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Evening star., 1961-09-11
Profit Limitation Called a Hazard

estimate future output and
profits in steel, but they did
it just the same and took no
account of the need Of diff
ferent companies to buy new
plant and equipment or to
continue to earn a proper
return on investors money.
Instead, a blanket order was
favored that would cut profit
margins and let labor have
its October / increase just
the same.
Meanwhile, the Depart
mnt of Justice is engaging
in a crusade against large
business enterprises by BRAN
dishing antitrust suits in
their faces almost every day.
1t is interesting to note that
the executives of the IL COM
panies which got the Presi-
dents identical letter are vir-
-tually forbidden to discuss it
with each other, since the
subject is price making. The
steel companies could be
hauled into court for price
collusion if they as much as
sat down together to discuss
what kind of replies they
should make as an industry.
Indeed, the future of all
trade associations in Amer
lea may well be in jeopardy
if the Kennedy administra-
ton cries out price fixing"
every time business leaders
go to an annual convention
of their industry to discuss
common problems, including
threats coming from foreign
competition. The annual
meeting of the American
Iron and Steel Institute had,
for instance, long been
scheduled for this week, but
it was Cancelled for fear that
any meeting of steel execu-
tives at this time would be
misunderstood. And all this
happens in free" America.
Copyright, 1861,
Evening star., 1961-09-11

late a formula for ALLEGATION of
the Sc billion or whatever the
total may be. Officials said it
will be important to give the
INF ample access to large
amounts of currencies other
than dollars and pounds.
The United States commit
ment to lend dollars to the
INF would not show up imme-
diately in the Federal budget.
The budget would reflect, as
expenditures, only loans actu-
ally made.
American officials doubt that
other delegations to the Vien-
ma meeting will push hard for
more radical changes in the in
ternational monetary system.
They rule out, for example, Sc
rious consideration at this time
of proposals for creation of an
international central bank.
Evening star., 1961-09-11
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Remoking the Constitution?

of sovereignty are necessary
If the United States is to win
in its competition with Rus
sia. Public opinion must be
educated and led, he Is
quoted as saying.
Senator Fulbright might be
able to convince some Amer
leans that this is so, but he
is sadly lacking in under
standing of our European
allies when he is reported to
have said that THE North
Atlantic nations, with their
common values as well as
enemies, must surrender far
more of cir jealousy
guarded sovereignty than
they have already done and
press forward with the de-
velopment of supernatural
institutions"
Nowhere will he find a
stronger sentiment for ma
tionalism and sovereignty
than among the NATO ma
tions. It is a mistake to be-
lieve that they abandoned
one iota of their sovereignty.
when they joined either the
military-political NATO al,
lance or their political
economic Common Market.
Cooperation with other ma
tions with like interests does
not mean that they are one
worldists. Quite the contrary.
Somehow or other, Ameri-
can public opinion, despite its
lit can't happen here" at
titude, has suddenly awaken
ed to the many inroads our
enemy has made in our Ma
ton. And this awakening
seems to have pushed the
panic button among some
policy makers in Washington.
One Capital reporter recent
ly wrote, citing the alarm in
official circles, Americans
are increasingly in a to-heck-
with prudence mood" He
goes on to write that the
proportion of people who
think this is sizable. And
it has certain important
perils for President Ken
nedy."
This item draws attention
back to Senator Fulbright'S
Stanford University speech.
Is it considered by some of
the new ideologists who want
to remake America from the
Constitution up, that since
public opinion refuses to fol-
low the line of appeasement
toward Soviet Russia and i'll
ternational communism and
is hewing more to old
fashioned patriotic beliefs.
the Constitution must be
amended so that the Presi-
dent will have the power to
educate and lead the people
as propounded by Senator
Fulbright?
Evening star., 1961-09-11

propose to make supplementary
funds available to the INF
through borrowing.
Perhaps 10 or IL industrial
countries-the United States,
Canada, Japan and nations of
Western Europe - would COM
nit themselves to lend speci-
fled amounts of their curren-
cies to the INF as needed.
BY tapping these standby
credits, the INF would acquire
the currencies it might need
from time to time for loans to
member countries experiencing
difficulties.
Officials said the United
States has not yet decided the
amount of standby credits that
would be needed, but reported
that Sc billion is a good work.
ing figure.
One problem will be to calcu-
Evening star., 1961-09-11
U. S. to Urge Credits
To Aid Monetary Fund

the end of the year, permitting
ratification by Congress and
foreign parliaments early in
1862.
Per Jacobson, the fms
managing director, favors a
plan along the lines of the
American proposal.
The INF now makes loans
to help stabilize currencies
that are under pressure be-
cause of balance -of-payments
deficits or other factors. But
there has been a growing feel
ing that the IMFs stock of
currencies-subscribed by men,
ber nations under a quota sys-
tents not large enough to
handle potential problems.
Rather than increasing the
quotas, the United States will
Evening star., 1961-09-11
Belief That 1t Should Be Made Easier
For People to Be Led Is Questioned

Americans must give up to
survive in the nuclear age"
This item goes on to say that
THE United States is ham
strung by the almost 200
year-old document in the
conduct Of foreign affairs E.
The Constitution is regarded
as a sacred book, he noted.
To criticize it is like saying
to a Fundamentals Baptist
that the Bible is out date
DIR. Chisholm explained
he doesn't think the Consti-
tuition should be scrapped but
it certainly should be amend
ed"
The only ripple this news
item caused at the time was
one feeble letter of protest
to the editor of The Star.
But the idea, propounded
by this Canadian did not die;
its roots grew while we slept.
A reader in California was
kind enough to send to your
reporter in Rome some clip
pings from the San Francis
CO Chronicle, News-C all
Bulletin, Palo Alto Times and
the Examiner of July % and
20 which reported a televised
speech of Senator Fulbright
before the Cubberly educa-
ton conference at Stanford
University. AS one item be-
gan, Senator William Full
bright d., Ark0 today urged
Americans to face the poSsi-
bility that basic changes in
our constitutional system
may be needed to meet the
needs of the goth Century &.
The President is 'hobbled in
his task of leading the
American people to consen-
sus and concerted action by
the restrictions of power i'm
posed on him by a constitu-
tional system designed for
an 18th century agrarian
society far removed from the
centers of world power he
said"
Senator Fulbright, chair
man of the powerful Senate
Foreign Relations Commit
tee, has apparently been con-
vinced that the American
public. besides going to the
polling machines, is no long
er capable of conducting its
own affairs. The reports
quoted him as saying that
strong presidential power is
needed, for only the Presi-
dent can rise above parochi-
aliSm and private measures
and hope to overcome the
excess and inadequacieS Of
public opinion.
Another California paper
reported him as saying that
both the constitutional re-
forms and the REIMBURSEMENT
Evening star., 1961-09-11

ROME, Italy - Working
abroad affords a reporter
more time to read and re-
fleet than when he is in the
maelstrom of Washington's
political turmoil. And a small
news item sent by a friend
or reader can provide food
for such reflection.
Once upon a time - not
long ago-fundamental, ba-
sic truths were considered
the foundations upon which
were built our laws, the dog
mas Of our churches and our
code of ethics. But recently
a clique of social scientists
has convinced a number of
intellectuals and politicians
that basic truths are lab
solutes" which should be
viewed with an open and in
quiring mind. And, it is con-
tended, "abSolutes," such as
the Ten Commandments, be-
lief that God is truth and
the moral standards accept
ed over many generations
hamper our thinking ap-
paratus.
It is no wonder then that
our Constitution has fallen
into the category of an lab
solute," which, it is said, is
hampering the President in
both foreign and domestic
affairs. To us who have
spent a lifetime of trying, as
well as we could, to live by
the Ten Commandments, to
fear God Chats just the
trouble with God, say the
new theorists; God breeds
unnecessary fear) and firmly
believe in the Constitution
and the greatness of our Ma
ton, it comes somewhat as
a shock that our Constitution
is now up for reappraisal, re-
examination and possible
fundamental revisions.
The first trial balloon went
UP on June 9, 1860. 1t was
released by DR.. Brock CHS
holm, former chief of U. MS
WHO, and until recently
president of the World Fed
Grafton of Mental Health and
Vice President of the World
Association of World Fed
eraliStS. He was addressing a
session honoring World Men
tai Health Year at Atlantic
City when he sent up this
balloon which apparently at
tracted little attention in
America.
According to a small news
item in The Washington
Evening Star, this interna-
tionally known pSychiatrist is
reported to have said, DE
pendence on the obsolete
Constitution Of the United
States is a form of magic
Evening star., 1961-09-11
Kennedy Letter to Steel Industry
Stirs Fear of Federal ReprisoI
DAVID LAWRENCE

The Kennedy administra-
ton has crossed the Rubicon.
It has decided to make war
on conservative economics
and embark on a course Of
radical economics. 1t is ignor-
ing the risk that it may
plunge the country into more
unemployment within the
next 18 months and bring
about perhaps the worst re-
cession since the 1930s.
For President Kennedy has
determined to put certain
limits on business profits and
the return on investments
that stockhold have
hitherto expected when put
ting their savings into private
enterprise. The net result
could be the gradual collapse
of the private-enterprise sys-
TEN in America and the be-
ginning Of that era of social
ism which Nikita Khrushchev
has predicted will inevitably
lead to communism in an
other generation in the
United States.
President Kennedy's cru
cial step came a few days ago
when he openly threatened
the steel industry with re-
prisals by Government unless
it agreed to forgo any price
increases at this time. Mr..
Kennedy vaguely promised
that next year, when the
unions ask for still higher
wages, he would urge mod
Grafton. He didn't define
the term. But the entire busi-
ness world noted that Mr..
Kennedy significantly refused
to ask the unions at this time
to forgo the additional wage
increases scheduled for them
at the end of this month
under a contract signed early
in 1860 after a long strike.
The steel industry thus
far has absorbed a 10 per
cent rise in labor costs since
1858 without a price increase.
Fair play would seem to re-
quire that, since the steel
industry has already alb
sorbed this large increase in
wages without a price rise,
the least that Mr.. Kennedy
might have done was to ask
labor to cancel its increase
scheduled for october this
year.
But the Kennedy admin
stration has sitting in the
cabinet, as Secretary of La
Dor. the man who was gen.
eral counsel of the biggest
steel union in the country.
Had there been a Secretary
of Commerce in a Republi-
can administration who had
previously been a leader in
the steel industry-either as
president of a large COM
pany or as it's principal ne
gotiator Just a few months
earlier during a major strike
the howl that would have
gone up about conflict Of
interest" would have been
heard from coast to coast.
Industry has no voice in
the Kennedy cabinet. The
Secretary of Commerce is
afraid of his shadow and al
lowed himself to be influ-
enced by the radicals in the
administration when he or
dered the virtual suppress
sion OF the Business Advisory
Council which had existed
for decades as a means
of communications between
business and the Executive
Branch of the Government.
President Kennedy's pro-
cedure in writing a letter to
IL steel companies and in
Immediately making it public
is the subject of sharp criti-
cism. He did not invite these
steel executives to come to
Evening star., 1961-09-11

Washington beforehand to
give their side of the issue.
He took them by surprise as
he issued his letter and
threatened restrictive meas
ures if they didn't obey.
This is one of the most
surprising moves any Presi-
dent has made in recent
years, and it is small wonder
that it is being regarded as
the beginning of a series Of
hostile acts to throttle Amer
lean enterprise and to pave
the way for naturalization
or socialization of the larger
industries in America.
Mr.. Kennedy himself has
never been regarded as a
radical, but he has sur
rounded himself with advisers
who sincerely believe in gov
ernment ownership. In Civ
ing their advice, they can
hardly refrain from advocat-
ing a philosophy which could
eventually mean the end Of
private capitalism in Amer
lea. Every one Of these ad-
visers hates Communism and
all that Mr.. Khrushchev
stand for, but, as is the case
in Britain with the socialist
Laborites who favor ma
tionalization of industry, they
don't always realize the ulti-
mate consequences of current
action.
Mr.. Kennedy is not him
self an economist. He finds
himself lost in economic jar
gon and economic arguments,
and tends to follow what
seems to him a plausible
policy. His economic advisers
concede that it is a most
hazardous IIndertakiTpo IN
Evening star., 1961-09-11
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

No system works perfectly, but the nice thing about
democracy is the way we spread ulcers around
The new generation, 6-year-od division: Dckie-"My
dad richer than dad" Freddie - Before or after
taXeS?"
Not found the pad of Senator Thurmond: From
the service academies through retirement pensions class
dskes socialism more than military ofcers-and class
gets more of it.
If we don't do something about violence on televison
some of these kids likely to start acting like parents
Not only American plumbing better than Russian but
our bombs are going to be cleaner too.
Evening star., 1961-08-17

Opportunity knocks Warm jackets your todder
or child will be needing soon. 4 styles in 9 as
sorted solid coors, some with ottroctNe trim At
toched hoods
Evening star., 1961-08-17

Beautiful, long lasting, quality
cotton-cIoseIy tufted in q wave
pattern, and with a frineed
edge. Specially priced this
sale only.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

The Mary Green Evening
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

viii also have a card party at
the firehouse Saturday, March
Is at 8 pm.
Alfred Fraley of Redland is a
patient in Montgomery General
Hospital.
Larry Mclean, who has made
his home with Mrs. Wilbur
Burns for some years, a stul
dent at State Teachers College,
Frostburg, recently attended
the planning session of the Stu
dent National Education Associ-
alton Executive Committee in
Chicago. At this meeting plans
were made for the 1861 Student
National Education Association
leadership institute to be held at
Pennsylvania State University
June 16 through July 2. Larry
is parliamentarian of the Ma
tional organization.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
By Elizabeth KiIe, WA. e-1454

dent Thursday evening on War
field I'd. He is a patient in Mont
gomery General Hospital.
Mrs. Albert Hawkins is also a
patient at Montgomery General.
There were three fire calls in
Laytonsville Thursday--house
fires in Stewartstown, an am
bulance call to take a child to
the hospital and the accident in
which Mr.. Smith was injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Magde-
burger and family have been
the guests the past week of his
mother, Mrs. E. c. Magdeburg-
er at her home on the Wood
field I'd.
The Damascus Auxiliary of
the Montgomery General Hos
pital Women's Board are taking
orders for flower bulbs for fall
delivery. Please contact Mrs.
Richard Stuart to place orders
and to find out what bulbs are
available. CT. 3-28S9.
The Mary Green Evening
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

Circle of Wesley Grove Meth
odist Church will have a Stan
ley Party March % at the
church hall at 8 pm. There will
be a young adult fellowship
supper March % at 6 pm. in
the parish hall, after which
plans for the future will be dis.
cussed and there will be group
singing. On Palm Sunday eve
ming, March 26 at 7:30, the
choir will give a song and story
program entitled "Peter and
the Resurrection"
Laytonsville School is happy
to have Mrs. Pruitt back with
her class after being hospital
lied.
The vestry of st. Bartholo.
news Episcopal Church met at
the home of Mrs. Charles Haw-
kins Tuesday, March 81.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Laytonsville District Volunteer
Fire Department held a Dutch
Maid party Monday evening,
March 20, at the firehouse. They
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
BOOknnobile

Friday, March 81 - Burtons-
vile, 3:15-4:30; Georgetown Vii
Iage, 3:15-4:30, and White Oak,
3:15-4:30.
Saturday, April / - barnes
town, 9:15-10:00; Poolesville,
10:30-11:30; Comus, 11:45-12:15;
Clarksburg, 12:30-1.00; Damas-
Gus, 2:00-4:00, and Cedar Grove,
4:15-4:45.
Monday, April 3 - Beallsville,
3:15-4:30; Alta Vista, 3:15-4:30;
Rock Creek Gardens, 6:00-8:30;
Piney Branch, 3:15-4:30.
Tuesday, April A = Colesville,
3:15-4:30; Connecticut Ave. Es-
tates, 3:15-4:30; Oakview, 3:15-
$3.50.
Wednesday, April 5-Poto-
mac, 3:15-4:30; Rock Creek Pal.
isades, 3:15-4:30; North West
Park, 3:15-8:30.
Thursday, April 6 - Olney,
I3:15-4:30; Laytonsville, Ais
4:45; Chevy Chase, 3:15-8:30;
Glenmont, 3:15-4:30.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

of modern American drama.
The touring company, headed by
Helen Hayes, is sponsored by
the State Department.
Tryouts for the NH produc-
ton will be held at 8 tonight in
Wilson Hall, Building No. l.
They are scheduled for tomor-
row at the same hour in the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
Area Altman Completes
Course i'm Mechanics

Altman Third Class John r.
Mitchell, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Alfred Mitchell, 1888 An
derson ave-, Rockville, gradu-
ated recently from the Aircraft
Mechanic Course, Sheppard Air
Force Base, Texas.
Prior to entering the Air
Force, Altman Mitchell gradu-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
Rockres High School Provides Varied Program

(Pnt III In series of articles "ockvie,s High School,
Richard Montgomery, Meets the Needs OF the Com
mtnity')
The expansion of population and services in Montgom-
cry County and in the Greater Capital Area demanding
and better clerks, ypsts, bookkeepers and
tares The job opportunities which result from such de-
and have had an immediate effect on both the local high
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
Laytonsville

Mr.. and Mrs. John Jorns Of
Bailey, Wis, are visiting their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Herman Of the
Willow Lane apartments for
about two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Thomas
Howes had as their guests for
dinner Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Parker and children,
Robin and Mike, Of Rockville.
The Laytonsville Dance Club
helped Mrs. Charles Richards
celebrate her birthday last Sun
day. Calvin Howes, jr, the class
instructor, presented her with a
birthday cake.
Mrs. Nelson Wood OF Lynch.
burg, Va, is visiting her sister
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. ]. Clatterbuck.
Ed Smith was quite seriously
injured in an automobile acct.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

school program and the interests of the student body
Richard Mongomerys commercial graduates able to
accept responsible and welpayng positions Immediately
upon graduation.
The commercial department offers two business ma
os senographc and general business Students in both
take the subjects except that the senograph-
c majors concentrate on two years of shorthand in add-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

Clinical Center Auditorium. The
play will be presented late in
June.
The NH show will be direct
ed by Paul Blank with the as
sistance of Jack Robinson. Any.
one interested who cannot make
these two dates should contact
Mr.. Blank at the Clinical Cen
ter during the day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

ton to the prescribed subjects and the general business
majors take business mathematics in place of the short
hand Students in both groups must take four credits
Engish three in history two in science; two in mathe-
matics two in Bookkeeping; and half in Commercial
Typing; and each in Office Practice Banking Con-
sumner Education Business Law and Saesmanshp Record
keeping and Elementary Business.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

ated from Wheaton High
School, where he lettered in
football. He came to Sheppard
ALB from Lakeland AFB,
Texas, where he began his basic
military training.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28
Theater Group Holds Tryouts

The "Hamsters," the amateur
theater group at the National
Institutes of Health, is holding
tryouts tonight and tomorrow
night for the 80 parts in Thorn
ton Wilder's "The Skin of Our
Teeth"
The Wilder play is one of
three plays now touring the for
eign capitals as representative
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

Forty-two graduates from the Class of 1860 are
engaged the following business positions: cashiers NAH
ing file clerks office and calculating machine operators
stock clerks telephone operators time keepers clerical
sales positions stenographers, typss and secretaries
Even though these students in the business program
preparing themselves for immediate employment upon
termination of their high school number of them
thirteen last year, go to business school college
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-28

PARTICIPANTS - Shown above left to right are
Wanda Moore Gloria Robinson, Susan Walker and
Cheryl Thorn they concentrate on business ma
chimes in the office practice class at Richard Mont
gomery High School In the photo at left is nstruc-
tor William Dawson showing Nancy Cooley about a
gadget the typewriter. The photo on the right
shows Jean McMullen and Kathy Grimes at the
school switchboard getting practical experience in
its operation - Photos by Mervis
Evening star., 1961-06-22

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