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Evening star., 1961-04-06
BY the Associated Press

Arnold Sagalyn, Arlington
newspaper executive, today was
appointed director of the
Treasury'S Office of Law En-
forcement Coordination.
Mr.. Sagalyn, AZ, has been as
sistant publisher of the North
ern Virginia Sun in Arlington
since 1857. He is a resident
of Alexandria.
In his new job he will advise
Treasury Secretary Dillon on
law enforcement policy and CO.
ordinate Treasury enforcement
activities in the Coast Guard,
Internal Revenue Service,
Secret Service, Bureau of Mar
cotics and Bureau of Customs.
Before World War II Mr..
Sagalyn helped reorganize the
police department in Cleveland.
After the war he played a sim
liar role in reorganizing the
West German police system. A
native of Springfield, Mass, he
once worked on the staff of the
New York Times and on Life
magazine.
He is the fourth of the Ar
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Lower-Priced
Homes. Likely,
Builder Says
BY j. A. OLEARY
Star Staff Writer

A spokesman for the home
building industry told Congress
today builders are being en-
couraged to develop lower
priced homes, just as the auto
mobile industry has turned to
compact cars.
Il do not mean by this that
it will necessarily be a small
house, but rather good houses
that are suitable for low-in-
come families in all parts of
the country" said E. J. Burke,
president of the National Asso-
citation of Home Builders.
Testifies at Hearing
He was testifying before the
Senate Housing Subcommittee
on the Kennedy proposals to
experiment with 40-year, no
down-payment mortgages to
make new homes available in
the $4,000 to $4,000 price
range.
Mr.. Burke said his group be-
lieveS this experiement is
worth while and may offer a
means of placing good housing
within the reach of many who
cannot meet the down pay
ments and monthly payments
of existing FHA-backed mort
cages.
Limits Raised
The NAHB also supported
the Presidents plan to encour-
age rehabilitation of more ex-
listing homes by expanding the
ment program. The pending bill
would raise the limits on i'm
provement loans from $500 for
five years to $4,000 for 25
years.
The home builders organiza-
ton questioned the wisdom oi
some parts of the administra-
ton bill and opposed others.
One of the provisions it op-
posed would terminate the au-
thority of FHA to insure hous-
ing loans on October l, 1865.
The builders have always sup
ported an unlimited extension
of FILA authority.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Labor Bargaining
To Be Discussed

The Bureau Of National At
fairs, Inc, will conduct its
eighth annual spring briefing
sessions on collective bargain
ing in seven cities this year.
The first BNA session will be-
gin here Friday at the Execu-
tive House.
Speakers at the Friday brief
ing will include John D. Stew
art. executive editor Of BNA;
Edward H. Donnel, managing
editor, Daily Labor Report;
Howard j. Anderson, managing
editor, Labor Relations Re-
porter; Donald F. Farwell,
managing editor of Collective
Bargaining Negotiations and
Contracts, and Dan Harbour
managing editor of Report for
Business Executive.
Evening star., 1961-04-06


Despite general agreement
that the recession is ending,
the Secretary said. the economy
faces "a continuing and urgent
challenge" in the fight against
unemployment.
He estimated that about 7.S
million new jobs must be pro-
vided in the next IL months
to reduce joblessness to 4 per
cent of the labor force. Four
per cent, which would trans
late into about 3.2 million un-
employed workers. is the ad-
ministration's interim goal.
Figure for March
Unemployment last month
totaled SIS million, equivalent
to a seasonally adjusted rate
of SO per cent.
To provide 7.3 million jobs
Mr.. Goldberg said. the Nation
would have to increase produc-
ton of goods and services from
the current rate of about $500
billion to $500 billion.
An increase Of this magni-
tude is far beyond the admin
istration's present expectations
Budget Director David E. Bel
earlier this week said the ad-
ministration expects total pro-
ductiion to reach an annual
rate of about $500 billion in the
October-December quarter.
Mr.. Goldberg declined to ex-
press an opinion about whether
the administrations programs
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Arlington Publisher
Gets Treasury Post

lington newspapers executives
to join the administration.
Clayton Fritchey, chairman
Of the board, is an aide to
United Nations Ambassador
Adlai E. Stevenson; George w
Ball, general counsel, is now
Undersecretary Of State for
Economic Affairs. and Philip
Stern, editor and publisher, is
Deputy Assistant Secretary OF
State for Public Affairs.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Donute Blood

All "a members Of the Fire
Departments new training
school travelled in full uniform
yesterday to donate blood to
the American Red Cross.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Goldberg Hints Need
For Further Spurs
BY LEE Nj. COHN
star Staff Writer

Labor Secretary Goldberg sounded cautionary note to
optmstS today declaring that the economys upn will not
necessarily reduce unemployment to acceptable levels
Without saying specifically Mr.. Goldberg limited that
he favors Government programsbeyond those already
recommended BY the ADMINISTRATION the
Evening star., 1961-03-06
Poor AuquY

If Nikita KhruShchev is really as in
terested as he has claimed to be in i'm
proving Soviet-American relations, then
he certainly is going about the task in a
strange way, with deeds that altogether
belle his words. The latest case in point
is his behavior toward United States
Ambassador Thompson; to put it mildly,
1t is behavior that seems in some ways to
amount to studied rebuff, If not an af-
front, to President Kennedy
Thus. for almost full week now,
ever since his return to Moscow from
Washington, Mr.. Thompson has been
trying to deliver to the Soviet Premier
personal message from the President.
But Mr.. KhruShchev has declined to
make himself available to the ambaSsa-
dor. Instead, he has gone off on an ex-
tended agricultural" tour far from the
Russian capital, and there is ample rea-
son to suspect that he has done so in
deliberate effort to indicate that he
lacks interest in what Mr.. Kennedy has
written and is therefore in no hurry to
read it.
Moreover, despite this ill-mannered
display, Mr. Thompson has informed the
Soviet Foreign Ministry that he is will
ing to go anywhere and at any time"
to present Mr.. Kennedys letter to Mr..
KhruShchev Up to now, however, no re-
sponse has been made to this offer, and
so the Presidents message remains un-
delivered. The Russian leader apparent
ly intends to let some more time pass
before he deignS to receive 1t, and he
thus has put the damper on another
effort to set In motion diplomatic con-
versations designed to generate an at
moSphere conducive to serious negotia-
tion-including an eventual summit
meeting-aimed at promoting progress
toward a decent, trustworthy and en-
during global peace.
Clearly, it strains credulity to sug-
geSt that mere inadvertence or happen
stance accounts for Mr.. KhruShchev's
out town unavailability to Mr.
Thompson as bearer of an important
communication from Mr. Kennedy. On
the face OF things, there can be little
doubt that the Soviet Premier knows
precisely what is going on In this matter
and that his unpleasant, almost con-
temptuous treatment Of our ambassador
Is carefully calculated gesture meant,
among other things, to serve the Krem
Inns ceaseless effort to belittle our coun-
try before the world.
Possibly, just possibly, this is too
severe a view Of Mr.. KhrushchevS mo-
tiveS. Nevertheless, coupled with his
governments sinister and dangerous
policies as regards places like Laos and
the Congo, his conduct toward Mr..
ThompSon-and therefore toward the
President Of the United States-haS all
the earmarks Of being not only bad
manners but also q poor augury for
efforts to bring about an early easing Of
international tensions.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
SpoiIsport

While the idea Of economy In
government has an almost unassailable
virtue, Protocol Chief Angler Biddle
Duke seems unlikely to win any popular
ity contests by suggesting that our
diplomats abroad spend too much money
entertaining. Surely Mr.. Duke would
not wish to deprive our ENJOYS in such
hardship posts as London, Paris and
Rome the simple pleasure Of few big
parties now and then, or to question
seriously the vast amounts Of good will
that have flowed from entertaining the
natives. And how about visiting Con-
gressmen, for example, or even visiting
protocol officers, whose essential studies
Of foreign operations hardly could be
carried out in a social vacuum? This
preaching Of austerity on the far-flung
frontiers, new or old, is disturbing, Mr..
Duke. Are you against red-white-and-
blue ice cream In Accra. for instance,
on the Fourth OF July2 Come, come!
Evening star., 1961-03-06
Cold War VS.. Hot Music

Leonid Utyosov, Russian musicolo-
gist, may have put his foot through the
bass drum. This is equivalent to getting
things pretty well fouled up. 1t always
requires a new drum, and usually
prompts the enlistment Of new
drummer. With things operating as
they do in the Soviet Union, it also may
mean the end Of Mr.. Utyosov's career
as an honored muSicologiSt and Peoples
Artist" Mr.. Utyosov seems to be out
Of harmony, so to speak, with the party
line in Moscow's politico-cultural circles.
He takes issue, for example, with
the dogma that jazz is a decadent form
Of Western imperialist- colonialiSt music
Sometimes, he says, 1t is wonderful,
and he mentions our own George
Gershwin and Jerome Kern as COM
posers who have made fine contribu-
tions to the worlds library Of music.
BY itself, this might be considered
heresy In a country that does not
tend off1cially to love things American
and that has specifically forbidden
visiting American musicians to include
Jazz numbers in their repertoire behind
the Iron Curtain. Indeed, Moscow even
refused to allow Louis Armstrong, one
Of our foremost "hot trumpets," to visit
the Soviet fatherland at all.
But while giving American Negroes
generous bow for their part in the
development Of jazz, which our Web
sters dictionary says probably was Of
African origin, Mr.. Utyosov does some
thing Of an about-face by asserting that
the whole beat" really started down
Odessa way. In most cases, this claim
of origin might be considered good
respectable Russian Communist doctrine.
In these days Of seeking to win friends
in the heart of Africa, however, 1t also
might be considered faux pas, or its
Russian equivalent, in Moscow, II not
in Odessa.
Evening star., 1961-03-06

Of his brothers program is
about to appear in the Con-
greSS. What worked so we'll
in resolving the rules fight
will no doubt become stand
ard White House technique
until Congressman are no
longer susceptible to coercion
or until a browbeaten public
rules otherwise.
James Bishop Thomas.
BY its refusal to clear the
bill to televiSe House pro-
ceedingS and the bill to bring
under regular Congressional
scrutiny the budgets of GER
tain agencies who by some
Liberal legerdemain, are now
exempt from this scrutiny,
the Kennedy -Rayburn pres
ence" in the House Rules
Committee has already de-
frauded those honest, but
ill-advised people who. al
though opposed to much OF
Mr.. Kennedy's program, felt
that the full Congress should
have the right to vote on ell
bills.
C.. T. Hellmuth.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
PULPIT to School Board

Members OF the Fairfax
County School Board deserve
sincere congratulations for
their recent decision in re-
gard to integrated athletics
in the Fairfax County school
system.
The Fairfax Unitarian
Church has long felt con-
cern with the progress Of in
tegration In the county and
this decision Is q very en-
couraging sign. Until total
desegregation Is achieved. Of
course, ours will be neither a
free nor an equal society. and
we will still have second
class citizenship. Such q
step as this hopefully will be
a harbinger Of other steps to
come.
One can hope that when
the grant OF local option Is
achieved, the school board
will continue their inspiring
efforts toward an integrated,
democratic society in Fairfax
County.
Rudolph w. NemSer,
Minister,
Fairfax Unitarian Church
= =
In regard to the actions Of
the Fairfax County School
Board desegregation on var
sity sports, ! believe anybody
with q fair degree Of intelli-
gence will assume that the
school boards actions were
based on the fact that they
did not want to feel the lash
of a court decision on them.
Let's face facts: A Supreme
Court decision Is . powerful
weapon to be armed with and
the courts will follow the doc
trine Of stare decisis. I be-
lieve the Supreme Court de-
cision Of May II, 1947. Is an
invasion and Is taking away
States rights. The States
made the Federal Govern
ment, the Federal Govern
ment did not m a ke the
States.
However, all Is not lost;
an amendment to the Consti-
tuition will give the States
back their rights, and the
latter amendment will super
sede the previous amendment.
favor an amendment to
provide in substance that:
There shall be no interfer-
ence with or limitation upon
the power Of any State to
regulate health. morals, edu-
cation, domestic relations.
transportation wholly within
its borders. all property rights.
elections and exclusive
jurisdiction thereof Is re-
served to the States"
Edgar C. Partl0w.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
Rules HossIe

While liberals continue to
rejoice over the Kennedy vic
tory in the House rules fight,
thoughtful Americans would
do well to consider the means
that made it possible. There
is mounting evidence that
massive White House inter-
vention turned the tide Of
battle against the conserva-
tives and saved the day for
Mr.. Sam. Many reasons have
been offered to justify the
change in the Rules Com
mittee but the fact remains
that to bring this change the
White House found it neces-
sary to employ some pretty
strong arm methods.
Now there is certainly
nothing improper in the
Presidents using the prestige
Of his office or the charm
of his person to influence
legislators, but is it quite
another matter when some
one under his orders threat
ems congressman with loss Of
status and position If their
votes are not cast a certain
way.
The point that President
Kennedy seems to overlook
is that while Congress may
at times represent a road
block to his programs it also
represents the wants and de-
sires of all the people and
that If 1t is to fulfill its re-
sponsibilities to them 1t must
be free from artificial re-
straints. In other words,
Congressman should have to
answer only to the people
who elected them and not to
the likes Of Stewart Udall or
Bobby Kennedy.
There Is no indication,
however, that this is going
to happen in the immediate
future. There is. in fact,
evidence that elaborate dos
siers are being prepared on
Congressional Conservatives.
So in all probability we will
continue to witness massive
arrn-twisting q, Ia Bobby
Kennedy each time a portion
Evening star., 1961-03-06
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Yellow FeverF FIoreup Activotes Army
By THOMAS r. HENRY

viously sick monkeys In the
treetops.
During the present expedi-
ton no such colonies were
found but a very large collec-
ton of insects on various
birds and animals which
might act as disease carriers
was made.
Bubonic plague, scourge
Of the middle ages, still may
threaten the western world.
Supposedly the germs Of
the dread m alady were
spread by fleas Of the do
mestic rat to man and then.
with devastating speed, from
man to man. Literally mil
lions have persisted.
1t now is believed, how
ever, that the germs are not
confined to the domestic rat
but may be carried by most
members Of the great rat
family and by various sorts
Of 1eas. Plague bacilli have
been isolated from IS species
Of this family from the
ground squirrel to the great
capybarra of Central Amer
ican jungles, by far the
largest of the rodents. A
total Of IS species and sub
species of fleas parasitic on
these rodents have been i'm
plicated.
Finding of as many Of
these rodent plague foci as
possible was a major OBJ
jective Of an Army entomo-
logical expedition which
spent two weeks In the ex-
tremely dense jungleS Of
Darien.
Colombia Hit
Considerable plague lately
has been reported in Colom-
bia directly south Of Pana-
ma. It has not yet appeared
In Panama itself or in the
Canal Zone. but the object
of the expedition was to To-
cate as many vectors as pos
sible by which this might
happen.
Man, it is stressed by Capt.
Upton, leader of the expedi-
ton which was carried out
in cooperation with the
Gorgas Memorial Institute.
seldom comes in direct ply
sical contact with jungle ro-
dents. These do, however.
come in contact with rats
which live around houses, to
whom they transmit their
germ-carrying neas.
Plague has supposedly
been transmitted by one
species of flea to which all
members of the rodent race
are highly susceptible. An
objective Of the expedition
was to collect all sorts Of
these creatures and to search
for immune bodies in the
blood Of rat-like creatures,
showing that they have at
some time been victims OF
plague or q very similar
malady.
Evening star., 1961-03-06

Undoubtedly without in
tending to, Samuel r. Saks
in his letter criticizing Con-
gresham Kowalski's efforts
to bring about better man
power policies in the armed
services has given strong sup
port to Mr.. Kowalski's efforts.
If a former personnel officer
in the Army can conclude
that the best use we can
make Of Army enlistees is to
use them for grocery bagging
and mixing Martins and
some Of the other assignments
which Mr.. Kowalski has
brought to public attention,
then all I can say is that the
Army and the other services
need new personnel policies.
Would Mr.. Saks want his
son to enlist or be drafted.
only to be given the task Of
shining an officers shoes, or
acting as housemaid for a
generals wife, or bagging
groceries In q commisSary?
We ask our young people
to enlist in the military
services to help in the de-
fense Of our country. Are we
keeping faith with them when
the services decide they
should be servants or bar
tenders?
Let's use servicemen for
defense. Let's save the mil
lions Of dollars now being
wasted by the military brass
and beef up our defenses at
the same time. I say bravo,
Representative Kowalski, and
keep telling the American
people the truth.
Robert Grades.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
Maryland Taxes

Since the end Of World
War II, the population of
Montgomery County has al
most .tripled. its school pop
ulation has quintupled. This
tremendous growth has Gre
ated a serious need for more
money. In addition, as
pointed out by the Financial
Advisory Committee, THE
financial problems that lie
ahead are equally as fore
boding as those which the
county has already solved. -"
The question Of how to
raise additional funds has
been a topic Of considerable
discussion. Should the Mont
gomery County Council have
the right to levy additional
taxes?
The League Of Women
Voters of Montgomery Coun-
ty believes that the place for
discussing local taxes is
Rockville, the county seat,
not Annapolis, the State
capital. In support of its po-
sition favoring broader local
taxing powers. taken after
thorough study. the league
would like to point out that:
/. Montgomery County has
a charter form Of home-rule
government. How effective
is this home rule, however,
II not extended to fiscal mat
ters?
2. The State Of Maryland
provides for a minimum pro-
gram Of welfare and educa-
ton, but encourages coun-
ties to go beyond these min
imum standards. Montgom-
cry County. therefore, should
be able to levy taxes to give
citizens a higher-than-mini-
mum level of services, If
citizens are willing.
8. Counties needs vary
greatly according to cost Of
living, and location. Mont
gomery County has problems
other counties may not have.
1t needs money to meet these
particular problems.
4. Taxes should be levied
where spent to encourage
local fiscal responsibility.
Mrs. William A. Schell,
President, League Of Women
Voters Of Montgomery
County.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
View of Conoo

Dag Ha mmar SIX old S
tough" ultimatum demand
ing the withdrawal of all
Belgians from the Congo was
bound to facilitate the killing
and raping Of Belgian women
and children who still remain
there. Rajeshwar Dayal re-
ported that the U. N. forces
had tried TO persuade the
(Lumumbist) invaders to
withdraw peacefully" but to
no avail. It Is clear that such
policies will ultimately de-
stroy Tshombe, this rarity
among African leaders, who
clearly wishes to build the
future Of his land in CO.
operation with civilization
rather than with the assist
ance" Of communism.
How extraordinary in this
context was the statement by
Adlai Stevenson that the
USSR tries Ito destroy the
U. N. because 1t is an obstacle
to Soviet penetration of Gem
tral Africa" A formidable
obstacle indeed!
Khrushchev Is an old hand
in handling weaklings of the
Hammarskjold type. BY
roughing him UP he gets bet
ter cooperation from the
Secretary General than by
being polite. The fact that
the USSR has not vetoed the
recent pro Hammarskjold
vote shows that the Commu-
nists are well aware that In
the long ruin his policies are
seconding their own aims.
Daniel Wolkonsky.
Evening star., 1961-03-06
Prosperity and Wages

IN q Tree society Cle only
man who can justly fix wages
is he who has to pay them.
He alone knows what re-
sources he has to pay wages
and fix hours. For ten thou
sand years he has had this
power in every country.
For the Federal Govern
ment to butt in and fix
wages and hours" is a form
Of bad socialism" not au-
thorized by our Constitution,
and has steadily injured our
economy since it was started
in 1858.
The threat of a further
wage boost in industry and
trade is inching our economy
toward a depression. There
is evidence that the socialist
wages and hours" law will
lead to loss of jobs and high
er prices.
On May 8, 1858, the New
York Times featured a letter
by this writer, opposing the
proposed socialist interfer-
ence by the Federal Govern
ment with the American
wage structure on the ground
that States varied in the
amount of money they had in
banks to pay wages. 1t is an
American tragedy that the
past three socialist admin
istratiens should have been
so ignorant of basic economic
law as to believe that high
wages produce prosperity,
when 1T is prosperity alone
that produces high wages.
Prosperity must come first,
ana tnlS proposed wage law
would injure and might de-
stroy prosperity.
Our Constitution very defi-
nitely restricts Congress to
certain powers, specifically
set forth in Article One. No
where is Congress given the
power to dictate, set or fix
either wages or hours of work
in private employment. If
the Constitution had given
the central government such
socialistic powers, it would
not have been adopted by the
States in the first place.
BY Amendments Nine and
Ten in the Bill Of Rights, our
ancestors sought to forestall
such despotisrn.
Hudson DePriest.
Shelby, N. c.