supposed to do"
Here again, as NASA itself might
observe, DR.. Van Aliens words seem to
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Seekinq Another Approach

Free leaders" or "ch1SelerS" on the
relief rolls may represent problem. If
so, it should be relatively simple one
to deal with. Adequate investigation
ought to spot them and there are appro-
pirate penalties available.
The far more difficult problem, in
our opinion, is to find the new approach
in administration of public welfare that
Commissioner Duncan is seeking, with
the help Of Public Welfare Director Shea
and others; an approach designed to
discover new methods that offer some
opportunity to reverse the appalling in
crease in relief beneficiarieS and the
dollars required to meet even their mini
mum needs. We agree with Senator
Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia that
this effort deserves community support.
And it is encouraging to note, in the
first of series of articles on this sub
ject by Grace Bassett, elsewhere in to-
days Star, that Secretary Ribicoff Is
planning, in a number of scheduled
speeches, to outline the Administrations
own ideas of what might be done on a
national level
Certainly the dramatic increases in
the number Of people receiving relief
increases which are hard to relate either
to cost Of living or population-arec Great
ing public attitudes which are capable
of discrediting relief administration
everywhere. And one reason, aside from
widely held popular impressions Of
chiseling and fraud, is that existing re-
lief administration, here and elsewhere,
seems to promise nothing beyond even
higher costs and swelling relief rolls.
Miss Bassett's articles should be in
teresting to those looking for a better
approach. One surely is needed.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Tests and Survival

President Kennedy has left no room
for doubt, at his latest news conference,
that the United States will do whatever
is necessary-undert the ground, in outer
space or in the earth'S atmoSphere-to
counter the Soviet Unions new pro-
gram of nuclear testing.
This program-an extraordinarily
intensive one involving we'll over 20
atmospheric shots thus far-indicateS
that the Russians are striving to develop
new weapons of a type that could be
conceivably much better than ours.
The danger involved here is intensified
by the fact that for nearly three years
past, without any guarantee whatever
against clandeStine Soviet detonations,
our country has not set off single
atomic-hydrogen experimental explo-
Sion-none at all except those that have
been staged underground since the
of above-ground tests.
At the moment, the United States
is still limiting its nuclear testing to
underground shots that cause no radio
active fallout which is a danger that
has been vastly exaggerated, to an
almost hysterical extent, in some
quarters. Actually, according to most
knowledgeable assessments of the mat
ter, the Soviet tests are not nearly so
health -endangering as some alarmists
have said, and American experimental
ton in the same medium can be resumed
without posing threat Of really great
or grave consequence to mankind.
Anyhow, the important thing is
that Mr.. Kennedy is going ahead with
nuclear tests. The old moratorium was
no good to begin with, and now that the
Russians have shattered it-with typical
contempt for the opinion of the world,
including new African nations that are
quite naive-we' must do everything
possible to insure that our nuclear lead,
which has been very great in the past,
remains great-great enough to make
the men of the Kremlin be careful,
exceedingly so, just to be sure Of their
own and RuSSia'S survival.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Staggering Idea

In The Star, on October IL,
I read the headline "Stagger-
ing Of Hours Urged to Ease
Jams" the staggering being
from 6 am. to 2 pm. and 2
pm. to 10 pm! I could hard
ly believe my eyes!
The people Of Washington
are having their taxes raised;
experts" are busy building
inner loops and outer loops
at millions of dollars of ex-
pense to carry non- Washing
tonians out Of the city; other
experts" are busy ordering
the chopping down of trees so
that streets can be widened.
Now a proposal is made to
stagger hours so that every
family can be disrupted! 1t
will be possible to have three
breakfasts every day, one for
father at 5 am, one for the
school children at 8 am,
and, If mother works, one for
her at / pm. What won't the
experts" think Of next?
Edgar Farr Russell.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Who's There?'

For some obscure reason,
which I shall never fathom,
I happened to read Rev.
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris
offensive article, who's
There?" in The Sunday Star.
Ever since, the following nom
sense has been running
through my head:
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
The Russian Orthodox
Church.
The Russian Orthodox
Church who?
The Russian Orthodox
Church people. Let us In or
we'll join the PapiSts.
That isn't very funny. No.
It's no joke at all.
Jean d. Sickles.
y 4
The article. Who's There?"
by DR.. Harris was wonderful.
! am a Negro. Our churches
are becoming brainwashed
with the National Council of
Churches. I want to thank
your paper for printing the
truth about the World Coun-
Gil of Churches.
Keep UP the good work.
Mrs. Lois WilkersOn.
Evening star., 1961-10-15

The Government yesterday so
weak, now controls the rail-
ways, the posts. the ports, the
telegraph; questions whom it
will, arrests at discretion, vio-
lates inconvenient States
rights with entire impunity.
The better class Americans
detested politics, but it is
they, and not the politicians,
who are now so rapidly
strengthening the Executive.
They avoided military serv-
ice except in command; but
the Irish and Germans
in the new Army are only
auxiliaries. If there was one
feeling which seemed univer-
sal in the North, it was dis
like for the Federal Army.
Time after time, West Point
was saved from wild reduc-
tions only by Southern votes.
The people exulted in their
rights to make military Off
GERS and talked nonsense in
cessantly about volunteers in
Mexico. Since July 81 Bull
Rum the same men have
called for trained officers
and the volunteer comman-
dants Of local influence. able
tongues and no idea of dis
cipline, have been removed in
scores. The sternest COM
mandant the troops have
had (McClellan is the idol
of the Army. Drinking. quar-
reling. uproar are things of
the past. and though the men
are still troublesome about
food, so are all soldiers on
earth, British guardsmen ex-
cepted. The American Nation,
in short. moved by a great
cause, and with its volatile
hauteur softened by a great
defeat, has submitted itself to
the discipline it condemned.
If the Government needs still
larger powers it will obtain
them. for the people are in
the mood when self-denial
seems almost expiation. ;"
The same day it carried this
admiring British view of the
Federal Governments resil-
iency, The Star reported the
South was sending an envoy
to London, presumably to
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Critic to Critic

Has the music criticism of
John Haskins been ruined by
propaganda?
We agree 1t was a bit of
a shock to hear Mozart per-
formed beautifully at the
Pan American Union by a
competent violinist and a
superb pianist, and to be free
for an evening Of the cacoph-
onies thrown at us over the
past years in the name Of
Pan Americanismo.
For surely one Of the main
reasons of these free con-
certs is to provide an audi
ence and a hall for the air
ing of the works of young
Latin American composers.
just as young Latin Ameri-
can painters get an opportu-
nifty to exhibit in the Unions
gallery downstairs.
But most of contemporary
Latin American composing is
as bad as most North Amer
lean composing, or most of
the worlds goth century COM
posing, and every once in a
while we deserve to hear
Vital. Beethoven. Franck.
Sarasate, Szymanowiski and
Bloch to learn what the
young men are striving for.
Howard Mitchell has done |
good job in propagandizing
the work Of Latin American
composers in the Capital. as
he has North American COM
posers' works in the capitals
of our sister republics to the
South. And yet If / hear an
other Gimnastera, realizing
he's about the best, I'll
scream!
The listener, Mr.. Hakins, is
not jaded through too much
Mozart. but through too
much contemporary musical
pomposity and vain juvenilia
passing for art.
John r.. Bowler,
Evening star., 1961-10-15
so Years AGO

The Army's horse SOL
diers" were still Americas
finest mobile weapon so
years ago, but the top brass
wasn't satisfied. The Star of
October 8. 1911, reported
that Uncle Sam intends to
make real horsemen of his
soldiers through the new
school of equitation just es-
tablished. Maj. Gen. Leo
nard Wood. head Of the
Army. has issued orders that
a new system of training
riders be adopted, and
through the courtesy Of the
French government. three
U. S. Army officers have
been detailed to the famous
French School of Equitation
at Saumur, the most thor
ough and perhaps the best
school of horsemanship in
the world The idea of
the whole scheme is to make
the American cavalry soldi-
er a perfect, fearless, DASH
ing rider like his forefather
in the days of the Indian
campaigns Gen. Wood
believes in the principles laid
down by horse loving Keno
phon, of ancient Greek fame,
who said: From time imme-
mortal gods and heroes have
been painted riding horses
and men who are able to
manage them skillfully are
regarded as deserving of ad-
miration. So extremely beau
tiful and admirable and no.
BILE a sight is a horse that
bears himself superbly. that
he fills the gaze of all who
see him >"
Evening star., 1961-10-15

has blackened the reputation
of men by those who them
selves were unfit to blacken
the shoes of those thus viii
fled.
Ofttimes slanderers hide
behind the expression, they
say" This phrase is often
sent on its murderous way.
"They say" is the symbol Of
a mock trial where the ac-
cused had no recourse to rep
resentation or jury. The ac-
cuser deals in charges and not
in evidence. he has to prove
nothing. His protection Is
simply to point to this name
less source of creeping infor-
nation, they say" And so,
these two words are often the
epitaph of another's reputa-
ton. The formula is quite
simple. Have you heard
about so-and-so? They say
about so-and-so? They say"
1t may be
Only a faint suggestion,
Only a doubtful hint
Only a leading question
With q special tone or tint;
Only a loD I tDonder
Nothing unfair at all,
But the whtsper groDS to
thunder
And a Scdthtng bolt may fail.
Yes, you may slay with
they say" Those barbed
words have slain their thou
sands. History fairly shouts
that obituary. Looking over a
lifetime spent dealing init
mately with his fellows, DR..
Henry van Dyke said, How
easily we pick up the juicy
morsel of gossip, quite care
less of any investigation of
its origin. We shake our
heads sadly and pass it along,
adding a quaint little twist
Of our own, lest it lose any
thing in the telling" Yes, we
pass on what they say" and
with a lifted eyebrow, a sig
nificant smirk. and some
body's name permanently is
tarnished.
That being all too true
everyone of us needs to re-
member every day the sober
declaration of the Supreme
Teacher Of Galilee, Il say
unto you that for every idle
word that men shall speak,
they shall give an account
thereof in the day of judg-
ment. For by thy words thou
shalt be justified and by thy
words thou shalt be con-
demned."
God save us from being
kind to one whose portrait is
drawn in a modern novel.
He could whisper away a
character by an innocent in
terrogation. He could destroy
a high reputation by a shrug
Of the shoulder. He could as
sassinate a soul by silence
when silence became the
strongest instrument"
With such a possibility be-
fore us let us pray, set Thou
a seal upon my lips through
out today. and through all
the tomorrows."
Evening star., 1961-10-15
100 Years AGO

A sharply etched pen
sketch of Americans at war
among themselves was pro-
duced a century ago in Eng
land, which itself had made
a bitter test of the might of
the united colonies not many
decades before. The Star Of
October Is. 1861, reprinted
these observations from the
Spectator: These Americans
retain one quality at least of
their English blood. They
know how to repair disaster.
From the day Of their defeat
at Bull Run. they have dis
played an energy, a calm,
collected persistence in reor-
ganization which has taken
those who judged them by the
Irish mobs of New York who'll
ly by surprise. With that
wonderful quickness which
the American shares with the
French intellect. they have
apprehended the causes as
well as the occasion of their
defeat, and set themselves at
once to their removal. Even
qualities which seem to i'm
pede a successful prosecu-
tion of the war have been. for
the moment. laid aside. The
race which defied even the
control essential to social or
der has strengthened the
hand of the government with
almost impudent zeal. Men
who for a century have re-
sisted the regular police now
sanction domiciliary visits,
approve arrest, and applaud
the wholesale removal of sus-
pected officers. Politicians
whose avowed theory has
been that government at best
was a necessary evil, urge on
the Executive to acts a Eu-
ropean government would
only defend on the pleas of
necessity; advocate passports,
defend the suspension of the
habeas corpus. and discuss
with an approving smile prof.
ects Of conscription to which
the balloting for the militia
is mild. Glasses usually in
imical to the commonest Or
der as an interference with
the liberty Of citizens vote
for men who have supported
martial law in disaffected
districts, and purchase papers
which clamor for martial law
directed against themselves.
Free intercommunication
seemed to Americans like free
breath. a privilege without
life is impossible or worthless;
but the instant free commu-
nication conflicted with pub
lie safety, 1t was given up.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Food for Thought

1t was with a great deal of
interest that I read your ar
ticle concerning the report of
the United Nations Food and
A Agriculture organization
titled, FAC Says Population
Outgrew Food Output" in the
october 2 issue of your news
paper.
Your article was particu-
larly interesting as I had just
read an article on Page Z of
the September 25 issue of
"Barron's" and I quote:
Robert L. Garner, who
shaped the lending policies Of
the world bank and who now
is retiring as president Of the
international Finance Corp,
last week told the interna-
tional gathering of bankers
in Vienna that the poverty of
backward nations will be self
perpetuating unless, by aban-
doning traditional ways, they
pay the price Of advance
ment. In that respect, things
may be stirring in India,
where the equivalent of all
the grain sent by the. United
States in the past dozen years
has been eaten by the sacred
cows. Now, however. an In
dian professor is urging steri-
lization Of the beasts. He thus
is challenging a tradition
which has hampered all ef-
forts to date on behalf of In
dia's economic progress"
Perhaps there are sacred
cows" in all Of these so-called
''leSS developed" countries
and If they were eliminated
these "leSs developed" coun-
tries might join the ranks Of
the economically more de-
veloped half Of the world"
It's food" for thought,
anyway.
Allan ID. Henry.
Evening star., 1961-10-15
Is Years AGO

The New York Yankees
we're invincible as usual Is
years ago, wrapping up their
subway series with the New
York Giants, 4 games to 1.
The composite box score in
The Star of October 7, 1885
showed Lefty Gomez won
two games for the Yanks,
while the great Carl Huhbell
split even in two starts for
the Giants. Washington's
own Jake Powell hit a hefty
ASS to lead the Yankee slug
gers, but Lou Gehrig and
Tony Lazerri provided .he
power. each driving across
7 runs.