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Evening star., 1961-09-26
Potomac River Studies

.. Some members of the Army Corps
. of Engineers repeatedly are disappointed
that the Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin has shown no
inclination to sponsor public meetings
in November on the various alternative
proposals drawn up by the Engineers to
assure adequate water supply and
pollution abatement programs for the
Potomac. The commission, by virtue of
its basin-wide responsibility, would seem
to have been a logical agency for such
a role.
An even more fitting organization
to assume leadership as far as the
Washington area is concerned, however,
is the Washington Metropolitan Re
pional Conference. For there will be
need during the next several months
Evening star., 1961-09-26

I believe that there are
two "foibles" that constitute
the backbone of the consis-
tent "sit-down" argument in
the condemnation of the
streetcar. One is the official
reasoning and the other is
the common public reason
ing.
The official one, as I see
it, is that a bus is cheaper
to run than a streetcar. Be-
yond my imagination is why
the cost per passenger is ig-
nored. The very reasoning for
banishing the streetcar in
this way would condemn the
subway car and assert a
place for jitneys in place Of
buses. If buses are carrying
more people than the dis
placed streetcars I challenge
anyone to point out any
other such experience" rea-
sonably documented, in world
history.
The other public" reason
may seem to be more elusive.
1t is the instructive one of
"flexibility." In an imagina-
tive sense during some kind
of blockage the bus can go
around same without serious
effect. The confusion, I be-
lieve, lies in automobile" as
sociation which has no
schedule plus lack Of appre-
citation of what other traffic
will do. Note extended tieups
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Campers Thanks

On behalf of Family and
Child Services of Washing
ton, D. c.. I wish to thank
The Evening Star and the
generous people of this COM
munity who helped make a
vacation possible for the
1,165 children who this sum-
mer attended our camps,
Goodwill and Pleasant.
The Evening Stars Sum-
mer Camp Fund raised $22,-
600 for these children and
this money has been we'll
spent. I wish that those who
contributed to the fund could
have shared the pleasure
which I enjoyed in seeing
the children in the happy
environment Of the camps.
The continuing support of
the camps through The
Evening Star Summer Camp
Fund has in the past twenty
four years reached the i'm
pressive total of $249,827.
This cooperative venture has
become a happy tradition of
vast Importance to our chill
dren. 1t is really in their
names that I should give
thanks.
Alvin ]. Steinberg,
President, Family and Child
Services of Washington, D. c..
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Case for Streetcor

of all-free- wheeled traffic oc-
curing during blockadeS.
Would not a rail line be
cleared wrecks or fire
trucks or "bridged" (fire
hoses in about the same
time as a low-capacity bus
route gets reorganized? The
quick accelerating (mechan-
ical and operationaD carline
can make up quickly for its
lack Of "flexibility."
AS an example of considera-
tion, word from Stockholm,
Sweden, which is an exem-
plar Of nearly everything
modern. is that buses are as
signed to run on Stockholm
Streetcar tracks and are not
permitted to overtake other
vehicles. This is a change
from the old free-running
system.
1t should be noted that
many central European
cities are planning to extend
Streetcar routes, reopen
routes (some cases.. con-
struct subways for crucial
portions of routes and in
creasingly add the extremely
high-capacity articulated car
(Which has given second
thoughts to some ideas on
abandonment, e. g., Bonn,
Amsterdam and Copenhag-
en-. The reason I have noted
in many cases is to improve
traffic conditions.
Leo E. Chandler.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Headline VS.. Text

Every newspaper reader is
accustomed to the lack Of
precision and clarity in
headlines resulting from
space limitations. only
mildly raised eyebrows are
warranted by your headline
writer's rendition of in
creased numbers of wayward
girls as a gain; of a court
order for teamsters to deliver
bread as an order to supply"
it; of a heliport noise hear
ing as controversial" despite
reports Of only negative or
noncommittal com m e n ts.
The degree Of misinforma-
ton in these examples from
your September IA issue is
merely annoying without be-
ing serious.
The headline which pro-
claims, Basic Fallout Shell
ters Seen Saving 9 Out of
TO-" is grossly inaccurate and
does a grave disservice to DR..
Edward Teller and to the
reading community you
serve. Careful reading Of the
text discloses that DR.. Teller
recognizes bla S t-resiStant
shelters as essential to pro-
vide a high probability of
survival for urban and sub
urban dwellers. More COM
plete reporting of DR.. Teller's
comments has indicated that
one-third of the population
of the United States lives in
areas where blast shelters are
required.
Articles quoting such emf
nent authorities as DR.. Teller
must affect the survival
preparations of individuals
and their reactions to gov
ernmental proposals in the
civil defense area. Many
readers, preconditioned by
your erroneous headline, will
have missed the textual ref
erence to the requirement for
blast protection. 1 wonder
how many WashingtonianS
will spend a few hundred
dollars for a basic fallout
shelter" in the naive belief
that DR.. Teller has computed
the odds as 9 to l in favor
of their surviving a nuclear
attack.
It is undeniable that SIM
pie fallout shelters provide
cheap insurance. However, it
is unfortunate that The Star
has perpetrated the hoary
insurance dodge of conceal
ing in fine print the clauses
that limit the conditions
under which such insurance
pays off.
william p. Murden, jr.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Using Old Worships

A headline in the New York
Times reads: Navy to Scrap
Light Cruiser" Washington,
Sept. 20 (AP). The story tells
that the Miami is to be sold
for scrap.
Much publicity recently
was given to the battleship
North Carolina, bought by
that State for use in a North
Carolina park as a memorial.
Warships and practically
all other disused vessels of
our Government. which orig
inally cost pyramidal sums,
are now expendable.
Could not these ships, at
not too great expense, be
brought to land and be put
to uses so badly needed
throughout our land for hos
pitfalls, for schools, for ade-
quate standard housing, even
for decent habitations for our
criminals and insane, now
housed in substandard, anti
quated buildings? Con-
tractors today are effecting
interior alterations to build
ingS, making them like new.
Surely most States and
some cities can afford to
rescue the vessels bearing
their names, perhaps others
as we'll, and permit them to
stand on their own soil as
monuments useful to the liv-
ing, rather than the many
cold works of art which con-
stantly are being raised in
memory to those who no
longer live.
Mrs. Samuel H. KOrnreich.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
THE PASSING SCENE
East Berlin Stirs Visitors Instincts
By RALPH McGILL

record players and a dozen
or so records on display.
There is a sign: ''Nur in elm
EN- sozialistichen Staat kann
sich die Kultur allSeitig ent-
falten." This is a boast.
"Only in a socialist state" it
says, "can culture be had by
ALL" The small display.
shabby and second-rate, with
dust on the paper covers OF
the records. is a small echo
of Mr.. Khrushchev's great
boasts-and no more valid.
A passerby or so stares
hard at the notebook and the
writing. But they say moth
ing.
There are a few dresses
and fabric displays. The food
shop windows are filled. One
visits and finds little inside.
Imports Butter
East Germany was, in its
day, the richest agricultural
area in Europe, supplying all
Germany with butter, pork.
beef and vegetables. Today
it imports butter from Rus
sia to avoid serious shortages
and grumblings.
The driver has brought
along four packs of cigar
cites. He slips them into the
hands of two Of the minor
officials who came to check
his car. A cigarette economy
already is developing.
There was not much to
see. One goes. 1t is the same.
But at the border, they are
building the first wall higher
and adding a second one.
The escapes still go on. They
seek to check them with the
double wall. Some few per-
sons, including a dozen teen
ayers, make the filthy,
dangerous journey to freedom
through miles of sewers, re-
minding one of Jean VAL
jeans escape in LES Mis-
cradles" A few crash the
wall with cars. Now and then
some drop from a window
which opens on the west.
This latter route is being
blocked.
Those who can go in and
come out do not see much.
But they learn by instinct.
East German radio propa-
ganda shouts that the United
States is capturing escaped
East Germans and taking
them to captivity as slave
workers or in order to make
them talk. The radio describes
West Berlin'S Templehof Air
port as daily replete with
such scenes.
Those who come and go
by Templehof know that The
huge air station is quiet and
half-deserted. There are no
escapes being forced on
planes. Not many persons
come to Berlin these days.
1t is a city which makes the
heart ache. One feels guilty
leaving it, but somehow glad
to be away from such ever
present reality and grief.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Congressional Winq'
Mrs. E. B. M.

This is in reply to Robert
E. Trimble regarding con-
flict of interest between the
legislative and executive
branches of Government
when a legislator holds a
commission in the military
reserve - thereby inviting
colluSion and conspiracy
against the American voter
and taxpayer.
AS a classic example, I cite
an article which appeared in
a local newspaper: THE
United States quickened its
Berlin preparedness pace to-
day, Summoning 76,500 mill
tary reservists to active duty
by October ! and readying
plans to bolster its forces in
Europe. Under present
congressional authority, the
reservists can be held on
duty for IL months but that
could be extended"
In the same newspaper
there appeared another ar
ticle as follows: "An Air
Force Reserve unit. COM
manded by Brig. Gen. (and
Senator) Barry Goldwater
(R., ArizJ, is known as the
Congressional Wing due to
it's predominately political
personnel. The day after
President Kennedy told the
Nation that some reserve
units might be called up,
members of the Congression-
al Wing got notices that
their status was changed
from standby to ready. Hey,
what's this?' was the cry
that went up. The Air Force
quickly assured all hands
that the change had been in
the works for months - in
order to accommodate the
units plans to go on active
duty for a two-weeks train
ing tour of Japan next Oc-
tober."
Put them in a special unit
and give them special treat
ment-isn't this a form of
congressional influence ped
ding using taxpayers
money?
E. G. Work.
Evening star., 1961-09-26

teeth. From coarse to fine,
terms are: Rough, coarse,
bastard, second-cut, smooth,
and dead-smooth.
@. What became of the
explorers Lewis and Clark
after they returned from
their expedition?-R. o.
A. Lewis and Clark arrived
back in st. Louis in Septem-
ber, 1906. In recognition Of
their achievement Lewis was
appointed Governor of the
Missouri Territory. and Clark
became a brigadier general
in the Louisiana Militia and
superintendent Of Indian af-
fairs at st. Louis. Lewis died
in 1909 and Clark in 1898.
@. What is a living fos-
sil"?-B. M.
A. Any ancient form Of
plant or animal life that still
survives on earth. Some
times a single species or group
of species continues to exist
long after many others, close
ly related to them, have be-
come extinct. These are
termed Giving fossils" a
name which Darwin first ap-
piled to the ginkgo, the sur
vivor of a family Of trees
distributed over the temper
ate regions Of the Northern
and Southern Hemispheres
at the time of the dinosaurs.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
One Big Boulder Blocking the Path to Peace
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used if
letters carry tCriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used mill be
returned only iDhen accom- =
panied BY self = addressed,
slammed enUeLopeS.
Evening star., 1961-09-26

@. Is there an international
agreement to protect cultural
works and historic buildings
in case of war?-G. D.
A. Some so nations, includ-
ing the United States, signed
a cultural agreement which
was adopted May IA, 1854, at
a UNESCO-Sponsored con-
ference at The Hague, to re-
spect and protect works of
art, monuments, and historic
buildings in event of war.
The agreement went into ef-
feet in August, 1856. A new
international flag with a blue
and white shield is to be
flown to mark cultural prop
erty, and it will be respected
Just as the Red Cross flag
is now respected when it
marks the presence of hos
pitals and medical personnel.
@. What are single-cut and
double-cut mechanics files?
j. L.
A. Files are classified as
either single or double cut,
and are graded according to
teeth spacing. A file with a
single row of parallel teeth
is called a single-cut file,
and those which have one
row of teeth crossing another
row in crisscross fashion are
called double-cut. A coarse
file. has a small number of
large teeth: a smooth file
has a large number of small
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Paying the Newsboy

The letter from the father
of one of your carriers call
ing attention to those who
deliberately cheat the news
boys by moving without pay
ing in full for papers received
reminds me of one of my pet
peeves. even though we have
no sons to carry papers.
Boys have little time left
for leisure and homework
when they have paper routes
and then must collect from
those they serve. Yet many
of the householders, who
would be quick to complain
about a late or a missing
paper, make the boys return
once and often several times
before they pay the Sm a /
charge for their papers.
I wonder how many of
these adults would like to
trudge up and down steps,
ringing bells and waiting at
doors in all kinds of weather.
almost always at night, to
collect their pay after they
had already had a day in
school and spent time deliv-
ering papers.
It's so easy to say Come
back next week." but it is
unfair to expect these young
people to spend so many
more hours than should be
necessary to earn their rela-
lively small incomes from pa
per routes.
Can't each subscriber lay
aside the money in advance,
or take the time to pay the
boy when he comes no mat
ter how busy he may think
he is? Often it's only a mat
ter of getting up from the
table, or interrupting a par
ticular TV program. Maybe
the boy would like to get
home to TV, too, or even to
a meal
Mrc z n NJ
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Oh, Man!

Last month the 41st an
niversary of women's suf-
frage was celebrated. In
many newspapers I noted
such phrases as another
first for women" or "the
New Woman" Like many
things we are forced to live
with today, equal rights for
women looks good on paper,
but it contains a depressing
reality. refer to the present
day world in which feminist
war cries of "appeaSement,
pacifism, ban the bomb, and
save the children" have
taken over politics, draining
our leadership of the domi-
mating vigor that only men
can provide.
A Frenchman said, when
women gained equality they
lost their superiority" Moth
ing could be truer. No woman
really wants to vote. Suf-
frage was won for us by a
m in nority of flat-heeled.
Strident, man hating harri-
dams who couldn't get their
way except by voting. The
aggressive, obnoxious career
women" of today do not
seem to realize that nature
endowed females with every
thing they need to get along
in this world without going
to work. The propaganda
about women being useful
and ambitious; ready to take
their place alongside men in
productive, intellectual pur-
suits, is a pure Communist
line that plays on the frus-
trationS of confused, silly
American clubwomen. We
are, a Western civilization of
family supremacy with a
male representation. This
situation is ripe for a real
woman, who can connive all
sorts of sly miracles without
going near a ballot box.
In this crucial moment of
competition between East
and West let's not succumb
to neuter-producing ideolo-
gies that are just not part of
our way of life. I read that
some Socialistic, family-less
countries have state-paid
physicians studying means
of producing test tube babies.
All I can say to that is, give
me the good old days.
How long are we going to
suffer these suffering suf-
fragetteS? America could
profit if women devoted their
time to pleasing men, to be-
ing told what to do by their
men instead of voting and
muddling the laW-making
processes. With this end in
mind I would like to call for
the repeal of the Nineteenth
Amendment. Florence King.
Founder, Women United
for Male Sunrernacv
Evening star., 1961-09-26

BERLIN.
You go to East Berlin and
come back. What have you
learned? Nothing much. The
streets are about as they
were when you last saw them
three years before. You re-
member them from 1888
when they echoed to the
stamp and the shouts of
Hitler's troops. You recall
going to hear him speak at
the Kroll Opera House across
from the burned-out Reich
stag building. His agents set
it afire so they could charge
a Communist plot and take
over the government: (The
Reichstag is in West Ger
many and is being repaired.
The Kroll Opera site is a
field.)
You think of Berlin as it
was in 1946 when the bull
dozers plowed passage
through the rubble and the
stencil of bodies in the
wreckage competed with the
musty smell of burned-out
ruins, sewer gases and the
sour reek of misery.
Some Of the old ruins still
are there in East Berlin. You
stare up at the apartments
on Stain Alice. Here and
there a red flag hangs from
an apartment balcony. It
is bare Of insignia. The flag
of international communism
is solid red. Each nation that
adopts it adds its special
designations.
Women lean out Of some
Of the windows or from a
balcony. Mostly they are
middle-aged, or older. You
look at them, but they stare
past you. There is no smile.
You wonder about the red
flags. They are few. It can
not mean other than that
some special Communist,
perhaps the commissar OF
the apartment building is
showing his loyalty.
In West Berlin you have
seen letters from some of the
Eastern residents of the
apartments into which you
stare. They were signed
merely by a letter or so from
a first name. They spoke Of
despair, of prayer, but none
mentioned hope.
Communist Slogans
You stop to copy down a
slogan on a banner across
the street or in a window
"Unser Kampfprogram fur
die Bandigung, Westdeutches
Militarismus." "Er zeigt
den veg a die gluckliche
Zukumft und die Einheit der
Deutches Nation" There
we're more Of these. They de-
nounce West German mill
tarism and say there will be
happiness only when there is
a socialist united nation.
There is a little shop win
dow in which were two small
Evening star., 1961-09-26
'ExiIed-for Whot?'

Your timely editorial Of
September 20 asking tn e
pointed question - "Exiled-
For What?" regarding tn e
contemplate Punishment of
Park Police Chief Harold F.
Stewart to Guam (the Siberia
of the New FrontierO leads
one to wonder if the secret
behind this repugnant af-
fair could be that Chief
Stewart declined the honor
of becoming a ticket broker
for Stu Udall's stunt recently
staged to 'exalt the sagging
image of JFK and clan.
James C. Cluck, jr.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Men in Space

Some of us loyal Frontiers
men resent Republican i'm
plications that our era Sh
space program is extravagant
or wasteful. We do antici-
pate spending 40 or so bill
lion on the project. but con-
slider the possible benefits. If
we can put Barry Goldwater
on the moon, place Nelson
Rockefeller in orbit and keep
Nixon beyond the Western
frontier, it will be worth ev-
cry cent of their money that
we can spend.
Angus Sinclair.
Evening star., 1961-09-26
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE

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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-02
Christmas Parties
For Inmates At
WhitfienId, Dec. d

JACKSON, Miss. - All the
year the committee on Men
tai Health gives Birthday
parties for patients at Whit,
field. but Christmas is special
and each cottage has party
with each inmate receiving
gifts and refreshments.
These parties are sponsored
by the Committee on Mental
Health who solicit gifts, and
donations from individuals,
churches, clubs and schools.
The first such Christmas
party will be held at Whitfield,
beginning December 4. What
is needed are more gifts and
donations, as we'll as volunteer
workers to wrap gifts and to
attend the parties.
Individuals or groups who
wish to contribute to this most
worthy cause are urged to con
tact, the Committee chairman.
Mrs. w. E. Miller. 1903 West
Pearl Street or call FL 3-4161
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-02

row will be held Sunday
night at 8. P. NJ, with Mrs.
F. D. MCGOWAN, MAGM, Mis-
tresss of Ceremonies. The
Song Service will be conduc-
ted by Pearl Street AME
Church, Rev G. r. Haughtou,
Pastor. Following Invocation
by Grand Chaplain; Music by
Pearly Street, the Roll Call
of Deceased Mason will be
made by Mr.. E. w. Palmer,
Grand Secretary. The Eulogy
will be given by. Rev. r. NJ.
Stevens, President of Camp
bell College. The Ritualistic
Ceremony will be conducted
by Mrs. MCGOWAN and DR.. Lee
Owens, Deputy Grand Master.
The Memorial Grafton will be
given by Mr.. John Melchor,
Grand Orator. Closing re-
marks will be given by Hon
~orable James C. Gillian,
Grand Master.
Monday, Dec A.: 9: A. NJ,
tContinued on Page p
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-02
Leontyne Gets
Ok from Doctor

NEW YORK - Soprano
Leontyne Price received ap-
proval of her doctor to return
to the Metropolitan Opera in
the title role of Madame But
terfly."
The 33-year-old star was
stricken with a virus Oct. 81
at the end of the second act Of
Girl of the Golden West" 1t
was her second performance
of the season. She opened the
Met Oct. % in the same role.
During her convalescence.
Miss Price missed two engage
ments at the Met, and three
appearances scheduled in Los
Angeles with the San Fran
cisco Opera.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-02

JACKSON, Miss. - The M.
w. Stringer Grand Lodge T..
& A. M, with the Honorable
James c. Gillian Of ClarkS-
dale, presiding will convene
here, Sunday, Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, Deem
Der 3, 4, and 6. This will be
the 86th Annual Convacation
of this organization and dele
gates and visitors from all ov-
er the state as Grand Masters
from out of the State will be
in attendance.
A tentative program has
been outlined as follows:
10: A. NJ. Sunday, Dec. 3,
Council of Deliberation, Main
Auditorium of Masonic Tenn
pie, Lynch Street. 200 p. vi
Cabinet Elected Officers NJ.
w. Stringer Grand Lodge, He
roines of Jericho Cabinet
meeting. Registration will be
held on End floor of Masonic
Temple.
The Grand Lodge of Sor-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-02
General Missionary Baptist State
Convention of Miss. Endorsed
Registration and Poll Tax
Paying Campaign

Upon the request Of James
A. White, executive Secretary
of the Mississippi Progressive
Voters League, the General
Missionary Baptist State Con-
vention of Mississippi, voted
in its closing hour to become
one of the sponsors of the
Poll Tax paying and registra-
ton campaign which will be-
gin December l, 1861 and close
February l, 1862. Several 9th
er organizations have also vo-
ted to co-sponsor this cam
paign. All of the efforts of
all of the people of the state
will be united in giant cam
paign to give education in reg
istration and voting. This is
an effort to prevent duplica-
ton and oversight. All organ
izations will be given an OPP
portunity to corellate their eff
forts. All leaders will be Civ
en- an opportunity to under.
stand one another.
James A. White, who has
been travelling the state in
this effort will speak to the
citizens of Greenwood Tues
day night, November %, at
7:3O P. M. at the Provident
M. B. Church, pastored by
Rev. Terrell who is president
of the Greenwood Minister'S
Alliance and Moderator of the