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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
important Bond Issue

Arlington voters next Tuesday will
have another chance to vote on bond
issue that has an important bearing on
the future development of their still
growing county. This time they will pass
UPON a trimmed-down version of the
borrowing program that has been urged
by county authorities but that met I'M
expected defeat in a referendum in
May, 1860 In the meantime the elector-
ate has become better informed regard
ing the necessity for the public works
proposed in the revised program We
believe it would be in the interest of
Arlington and its citizens to approve
the new bond plan.
The rejection of the previous bond
issue, calling for a $7.5 million outlay
is said to have resulted largely from a
voters revolt" against high tax bills
and feeling that the County Board
should exercise more restraint in spend
ing the taxpayers money. Since then
the board has evidenced its intention
of practicing economy wherever posi-
BILE, consistent with good government.
One indication of this trend was the
decision to lop off about SIS million
from the original bond issue plan. The
cuts eliminated S325,O0O for gymnaSi-
UNI at Westinghouse High School,
100000 for "multi-purpoSe" rooms at
three elementary schools and 100000
for purchase of public land. Part of the
cuts were offset by additions in other
essential categories, so that the total
now sought is $6.5 million.
The bond money would go for
schools, libraries, storm sewers, side
walks, firefighting facilities, land &C
QUESTION and parks and recreational
projects. These are Improvements indis-
pensable in such an urbanized COM
munity. Arlington can i'll afford to delay
them any longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
Farm Problem: Deer

Maryland and Virginia farmers are
confronted with a crop problem almost
as serious as unfavorable weather and
invasionS of insects. They have COM
planned to State game authorities about
crop depredations by the growing deer
herds. Prevented by game laws from
shooting the animals, many farmers
have resorted to various schemes to
keep the deer away from fields of corn
or soybeans or other crops which the
herds find delectable.
In Western Maryland, for example,
some large buckwheat fields have been
ruined by deer. Eastern Shore deer
have destroyed soybean paintings ready
to harvest. Apple and other orchards
have been invaded as never before. In
order to help farmers meet this threat
to their livelihood, the Natural Re-
sources Institute of the University of
Maryland has been studying methods
of safeguarding crops from the raiders.
One popular plan involves the setting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
It's Not Censorship

Montgomery County Manager Mason
Butcher has been subjected to harsh and
unJuStified criticism, we think, for his
part in the 'Tropic of Cancer" business.
Carl Sandburg has said that his
opinion of this book would not be fit
to print, and we go along with the i'm
plicationS of that observation. But the
immediate question is not whether
"Tropic" is obscene literature or liter
airy masterpiece. This, as commended in
a letter published elsewhere on this
page, is matter for the courts to de-
termine under the laws and previous
rulings applicable to obscenity.
- Before the courts can decide any,
thing, however, someone has to take
action which leads to a judicial pro-
ceeding. Unless some official is willing to
subject himself to the abuse which in
variably attends book banning" there
would be no opportunity for judicial
ruling. And this would mean that the
rankeSt filth could be peddled to anyone,
man, woman or child, by any book
seller. We do not suppose that any per-
son, unless he believes there is no such
thing as obScenity, would advocate such
a condition in Montgomery County, or
anywhere else.
The ultimate question, whether
"Tropic" is or is not obscene, is now in
the courts, where it belongs. To say that
this, or the action which precipitated the
court test, is censorship" is nonsense.
The worst that can be said Of it is that
it is a form of free advertising which
probably will stimulate the sale outside
Montgomery of book whose literary
merit, if any, derives from the unin-
hibited use of four-letter words blended
with deprayity,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
The Law in Ghono

Under the leadership of President
Nkrumah, Ghana seems to be making
steady progress toward absolute totali-
tarianism, Red style. The latest evidence
along that line is the passage of new
law" establishing the death penalty for
political offenSes. Among other things,
the claw" empowers Mr. Nkrumah to
set up special courts" each with three
judges appointed personally by him, and
each operating without jury and Of
fering no right of appeal-and no dis
closure of dissenting opinions in cases
where one or another of the judges
might find capital punishment too
harsh.
This Legislation" if it may be call
ed that, has been enacted to deal with
such things as treason and sedition"
and offenSeS like "rioting, unlawful as
Sembly and other serious breaches of
the peace" Translated into more Spe-
cific terms, the new courts are meant
to cope with labor leaders of the sort
who recently organized strikes against
the Ghana governments stringent new
budget, which has cut wages and brought
dDOuG dill 6SIluldIeu increase OF 4U per
cent in the cost of living. Further, the
new judicial" setup gives Mr. Nkrumah
the right to send anybody before these
courts for unspecified Grimes" that he
may happen to charge against certain
of his political opponents whom he
might want to have executed.
An Associated Press report from
Accra has summed up the matter in
these words: Linked with the existing
preventive detention act, which can
send man to Jail for five years with
out trial, the new measure is seen by
political observers here as a powerful
weapon with which Mr. Nkrumah
could intimidate opponents" That
understateS the case, of course Actually,
Ghana'S President, whose avowed "neu-
tralism" often seems to be quite pro-
Soviet, will be able to use these new
co-called courts of his to develop the
most thoroughgoing kind of die
tatorShip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01

off of firecrackers when a deer trips
a wire at the edge of the field. Elec-
trified fences are effective, too, but
generally too expensive for the average
farmer to invest in.
Game commission officials have
been reluctant to permit farmers to
shoot invaders on sight, season or no
season. They should consider, however,
allowing hunters to bag more deer,
both male and female, in areas where
the herds have become so large as to
be real enemy of the farmers. Both
SportSmen and farmers would benefit
from change in the rules to meet the
developing emergency in agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
Backs u. N.

The U. N. was founded only
a few years ago. Since that
time the past Secretary Cen
eral, the late Mr.. Dag Ham
marskjold, had done an adj
mirable job. He had a great
part in the worlds history
and did much to help the
nations of the world solve
their problems without blood
shed.
The U. N. itself has helped
to preserve peace and the
dignity of man. 1t has helped
to keep the little nations free.
For the U. N. to dissolve now
would mean utter defeat
defeat to those who first
brought it into being and
defeat to the small nations
Russia is trying to absorb.
My voice is but a small
one and yet my voice is i'm
portant. 1t is important in
an election, for it can decide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
THE PASSING SCENE
Nixon's Challenge to Rockefeller
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

has no slightest intention Of
giving up his powerful influ-
ence at the 1864 Republican
National Convention. No one.
he says in effect, will be
allowed to walk off with the
presidential nomination with
out raising a very real sweat
to get it.
For Mr.. Nixon will be pre-
pared to support only "the
best and strongest candidate"
and that candidate must
prove his strength "by
speeches, election campaigns
and by clashing in the pri-
maries."
Wants About Contest
What this means is that
Mr.. Nixon is not simply in
viting, but actually demand
ing, a tough, authentic, all
out contest to determine who
is to be the head man at the
convention. In the nature Of
the case the challenge,
though meant for all aspir-
ants. will most poignantly
apply to Gov. Rockefeller. 1t
is a warning that in Mr.. Nix
on's eyes, at least, being Gov
ernor of New York is not
enough in itself - that Gov.
Rockefeller must prove him
self far from East Side and
West Side and all around the
town.
For the Governor had
hopes even in 1860, the year
that produced Mr.. Nixon as
the Republican presidential
nominee. But he was unwill-
ing to put those hopes to the
hard test which only the
primary route can provide.
This time, so far as Mr.. Nix
on is concerned, Gov. Rookie
Teller must be ready to take
his chances in Middle West
and Far West and wherever
the primary system is in use.
Many politicians had been
waiting in suspense to see
how Mr.. Nixon would get
off the hook" Now his reply
has come. Its substance is to
suggest that somebody else is
on the hook, too - a man
named Nelson Rockefeller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
Hits Peace Corps

Having travelled in 70
countries of the world and
making it a point to partic-
ularly observe the native life,
from what I read about the
Peace Corps set-up I have
felt from the outset it would
prove a flop, a waste of mon
ey and possibly a deterrent
to the object in mind.
To send unattached per-
sons into these various coun-
tries, having no observation
and experience of conditions
existing therein, could only
lead to such incidents as has
resulted from the post card"
of Margery Michelmore on
Nigeria.
I can readily understand
why the young folks wanted
to enroll in the Peace Corps,
at a fair compensation and
expenses, as an opportunity
to "see the world" without
any previous knowledge of
what they might encounter in
those foreign lands. But, I
can't see why those ambitious
people were not briefed by
our Government as to con-
ditions confronting them in
such foreign lands, and told
they would have to acclimate
themselves.
The natives Of these for
eign lands as a whole are
more familiar with this coun-
try than we suspect, and al
ready know more about our
living conditions and form of
government than most Amer
leans know about theirs.
The natives of foreign
lands are fully aware of the
conditions under which they
live, and are sensitive about
our telling them the differ
ence between our mode of
living and theirs. Accord
ingly, if they feel that some
one is sent there to reform
them, there arises a resent
ment on their part by way
Of comparison.
If the Peace Corps hopes
to accomplish anything they
must first join the rank and
file of natives, gain their con-
fidence, before they advocate
reforms.
So, our Peace Corps might
conceivably do us more harm
than good unless they use
tactful diplomacy in their &C
tivities. CIR. AbaIt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
On Seating Red China

Before the free world COM
pletely capitulates on the
point of Communist Chinese
representation in the United
Nations it might be well to
glance back a few years in
history to the last time a
delegate of the Peoples Re
public sat in the U. N.
In late November, 1850, as
the troops of the United Ma
tons were advancing toward
the Yalu River after having
repelled the Communist ag-
greSSions into South Korea,
the Security Council of the
U. N. passed a resolution in
PRODUCED by Britain request
ing the government of Com
muniSt China to send dele
gates to the U. N. to discuss"
the intrusion of Chinese
troops into Korea which was
then taking place.
This was an obvious move
designed to placate Com
munist China and prevent it
from further entering the
war. GraSping this chance
for propaganda, Chou En-
lai, then Foreign Minister,
sent one of his obscure gen.
erals, WI Hsiu-chuan, as
head of a delegation to New
York. WI addressed the
General Assembly in a Hit
ler-like harangue of lies for
two hours and made it clear
that there was no chance
for negotiation. At this same
time the feared Chinese Of
fenSive materialized and the
Communists drove a wedge
into U. N. defenses in North
west Korea thus causing a
general retreat. Repeated
pleas for a cease fire were
rejected by WI on orders
from Mao Tse-tung, and after
26 uncompromising days at
the U. N. his delegation
wished the American people
a Happy New Year" and
headed home shortly after
Christmas.
Nearly 10000 U. N. troops
died in the next two and a
half years fighting Macs in
vaders. The U. N. General
Assembly should ponder this
carefully before it invites an
other WI Hsiu-chuan to sit
in the U. N.
T. Anthony Quinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
See Editorial, TITS Not Censorship. "

Of Cancer" by Henry Miller.
We believe that the actions
of States Attorney Leonard
Hardy and County Manager
Mason Butcher were not the
proper method of procedure
in a free society.
We know that court deci-
sions have indicated that
obscene material does not
have the protection of the
First Amendment of the Con-
Stitution. and that the State
of Maryland has laws against
the dissemination of such
material, but we are disturbed
at the prospect Of censor
ship by administrative edict.
The laws now on the books
are adequate to protect the
community against the circu-
lation of dirt for dirt's sake"
but these laws must be en-
forced in accordance with due
process Of law.
Mr.. Hardy dropped the
charges against the four drug
store employees, but with Mr..
Butcher, assumed the role of
censor for Montgomery Coun-
ty. The American Associa-
ton of University Women is
committed to the democratic
philosophy, and believes that
no individual has the right
to impose his concept of
morality upon other members
of a democratic society. Our
organization would have pre-
ferred that the County Coun-
Gil rescind Mr.. Butchers or
der removing "Tropic Of Can
Ger" from the public libraries
Of our county. Mr.. Moreland.
the director of public libra
ries. was placed in difficult
position, and the County
Council by it's inaction ap-
peared to disregard the basic
freedoms of our citizens.
Fortunately events during
the past few days indicate
that a court test of the issues
will be forced. This method.
through the judicial processes
of law. is the proper proce-
dure under our system OF
government. The courts can
now decide whether "Tropic
of Cancer is lewd and OBJ
Gene, or is a work Of litera-
ture that has some objec-
tionable language. Our per-
Sonal opinions on either side
of this question are not the
determining factor on wheth-
err this book should or should
not circulate. The laws
against obscenity must be
enforced in accordance with
the established procedures Of
our government.
Citizens of our county could
not be corrupted by a book,
and need not be protected by
administrative edict. The
forces for illegal censor
ship which are present in
every community have re-
ceived official encouragement.
The staff of our fine public
library has been Inundated
and rendered over-cautiouS.
We may never know the full
extent Of damage to our in
tellectual freedom.
Virginia H. SchlOtzhauer,
President, Bethesda Chevy
Chase Branch, American
Association of University
Women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01

@. Is there any chemical
that will take the remaining
silver off some plated ware
that is badly worn?-O. M.
A. A desilvering liquid that
is said to dissolve silver with
out attacking copper, brass
or German silver, so as to
remove the silver from sill
vered objects, plated ware,
ETC., is made by mixing one
part of nitric acid with six
parts of sulphuric acid. Heat
in a water bath to 100 de-
grees F, the temperature at
which it is most effective.
These acids should, of course,
be handled with care.
@, Which is the oldest of
the three famous Charleston,
IS. c. gardens-Magnolia,
Middleton and Cypress?-
N. R.
A. Middleton Gardens are
the oldest of the three. and
probably the Oldest land
scaped gardens in the United
States. They were begun in
1741 on one of the great pre-
Revolutionary estates of the
South; the first camellias
were planted in 1888. Mag
nolia Gardens were started
in 1880, with azalea gardens
first planted in the 1865 by
the Rev. John Grimke-Dray-
ton on property owned by the
Drayton family since the late
18th century. The famous
Cypress Gardens go back only
to 1927, but are part of the
lands of a great rice planta-
ton built in 1725. Their $50
acres of azaleas. camellias
and other colorful plants sur
round a fresh-water lake in
which grow giant cypress
trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
Finland and Freedom

OCIll1ld1 n, NOL"dy dllu OWcQSA nave
ample reason to be upset by the
Kremlin'S ugly note suddenly calling
upon Finland for joint defensive meas
ureS against West Germany and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For
the note-a long-winded one devoted
primarily to a truth-upending assault
on NATO and Chancellor Adenauer's
government in Bonn - is full of
menacing implications for the whole
of Scandinavia.
Thus, with characteristic bully
mindedneSS and meanneSs of spirit, the
note warns the Danes and the Nor
wegianS that they had better not
associate themselves too closely with
Bonn within NATO's framework, in
which they are allies. AS for the SwedeS,
the same note accuses them-even
though they are neutralS who have
declined to join NATO-of cooperating
with the Adenauer regime and the West
as whole in working out plans for a
"revenge-Seeking" attack on the USSR
and its puppets.
Quite obviously, this is a thoroughly
mendaciouS, sinister and ominouS line
of propaganda Certainly, at the very
least, it suggests the possibility that Nj
kita KhruShchev & Company are pre-
pairing to follow the example set in 1889
by the late GeneralisSimo Stain, who is
now utterly deglorified and degraded.
That is to say, their note to HelsinN may
we'll be the forerunner of demands upon
the Firms to surrender territory for the
establishment of Soviet baSeS-demandS
of the very same kind that led to the
RuSso-Finnish winter war that ended
in 1910.
AS a result of that war, in which
the Firms fought with a style and
courage that made the enormous Soviet
military machine look aStoniShingly
mediocre and inferior, Moscow (the
sheer mass of whose forces finally
conquered the little northern neighbor)
persuaded" Finland to join in a treaty
of friendship, cooperation and mutual
assistance" And one clause in this pact
provides for Russo-FinniSh talks "if it
is established" that there is a threat of
armed attack from Germany.
The Soviet Union, which is bran
diShing everything these days-every-
thing ranging from the Big Lie to the
50-megaton bomb-now insists, with
absolute butchery of the truth, that
such threat actually exists. Hence
HelSinki and Moscow must work together
(Which presumably means that the
neutral" Firms must once again let
the USSR use its territory for military
purpoSeS) to insure that revenge
seeking" Bonn and the villainous "im-
perialists" led by America are prevented
from attacking the glorious" peace
loving" Marxist paradise behind the
Iron Curtain.
Enough said. Why go on? The more
one reads and quotes Soviet propaganda,
with all its 50-megaton threats, the
more ones stomach is sickened, and the
more one feels that this is an evil
beyond descripton-an evil that free
men everywhere must refuse to accept,
must resist ideologically and physically,
regardless of the ultimate cost. Other
wise there can be only surrender of
our liberties and everything else we love
and cherish as treasure beyond price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01

Richard Nixon has sent to
all Republican presidential
hopefuls a chillingly polite
paraphrase Of an old Mem
phis blues song: Mister
Crump don't low (allow) no
easy riders here"
This elegant line referred
to the fact that Memphis
late political boss, E. H.
Crump, was notably ill-dis-
posed toward any and all per-
sons who expected something
for nothing in this hard life.
In his recent meeting in
Syracuse with Gov. Rockefel-
Ter of New York, Mr.. Nixon
has served notice that he will
allow no easy riding into the
1864 G. o. P. presidential
nomination. Fhe message was
most directly addressed to
Nelson Rockefeller, since the
scene was the Governors
home ground. But 1t was
meant also for Senator Barry
Goldwater of Arizona and all
other challengers for the big
prize.
Mr. Nixon has been forced
more or less to take himself
out of it for the presidential
nomination, as a candidate
next year for Governor of
California. He is out If it,
that is, unless a convention
deadlock or something else
should promote a movement
to draft" him. For mis- OBJ
position in California has
extracted his promise to stay
put and mind the nome store
the State House-through
all the four years of the term
he now seeks.
To Use His Influence
Having in mind that only
a year ago he missed winning
the presidency himself by a
very short eyelash, and that
he is still titular national
head of the G. o. P, this cir
cumstance has not been too
easy to take. Mr.. Nixon has
taken it well, with the fatal
ism that has characterized
his public career.
All the same, it is now
plain that, however restricted
he may be as to his own
presidential aspirations, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
SIom-Bonq Show

I suggest that when Con
gress reconvenes next year,
Senator Dirksen and Con-
gresham Halleck add a new
character to the Ev and
Charlie Show: an old soldier
who, after eight years of po-
litical naivete in the White
House, didn't fade away but
suddenly became a political
savant - a rock-'em sock
'em partisan spokesman,
chief Ratchet man, and draw
ing card for the Grand Old
Party. Maybe this trio could
fill the time slot Jack Paar
threatens to vacate.
w T q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-01
The Party Faithful Get the Message
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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terS are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used will be
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