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same techniques can be and should be
employed in many segments of the
inner loop.
There is a further consideration
which largely has been lost sight Of in
the furore over the inner loop. That is
the point, made by Engineer Commits
Sioner Clarke, that the heavily criticized
portions of the inner-loop system already
committed or under conStruction-in
the area near the new Roosevelt Bridge
and in the SouthwesG-just happen to
be the most prominent and most COM
pick portions of the system. He believes
that portions of the loop freeway in
other parts of the city will be less OBJ
trusive and amenable, perhaps, to in
novations in design which will reduce
their disruptive impact.
At any rate, Gen. Clarke says it is
the intention of the District to take the
same pains with the design of loop
freewayS that were taken with the E
street highway. A determined effort
by highway critics to see that this is
done should be more fruitful than
adamant opposition to project which
is urgently needed and which, in any
event, probably has progressed too far
now to be stopped.
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Praise and Criticism

I feel that The Sunday
Star performed a valuable
service to its readers in pre-
senting on October is the
very well-written story by
Frank Carey of the AsSo-
ciated Press regarding the
controversy between Senator
Kefauver and the prescrip-
ton drug industry. I would
only question the eight-col-
umn headline which stated:
Senate to Look Anew into
High Price Of Drugs" Ac-
tually, Mr.. Carey's lead para
graph indicated that the Sen
ate was to renew its inquiry
as to whether drug prices
and profits are too high" It
would appear. therefore, that
the phrase high price Of
drugs" in the headline was
a bit of editorializing and
somewhat gratuitous. Never
theleSs, the story did give
the people Of Washington a
seldom = seen view Of two
sides Of a very strenuous
controversy.
Austin Smith, MD.
President, Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association.
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Close Squeak for Metro

DaQe county, Fla, WHICH lncluQeS
Miami and rs other municipalities, is
too far removed for most Washing
tonians to have an informed opinion on
the efficiency of its local governmental
operations. But there is good reason,
all the same, for Washington as we'll as
other major metropolitan areas to be
glad that Dade County citizens have
voted to continue the ambitious and
pioneering form Of regional government
which was established there in 1857.
For the Dade County system, COM
monty known as metro" has become
something of a national testing ground
for regional government-an entirely
new kind of political entity, super
imposed at the county level with broad
powers to tax and spend money for the
provision of public services of a regional
nature for the entire Miami metropoli-
tan area.
Already some lessons for Washing
ton and other metropolitan regions have
emerged from the experiment. Perhaps
the most valuable is that revolutionary
innovations which encroach on the
traditional authority Of local political
Jurisdictions must be approached eau
tiously, without undue haste. In Dade
County, where conditions seemed to be
ideal for such an endeavor, some ad-
vances have been made, most notably
in the fields of regional planning,
traffic control and public safety. But
actual progress in the broader fields of
region-wide water and sewage systems,
for example, has been marked by dis
appointing sloWnesS. The fact that
regional government survived recent
referendum in Dade County by margin
of only 5000 votes, out of more than
100000 cast, is evidence Of the political
controversy which ragged there.
AS far as outsiders are concerned,
however, it would have been shame if
this enterprising venture had been cut
off before it really had chance to show
what it could do. For while each met
ropolitan area must seek it's own polit-
ical solution to regional problems, based
on it's own particular local conditions,
the Miami experience can hardly help
but guide them in courses Of action they
should follow and, perhaps equally i'm
portant, in those they should not.
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Gallant Coptives

A coward dies a thousand
times-a brave man only
once!
According to The Star
G0/17/6D, some of the lion
lied tyrantS Of our "enlight-
ened" world (Gomulka- Gott-
ld-Khrushchev) are not
finding it easy to Subjugate
all of their people.
1t is odd to realize that
the Western governments
who are opposing" commu-
nism land not socialism
its brotheD do not capitalize
on the courageous resistance
Of individuals among the
captive peoples.
But despite our mere "au-
dience participation" in the
CORY drama of galloping COM
munism- socialism (not to
mention our many billions of
dollars Of aid for same), the
fire of faith in God brightens
life's stage and we hear of
courageous resistance to the
despotS - Eastern Germans
who are fleeing the tyranny
in broad daylight, Drawing
machine guns and death to
gain freedom. And now the
Polish Cardinal WysZynski
who defieS the dictator'S Or
ders to submit, again, to
maddening restrictions on in
struction in religion and faith
in God-the mainStay of all
order and progress of man
kind.
The proof that the Reds
can never succeed in their
jail-like enclaves is clearly
evident in the Cardinals
order to priests to defy the
State demands and prepare
themselves if need be for ex-
IRENE sacrifices" and in the
brave Eastern Germans flee
ing, with only the shirts on
their backs. These are ex-
amples of the courage and
faith that also made the
United States the greatest
bastion of freedom on earth.
Faith generates courage!
Geraldine Berryhill.
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Never Again

=
Whether or not the Soviet Union
sets off the 50-megaton nuclear ex-
ploSion that Nikita KhruShchev has
scheduled for October 81, our own
country now has made clear to the world
two facts of major Importance: Q) It
will never again be party to an unpoliced
moratorium on atomic hydrogen testing
and (2) it will resume all types of ex-
perimental detonations, even in the
earth's atmosphere If necessary, unless
the Kremlin promptly" signs a treaty
that bans such shots under conditions
effectively safeguarding against clan
deStine violations and evaSionS.
This poSition-as set forth in recent
days by President Kennedy and Sec
rotary of State Rusk-has been ex-
planned in detail to the United Nations
by Adlai Stevenson, our chief delegate
to that Sorely troubled and possibly
dying world organization. AS he has
put it, Il pray we do not lose another
chance to meet this challenge of our
time and stop this death dance But
until there is treaty and tests can be
stopped, the United States, as a re-
SponSible nation, must prepare to take
all steps necessary to protect its own
security and that of the world COM
munity." More specifically, he has
solemnly declared to the U. N. that our
country feels Obliged in Self-protection
to reserve the right to make preparations
to test in the atmosphere, as well as
underground"
And further, in opposition to midas
utterly unrealiStic and perhaps sinister
effort to restore things as they were
before the start of the Kremlin's cur
rent and altogether ominouS series Of
nuclear and thermometer tests, Am
baSSador Stevenson has declared that
the United States will hereafter decline
to take part IN an uninSpected morato-
rum of type that can "only lead the
world once again into the moraSS of
confusion and deceit"-the kind of
morass in which our country, for three
years past, has foolishly and dangerously
allowed itself to wander. Well, now we
have learned our lesson, and it is grim
one. AS a result, lest we lose our nuclear
lead, we should resume testing on as
big a scale as our experts deem essential,
and we should do so in all mediums,
including the earth's atmosphere, If
that is necessary.
Let us not kid ourselves. AS far as
this business is concerned, we are in
supremely deadly competition with the
Soviet Union, and unless we do what
needs to be done, unless we make sure
that our nuclear and thermonuclear
arsenal remains second to none, we are
flirting with the kind of thing that
could mean our death as nation. This
is the essence of the challenge before
us, and we must meet it head-on.
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Beoutifwng Freewoys

While the E street freeway in
Northwest Washington is not part of
the inner-loop freeway system, it has
direct and pertinent relationship to the
controversy which has broken out over
whether the inner loop should be built.
At its meeting the other day, the
Fine Arts Commission reiterated in the
strongest terms its opposition to the
inner loop as a development ''deStruc-
tive to the city" At the same time, its
members were lavish in their praise for
the imaginative eSthetic amenities of
the design submitted by Architect
Chloethiel Smith for the E street free
way, calling it beautiful" pioneering"
and very impressive"
The fact is that these two projects
serve similar purposes. And in her pres
entation, Mrs. Smith agreed that urban
freewayS, whether they be part of the
inner loop or not, have an immense
capacity to do harm in the Nations
Capital. AS she put it:
If the surface of the city is so destroyed
by brutal paved and walled gasheS that sep
arate it into series of islands, it will become
only city for vehicles and not city for
people, by destroying the elements in the city
that bring people together and contribute
to rewarding urban life.
The point is, of course, that Mrs.
Smith demonstrated in her design that
this harmful impact may be vastly
minimized through careful and pains
taking work by architects and engineers
who are aware of the dangers. If Mrs.
Smith has successfully avoided delete
riouS effects of the freeway in the State
Department area through the use of
tunnels, specially designed walls, land
scaping and plazas, it follows that these
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Right to Worship

AS a person who has long
felt that the challenge to the
freedom of religion by the
Communists has been too
little emphasized outside Of
religious circles. I want to
express my appreciation Of
the fortnight position of The
Star as expressed in two re-
cent editorial page items.
The first was a cartoon
several weeks ago, which rep
resented Castro kneeling be-
fore a hammer-and-sickle
with his back turned to a
cross marked THE Catholic
Church" The picture was
captioned "Worshiping at the
Wrong Shrine" The second
item was your october II edi-
torial Marx Against God"
The editorial reviewed the
harasment of religion in
Poland with special reference
to an attempted squeeze even
upon Sunday school classes,
and praised Cardinal Wyszyn-
ski for rising "courageously
to the challenge"
1t is becoming clear now
not only to religious leaders
but to the public in general,
that we are not faced simply
by a conflict between two
economic or political systems.
The conflict goes down to
the very basis of human
existence. Actually forces
that assume that the human
race is nothing more than
blindly developing electrons
are trying fanatically to crush
out the age-old conviction
that God is the origin and
final goal of every human
value. The truth is beginning
to dawn upon everybody that
the destruction of religious
belief is not one of several
means to the end of total
itarian domination, but is the
ultimate objective of the at
tack on the other human
freedoms.
Amos B. Clarke.
Gainesville, Md.
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with rich soil. There she
planted the seeds and water
ed the growing plants and
to the water was added her
tenderness and her tears
for the whole venture seemed
so futile. She had no more
thought of competing in the
horticultural show than a
dandelion would of vying
with an orchid. But one
bloom on that roof garden
was so gorgeous that the
girls delighted friends urged
her to send it to the flower
exhibition. Reluctantly, and
with innate humility, she
agreed and the judges behold
ing the roof flower awarded
it first prize.
An outstanding American
with a ruling passion that
the faireSt flowers of de-
mocracy may have their
chance in gardens of free
dom everywhere declared
that an orchid in its exotic
loneliness may be the perfect
flower but it would be a
waste of time to plant Or
chids in Iceland. At once up
spoke one who knew Iceland
and orchids and said, mot
so. we do raise orchids here"
He went on to prove that
that fragile bloom can be
brought to its perfection in
that northern climate. And
so it comes to pass that the
flowers of grace are found
blooming in unexpected gar
denS.
Across the centuries saints
have been symbols Of the
fragile blossoms of the high
and holy blooming in
beauty amid the easy
sophistries of their surround
ings. They speak Of a cody
life in ungodly homes, Of
flawlesS honesty amid the
shady practices Of business
and politics, of crystal purity
Of thought amid a sensual
and unclean social setting, Of
song through sacrifice, and
of the grace of joyful service
in adversely.
And where is there to be
found the most compelling
apologetics of the truths
proclaimed from pulpitS? Ask
any minister who really lives
with and for his people and
whose heart is moved with
compassion For answer he
will point not to ponderouS
tones on the evidences of
Christianity. on his library
shelves, for he has seen an
unanSwerable argument for
the reality of the faith, writ
ten in crimson chapters of
pain, affliction, loss and dis
appointments, patience and
courage and dauntlesS trust
have blossomed amid the
broken pieces Of ruined rain
bows. The title of that hum
bling and inspiring volume
is THE Flowers of Grace!"
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Our Comeupponce

If the caption ANA
Roughly Massaged for Slam
at Chiropractors" was in
tended to be amusing, then
the element of Utilization was
found wanting. For the most
part I have found The Star
to be objective in its report
ing. I suppose, however, in
an organization of the mag
nitude of The Star, errors
are inevitable and, of course,
there is always the ambula-
tory narciSSiStic SchiZophren-
ic intellectual who will ex-
ercise journalistic levity.
DIR. J. Bradford Mccoy,
Chiropractic physician, Cul-
pepper, Va.
I see where the American
Medical Association is call
ing the chiropractors quacks
so 1 suggest, to get even. the
National Chiropractic AsSo-
citation call the doctors char
latanS.
The presidents of the OPP
posing organizations could
then put on a Nationwide
TV debate using as their sub
ject: Resolve, That pillpush-
ing is more beneficial than
backrubbing to mankind"
Seems to me, the NCA is
missing a good publicity bet
by not sponsoring a spine
tingling (ho-ho, get it?) soap
opera like the medicals have.
Think Of the good will they
could generate with a hand
some young chiropractor hero
unselfishly mushing through
the blizzard to rub farmer
Browns aching back while
the dastardly neighborhood
MD is holding the farmers
daughter prisoner in the hay
loft.
I can see the thrilling fin
ish now-the Chiro and the
MD Slugging it out, up and
down through the COW stalls.
amid the piteous lowing Of
the terrified herd.
I tell you If the chiroprac-
tors want to get ahead of
the doctors in the healing
arts they've got to go out
and get a good Crosley rat
ing on TV.
Ga r.
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Qualification

Since a recent SuggeS-
ton of mine to the Arlington
County Board appears to
have been misunderstood,
may I set the record straight?
My suggestion was not that
the bridges be closed to law
abiding persons seeking to
enter Arlington County. l am
sure that Virginia would al
ways extend its traditional
hospitality to anyone in dis
tress. My suggestion was:
That the Police Department
be authorized to reach an
agreement with the proper
authorities of the Federal
Government and the District
of Columbia looking to the
closing to traffic of the draws
of the Fourteenth Street and
Memorial Bridges whenever
such action would be helpful
in controlling public disorder
arising from any cause.
Since that was written, we
have witnessed two automo-
bile thieves, racing at speeds
in excess of 100 miles per
hour, up the Shirley Highway
and across the Fourteenth
Street Bridge. They crashed
into a barricade at the north
end of the bridge and wrecked
the stolen car they were driv-
ing. Arlington policemen, risk
ing, their lives, were in hot
pursuit. If those policemen
could have phoned ahead to
the bridge tenders to close the
heavy gates, a road block
would have been created, the
thieves would have been hope
lessly trapped, the owiier of
the stolen car would probably
not have had his auto
wrecked, and the policemen
would not have had to follow
so closely or at such dan
gerouSly high speeds.
Frank G. Campbell.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry lDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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Ask an Even Break

Harvey H. Hewitt "a reas-
oning MANS surely able to
reason that Negroes do not
ask association with whites;
they ask only convenient, de-
cent accommodations in re-
turn for their money. in es-
Establishments indicating their
purpose to be service to the
public.
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100 Years Ago

President Lincoln, heart
sick over the Civil Wars
blood-letting, was particular
ly saddened as the conflict
took the lives Of his own
friends. One of these victims
was Edward Dickinson Baker.
member Of a group of
Springfield, Ill, lawyers
Lincoln, Douglas. Browning,
TrumbulD who had gone on
to make a mark in politics.
Baker and Lincoln were once
rival Wing candidates for
congressional nomination.
Baker triumphed and served
in the goth Congress. Lin
coin won a seat two terms
later. Baker moved to Oregon
and became a Republican
Senator. He was the only
representative of his party
sent from the West Coast to
support Lincoln's administra-
ton. Baker introduced the
new President around at the
Capitol on Inauguration Day.
Lincoln liked Ned" Baker so
well that he named his Sec
ond (short-lived son Edward
Baker Lincoln. Having fought
in the Black Hawk and Mexi-
can Wars, Baker was back in
uniform as a 50-year-old
colonel when the Civil War
got underway. At this time
a century ago, Gen. McClel-
lan's long inactive Army of
the Potomac made a move
into Virginia at Balls Bluff,
near Leesburg, 30-odd miles
from Washington. The bank
there rises about $50 feet
above the Potomac. Brig.
Gen. Charles P. Stone, COM
handing the Union force,
was ordered to make a Slight
demonstration" 1t turned
into a massacre, as Confed-
crates poured a hail Of lead
down the bluff at Federal
troops led by Col. Baker.
Baker was among hundreds of
Union casualties. His death
highlighted the news for sew
eral days as The Star report
ed details of the Balls Bluff
fight, which took place Oc-
tober 81, 1861. This paper
said the next day: 1.-THE an
nouncement of the death of
this gallant officer has
caused the deepest sorrow in
this city, where be was so
we'll known and was held in
such general esteem. At the
White House, the news had
additional poignance from
the warm personal regard ex-
listing between the President
and the deceased. President
Lincoln, in fact, seems to
have felt the loss as if of a
brother, and walked the floor
Of his room through the
night in the greatest grief.
1t was the desire of the
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FROM THE STAR FILES. .

Balls Bluff; and no wonder.
General Orders issued by
Mcclellan said it was a case
Of the bluecoats being "over-
whelmed," having but LOO
men against 5000 rebels. The
same day, Richmond papers
said the Confederate victory
was especially impressive,
since the South was outnum-
bered $500 against 10000.
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President ana Mrs. Lincoln
that the body Of Col. Baker
should be taken to the White
House and placed in the East
Room. but the house being
Just now in the hands of the
upholsterers, that course was
not practicable and the body
will be brought to the III
street, residence Of Major
H. Webb, in this city. :"
Lincoln learned of Bakers
death at the War Depart
ment, and those who saw him
leave the building said he
CROPPED his way through the
door, blinded by tears.) Gen
eral Orders No. 81, issued
by Gen. Mcclellan, and
printed in The Star on
October %, 1861, said: a.. =.
The gallant dead has many
titles to honor. At the time
of his death he was a mem
Der of the United States Sen
ate and it is no injustice to
any survivor to say that one
of the most eloquent voices
in that illuStrious body has
been Silenced by his fall. AS
a patriot, jealous for the
honor and interest of his
adopted country Baker was
born in England he has
now sealed with his blood
his devotion to the national
flag. Cut off in the fullness
of his power as a states
man, and in the course of a
brilliant career as a soldier,
while the country mournS his
loss, his brothers in arms
will envy while they lament
his fate. He died as a soldier
would wish to die, amid the
shock of battle, by voice and
example animating his men
to brave deeds. =" The Star
of October "A, 1861 reported
the funeral services for Baker,
held at the Webb home,
were attended by an i'm
mense throng" that included
President and Mrs. Lincoln,
the cabinet, Chief of Staff
Winfield Scott, the Supreme
Court justices and members
of the Senate and House. In
giving details of the battle,
an Associated Press dispatch
to The Star said Col. Baker
was killed while in the act
of pushing a cannon forward,
with his shoulder to the
wheel" Historians disagree
on the size of the action at
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Who's There?

The average Christian is
not aware of the fact that
the World Council of
Churches seeks to admit
the Communist dominated
churches. Congratulations.
therefore. to DR.. Harris.
Chaplain of the United
States Senate, for his revela-
ton entitled Who's There?"
Virginia Methodist
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so Years AGO

Five thousand miles by au-
tomobile in just three
months! That's what the au-
tomobiliSt called living it up
so years ago. The Star of
october Is, 1911, reported a
party of seven motorists had
passed through here en- route
to Nashville, Tenn, having
covered over 5000 miles
since leaving that place July
10 last. They have been liv-
ing in a six-cylinder Locomo-
bile during the long tour,
which included Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ohio, New York,
the New England States and
into Canada. They carried
two tents and air mattresses
for each person. Stops were
frequently made at hotels.
but when night came and no
hotels were convenient, camp
was struck for the night in
the woods. w. M. Leftwich,
a prominent engineer of
Nashville, piloted the party.
The tourists left here a few
days ago in order to reach
home before the fall weather
sets in. -"
The new 1912 automobile
models came out so years ago.
The self-starter was being
plugged as "the thing. Chal-
mers advertised a compressed
air Self-Starter which also in
flateS tires" But more eye
catching was a layout of pic
lures in The Star of october
Is, 1911, showing half a dozen
classy coupeS - which had
many advantages over the
common touring car" Pic
tured were the Overland Co.
lonial Coupe, Chalmers 80
Coupe, abbott Detroit
Coupe, Flanders Electric,
Cole Queen Anne Coupe"
and the Regal 20 Coupe"
When Chicago observed
the 40th anniversary of its
great fire of 1871, The Star
reported on October 9, 1911
that the blame had been
shifted from Mrs. O'Leary's
COW. Michael Ahern. the last
living police reporter who
covered the fire, said it was
true the blaze had started
in the O'Leary COW shed, but
that it was caused by some
one who had gone there to
steal milk-and not by any
one of the five O'Leary cows.