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Evening star., 1961-01-15
Society-Home


draham's 8 to 8 cocktail
party.
The party list goes on and
on and on through Inaugu-
ration Day.
On Saturday, the Women's
National Press Club will give
their traditional welcome to
cabinet members Of the new
administration at q large re-
ception In the Mayflower
Hotel ballroom from 5 to
Z pm.
Evening star., 1961-01-15

And as q final note. on
Saturday night, the Samuel
Lanahans and the Walter
Ridders have planned a small
post-inaugural ball starting
at 10 pm. at the Ridder OUT
post in Mclean, Va.
It's an invitation affair
for guests with stamina who
will be there in costume
each in his or her own in.
depreciation Of q New
Frontier"
Evening star., 1961-01-15

Inaugural momentOs to cherish:
Capital charms of l4-Kt. gold
Choose one all for a precious souvenir
of the Nations Capital shown classic
link l4kt. gold bracelet, 34.65; left to right:
Washington Monument with viewing window, 1850;
Jefferson Memorial with vew 1880; Capitol 1850;
blue and red cnameled District of Columbia, 1920:
White House, $3.50. Also available in sterling
silver. Prices include Federal Semprecious Jewey,
First Floor; Spring Valley and Corners.
store
Evening star., 1961-09-03

assignment to the school-not only by
the corporation counsers staff but by
some judges-of drivers who have been
repeated offenders and who may be only
a point or two short of having their
permits suspended. One official COM
mented wryly that several motorists
have attended so many classes that they
should qualify as instructors.
These abuses may have developed
through carelessness or possibly a dis
inclination of prosecutors to deprive a
man of his permit by sending him into
court. But they should be stopped.
Certainly driver with long record
of offenSes is not likely to be trans
formed into law-abiding motorist by
attending the Traffic School He should
be required to take his chances with a
jury or Judge in court.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
A School Not q Refuqe

The Traffic School for errant
motorists was designed to give minor
traffic law offenders some useful in
struction in proper driving. It was not
intended to serve as device for evading
deserved punishment or the demerit
points which lead to permit suspension
or revocation. Yet the records show that
some offenders with bad driving records
have taken the course at Traffic School
as many as four times. Each time they
have gone to school they have escaped
going before Judge, with the attendant
risk of conviction and the accumulation
OF more points. Assistant Corporation
Counsel Clark King, taking cognizance
OF the record, has shown good judgment,
therefore, in ordering his staff to tighten
up on Traffic School assignments.
Neither Mr. King, the Judges, the
police nor traffic officials have any
criticism of the Traffic School as an
institution. Director England of the
Department of Motor Vehicles says that
many drivers, particularly first Of
tenders, have benefited greatly by
attending the six-hour course, which is
spread over period of three weeks.
The drivers are given lectures, shown
movies and otherwise given intensive
instruction in traffic laws and good
driving practices. But police and traffic
officials have been concerned over the
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Man in the MuItiverse

Some 800 million years ago, at a
distance so far from our world as to be
almost incomprehensible, star-a sun
more or less the size of our own-blew
up. And this caused what must have
been an unimaginably terrible, all
destroying cataclysm for the surround
ing planets and for whatever life existed
in the general neighborhood.
AS reported by DR.. Fritz Zwicky of
Mount Palomar Observatory, the light
from this supernoya, or stellar ex-
ploSion, has just now reached our earth,
despite having Travelled at a speed of
10000 miles second over the past
800 million years. These are aweSome
figures, and they speak pretty much for
themselves as a measure of the i'm
menSity of the universe, which has also
been described as boundless, imitleSs
multiverSe full of countless solar systems
whose planets may well be inhabited by
creatures at least as intelligent as
we are.
Here is one of the reasons why the
late Judge Learned Hand admoniShed
men to act with humility before the
vast unknown" and DR.. Harlow Shapley,
the celebrated Harvard astronomer, has
repeatedly made the same point. After
all, as DR.. Shapley has observed, we
occupy mere fly-speck of a globe in
what we call our Milky Way, which is
made up of hundreds Of millions Of
stars, or suns and solar systems similar
to our own; yet the heavens around us
and beyond are so infinite that there
is good reason to believe that they
contain no fewer than 800 billion Milky
Ways, each as big as our own, and
maybe bigger.
In other words, as DR.. Zwickys
Supernova report serves to remind us
once again, this place we live in, this
finite earth, seems to be a thing of in
finitesimally tiny dimensions dangling
in an infinite environment that gives no
evidence Of any outer boundary On
the contrary, it is an environment that
apparently stretches out in all direc-
tionS to distances without end, i'm
measurably easurable-distances so
tremendous as to make a kind of
mockery of mans efforts as he orbits
our little globe and plans trips to places
like the moon, which are a mere stones
throw from us in relation to other
spots in the "vasty deep" beyond our
own solar system.
What is man in such an environ
ment? AS Pascal has said, he Is nothing
when compared to infinity." Certainly,
as we contemplate how indescribably
small we are among the stars and in the
endlessness of the space that cradles
them, all Of us-including people like
Nikita Khrushchev-have reason to
take wry view of human vanity and
pretensionS to bigness.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Downtown Library

As long ago as 1929 the serious
obSoleScence and overcrowding Of the
Central Library at Eighth and K streets
NV. was recognized. 1t is hardly sur
priSing, therefore, that study 80 years
later by the New York consulting firm
Of Booz, Allen and Hamilton has again
corroborated these deficiencies and has
recommended that a modern and
greatly-expanded replacement be built.
There are, however, two new and
exciting aspects Of this study. The first
is that the new building should be
situated in the heart Of the downtown
retail shopping area-long recognized
by librarians as the location which
assures its maximum and most benefi-
cial use. The second point is that the
precise location Of such site is being
determined in conjunction with Down.
town Progress, Inc, the private organi-
zation which is planning the revitali-
zation Of the entire central shopping
and business districts. Here is a unique
opportunity for mutual benefit: Not
only would the concentration Of pedes-
trians downtown be helpful to the
library; the library itself would serve
to attract Washingtonians downtown.
AS the conSultants pointed out, the
deteriorated and Sordid surroundings of
the present library no doubt discourage
countless visitors. Yet despite these
drawbacks, the use of the Central Lii
barry steadily has increased. What this
means, of course, is simply that this
valuable institution Is not dispensing
the amount of service it would else
where. 1t is not generally known that
under law the Central Library (as we'll
as its branches) offers full services not
only to those who live in the District,
but to all who work and attend school
here. In Boston, this function is per-
formed In Central Library containing
more than 100000 square feet; in
Cleveland, nearly 100000. The Wash
ington library, by contrast, is struggling
along on miserable 10000 square feet
Of working space.
The $4,000 which the Commits
sionerS provided, and which Congress
approved, for relocation study, was
money well spent. The leaders of Down
town Progress should lose no time in
selecting prime building site, and in
determining as well more imaginative
and fitting use for the area which would
become available for redevelopment at
Mount Vernon Square.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Shock in BeIqrode

In MS speech TO the opening session
of the 24-nation "neutralist" conference
in Belgrade, President NaSSer of the
United Arab Republic probably has
accurately summed up what most of
the other delegates feel about the
Kremlin'S altogether ugly and ominous
decision to resume nuclear testing.
AS Mr.. NaSser has put it, the threat
laden Soviet announcement of this
action-which has already been put into
force with an atmospheric detonation
OF the type that causes potentially
health-killing radioactive fallout-has
filled him with sense of deep regret"
More than that, to quote him further,
the news of the thing has come as "a
shock to me and to world public
opinion. Whatever the reasons were
for the Soviet governments decision,
its most important and clear significance
Is grave deterioration in the inter-
national situation"
This view is almost certainly shared
by a solid majority of the "neutralist"
leaders now gathered In the Yugoslav
capital. However, up to the present
moment, at any rate, these people have
not voiced the same kind of indignation,
with the same kind of noisy vigor,
against Moscow as they would have
voiced II Washington had announced
comparable decision. But let's wait
and see. Maybe, before their current
meeting ends, men like Mr.. Nasser,
primo MiniStor NAhrIY aF
has warned his fellow-conferees that
the Soviet action "bringS us to the brink
OF wary, President Sukarno of Indo-
nesia and Marshal Tito Of Yugoslavia,
instead of delivering vague and gratui-
touS moral lectures to the West, will
press for the adoption Of resolutions
that will speak out honestly and in
clear words against the real villain of
the piece.
The villain, of course, and a most
menacing one, is the USSR as run by
Premier Khrushchev and his CO.
conSpirators. Quite obviously, by re-
suming nuclear tests with an announce
ment full of exceptionally threatful
implications, they are reSorting, to a
propagandistic strategy Of fright and
terror designed to make the rest of the
Notwithstanding particularly the "neu-
tralist" lands-get weak in the knees
and yield to Communist domination.
Here is fact that can hardly be denied.
Accordingly, what we must hope for is
that the Belgrade conferees, having
been shocked by the Soviet nuclear
move, now have learned something that
Will make them less inclined in the
future than they have been in the past
to be Sweetly tolerant of Moscow's
peace-endangering policies.
Anyhow, as indicated by Mr.. Nasser,
there is likely to be considerable second
thinking and soul-searching among
many of the "nonaligned" in Belgrade.
Certainly, if their eyes are open, If they
are reasonably intelligent, and if they
are honest with themselves, they should
feel moved to condemn this latest Soviet
maneuver in unequivocal terms. Ameas-
ure of their "neutralism" will be how
torthrightly, or unforthrightly, they
do so.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Marx Not to Blame

The Sunday Star quotes
Deputy Premier Mikoyan as
saying: "Marxist Leninists
have discarded religion and
elevated reason. We do
not believe in God. We
are atheists" Whatever the
Leninists and Stalinists may
think and believe, they are
not entitled to attribute their
ideas to Karl Marx. The con-
temporary and friend of Karl
Marx, the Jewish poet and
essayist Heinrich Heine, was
for a time goddess and also
an atheist. But after he be-
came i'll and was lying on his
mattress grave for nearly
eight years he returned to his
God.
In his preface of 1852 to
his History Of Religion and
Philosophy in Germany"
Heine compares himself and
his salad-days to King Nebu-
chadnezzar, his fall and his
repentance as it is written
down in the book Of Daniel.
Heine then recommends the
book of Daniel to Ruge,
Feuerbach, Daumer, Bruno
Bauer, Hengstenberg, and
especially to my much more
stubborn friend Marx"
Hardly three years later
Marks only son died, at the
age Of 9. On July %, 1855,
Marx lamented about his
son: Bacon says that really
great men have so many in
terests in nature and the
world and so many things
which occupy their attention
that no loss can mean very
much to them. I am afraid
that I am not of those great
men. The death of my boy
has shaken me deeply and I
feel the loss as keenly as
though it were still only
yesterday, and my poor wife
has completely broken down
under the blow" While Heine
previously called Marx and
the other atheists "those
goddess Self-proclaime e d
gods" Marx now rejected
even the idea of being a
great man. He then certainly
returned to God, too.
1t is not the spirit Of Karl
Marx which influences Rus
sia of today, but rather the
spirit of Marks opponent,
Michael Bakunin. 1914
1870. Samuel Igra.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Squeezing Castro

The magnitude Of good
that the United States can
accomplish in helping the
Cuban people escape from
their subjugation is the chal-
lenge that confrontS us. It
involves more, not less, for
eign aid, sharing knowledge
essential for a country's
growth, diversification in
agricultural projects SO that
people may rise above the
feudal system Of a one-crop
economy and establishing a
sound and expansive trade
policy. If in the countries Of
North Africa, Southeast Asia
and Latin America political
reform Is necessary to elimi-
nate corruption and moral
terpitude from the reigning
governm m e n is, then the
United States should assist
and take the lead in carry
ing out needed reforms.
Our past policies with Cuba
were subservient to the ne
cessities of the Cuban people
and were largely dominated
by American business mo-
nopolies.
At one time the volume Of
trade existing between the
United States and Cuba
amounted to almost 20 times
what it. is today. At pres
ent, only $25 million worth
of Cuban products are eX-
ported here annually as a
result of the economic en-
bargoes placed on Cuban
goods. Needless to say, this
very substantial loss OF trade
with the United States has
greatly affected the Cuban
economy and forced her to
seek other markets. BY our
crude method of enforcing
economic reprisals we delib-
erately choked Cuba's life
lines and pushed her more
quickly into seeking Com
munist assistance. We also
curtailed all shipments of
items to Cuba except for
food, medicine and medical
supplies which presently
amount to less than $25 mil
lion a year.
1t has been proposed that
a way Ito put the squeeze on
Castro" would be curtail all
items to and from Cuba. i'm
pose a total embargo on all
goods including much needed
American food and medicine.
1t is preposterouS to assume
that this embargo and loss of
trade will greatly affect the
United States economy. How
ever. 1t will do irreparable
harm to the Cuban people
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Kennedy's Record

The letter from David
Hughes concerning John F.
Kennedy's flair for words,
splendid rhetoric, and arrest
ing diction, but lack of execu-
tive leadership could hardly
be substantiated by Mr.. Ken
nedy's performance commenc-
ing with his duty as a naval
officer in World War II, his
service as a Congressman and
a Senator after the war, and
his first six months in the
White House. President Ken
nedy's efforts to persuade
Congress to follow his leader
ship have not beena a notable
failure as Mr.. Hughes states.
Witness the passage of three
important pieces Of legisla-
ton: minimum wage, the ON
nibuS housing bill and the
area development bill. Fail
ure? Not by a long shot, nor
by any stretch of the widest
imagination, Republican or
Democrat.
Considering the number Of
proposals sent to Congress by
the White House during the
first six months of any ad-
ministration, except Franklin
D. Roosevelt's first, I think
President Kennedy'S batting
average is well over 500, and
better than his predecessors.
The only notable defeat was
the aid to education program.
The final version of the for
eign aid bill has yet to come
out of Congress. To call this
bill a failure Is just about as
foolish as the Chicago Trib-
une claiming victory for Tom
Dewey in 1948.
Furthermore, anyone who
scoffs at Mr.. Kennedy's Ca
pacity for phrase-making or
ability to articulate should
realize that these qualities
are plus marks and the basic
ingredients for effective
leadership.
william F. Clune.
Evening star., 1961-09-03

of its reach is the limit of
the real"
It was because the owner
Of one small head seemed to
believe this that as he peered
at the universe through a
piece of curved glass held in
his hand afterward reported.
Il have swept the heavens
with my telescope and have
failed to find any trace of
God" Well. that did not
prove anything except that a
piece of glass is not the in
strument with which to
search for God.
A God who could be
squeezed into a creed con-
cocted inside one small head,
or by any number of heads,
could not be God. Years ago
a great scientist came to
speak at a famous seat of
knowledge. He knew as much
as anyone could know within
the domain of his subject.
Long afterwards a student
who drank in copious
draughtS of the famous
scholars knowledge, looking
back to that mountain peak
experience, recalled that lee
turer's profound learning,
his perfect ease in the mas
terry of his Subject-well, let
us have him tell it-"of ar
rogance there was not one
trace, of the pride of intellect
absolutely nothing, but
through everything a certain
sense of wonder as in the
presence of mysteries un-
fathomable."
We can picture a world
famous botanist walking in
a garden with his little boy,
both holding flowers in their
hands, the father saying as
he gazes lovingly at that one
small head, IF we knew all
in all, stem and stalk and
flower, we'd know what God
and man is" Tennyson has
said that for us all.
This very summer Carl
Sandburg, with so much
poetry in his heart and his
head, has declared, "As the
years go by I am more and
more deeply interested in the
simplest of mysteries touch
ing the unknown and un-
movable" Even a preacher
of the love of God that has
in it Wilderness like the wide
ness of the sea, dare not go
to the brim of that great
ocean which is God, dip his
tumbler into it, and setting
the filled tumbler down be-
fore his people say, there
is the ocean," He knows it
isn't!
A close associate with aca-
demic degrees after his name.
before he left us put down
in four lines a confession
of the wonder of Christ
which he could not fathom
with one small head. Little
did he think, when by my
side he wrote the verse, that
it would be snatched UP and
printed in hymnals all
around the world. Here is
one verse of his final poem
I knoD not hoU that Bethle-
hen'S babe
Could in the God-hedd be:
/ only krIotD the mGnger child
Has brought Gods life to me.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
100 Years Ago

Northern morale got a shot
in the arm a century ago
when an amphibious opera
ton netted the Union two
North Carolina forts and a
host of rebel prisoners. A
joint military-naval expedi-
ton led by Gen. Ben Butler
and Commodore Silas String
ham departed from Hampton
Roads, Va, on August rs,
1851. Late the next day, this
flotilla of some Is vessels
was off Hatteras Inlet. Butler
landed troops and Stringham
started shelling the Confed-
crates holed up in the forts.
AS shells burst inside Fort
Hatteras, its commander saw
he was overmatched and
decided to surrender to save
useless bloodshed. The forts
were important because Hat
teras Inlet was the entrance
to inland waterways. From
the safety of these-Pamlico
and Albermarle Sounds -
Confederate raiders sped out
to raise hob with Union mer-
chantmen and blockade
runners moved about with
impunity. The Star of
September 2, 1861, headlined:
Brilliant Union Victory!
Capture of Fort Clark and
Fort Hatteras and $50 Pris-
oners! Fifteen Confederates
Killed and Woundedl
Prizes, Guns and Ammuni-
tion Taken!" There followed
a two-column official report
on the doings by Gen. Butler
and a much shorter report
by Commodore Stringham,
though it was actually a
naval victory. The Star COM
mented: ". (The) i'm
portance of the victory can
hardly be overestimated.
Possession (of Hatteras) not
only puts a stop to privateer-
ing from the waters Of North
Carolina, but completely
commands the inside COM
munication between Norfolk
and North and South Caro-
lima via the Dismal Swamp
Canal; the channel through
which the cargoes of the
prizes taken by the oligar-
chy's privateers have been
sent into Virginia and else
where for sale and their
military use. -" The Star
Of September 8, 1861, gave
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Return of Borroom?

If the bill to permit peo-
pie to stand up at a bar
while drinking is adopted
it will constitute a fulfill
ment of predictions by those
favoring prohibition - that
the lying promises of the
vets before repeal that the
old saloon would never, never
come back, would not be
realized and were never in
tended to be.
So, if the drinker can stand
at the bar, as proposed. in
stead of sitting down to
drink, all that is lacking is
the brass rail and sawdust
on the floor to make the new
beer and whisky joints just
as bad and as entirely evil
and deadly as the old saloon
ever was.
However, in order to be
fair about this matter, I call
attention to the fact that
as long as a man can stand
up, the bartender. in most
cases, would continue to sup
ply him with liquor even
though he showed every sign
of being drunk, but If he fell
to the floor, the bartender
would hardly be expected to
come around and serve him
in this reclining position, or
would he?
Whereas If he had been
drinking seated in a booth,
the bartender could not tell
so readily when the time
came that he must stop serv-
ing drinks unless the drunk
ard Il mean "alcoholic") be-
came helplessly drunk and
rolled off his seat to the
floor, when some bartenders
would decide that this Gus
toner must be thrown out.
Mr.. Common Sense.
Evening star., 1961-09-03
Critics Artistry

A month of Sundays will
pass before your paper will
print another art column to
rlatch the excellence Of
Frank Getlein's Following
that Trend Toward Simplifi-
cation" I read it, reread it
and lined-up my children
while I read 1t again aloud.
Since the Dale Collection at
the National is one Of our
favorite spots in town. we de-
lighted in his descriptions Of
Gaugin's elegance of the
design" Van Gogh's thrust
Of growing things, and the
pull of the sum-" Monet's
"nets of gold" Braque's
"clutterabelia Of life" and
Picasso's piece of art" More,
please.
Art appears to preface
social, scientific and moral
awareness and Art Critic
Getlein stated, Before these
Frenchmen. there used to be
an art that concealed art;
after them has come an art
that destroys art" Conse-
quently it was with a GER
tain excitement that today I
examined a Toynbee address
emphasizing a parallel obser-
vation, II think the most
serious thing that has hap
pened in the history Of the
West since 1914 is our own
offenses against our own
moral standards" Perhaps
an analysis Of the period
1850-1915 from every con-
ceivable point Of view might
help our aching one-World
today. Something certainly
fell apart at the seams during
World War I and perhaps
there is still time to do the
needed mending. Art may
suggest a way since, as Mr..
Getlein suggests. 1--WE find
simplicity enough to accom-
modate the modern eye and
complexity enough to afford
a link with the past" con-
tanned within this period Of
IS years.
Frances Townsend Trammell.