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Evening star., 1961-05-26

adversary before he gives real
attention to the new policy to
meet changed conditions.
Because Of its variety, the
speech lacked the impact Of
some special messages de-
livered by Presidents in time
of clear and present danger.
Congress will be slow to crit
icize the journeying President,
but it did not catch fire, Ell
ther.
It seems an inescapable
conclusion that the able men
around Mr. Kennedy, as Of
now, have not been able to
come up with a showcase for
him which is very much diff
ferent from that created for
President Eisenhower by
James c. Hagerty and his
Madison avenue associates.
Mr.. Hagerty was adept at
pulling together projects
which were in work and ar
ranging for Mr.. Eisenhower
to present them at a crucial
hour with maximum effect.
Then, as now, it seemed wise
to mute public criticism.
But the men around MIR.
Kennedy were among the
vocal analysts Of the Hagerty
procedures and their judg-
ments Of the effect on the
Evening star., 1961-05-26
AVID LAWRENCE
The Presidents Omnibus Speech

Presidents advisers to
persuade him to deliver an
omnibuS message. The
orderly conduct of the Gov
ment's business and the need
for a thorough presentation
of current issues to the Con-
gress should, it would seem,
outweigh the passion for
televiSion exposures.
There is really little new
in the Presidents address.
He asks for more Federal
appropriations. He hopes that
the budget will not be too
far out Of balance. He is
pleased that economic re-
covery Is on the way. He is
right, also. in asking for the
small amount of money
needed for the United States
Information Agency broad
casts to other countries.
AS for the major recon-
mendations about military
reorganization and defense
programs, these were pre-
sented by Mr.. Kennedy in
very general terms. The pro-
gram he recommends for
manpower development and
training, to give several
hundred thousands of work.
erS new occupational Skills,
is a step in the right direc-
ton,
With respect to the COM
ing meeting with Premier
Khrushchev, Mr.. Kennedy
insisted in his message that
mo formal agenda is planned
and no negotiations will be
undertaken" but that there is
to be a personal exchange
of views" He added:
yet it is important to
know that our patience at
the bargaining table is nearly
inexhaustible. though our
credulity is limited-that our
hopes for peace are unfail-
ing, while our determination
to protect our security is
resolute."
These are generalities -
more words added to the
thousands that have been
uttered in recent weeks in
the hope Of impreSsing Mr..
KhruShchev.
copyright, 196D.
Evening star., 1961-05-26
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

President Kennedy asks spending space defense
foreign aid part the national sacrifice the Treasury
giving up any thought Of additional taxes.
The Attorney General pulls out all but 100 marsha from
Alabama This ends the that Gov Patterson offer
ing to exchange 500 marshals for 500 buses.
-: .
FBI Chief alarmed the upsurge in crime
stuff can't be off switching to another chan
mel.
Imprinted Alabama real estate ad Choice location, only
a stones throw from the bus depot"
To leaders, practically everything that happens
here image abroad Well why don't they bring
image home and put it to work like the rest Of us?
Evening star., 1961-05-26
DORIS FLEESON
Kennedy's Reminder to Conqres.

public were hostile. They
read - and wrote - books
which proved their point.
They were given a chance to
show what they could do very
promptly and on a wide front.
There will be no failure OF
communications around the
Kennedy mission. The skilled
White House operating staff
is still there; the Madison
avenue experts are still avail
able, If not in such stagger-
ing numbers as before.
The Presidents schedule
has been arranged so that he
will dominate the news be-
tween now and the actual
confrontations in Europe. An
ugly interruption outside his
control is racial violence in
the South, but administra-
ton handling of it cannot
be faulted; 1t is, in fact,
winning acclaim for the
Presidents brother. Attorney
General Kennedy.
The feeling in Congress
about the program just pre-
sented Is that not too much
Of it can be achieved soon.
Emphasis will continue to be
on the present program. Key
members noted that they
must participate in virtually
all of it to make it effective
and they will take a long,
hard look.
Evening star., 1961-05-26
RALPH McGILL

Much of the opposition to
President Kennedy's having
a get = acquainted meeting
with Premier Khrushchev is
based on the fact that we
have just suffered a reverse
in Cuba and will have to
settle for less than we want
in Laos.
This is opposition Of an
extremely naive and inno-
cent sort, which assumes we
were right in committing our
selves unilaterally to an in
dependently neutral Laos and
that the Dulles policy in
Southeast Asia must be
maintained to the letter.
Mr.. Khrushchev is aware
we suffered a setback in
Cuba. He also knows we
can't get all we want out of
Laos without fighting for it.
He also well understands
that to mount an offensive
in Laos would strain the
Nation more than did Korea.
The chairmen of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
Senator Fulbright, and of the
Senate Armed Services Com
Senator Russell, have
said that we could not sus-
tain an action in Laos where
the people themselves do not
want us and would offer no
assistance.
Senator Russell, whose opin-
ions are influential in Sen
ate consideration Of military
issues. spoke plainly. He had,
he said, a simple rule Of
thumb.
you can't help people who
won't help themselves" he
said. 1.-THE Laotians have no
pride of country. They are
not interested in fighting.
They will take off right in
the middle of a battle to at
tend a temple celebration of
some kind.
my rule Of thumb is this"
he said. whenever a man
Is ready to fight and die for
his own integrity, I am will
ing to try to help him. When
he is not, I am not"
Senator Russell said also
that perhaps we should
never have gone into South
Evening star., 1961-05-26
DORIS FLEESON
President Viewed as Giving Lawmakers
Direct Involvement in 5-Yeor Proorom

president Kennedy's spe-
cial message to Congress on
the eve Of his meetings with
Gen. de Gaulle and Soviet
Premier KhruShchev is a
catch-all.
He has asked for q five
year program to do what we
are already doing in part. He
wants it done more agrees
sively. more thoroughly, much
faster and-it must be ad-
mitted-much more expen-
sively.
The political leit-motif Of
the message is the reminder
that we are all in this to-
gether, including Congress. 1t
will not be lost on members
Of the House and Senate that
the President directly in
volved them in his plans.
What they do or fail to do
can be easily scored by the
White House in the months to
come.
1t is apparent that no sin
gle new direction in foreign
policy has won Presidential
acceptance. He may be weigh
ing suggestions Of this kind;
he may be waiting until after
he has seen such key figures
as the majestic French head
Of state and his Communist
Evening star., 1961-05-26
DAVID LAWRENCE

There was an impression
Of confusion and disorder in
the way President Kennedy'S
address to Congress was pre-
pared for delivery and in the
actual delivery.
The joint session Of the
Senate and House didn't hear
verbatim the speech which
was distributed by the White
House to the press about
three hours later.
Whole sections - approx
mately $500 words-were
deleted or changed as the
President spoke. The reason
given Is that this was neces-
sary so as not to use up too
much televiSion time. Mr..
Kennedy spoke for A min
uteS.
After it was over. the an
nouncement was made by the
White House that the Con-
gressional Record would pub
lish the full text of the
speech, including not only
the brief passages which the
President added eXtempor-
aneouSly but also the sections
which were eliminated as he
spoke.
What then becomes the Of
ficial text of the Presidents
speech? What was trans
mitted to the Congress of the
United States as the official
recommendation of the Chief
Executive? Does the Inter
polated" version constitute an
official expression?
Often in the past a Presi-
dent has made slight changes
as he spoke or has added a
sentence or two here and
there, but the Congressional
Record would usually print
the stenographic report of
what was actually said.
Perhaps it was a good
thing Mr.. Kennedy did some
editing. For in the prepared
copy given to the press there
occurs this puzzling state
ment:
TOO often we have &C
cepted a merely defensive
Evening star., 1961-05-26
PorIey Called Justified Despite Failure
Of u. S. in Cuba and Laos Incidents

east Asia at ALL" He is not
sure in his own mind that
Thailand and Wet Nam are
ready to fight for their in
tegrity. II have heard it
argued both ways" he said.
I'VE (the United States)
went into Laos as an unin-
vited guest" Senator Russell
said. II am not sure we
should have done so."
These are straws in the
policy winds.
The late Secretary Of State
Dulles never imagined we
would be confronted with a
decision about military in
tervention in Laos or Thai
land. He held the firm con-
viction that if the United
States, as the worlds major
power, announced its posi-
ton. this would be enough to
prevent any Communist ag-
gression in the areas covered
by our treaties. He lived to
see aggression take the form
of faceless guerrilla action
secretly supplied by Com
munists, but operating in a
seemingly independent man
ner.
Mr.. Khrushchev knows
this. These are cards in his
hand. He will hold this hand
whether the President meets
Evening star., 1961-05-26
Many Items, Included for TV Purposes,
Believed to Have Weakened Its Impact

role. Too often we have let
ourselves appear as friends Of
the status quo-and the
status quo may be $50 a year.
Meanwhile the pressures Of
the totalitarian conspiracy
mount higher every day, as
one nation after another, by
internal more often than ex-
ternal means, finds its free
dom under attack"
What does the $50 q year"
have to do with it?
AS delivered, the address
was more than 5000 words
in length. Anything that runs
a minutes tends to tire the
audience, and it was appar-
ent that many members of
Congress received the speech
in a rather indifferent mood
Judging by the relatively
few manifestations Of ap-
plause in comparison with
the numerous outburstS when
Mr.. Kennedy appeared last
time before a joint session.
1t was most unfortunate
that the President decided to
cover so much ground in a
single message. For it would
have been far more effective
if he had devoted a separate
message or communication
on different days to each of
the important topics that he
discussed. Thus, the problem
of outer space and the i'm
portance of research, includ-
ing the prospective trip to
the moon by some American
aStronaut, would have made
more Of an impression on
Congress if it had been the
subject of a single message.
AS it was, Mr.. Kennedy
tried to cover too much
ground, and perhaps the rea-
son was that he is going to
Europe soon and sought to
get off his mind and into the
minds of members of Con-
gress the point of view of
the administration on many
things. Or perhaps it was the
desire for publicity through
televiSion that caused the
Evening star., 1961-05-26
Decision Against UNIV Fund Trustees
And Coal Firms Called Hopeful Sign

proper part Of any proper
union objective-higher pay,
shorter hours, and so on.
There is nothing "anti-
union" or "anti-labor" in
this. Indeed, the ordinary
union member will know a
protection he has not known
before If the higher courts
finally agree that his union
leaders cannot use the mil
lions he has contributed in
dues and welfare funds to
enter cozy arrangements with
business leaders likely to
decrease competition - and
thus jobs.
Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy is looking into
the Tennessee case with in
terest. (He also has a happy
awareness that not all the
news from the South these
days is bad news for the
Department of Justice.) He
tells this columnist he be-
lieves that in a small and
indirect way, anyhow, it may
give him some additional
weapon against the hereto
fore untouchable Jimmy
Hoffa of the Teamsters
Union.
To be sure, nothing done
at Knoxville will do anything
toward cutting Mr.. Hoffa
down to size in the basic
offenSe charged to him "a
crude and infinitely danger
GUS stranglehold over the
transportation of the United
States.
But it may be that the
Evening star., 1961-05-26
Strawberry Festival

The Women's Guild Of the
Westmoreland Congregational
Church. l Westmoreland cir
Gle NV, will hold a straw
berry festival. bake sale, plant
sale and snack bar on the
church lawn from 10 an. to
g pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1961-05-26
Marines to Meet

Alumni Of the Merchant
Marine Academy will meet at
I8 pm. tonight at the Mac
IDonough Gymnasium Of
Georgetown University.
Evening star., 1961-10-30

The program that Joerg
Demus played before an enor-
nous crowd at the Phillips Col
lection yesterday seems impos-
sible on the face of it. But the
printed list, long and difficult
for both performer and listener
as it is, fell short Of two hours.
Demus promptly added three
encores, one by Bach and two
by Schubert.
Not only did Demus get
through all this; he played
superbly.
In some ways his playing is
rather fine-spun. and shot
through with little, expressive
rhythmic nuances. Nevertheless,
he seems to me to be essentially
a structural pianist, as indeed,
the program indicates.
The complex Beethoven
sonata with its extraordinary
fugue and inversion thereof
was played as If it we're an
involved construction the de-
sign of which is to be explained.
I think it is, and I think that
Demus' elucidation was logical
ly and rhetorically superb.
Beyond this, Demus is a
great friend of clear voice
leading and discrete and subtle
pedaling. All Of the Brahms
pieces, but especially the three
Evening star., 1961-10-30
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

MEMBERSHIP: The staid,
upper-crust Philadelphia Club
was for many years a male
sanctuary in the City of
Brotherly Love. There, in sur
roundings hallowed by tradi-
ton, its members could lux
uriate in solid masculine
companionship, relates for
mer Attorney General Fran
els Biddle in "A Casual Past"
Then in 1854, the bars
were let down and ladies
were admitted to a limited
portion of the rooms. This
female invasion was vehe-
mently resisted by the more
conservative members.
1.-TWO members, who had
been disturbd by this aban-
donment of the decencies,
were overheard discussing
one of the problems which
the new arrangement posed.
What, for instance. should
be done If a member brought
his mistress to dinner?
We'll one finally said, I
suppose it would be all right
if she was the wife Of an
other member"
Evening star., 1961-10-30
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Anxiety, Fear of the Future
BY DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

Many readers ask: "Just
what is the difference be-
tween fear and anxiety?
Aren't they two different
words describing the same
thing?"
Loosely used, I suppose
there's not much difference.
But there is a difference.
If you are suffering from fear
you're scared about some
thing about to happen right
now. Suppose you are out
in the jungle and q tiger is
crouched ready to spring at
you. I'm sure you'll agree that
you're not just anxious -
you're plain scared about
what's liable to happen with
in the next few seconds. You
either stand up and fight. or
you run away. That's a fear
reaction.
BUT. ANXIETY, although
similar, is an entirely differ
ent sensation. You own a
tiger that you've raised since
a cub. You hold a tiger by
the tail in that you are al
ways anxious that some day
he may revert to his inborn
jungle propensities and take
a few bites out Of you. This
Is being anxious about some
thing that may happen in
the future.
Why these precise defini-
tions Of the two terms; fear
and anxiety? Because there
are so many thousands Of
people who suffer from
chronic anxiety. They live in
fear Of what may happen in
the future. For example. If
their heart skips they think:
Some day these skips will
weaken my heart and I'll sud-
denly drop dead" Another
with a headache day after
day is certain that some day
the doctor will find a brain
tumor." Or I'm sure that
this heartburn is really the
beginning Of stomach cancer.
even though the doctor says
there's nothing to worry
about"
It's natural for the pneu-
monia patient or the man
with an attack Of coronary
thrombosis to be fearful-be-
cause he's in danger right
now" But If the man with
a coronary or any other acute
medical or surgical condition
keeps thinking for months
and years that he hasn't real
ly recovered, and that he's
liable to be getting another
attack any day: that's chron-
ic anxiety.
II you are always worried
about yourself; if you keep
worrying about what is liable
to happen to you in the fu-
ture, admit to yourself that
you are an unnaturally anx-
ious person.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
DEAR ABBY
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,
Tell Him. but He Won't Listen!

DEAR ABBY: What do you
do with a husband who can't
say no to anybody but his
wife?
My husband is in the elec-
tronics field, and all our
neighbors and relatives think
that he is a TV and radio
repair man. They bring their
broken TV sets and radios
to our house for him to fix.
He doesn't have the necessary
parts on hand so he drives
miles to get them. He doesn't
charge anything except for
what he laid out for parts.
In the meantime, my own
sewing machine has needed
repairs since last spring. And
the same goes for our sons
bicycle. This free service
takes all my husbands spare
time, and it Is getting on my
nerves. How can I get it
through his thick skull that
he is a sucker?
WIFE.
Your husband apparently
enjoys running q free repair
service and, as long as he
enjoys II, you'll never con-
vince him that he's q sucker.
Doing for others Il grand, but
charity should begin at home.
H-H
DEAR ABBY: The other
night I baby-sat for a di-
vorced lady of about %. She
has two children, S and 2. I
cooked the children's supper,
bathed them and put them to
bed. The lady told me she
would be home about mid
night. Well at $50 the next
Evening star., 1961-10-30

The remedy isn't easy. But
rather than go through your
days anxious and frightened,
better find yourself a patient,
sympathetic doctor whom you
can lean on-like a crutch-
especially on those days or
weeks that life seems unbear-
able. A doctor who under
stands your chronic anx-
iety can bring you much
comfort.
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: What
Is meant by the sweat
test?"
GUESS YOU are refer
ring to a test made on in
fants and young adults who
may have cystic fibrosis. This
disease was discovered only
about IS years ago. 1t is
usually hereditary. There's
trouble with the "exocrine"
glands. These are two groups
Of glands: /. The non-mucus
producing glands involve
tears. sweat, and salivary Sc
cretions. 2. The mucus-pro-
ducers are in the pancreas,
lungs, liver and small intes-
tines.
The sweat test is made to
determine how much salt is
excreted in the sweat. If
there is an abnormally high
sodium and chloride content,
then the diagnosis is usually
assured. Especially. If the in
FAINT has trouble in the pam
creas. lungs or liver.
Treatment is difficult (giv-
ing salt solutions, pancreatic
extracts, etc.. Cystic fibrosis
remains a stubborn condi-
ton, but many investigators
are at work trying to solve
this riddle.
= 4
DR.. SteincrohnS Iedtlet,
"Hoto to Stop Killing Your
self" iDill be mailed on re-
ceipt OF a stamped, self
addressed envelope and 10
cents in coin for handling
charges. Address DR.. Stein
crohn in care of The Eue-
ming Star.
(Bell Syndicate Featured
Tomorrow; Losing Weight.
Evening star., 1961-10-30

morning she drove UP in her
driveway. She came In look
ing a mess, and reeking of
beer and whisky. When I got
home my folks were worried
sick over me. / am IS, and
don't think / should be ex-
pected to stay alone practi-
cally all night. When she calls
me to sit for her again, what
excuse can I give her?
SITTER.
Tell the lady" your par
ents will not permit you to
sit for women who do not
return home when they prom
ise TO.
- -
DEAR ABBY: A question
has come up in our lodge. Is
it proper to celebrate a we'd
ding anniversary after your
husband is deceased? Some
friends Of mine have no hus-
bands. but they 60 right on
celebrating tn cir anniver-
saries and receiving gifts. I
always thought this was not
right.
NEED TO KNOW.
You have always thought
right!
"a
Everybody has q problem.
What's yours? For a per-
soHGl reply. iDrite to Abby
in care of The EUening Star.
IneIose q stamped, self
addressed enUelope.
For Abby'S booklet, Hon
to Haze a LoUely Wedding"
send so cents to Abby, Bor
1865, Beverly Hills, Calf.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Inc.
Evening star., 1961-10-30
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
Amid New Facts, an Old Poem

tumors. Other cancer tests,
in Los Angeles, tend to show
that cigarette smoking alone
may not cause lung cancer,
but that smoking plus pol
luted air will do it.
At this stage, I was be-
ginning to be happy over
what I remembered of what
I had read. Another fact that
came to mind was an article
on the speed of porpoises.
One was clicked racing off
the bow of a ship at 1877
knots. Porpoise speed aver
ages about IL knots, al
though the gray grinners
can move for short distances,
at 81 knots. The black fish
while. much faster, circled a
ship at % knots.
Scientific tests have shown
that birds do not migrate
according to changes in
weather, or availability of
food. The experts are begin
ming to believe that birds, in
addition to animals and some
fish, have built-in calendars
and clocks. Hamsters, for ex-
ample. who sleep all day and
play all night, were kept in
utter darkness for 10 days.
They awakened at sundown
each day, and went to sleep
at dawn.
Most of the rest of what
I recalled was fragmentary.
Rattlesnakes can detect a
difference of one one-thou-
sandth of a degree in tenn
perature. They can sense a
warm-blooded animal near
by in stygian darkness.
ONE OF THE problems in
America is that the old imi-
tate the young. instead of
vice versa. When the first
space stations are built, they
win be in the form of a wheel.
The floors will point out
ward; the ceiling will be to-
ward the hub. The spin of
the wheel will create a cen 4.
trifugal force. so that scien-
fists will be able to walk and
work in comfort. side-saddle.
This supports a theory of
Einstein's, that gravity and
acceleration are indistin-
guishable.
The earth requires 365 days
to go around the sun. but
the sun and its satellite
planets require 230 million
years to complete one round
trip around the universe. The
sun is a cool body, as stars
go. A mass of human beings,
comparable in size to the sun,
would generate 5000 times
as much heat.
Sleep came suddenly, in
mid-thought. For 712 hours, I
floated in a dreamleSs void.
When I awakened, / couldn't
remember anything, even the
name of the book.
Copyright, 1861, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1961-10-30
NEWS OF MUSIC
Demus Is Superb
In Difficult List

intermezzi, can be aSphyxiated
by excess pedal. They were not.
The greatest test Of this
clarity came of course in the
Goldberg Variations" Rarely
have I heard them so strikingly
played. though I must admit
that long as they are, the
elimination of the repeats does
them a diSservice. The involved
canons often sound like music
but not like canons. Demus
made clear that they are both.
I think he also made clear
that he is one of the outstand-
ing pianists of the younger
generation.