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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
Peace Corps Staff

If the Peace Corps bill
passes in the form in which
it left the House, Congress
should explain to the tax
payers the rationale behind
its action to give the Corps
$40 million with which to
carry out a program and at
the same time eliminating
provision for employment of
persons who are capable of
rendering the kind Of guild
ance, direction and supervi-
sion necessary to administer
such a program.
The exception of 30 posi-
lions requested by the adj
ministration was not an ex-
travagant request.
The Peace Corps has been
in operation for six months
and already has training pro-
grams in operation for IL
projects. Most of this prog
greSs can be attributed to the
consultants on the Washing
ton staff of the Peace Corps
who came to Washington on
less than a weeks notice,
worked night and day, week
ends and holidays, without
remuneration for months
after their arrival, having
given up better-paying Jobs,
and moved their families to
Washington at their own ex-
pense, simply because they
believed in the Peace Corps
idea and wanted to make it
work.
Unless the program can be
administered by persons well
qualified to do the job and
dedicated to the idea, the
program will suffer.
This is a new venture In
our foreign policy. It gives
many of us new hope for
peace. Politics should play no
role in determining its sue
cess or failure. The denial Of
provision for necessary SUI
perviSion to do a little job
well can only be construed
as irresponsible handling of
taxpayers funds.
VerneIl Winstead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
Out of the Red

1t is ironic, but nonetheleSs graft
Tying, that after one of the most hectic
and confusing periods of financial
crisis in the city's history, the District
has emerged on the most solid fiscal
basis it has enjoyed for several years
AS agreed upon by House and Senate
confereeS, the new revenue bill will
provide an operating surplus of several
million dollars this year, funds which
of course will be put to good use in
helping to finance the 1868 fiscal year
budget now in preparation.
AS far as we are concerned, the
imposition of portion of the total tax
package might just as we'll have been
deferred. The new tax on real estate
transfers, for example, and the earlier
payment date of the business franchise
tax, were hardly essential when the
sales tax increase (Which also was
adopted) was sufficient in itself to off
set a $5.4-million deficit in the $270-
million city budget.
BY far the bulk of the surplus,
however, resulted from a separate pro-
vision which was in the nature of an
added Starter-making the District
eligible to participate along with the
States and with such territories as
Guam in the program of school aid to
Federally impacted areas. In the Dis
trict, some AZ per cent of all school
children are in families involving
Federal employment. In Montgomery
County, the figure is 81 per cent. 1t
scarcely makes sense that the District
should be excluded when such areas as
Montgomery receive these much-needed
benefits. Nor should participation in
this program be related to the annual
Federal payment to the District, for
this payment historically is in con-
Sideration of the Federally tax-exempt
land-amounting to about so per. cent
of the total-in the District and the
many municipal services provided for
the Federal Government.
1t should be emphasized also that
the confusion which has marked the
handling of District fiscal affairs in
Congress this year occurred through no
fault of the city. The basic fault lay
in the failure of Congress to resolve the
issue of new tax revenues early-before
the Appropriations Committees were
forced to make specific decisions on the
budget. AS a result of this delay, the
Appropriations Committees had to work
in the dark to cut the budget cloth
without knowing for certain what the
pattern of available revenues would be.
Now that it is done, of course,
District officials UNDERSTANDABLE are
heaving signs of relief. Certainly
surplus is better to live with than
deficit. We hope, however, that the
additional revenues to become available
this year will permit the District to
return to the orderly processes of
budgeting which were routine until
few years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
THE PASSING SCENE
Free World Challenge: Save u. N.
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

its Western Allies, could live
if the U. N. went altogether
down the drain. So, too. could
the Soviet bloc. But the UNI
doubted, the inevitable, the
hopeless losers would be those
very same small neutral
Asian and African countries
to which the Soviet Union
is now addressing its propa-
ganda appeals. std
What the Soviet Union is
asking them to do, in hatred
of something now largely
gone that once was Western
colonialism," is to cooper
ate with the Soviet Union in
smashing forever the one
forum which gives them any
place, any power. any voice
in the worlds affairs.
Neutrals' Future at Stake
Thus, the historic challenge
which autumn now brings to
the West is to save the U. N.
and to save the future for
the newly independent neu-
trals-in spite of themselves.
No one here underestimate
the Somber task.
The United States and 9TH
ers in the West supported
the moderate Mongi Slim of
TuniSia to be the new Presi-
dent of the General Assem-
bly,. His first action in a post
supposed to be impartial was
to take a partisan line in
favor of immediate and total
independence of French Al
geria and Portuguese Angola.
We must ask, and are ask
ing, our old French and
Portuguese allies to swallow
this, and their pride along
with it. For the plain if
highly unpleasant fact is
that we must go along with
the Afro-Asians unless we
wish to see the Soviet Union
at length standing triumph
ant over the broken body Of
the U. N. And Mr.. Slim, him
self, whatever his personal
convictions, was also speak,
ing from political necessity.
He, too, must avoid the hos
tility of the Afro-Asians. He,
too, must campaign for flu
ture support in that quarter.
So the last struggles of the
American Congress go little
noted and little marked this
time-even by the President,
who normally would have
little eye or thought for any,
thing else. For the departure
of this Congress marks the
arrival of ultimate crisis for
another and a larger con-
gress which, for all its in
furiating weaknesses, is yet
better than the anarchy that
would follow its fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
Rates and Profits

On September IL, your fl
nancial page carried a lead
article headed Washington
Gas Light Proposes 2-for-1
Split and Raises Dividend"
An increase in the dividend
rate to the owner stockhold-
erS presupposes an increase
in the corporations earnings.
Contrary to the normal type
of business where prices and
earnings are determined by
competitive conditions, a gas
utility is a regulated monop-
oily whose prices and earn
ings are reviewed by regula-
tory commissions established
to protect the public as well
as the utility's interest.
According to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics publica-
ton Retail Prices and In
dexes of Fuels and Electric
ity" for July 1861, the resi-
Dental gas heating rate in
Washington is significantly
higher than that for other
listed cities throughout the
country. The differential
ranges from 100 per cent
more than the Kansas City
rate, 1O8 per cent more than
the Cleveland rate, So per
cent more than the Detroit
rate, to only 80 per cent more
than the Minneapolis rate
and 7 per cent more than
the Portland, Oregon rate.
This high cost Of a basic
raw material such as natural
gas would seem to indicate
either excessive profits or in
efficient operation. In either
case an investigation by the
proper regulatory body
should be made prior to in
creasing the dividend to the
owners of the utility.
A utility is basically a cost
plus type of operation. A
local Interpretation of this
principle might be that the
consumer bears the cost and
the utility owners get the
plus.
John o. May.
Your article on the pro-
posed 2-for-1 stock split and
raised dividend voted by the
directors of the Washington
Gas Light Company brings to
light a situation in the Ma
TONS Capital that begs for
rectification.
NdOuI al $40 uSClo III Vic
greater Washington area are
burdened with rates higher
than those imposed on gas
users in most parts of the
country.
AS a user of gas for heat
ing and hot water purposes, I
don't begrudge the company
the right to make a reason
able profit. But, do question
how a public utility, whose
rates are subject to govern
ment regulation, is able to
propose a stock split and raise
its dividend in one breath.
Such generous treatment of
stockholders at the expense of
the public needs considerably
more explanation than the
gas company has offered.
d. T. Ingram
Editors Note: A spokes-
man for the Gas Light Co.
pointed out that the stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
GIoboI Biological Year Proposed
By THOMAS r. HENRY

An International Biologi-
cal Year is in the making.
1t has been proposed byO
DR.. Roger D. Reid, director
of biological sciences of the
office of Naval Research. It
would be set up essentially
on the model of the Inter-
national Geophysical Year
during which more than 80
nations worked on co-ordi-
mated programs in the
physical sciences and sue
ceeded in solving m any
battling problems of the
earth and space.
One result, DR.. Reid init
mates. is that knowledge has
been thrown slightly out of
balance.
Because biology promises
so much for humanity, he
says, "co-ordinated interna-
tional effort in the biologi-
cal field should prove more
effective than that in any
other field of science in
developing permanent peace.
The problems in the biologi-
cal sciences have such pro-
found social implications
that they cannot be left en-
tirely to individuals or
solitary laboratories. The
new tools, techniques and
knowledge provided by. the
physical sciences open new
vistas and opportunities for
obtaining basic understand
ing of such fundamental
biological phenomena as in
hibition, adaptation, sporu-
lation, Information and ger
mination."
Fields to Be Studied
Among the fields to be
investigated on an interna-
tional basis, DR.. Reid points
out, is the tremendous
adaptive capacity of living
things. For example, he says,
lit would be helpful to know
the inhibitor which prevents
the termination of desert
seeds for many years, yet
turns the landscape into a
sudden blaze of bloom at the
first substantial fall of rain;
of how the desert horned
toad can live on an almost
water-free diet; or how the
African lungfish can remain
alive in dried mud for many
weeks. BY studying these
characteristics of adapta-
bility biologists can be ex-
pected to learn to build new
plants that can be grown
profitably on land we now
consider sub-marginal for
agriculture"
Perhaps the greatest mys-
terry now, he says. is the
actual mechanism of photo
synthesis by which plants
convert carbon dioxide from
the air and water into foods
suitable for human and
animal life. Another funda-
mental problem of biology
which should be approached
on an international basis, he
says, is that concerned with
cell division.
Starting with a single
fertilized human ovum a few
dozen successive divisions
occur giving rise to 10 til-
lion highly specialized cells
of the tissues and organs of
the human at birth. Investi-
cations have shed some light
on this problem and now
make it possible to use
chemicals that regulate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
Britoin's Crusader

Recent letters to this COL
umn have glorified Bertrand
Russell. One might dismiss
his opposition to World War
I and his conviction for OPP
posing the draft as a failing
of youth, but this is the
same man who saw no dan
ger in the rise of Hitler and
vigorously opposed Britain's
entrance into World War II.
He is again espousing his
philosophy, that the worlds
problems can be solved by
ignoring them, which has
been proved twice wrong. At
present Lord Russell advo-
Gates that the West enter
into disarmament agreements
without provision for inspec-
ton or other demonstration
of good Saith on the part
of Russia and find out the
Russian intent after the
agreement is put into effect,
by whether or not they
cheat"
We must not confuse Lord
RusSell's use of passive re-
siStance as a publicity stunt
as a contribution to world
peace.
Matthew s. Watson.
In case your readers have
not seen the following mes
sage from Bertrand Russell,
the 89-year-old British phi
loSopher. on entering prison
for opposing thermometer
war, I hope you will see fit
to print it. I have copied it
from I. F. Stones Weekly of
September 11-18, 1861.
ITO all, in whatever coun-
try, who are still capable of
sane thinking or human feel
ing:
Friends:
THE populations of East
and West, misled by stubborn
governments in search of
prestige and by corrupt Of
fetal experts bent on retain
ing their posts, tamely ac-
quieSce in policies which are
almost certain to end in nu-
clear war. Their e are sup.
posed to be two sides, each
processing to stand for a
great cause. This is a de-
fusion. Kennedy and Khru-
shchev, Adenauer and De
Gaulle, acmillan and
Gaitskell, are pursuing a
common aim, the ending of
human life. You, your fam
lilies, your friends and your
countries are to be exter-
minated, by the common de-
cision of a few brutal but
powerful men. To please these
men, all the private affec-
tons, all the public hopes,
all that has been achieved
in art and knowledge and
thought, and all that might
be achieved hereafter, is to
be wiped out forever. Our
ruined lifeless planet will
continue for countless ages
to circle aimlessly round the
sun. unredeemed by the Joys
and loves, the occasional wis
dom, and the power to create
beauty, which have given
value to human life. It is for
seeking to prevent this that
we are in prison"
Dagmar Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names nIGv be used II
letters carry iDrtters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers ore subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used ,Dtu be
returned only iDhen accom-
painted BY self : addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22

split requires approval by
the Public Utilities Commits
sion, The dividend increase
does not affect rate-payers
but comes out of company
earnings under an allowable
6.45 per cent rate of return.
Some earnings are always
"plowed back" into business,
and it is from this money
that the dividend increase
will be taken. The stock split
increases the number of
shares available for trading
and brings the price within
the range of a greater num-
Der of investorS.)
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blooming of some plants and
fix carbon dioxide in Others"
The need for international
biological cooperation, he
says, is greatly stressed at
present by the So-called
population explosion" which
is occurring all over the
world and threatens such an
increase in human beings
that food and water will be-
come vital problem every
where. There also must be
studies of the possibilities
and limitations of life in
space, exploration of which
has just started.
X 4 Il
Americans someday may
be breathing lead instead of
oxygen. One possible effect
will be something like a mild
jag for everybody most of
the time.
More than 100000 tons of
the metal in the form of
1nvisibly minute particles
were added to the at
mosphere over the United
States alone during the past
years from auto exhausts.
This is the estimate of DR..
E. D. Goldberg of the Scripps
Institute of Oceanography.
He is cited in the monthly
review of the office of Naval
Research, which works in
close cooperation with the
institution.
: Stays Close to Ground
This amount, of course,
is only a drop in the bucket
compared with the total
weight of the atmosphere.
The lead, however, stays
close to the ground where
it enters the breath. It pre-
sumably will increase at the
same rate every year so that
there will be Is million tons
in a century, even if there
should be no increase in
traffic, unless somebody
finds something to do about
it.
The Navy cites another
report in the same review on
effects of inhalations of high
gasoline concentrations. It
has been found, according to
the report, that they may
cause sudden loss of con-
seriousness, coma and even
death. Lower concentrations,
however, may produce flush
ing of the face, followed by
staggering gait. mental con-
fusion, blurred speech and
difficulties in swallowing
all typical of being mildly
drunk.
After continued or re-
peated exposure to fairly
high concentrations" says
the report, 1.-THE patient may
lose his appetite and also
lose weight" This is known
as chronic gasoline poison
ing. Lead aim ost I'M
doubtedly plays a consider
able part in it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22

bitter and possibly losing fight in the
closing days of the congressional session.
Nevertheless, it is shame that emo
tional prejudice can bar an able man
from Government service. That it has
done so in this instance is, to say the
least, an unadmirable testimonial to
the hardness of the Dixon-Yates
Specter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-22
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE

@. Is torte "a rich cake or
tart) pronounced in one syl-
liable or two?-A. F.
A. Two. This German word
Is accented on the first
syllable; the e in the second
syllable is short.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
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Evening star., 1961-08-13

Several positions open for youns
women inexperienced and expert
enced in general office work. You
will work s a.m.-4:30 pm. and
receive both an excellent salary
and complete company benefits
You may apply BY calling MR.
MOOERS, OIL. 6-2700, ext. SOL
Monday. q a.rn.-4 pm.
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MEDICAL, $3.50
Receptionist, $3.50

Beautiful and modern center seeks
2 refined and mature young lady
doctors. Keep their records, take
the calls and type the statements.
Call BETTY GRAY, 2ll Wood
ward Blds.. ST: 3-7123.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13

Mickey Mantle) left the hospi-
tai recently, one newspaper
headlined that she exited with
a crush" of admirers. In her
newest novel, B. J. Chute speaks
of a woman being followed by
a "taggle" Of children. And this
columns favorite columnist,
Charlie Rice, recently sent from
Paris a postcard showing four
nuns deep in contemplation in
front Of Notre Dame. II have
seen gaggles of geese, bevies of
quail, and prides Of lions"
wrote Rice, "but I never ex-
pected to see a hush of nuns"
@: In my youth we used to
read often about escaped GRIM
inals being pursued by a "sher-
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iff's posse Of bloodhounds. 4"
Nowadays the pursuit seems to
be by auto or even helicopters,
so I guess bloodhounds must
have gone out Of fashion.
However, my youthful per-
plexity about the name blood
hound" has come back to haunt
me. If I recall correctly, blood
hounds need only the scent of
a man-not a smell or taste
Of his blood. So why the name
"bloodhound"? Are they per-
haps excited by the sight OF
blood or can they better fol-
low the trail Of a bleeding es-
capee?-L. c. NJ, San Bernardo
no, Calf.
A: The reason is simpler
and far less gory-than any
you have suggested. Blood
hounds" are so called simply
because theirs was the first
breed whose blood" or breed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
KERRY DRAKE
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Readers Of this column in
clude many fanciers of the I'M
usual collective nouns applied
to animals and birds of vari-
GUS species a "gaggle" of
geese, a pride" of lions, and
"exaltation" of larks and so
on.
For the true collectors here
are three recent and notable
additions to this list. When
M. M. (and we don't mean
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ing records were maintained.
The first chronicles of the gen.
ealogy Of this breed were main
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tanned by the monks Of st. HUI
bert's Abbey In France in the
9th century.
Evening star., 1961-07-09

into the phone. At last, after what seemed like a
lifetime Of helpless anxiety, the voice came back.
Before this the woman had been only sObbing, now
she was openly crying.
tits the worst, the very worst. Your husband
-. He's dead!'
couldn't believe it.
''Who is this?" pleaded. ''Are you sure you
have the right party? Is it Mrs. Edward A.
you want? Who ann talking TOP"
''I'm of the girls that works in the factory"
she said. "A piece Of machinery fell ON his head
and crushed it, The doctor tried to save him, but
wasn't able to. E. d. He's dead
Evening star., 1961-07-09
MosweIl coplou

felt the room spinning around knew / was
about to faint and yet couldn't. My hands were SO
weak and shaking had to use both of them to hold
the phone couldn't speak. ] couldn't think. And
yet somewhere inside me some unknown sixth
sense kept saying, "It's mistake it's not true, it's
just not true!''
''Please," begged, 'let me talk to the doctor,
let me talk to somebody"
''All right" the voice shifted. Hold the phone.
I'll get him.
And then, while sat there sick to my soul, ON the
very edge of hysteria, shocked beyond anything
that had ever happened before in my life, there
came the cruelest touch of all. The person just let
me suffer :. for minutes, holding silent phone for
ne.cs of a dead husband.
Then, suddenly, shrill burst of laughter came
from the receiver. Unbelievaby, the voice giggled
'Oh, your husbands all right. It's just big
joke. Don't get too upset"
could hear more girlish laughter and shrieks in
the background, then the phone slammed down.
wus O nightmare
/ sat utterly stunned. I'm out Of my mind,
thought. This is a nightmare. The tears had been
holding back now came pouring out Racked with
sObs, managed to dial my husbands factory.
The receptionist answered with her usual CHEEKY
Good afternoon"
''This is Mrs. A., - said HAS there been
an accident? Is Mr.. A. all right? May speak
to him please?"
Accident? Here? Why no, everything here is
fine. Only Mr.. A. is out Of the Office. He
left about twenty - Continued on ne1t page