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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25
OUTRAGED by Tow

I protest the advertising
of the bartender toy" by
the drug chains in the WASH
ington area.
Frankly, / am opposed to
all liquor advertising. But
this mechanical toy is an
outrage. "A jovial bartender,
whose face is brightly lit,
shakes the cocktail mixer,
deity fills his glass as he
reels from side to side. He
then drinks the stiff mar
TIM. smacks his lips and his
face turns fire red and
smoke pillows from ear to
ear"
Are the people in the
Washington area content
with this attempt to con-
dition our children in favor
of the jolly bartender be-
fore they are able to crawl,
to say nothing of being able
to think? This is more than
a question Of good taste. It
is a question of q decent
regard for the future of our
children as they develop their
sense Of values and life
habits.
I hope this offensive con-
traption will be removed
from the advertising pages
and the store shelves before
every child in the block
makes the acquaintance of
the bartender.
Ruth Howard Hutchinson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25

@. Please give the legend
and weather, prophecy con-
nected with July is, st.
Swithin's Day.-B. T.
A. The old prophecy goes:
"St. Swithin's Day If thou
dost rain./ For forty days it
will remain;/ st. Swithin's
Day if thou be fair,/ For
forty days twill rain nae
mair." st. Swithin, English
bishop of Winchester who
died in 862, was buried out
side his church at Winches-
ter as he had specifically re-
quested. When he was can
onized in the following CEN
fury. plans were made to ex-
hume his body for burial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25

Pacific Is paved with manga
nese rocks.
This is thes substance Of a
report to the Soviet Academy
Of Sciences on findings Of the
Russian oceanographic re-
search ship Vityaz, which has
completed a wide survey Of
the worlds largest ocean. A
summary Of the report by Drs.
N. s. Skornyakova and N. L.
Zenkevich, who accompanied
the expedition has Just been
issued through the United
States Department Of Com
merce. The two scientists pre-
sented a map. based on both
Soviet and other recent re-
search, showing the distribu-
ton of these manganese con-
cretionS in the surface lay
ers Of sediments on the sea
floor.
Actually pure manganese
seldom is found anywhere on
earth but in combinations
with iron and other metals.
The Pacific bottom concre-
tons contain up to 20 per
cent iron and minute
amounts of cobalt. nickel and
copper,
Ocean Floor Photographed
1T appears" says the re-
port. that these manganese
concretions are found ap-
proximately in half the floor
Of the Pacific which is covered
with red clay and one-sixth
the area covered by Sits from
the land. A high content of
concretionS usually is found
in regions Of submarine
mountains, and large under
water ranges and highlands.
1t is possible that one of the
sources is the decomposition
of volcanic rocks.
ut has been established
that the concretions can form
only in areas where there is
a very slow rate of sediment
accumulation. The rate of
sediment accumulation Of red
clays in the Pacific Is only
two to three millimeters per
thousand years"
The ~Vityaz made over 400
stops In the open part of the
Pacific and took bottom sam
piles by, a variety of meth
DDS. The floor of the ocean
was photographed at 46 Of
these stops. The photos show
up to so per cent of the sea
floor is covered with these
concretions. They
may cover 80 to 80 per cent
of peaks of submarine noun
tain ranges where they form
a cobblestone-like pavement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25
Hectic Session

This letter concerns itself
with a news article published
in your paper on October 10,
1861, relating to the Arling-
ton County Board hearing on
the commercial amendment
to the coming ordinance.
My difference with certain
members of the board was
due primarily to the fact that
I was frequently interrupted
in my brief remarks. This
made it possible for your re-
porter and others, to COM
pletely miss my full state
ments. This resulted in the
publication of news stories
which neither fairly, nor &C
curately. depicted my COM
plete and actual story. This
was unfortunate. Certainly,
appearing before a county
board, often referred to as an
antibusinesS board, I would
have no desire to incur its
wrath, nor did I. If I had
been given the opportunity
to complete my report, with
out Interruptions, then this
fiasco would not have hap
pened. Please know, that at
all times I was a gentleman.
Finally, may I again COM
mend the Office of Planning,
the Planning Commission
and certain members Of the
County Board, for their dill
gent efforts in making this
ordinance a possibility. With
some future refinements. it
should work to the advantage
of all Of us.
Robert J. Johnson.
Managing Director. Arlington
Chamber Of Commerce.
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plete ignoring Of a chronic
condition which cried for cor
rection.
There was nothing "vitri-
olic" In my statement. When
one points out something
that cries out for corrective
action, there is always some
one to come forward to de-
fend the status quo.
Vera E. Adams.
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Point of No Return?'

In the first OF series Of admin
iStration policy speeches on public
welfare, Secretary Ribicoff has expressed
very well, it seems to us, the tenor of
mounting concern across the country
with the seemingly endless spiral of
welfare beneficiaries.
Mr.. Ribicoff made no reference in
his text to conditions in the District of
Columbia But it is fact, for the sake
of illustration, that the numbers of
persons in the District receiving relief
under the aid-to-dependent-ch children
program alone rose from $500 in 1910
to 8,43S in 1850 and to 20,894 in 1860
In terms of money, the cost of this
program in the District last year was
fully Is times higher than two decades
ago. Assuming that figures like these
have parallels elsewhere, it is easy to
share Mr.. Ribicoff'S feeling that cities
are "juSt drifting in the field of welfare"
And it Is hardly surprising, as he points
out, that there are widespread rumblings
from taxayers who question the dis
posal of their hard-earned funds and
wonder If we have reached a point of
no return"
Secretary Ribicoff correctly main
tains that the acceptance of such a
conclusion is untenable; that the welfare
dilemma now has reached dimensions
requiring that new solutions of various
kinds must be sought, probably at all
levels Of government. We hope that his
remarks will stimulate District officials
in their own search for new approaches,
along the lines suggested tentatively by
Commissioner Duncan. As to the Fed
eral legislation which he will propose
toward this end to the next session Of
Congress, Mr.. Ribicoff spoke only in
broad terms. But there was much to
agree with in what he said.
At one point Mr. Ribicoff criticized
"heartless" cutbacks in public assistance.
Surely no one can find fault with that
But neither should 1t follow that all
retrenchments, that all efforts at econ
omy, must necessarily be "heartlesS"
We do not believe 1t has been demon
strated thus far, for example, that the
limitations proposed on the aid-to-
children program in Wash
ngton fall within that category.
On the other hand, there can be
little disagreement with the desirability
of the major goals which were sketched
by Mr.. Ribicoff-the return of those on
welfare rolls to self-sufficiency through
enjoyment, the reduction of caseloads
without creating hardship, and con-
current reductions in the degree of
juvenile delinquency, family breakdown,
illegitimacy and i'll health.
But the achievement Of these pre-
sents a staggering problem. There will
be ample time to assess Mr.. Ribicoff's
proposals when they are described in
detail. He is to be commended, however,
for trying to break new ground in this
difficult and often misunderstood area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25
THE PASSING SCENE
A Need for Civilized Tolerance
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

The newly independent
African nations are in need
Of more than economic aid
and Western "know-how."
Scme-Nigeria in particular
are clearly in need Of some
small sense Of humor and at
least some trace Of civilized
tolerance.
This is the only important
meaning Of the great flap
over the stored international
crime committed by Margery
Mic elm ore of Foxboro,
Mass, Of the United States
Peace Corps In Nigeria.
Miss Michelmore's historic
offense seems to have stirred
among some Of the Africans
and their toadies in the West
more anger than Is felt by
them in this fifth anniver-
sary season of another and,
to some eyes, a rather darker
international crime. This was
the murder by the Russians
Of thousands Of Hungarians
in the streets of Budapest in
the October uprising Of five
years ago.
She Stated Friendship
What, actually, did Miss
Michelmore do? Arriving In
Nigeria. q youngster fresh
from the States and full of
zeal to help the Nigerians,
she was horror-stricken by
the primitive living conditions
there, as every American who
ever went there has been so
struck. On q private postcard
intended for a private friend
in the States. she commented
on this squalor-and also
made plain her friendship
and sympathy for Nigeria.
She lost the postcard.
Somebody picked it I'D and
instead Of returning 1t to
her had it mimeographed
and spread around Nigeria.
Nigerian students" set off
a bowling demonstration
against her as an agent of
imperialism"
Decent people do not nor
mally read, much less pub
fish to the world, other peo-
pies private mail. Neverthe-
less, Miss Michelmore apollo
gized to all Nigeria and Of
fered her resignation from
the Peace Corps. It's direc-
tor. Sargent Shriver, has
thus far wisely refused to ac-
cept it.
Mr.. Shriver all the same
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25
Broodside at u. N.

The safety and sovereignty
of our Nation will continue
in danger so long as we al
low our politicians to con-
tinue United States member
ship In the bankrupt U.N.,
and that nest Of intrigue and
subverSion is allowed to re-
main on American soil.
Consider these three pres
ent threats TO our peace
self-respect and security.
This so-called U.N. seems to
be seriously on the point Of
voting the admission OF Red
China, despite the fact that
these Reds are even now
technically at war with the
U.N., and that in an unde-
clared war against America
these brigands hand-tied and
brutally murdered hundreds
Of Americans and now hold
in slavery other Americans
captured in that war. Given
admission to the U.N., these
Red murderers would come to
our country and foul our pure
air with their presence.
There is the matter, too.
Of the renewed efforts Of
three leftwing politicians to
scuttle the Connally Reserva-
ton and thereby give the
pseudo-j judicial branch Of
U.N.. the International Court
Of Justice, authority to NEEDLE
in purely domestic affairs of
our Nation. Two Communists,
one Russian, one Polish, are
currently members Of that
court, and its decisions would
be binding. The charter spe-
officially states that there are
no appeals from its decisions.
And there Is the tricky and
deceitful scheme cooked UP by
one Of the U.N.'s hybrid Off
spring. the notorious UNES-
co Convention Against Dis
elimination in E ducati on,
and. make no mistake about
it.. it would ultimately place
our public. private and pa
rochial schools in the sub
versive clutches of the U.N.,
If the scheme is not scotched.
The U.N. is not only a con-
tinuing danger to the control
of our destiny as a Nation,
it is the worst fraud ever
perpe trate d against the
American people, and 1t is
inevitable that we shall
sooner or later divorce. our
selves from it. The sooner,
the better.
HalSAv McGnvaru
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25

win be under heavy pressure
to make some absurd sacrifi-
cial victim of this little girl
and that. really, is all she
is-to appeaSe African opin-
ion." For no less a parsonage
than the Prime Minister Of
Nigeria, Sir Abubaker Ia
fawa Balewa; has now pub
icly demanded that Miss
Michelmore "be unequivocally
condemned" He has done
this even though his gov
ernmental associates have
been far calmer.
In a fairly long career of
watching politicians Of all
kinds, this correspondent can
think Of no pettier action by
a head Of state. The spec
tacle Of a prime minister of
a whole nation pursuing one
23-year-old youngster in this
way is. in plain fact, nothing
short of sickening.
Sense Of Proportion Needed
And it is the more so be-
cause every honest adult in
Washington knows perfectly
well that If any white ma
tional leader ever behaved in
this way, this Government
would not wait 10 minutes to
tell him where to get off.
Grant the understandable
sensitivities of the colored
nations: grant that we in the
West have done them many
wrongs in the long past.
Grant all this, and more, and
one central truth still abides:
Those who hold great power,
in colored nations and in
white, have some obligation,
surely, to show some sense Of
proportion, some minimum
gallantry. to the young and
tender Of this world-colored
and white.
The whole incident Is, on
its own merits, p trifling one,
not worth the concern of q
single junior clerk in any gov
eminent. But the way it has
been inflated has put a heavy
responsibility on Mr.. Shriver.
This is an obligation even
higher than the obligation to
be patient with those back
ward countries he is trying so
hard to help. It Is the obliga-
ton to maintain, at whatever
cost in this Alice in Wonder
land hysteria, one Of the old
est Of all civil rights-the
right Of every man and wom-
an and child to express an
honest opinion anywhere, any
time.
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within the church. Legend
has it that this was to have
been done on q July Is, but
that because Of the saints
displeasure IL rained violently
on that day and for 40 days
thereafter and removal Of
his body was accordingly de-
layed. There is no contem-
porary chronicle of such an
occurrence. The legend may
derive from an earlier pagan
belief about some specific
day in England's general
rainy season. Several other
countries have had saints
days in June or July to which
some kind Of rainfall proph-
ecy became attached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-25
Birth Control

Planned Parenthood of
Metropolitan Washington is
greatly disturbed that the
chairman Of the House Dis
trict Appropriations Subcom-
mittee has power to dictate to
District officials health poll
cies for the Metropolitan
Area.
AS the only agency to dis
pense birth control informa-
ton and supplies to medically
INDECENT persons of the area,
our group looked forward to
plans Of the District Com
missioners to establish a pre-
natal and poSt-natal public
health team which would in
clude family planning. Chair
man Louis Rabaut, according
to the newspapers, vetoed
this plan. The increase Of
over 100 per cent Of patients
to Planned Parenthood clinics
during the past four years has
been due in part to referrals
from D. c. public health
agencies. If this referral sys-
TEN. which Planned Parent
hood welcomes as q step to-
wards better community
health and welfare, were to
be even so per cent effective,
1t would be impossible for a
private organization such as
Planned Parenthood to sup
ply needed services. Both pub
lie and private agencies have
a definite role TO play ~ :.iills
service ~ 80 made avail
abe to all who need and want
u. one would supplement the
work Of the other. Planned
Farenthood is not q member
Of the United Givers Fund
all-S must conduct an indie
pendeA.. campaign every " ar
IN order u meet its h':.;Set.
Prescribing birth control
Information for patients who
cannot afford private care
and who desire IL has the
support Of the d. c. Medical
Society. the Corporation
Councils Office, the D. C.
Commissioners, the Council
Of Churches. the D. c. League
Of Women Voters. the D. C.
Public Health Advisory Coun-
Gil and the American Public
Health Association. Birth
control is also offered as part
Of the public health program
in seven States.
Our experience is that
when patients are given birth
control information, a large
percentage Of them will use
the material effectively.
II the funds or birth con-
troll. included in the 1868
budget, are to be used as al
located. the vocal backing of
every citizen in the area who
believes In responsible parent
hood must be obtained.
Mrs, Fontaine Bradley,
President. Planned Parent
hood Of Metropolitan
Washington.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names MAY be used II
letters carry writers' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used mill be
returned only iOhen accom-
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VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Pygmy of Microscopic Livinq Thinos

The tiniest independent liv-
ing thing on earth Is only a
2o0.000th Of an inch in diam
eter. Within this ultra-mi-
croscopic Speck of protoplasm
apparently is contained ev-
erything necessary for a free
: eAsStence.
This U.,s-celled organism, a
pigmy even in the ultra mi
croscopic world of bacteria
and protocol, is Sapromyces
laidls-Trii, described by DR..
@. =. Hutchinson Of Yale in
report contained in a Sc
ries Of papers on oceanogra-
ply just issued by the Amer
lean Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science. 1t first
was isolated from sewage in
1886, according to the report,
and later has been found in
soil. It is closely related to
the larger organism RESPONSE
bic for the cattle disease, bo-
vine pleuropneumonia.
It may very well stand at
the beginning Of free life on
earth. On the other hand, DR..
Hutchinson points out, it
may be a degenerate form of
one of the So-called dubac-
terra, themselves about the
most primitive Of all living
things. DR.. Hutchinson clas-
sites them among the Mon
era. very early swimming or
gliding organisms which con-
stitute separate kingdom Of
life.
Part Of PlanktOn Mass
In the most primitive stages
they hardly can be classified
as plants but the highest
forms have developed the
ability of photosynthesis, ex-
traction of carbon dioxide
from the air and out of it
building up their own body
material. These are part of
the great mass Of sea plank
ton. major food Of sea ami
mails.
These Monera, says the re-
port, Gin general are organ
isms living at solid-liquid or
liquid gas interfaces in q
great variety of circum-
stances, in soils. aquatic sedi-
ments or as parasites. They
show little specialization into
fresh water or marine organ
isms. In some of the smaller
groups marine forms occur
and these are often easily
adapted. apparently by an
evolutionary process involv-
ing few mutations, to fresh
water life"
= = .
Much Of the floor of the
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Questions and Answers
" THE HASKINS SERVIC

reader get mail question Of tact BY
Evening star., 1961-09-20
Baseball Teum
Near Agreement
On Stadium Rent

The Washington Senators
and the Armory Board today
moved closer to an agreement
on a contract for the ball club
to play in the new stadium
next season.
The two parties agreed to
meet again at 10 am. Satur-
day in the office of Commits
sioner Walter N. Tohriner.
Officials onNboth sides were
optimistic concerning total
agreement in Saturdays meet
ing. Neither side would say
just what differences still were
separating them.
Representing the Senators
were Gen. Pete Quesada, club
president; Joe Burke, assistant
general manager and Webb
Hayes, club attorney. Sitting
in for the Armory Board
were James Riley, chairman;
Commissioner Tobriner, Gen.
William H. Abendroth, Dutch
Bergman and Chester Gray.
Evening star., 1961-09-20

mates of human exposure to
specific radionuclides."
A Public Health spokesman
explained the current air meas
urement gives information only
on the general kinds of radio
activity in the air.
If the Service shifts it's syS-
TEN to an analytical one, it will
attempt to find how much
strontium 80, cesium 1877 and
other beta -emitting isotopes to
which people are exposed are
contained in the radiation.
Potential Danger
A Public Health scientist,
meanwhile, reported that levels
above 100 in atmospheric ra-
dioactivity do not necessarily
mean a danger point.
He said that only the
amounts of radioactivity that
are actually ingested by people
in milk, water and food, or in
hailed, constitute potential dan
ger. He said that radiation in
the air does not necessarily
mean that all of it will get into
the food chain.
Secretary Ribicoff has attri-
buted the increases in the fall
out in the United States to
Soviet nuclear bomb tests. Rus
sia has set off .13 bombs since
it resumed testing September /.
Evening star., 1961-09-20

to $22,500 for Joseph w.
Haynes, vice president, and
$4,000 for Sherrod Robertson,
farm director; $4,000 for
James Robertson, concession
director. and $4,000 for Will
liam Robertson, stadium di-
rector.
Salary Boosted to $4,000
Mr.. Murphy charged that
these salaries were almost dou-
bled following a stockholders
meeting on January 81. includ-
ing a vote by the board of di-
rectors to give Mr.. Griffith a
$4,000 annual salary.
According to Mr.. Murphy
the old Washington ball club
has a net worth of more than
$11 million. He claimed that
the last actual stock dividend
in the past six years amount
ed to only 50 a share-a total
of $37 7,848 for all stockholders
though the corporation has a
very substantial surplus of
more than a million dollars"
Mr.. Murphy charged, also,
that Mrs. Haynes for several
years prior to 1861, received a
salary of $1,000 for services not
performed"
The court papers said that
the Internal Revenue Service,
however, had disallowed this
amount "as an improper ex-
penSe of the corporation,
allowing only a $500 annual
salary for her.
Mr.. Murphy said that he had
learned that the ball club di-
rectors at a meeting last month
expressed themselves in
favor" of giving the new Sena-
tors ball club an option to buy
Griffith Stadium.
The suit asked the court to
decree the alleged salary in
creases as improper" and
order repayment to the ball
club corporation of the amounts
involved in the increase-ap-
proximately $101,500.
He also asked the court to
order the corporation to pay
to all stockholders a dividend
of not less than $5.35 per share,
making up the .$101, 500.
Mr.. Murphy also requested
the court to order Mrs. Haynes
to repay to the corporation all
annual salary in excess of
$1,5o0. He asked the court to
require that the Griffith
Stadium property may be sold
only at such price as may be
approved by the court after
hearing"
Evening star., 1961-09-20

during the atomic tests of 1858
Meanwhile, the District area s
count also rose, to 20.7. the
third highest level ever re-
corded here. The new reading
did not match the 35.3 record
set here on Sunday. but was
higher than Mondays 13.47
count. The previous record
had also been set here in 1858,
with 20.8 micromicrocuries.
Five other Southern States
showed sharp increases in
radioactive particles. They were
Pascagoula. Miss, 472.6; Co.
lumbia, S. c., 1888; Jacksonville.