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Evening star., 1961-06-28
Report on the Americas

Adlai E. Stevenson has made clear
In his talk to the National Press Club
that his recent 17,000-mile tour of South
America has left him with a slightly
bleak feeling. That is to say, he thinks
things are likely to 60 from bad to
worse down there unless all governments
concerned really start to carry out
reforms designed to promote genuine
social and economic progress.
At any rate, speaking as our chief
delegate to the United Nations Mr.
Stevenson has warned that action along
this line is absolutely imperative. AS he
has put 1t, mere declarations in favor
of human advancement are not enough;
they must be translated into specific
programs designed to bring about
changes for the better, and the leaders
of the countries involved must identify
themselves with these essential changes.
They must be for the people, and de-
mcnStrably for the people"
Mr.. Stevenson has made the further
point that unless or until a good begin
ing Is made toward this kind of progress,
our Western hemisphere system, our
Organization of American States, will
be in poor position to act collectively,
and effectively, against Cuba's threat
ening Communist regime under Dictator
Fidel CaStro-a regime actively engaged
in the sinister business of seeking to
subvert the Americas for the greater
honor and glory of the Krenllin and
Red Peiping.
This is something that speaks
pretty much for itself. AS Mr.. Steven
son has suggested, effective steps
against the threat can be taken in
August at the Montevideo conference
on hemisphere economic aid. In and Of
themselves, of course, cash loans and
grants cannot win the battle against
the Red menace in our hemisphere, but
if they are wisely used, they can do
much to Illustrate the Kremlin's OBJ
jectiveS.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
flexible Bargaining

AS the United Automobile Workers
union undertakes its new contract
negotiations with the Big Three, Walter
Reuther is maintaining position in
which there is remarkably little talk of
pay raises, proft-sharing and the other
monetary demands which have figured
so prominently in the past. Nor is this
surprising. For the dominant UAW
concern this year is with unemployment
and the increasing attrition OF jobs
problems which are not susceptible Of
solution by simple or clear-cut demands.
AT their meeting in April, the
delegates to the UAW convention placed
their major emphasis on annual salaries
instead of hourly wages and on shorter
work week-the historic labor answer
to unemployment It was nearly rs
years ago that Samuel Gompers declared
that $50 long as there is one man who
seeks employment and cannot obtain
1t, the hours of labor are too long"
But in his own words Mr.. Reuther is
far more flexible on solutions" Thus
far, at least, there has been little
brandishing of the strike threat. Mr.
Reuther speaks Of many approaches to
"job security" in order to solve the
compelling human problems" plaguing
his membership. No one, of course, can
contest the goal of more stable en-
ployment force than now exists in the
automotive industry. AS one manage
ment official points out, however, it is
difficult to avoid lay-offs unless way
is found to stabilize consumption.
Fluctuating production schedules, more
over, are only one of the problems.
Automation has made possible the pro-
duction of more automobiles today than
in 1850 with about 1O0,O 900 fewer workers.
This is the crisis, Mr.. Reuther says,
Evening star., 1961-06-28
S0Iinqer's 'AIbotross'

! know how poor Mr.. Sal
niger must feel about the
Canadian press packet alba
troSs hung around his neck
by the United States Infor-
nation Agency in which he
was praised as "a dynamo
who resembles tireless COM
petence in motion-a jaunty
chunk Of q man whose af-
fable manner covers q steel
trap mind"
Many years ago, I drew q
short-lived comic strip for
the Jacksonville journal
called lotto for Congress. f"
in which q robot won the
congressional election.
My father, feeling that I
needed support for my strip,
asked some IS clerks working
in his local insurance agency
to write q letter to the editor
praising my work.
This they did, but horror
OF horrors, each wrote on
identical stamped post cards
that my well-intentioned dad
had furnished. You can i'm
agine how thrilled I was
when Mr.. Sanders, the editor,
gave me the cards and asked
If I wanted to be paid In
stamps on Saturday.
Since Mr.. Salinger has
Government franking privi-
leges, it is doubtful If his
boss will ask him the same
question about stamps, but
please, Mr.. Murrow, 60 easy
on the praise lest We slay
the one ye love.
NJ
Evening star., 1961-06-28
THE PASSING SCENE
Mao Keeps Eye on Khrushchev
BY RALPH McGHL

Stain, that wicked mans
picture began to come down
from Chinese walls. He was
no longer in communism's
apostolic succession Of Marx,
Engels and Lenin.
Mao has waited, silent but
aggressive In his own area,
while Mr.. Khrushchev con-
solidated his power at home.
While the denunciation of
Stain has never been pub
lished in Russia as Mr..
Khrushchev delivered it, the
people know Of 1t.
Khrushchev Blast at Stain
But now Soviet readers sud-
denly are given access to q
brutal smashing of the Stain
image as q war hero-aS q
leader whose word for so
many years was lava law
before which even Mr.. Khru-
shchev quailed. Does this
mean q stronger Khrushchev
-or one who needs to bolster
himself. Mao will watch this
closely.
Soviet press reviews Of the
histories Of the Second World
War declare Stain respons-
ible for the early defeats of
Russia and the CHASTITY loss
of life and property. (The
Russians may have suffered
as many as 20 million or
more casualtieS.) Down.
graded, too, are the marshals
whom Stain had made heroes
Gen. Eisenhower'S friend,
Georgi Zhukov, and famed
Semyon Timoshenko, who
used to smile when he was
referred to as an Irish gen.
eral-Tim O'Shenko.
Stain had been raised to
the height Of literal worship
because Of his infallible di-
rection of the war. He was
the savior Of Mother Russia.
Now come the war histories
as written by Mr.. Khru-
shchev's government. They
tell the people what almost
certainly is true-that Stain,
who had made the cynical
pact with Hitler, thereafter
ignored private warnings
from Great Britain that Hit
Ter was preparing an attack
on his new ally. Pravda now
publicly links both the mar
shals, the most decorated he
roes Of the war, with. Stain
as having been careless and
irresponsible.
To have the three de-
nounced for all the massive
loss of life and the shatter-
ing suffering of the Soviet
people cannot do other than
create a sensation. The people
had heard about Mr.. Khru-
shchev's private downgrading
Of Stain. Now they may read
that the former dictator was
responsible for the death Of
their sons and families.
And who was right-who
sought to persuade Stain to
see the error Of his ways?
Why, none other than Nj
kita Khrushchev. then .
Ukrainian political leader.
All this will interest Mao.
1t will make him more pa
tient-and active.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Peace Corps Critic

While Americas doomed
to-failure Peace Corps re-
ceives plenty of ballyhoo,
Russia follows practical plans
and brings 1000 Cuban
youths, and those from SO
other countries, to Moscow,
where they are taught trades
and skills, brainwashed in
Marxism, and then sent back
among their own people. to
do for Russia, what our i'm
mature, inexperienced college
students Peace Corps will
never be able to do for Amer
lea.
If in countries that are
supposed to be friendly to
America, Adlai Stevenson's
visits to Peru, Chile and Bo-
livia. were greeted with Com
munist-incited mob riots, and
Eisenhower, Nixon and other
notable Americans treated
likewise, what assurance has
America that the Peace Corps
members will be treated any
differently?
Ralph J. Salvati.
Middleton, New York.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
New Presidential Adviser

The appointment of General Max
wen Taylor as military representative
Of the President" provides President
Kennedy with war-seasoned, highly
competent defense adviser at a time of
mohnting international tensions. Mr..
Kennedy undoubtedly has felt the need
for such close consultant on military
and intelligence matters ever since the
Cuban fiasco. With the Government
facing new crisis in Berlin and con-
tinuing problems In Asia and elsewhere,
the.counsel of such an authority on big
and "brushfire" wars as General Taylor
should be Of great value at the White
House.
Although the controversial general
will not have the title or the authority
exercised during World War II by Ad-
nniral Leahy, who was "chief Of staff"
to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, it
is clear that he will WELD considerable
power in military circles. Involving no
command powers and not being inter-
posed between the Joint Chiefs Of STAFF
and the President, the office in no sense
meets General Taylor's past proposals
for a super-chief of staff over all the
military branches. 1t appears, however,
to be compromise between the super
chief plan and the present Joint Chiefs
setup, which has been criticized by
General Taylor and others as tending
to promote vacillation and delay in
defense decisions.
Thus, the return to active duty in
a new top-level post Of General Taylor
presageS the revision of certain defense
policies followed under the Eisenhower
administration, particularly the tend
ency to rely more on massive retaliation
by nuclear weapons than on conventional
arms and armies. President Kennedy
already has indicated his feeling that
conventional arms should not be neg
lected, lest we be caught unprepared to
meet the threat of small wars in
scattered parts of the globe. General
Taylor warned of these threats and of
the necessity for preparing to counter
them In his book, "The Uncertain Trum-
pet" published after his retirement as
Army Chief Of Staff. He advocated
other military reforms, organizational
and tactical, in the much-debated book.
General Taylor'S appointment
amounts to an extension of his assign
ment by the President to study and
report on military planning and intel
ligence in connection with the Inflated
invasion of Cuba. The White House
made it plain that he will continue to
advise on intelligence as well as defense
problems If this duty will bring about
better liaison between the Defense De-
partment and the Central Intelligence
Agency, so much the better. Certainly
the President will have at his side
during the critical times ahead mill
tary expert of unquestioned ability,
experience and perception.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Walk Liqht's Color

Several years ago nv
grandson visited me and I
often took him to Washing
ton. He was 4 years old,
came from a suburb of New
York and had been very
well trained about observing
traffic lights. When we went
near Dupont Circle I had to
pick him up and carry him
because the walk" signs were
red and he had been taught
never to cross on a red light.
or course he couldn't read.
! am now trying to help
train another grandson, aged
2, who lives in Washington
and although he doesn't un-
derstand, yet I believe early
lessons about red and green
lights will eventually sink in.
I am faced with the same
problem on the walk" signs
and fear I win encounter the
same difficulty In q year or
so.
Not only New York City
but even Alexandria, Va,
have the walk" signs in
green and I feel that it is
a reasonable thing to ex-
pect Of Washington. In addi-
ton to children a problem
must exist not only for our
many foreign visitors but
also for the blind who are
led by seeing eye dogs.
Perhaps if this were
brought to the attention of
the proper authorities, the
bulbs in the walk" signs
could be changed to green
and would help not only
those who are trying to teach
traffic safety to small chill
dren but others as well.
Me- Hnpawxv D.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Preposterous'

Saturday evening with sew
eral friends I went out to
Glen Echo to enjoy the cool
air and get q bite to. eat.
On our arrival we were
confronted with q sign that
advised us a minimum of
Csc must be used in pur-
chasing rides and we found
it necessary to purchase
them before entering.
One of our party went to
the office to ask the official
why the charge and why it
was not given publicity so
people coming out for the
first time would know about
it. He could furnish no in
formation.
Whoever owns Glen Echo
may be within their rights
in charging a Csc admission
fee but I contend it is pre-
posterous to require adults,
particularly if unaccompan-
led by children, to buy rides
in order to enter the park.
At the age of so I cannot
see myself cavorting on a
merry-go-round or ferris
wheel.
Maryland is known as the
Free State but I submit that
such actions make the name
highly inappropriate.
DeIbert 7ardOn.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Decries Moon Trip
Karl M. Kunz.

I have read that the cost
to our Government Of q trip
to the moon might amount
to $50 billion or more. What
q wastel In addition, I re-
Gently read. it is expected to
result in the sacrifice of some
lives.
I would rather see the
money go towards reducing
the national debt. Instead,
it looks like our debt is going
still higher, what with the
large increases being made
in the civilian forces, more
positions being created in the
higher administrative brack-
cts, etc. Seems as If the
budget never will be bal
anced, and that we might
get in the fix Russia would
like to see us in.
I seriously doubt that man
will ever land on the moon.
I say, let Russia go ahead
and try to get there, and
also. If she can, hand on
Jupiter. Mars, or any other
planet, and see what good it
will do. A British historian,
Arnold j. Toynbee, recently
stated on a TV program that
the race to reach the moon
is "a childish competition, I"
and I imagine millions agree
with him.
Old Retiree.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
An Appeal

I write from the Sane
tuary, a refuge for homeless
dogs upon a hill-farm in
Southern Indiana. I am the
staff-the one fighting wom-
an who is trying to hold the
place together. In times past,
those who love dogs have
been good to US and so we
ask again, bearing in mind
our debt in gratitude.
We need food (of any
sort), old towels, blankets
or pieces. Just about any,
thing can find application
here.
Forty-five cold noses and
warm hearts salute you!
Louise Wood.
The Sanctuary, Route 2,
Box 264, Martinsville, Ind.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Graduation Gift

On behalf of the 1861
graduating class Of the
Washington Hospital Center
School Of Nursing / present
this check for the Summer
Camp Fund.
During the three years Of
nursing education we were
not only guided to learn the
principles and practice Of
nursing. but equally. If not
more. important, we expert
enced and gained insight
that one "can only be q real
happy person through help
ing others"
Personally, it gives me
great pleasure to be the one
chosen to send this check.
I have a special reason for
this.
When I was in Holland
in 1914. I was hungry and
cold. At that time, it seemed
that all my ideals were shat
tered and destroyed, people
were showing their worst side
and I began TO question
truth, and right, and God.
Then the American airplanes
came and dropped food. This
not only ended the hunger,
but 1t also gave me back
my ideals, and faith in man
kind.
These children, who are
sent to camps are not In
war. but still are fighting
for survival, just as I did
at that time. You under
stand, that 1t makes me very
happy to be able to help these
children from the country
which once helped me.
We not only wish the
'lucky ones to go to camp"
a wonderful time, but we
hope that they will bring
back new hope and courage
to continue their sometimes
heavy tasks.
I hope that they are also
able Gas I waS) to feel that
in spite Of everything I still
believe that people are really
good at heart. This will help
them to be better citizens
and happier persons.
Riet Vyfhuesin.
(The Star Is grateful to
Nurse Vyfhuesin, who came
here from Holland, and to
her sister nurses for the sos
contribution to the Summer
Camp Fund.-
Evening star., 1961-06-28

UNITED NATIONS, NY.
This really is q piece about
the new. official accusation
against the late Joseph Stain,
but it has a poem for q text.
In one of the few published
poems by Mao Tse-tung. Red
China's enigmatic ruler, this
auStere and determined man
reveals his consciousness Of
the far-stretching pageant of
Chinese history and, almost
certainly, his evaluation Of
himself as a man of destiny
and understanding who can
be patient.
The rise of Red China is,
without question, the one pro-
found international fact Of
our time-more meaningful,
even, than the nuclear power
Of Russia. That this steady
growth of Red Chinese power
inescapably is Of prime con-
sideration by the USSR may
not be doubted. The fact
that Mao is patient, and that
his silence reveals his belief
that in his area the tide
slowly is moving his way is
not lost to Moscow.
Reflects Macs View
The poem which reflects
Macs view Of history and
events is called 1.-THE Snow"
It repeatedly was written in
1945. According to biogra-
pher Robert Payne, Mao
writes poems during meetings,
or while idle, as other men
draw "doodles." "The Snow"
is in three stanzas. It con-
cludeS:
1.-THE Emperors Shih Huang
and WI Ii were hardly
lettered,
The Emperors Tai Tsung
and T'sai Tsu were
barely chivalrous.
For a whole generation Geng-
his Khan was q favorite
of Heaven,
But he knew only how to
bend his bow at the
eagles.
AL have passed away-only
today are there men Of
great feeling"
Mao Tse-tung did not like
Stain. And Stain returned
Q like feeling. In the begin
ming Of communism in China,
Stain directed it. It was a
badly botched plan, which
Mao opposed. He said that in
China the revolution must
begin with the peasants. The
Soviets based it in cities.
Chang Kai-shek, who had
been Moscow trained, deserted
the party and succeeded in a
quick strike for power.
At the PotSdam conference
Stain disowned the Chinese
Communists. He had a con-
temptuous d description Of
them. They were, he said,
like radishes, red on the out
side, but white inside. In
1945 Stain signed q treaty
with Chang, still unwilling
to believe Mao Tse-tung
would bring off his revolu-
ton. But Mao did manage it.
When 1t became necessary
for Mr.. Khrushchev and his
associates to downgrade
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Wan Case Recalled

Robert A. Mullen, in q letter
to The Evening Star. takes
Representative Fernand j.
st. Germain and two of his
colleagues to task for call
ing on the House of Repre-
sentatives to reject q bill
supported by a majority of
the House District Committee
which would modify the
Supreme Courts Mallory rul-
ing Of 1857. Mr.. Mullen quoted
from the Congressmen's mi
nority report:
Under this bill the police
could hold Q suspect incom-
municado for weeks, even
months, while they pursue
their questioning and then
use against him any con-
fession' or statement which
they extract from him"
He then states: IT have
lived in Washington since
1908. We have some pretty
sharp newspaper reporters in
this city. I read the papers.
In all these years / have
never heard of the Metro
politan Police doing what the
above mentioned Congress-
men charge that the police
will do II the above-men-
toned piece Of legislation Is
passed. :" Continuing, Mr..
Mullen stated: "The District
Of Columbia Is not Q police
state and never has been
even before the Mallory rul-
Ing"
A 1924 case, one Of several
that could be cited. clearly
shows, that, at least in the
past, the local police held q
suspect incommunicado for
twelve days while they pur-
sued their questioning and
then used against him the
confession" or Statement"
which they extracted from
him. In Wan v. United States,
266 U. s. /. the suspect was
taken by police to q private
hotel, and, without entering
his name in the hotel registry,
placed him in a bedroom on
an upper floor. In that par
ticular local hotel room he
was detained continuously one
week. Throughout the period,
he was sick and, most of the
time, in bed. The suspect could
not even see or talk to his
brother who the police were
subjecting to interrogation
in another room of the hotel.
The Supreme Court re-
versed the defendants con-
viction for murder on the
facts disclosed in the testi-
mony Of the then superin-
tendent Of police, three de-
tectives and the chief med
ical officer of the jail, and
held that the trial court
erred In admitting as ev-
idence statements made by
the defendant to the police
before and after his formal
arrest.
Surely, members Of the
local police force do not and
would not engage in such
unlawful la W enforcement.
today.
1t is my view that Rep
resentative st. German and
his two colleagues simply re-
member the paSt-which Mr..
Mullen obviously has forgot
ten.
Karl I'M. KunK.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names mag be used u
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. An let
ters are subject to condensG-
ttoH. Those not used 1DiIl Be
returned only trhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-06-28

This Is q fantasy with at
least q skeleton Of a factual
basis - q projection for Is
years into the future Of what,
in the light Of genetic facts
now known or speculated
about with some basis, Rus
slams may be doing.
It Is a rather grim warn
ing from DR.. R. A. Mcconnell
of the University Of Pitts
burgh, just published d
through the American In
stitute of Biological Sciences.
1t concerns the possibility of
producing a "super-race" of
a few thousand individuals.
DR.. Mcconnell pictures a hy-
pothetical Project G." which
might already be in its earli-
est stages and is based on
hereditary aspects Of human
intelligence.
Weird Predictions
Some Of DR.. McConnell's
predictions Of possibilities in
q little more than a decade:
Psychological testing by
electrical implements where
by creative scientific ability
and its supporting attributes
can be recognized as early
as five years after birth.
"a technique of ovum
transplantation. In 1887 the
Russians perfected a non-
operative method for recov-
ering an unfertilized egg
from q normal woman and
implanting it in the womb
of another after fertilization
under q microscope. The egg
develops normally and is
born as a child Of its foster
mother. In this way a female
genius can have one off
spring per menstrual period
instead of one per year and
can do so without interfer-
ing with her intellectual ac-
tivities.
"In a third technique the
Russians are using hormones
to- induce temporary sexual
maturity in both male and
female as early as age 8. The
drugs are administered only
long enough to produce
sperm and eggs which can
be removed, united and i'm
planted in a fully grown
woman for pregnancy and
birth as described above.
There is apparently no per-
manent disruption of the
normal life cycle of the child
thereafter, nor impairment
of later physical and intel
lectual vigor. Now it will be
possible to produce succeed
ing generations of man as
fast as a child's developing
brain allows the selection of
desirable characteristics.
"The fourth and in many
ways most dynamic discovery
Is q method of inducing Sc
lective mutations by chemi-