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Evening star., 1961-07-09
Ask
Dorothy
Draper
Make Home
CoIorfuI

Antique dealers claim that
Home Sweet Home" signs
are at a premium today. Per-
hapS there is a good reason
for this. With all the confu-
sion In the world everywhere,
Home seems to take on a
new meaning. 1t is the
one place where we look for
peace"
That is why today, more
than ever, it is important to
try to use the most cheer
full colors, buy the most COM
Portable chairs, and keep
your own spirits as gay as
your colorS. Turn off the
radio and television once in
awhile and pick up a good
book, or try some good old
fashioned conversation about
any subject but strife.
The stores are doing their
best to tempt you with in
viting freshening-upperS such
as vivid area rugs, towels like
towels have never been be-
fore, sheets as blossomy as
a flower garden, pillows in
F.. all shades of the 'ainboW,
curtains in hueS to challenge
any tropical bird, and glass
ware and china that must
have been inspired by the
whole range of Mother Ma
ture's palette.
Now, as never before, it's
important to make your home
a pleasant place to come
home to. Is yours?
Mrs. J. B. Nc. asks:
I have a living room that
puts everyone to sleep! My
recent guests, a pSychiatrist
and his wife, commented on
the extreme tranquility and
could barely keep awake
themselves in spite of real
izing the decorative effect
was the cause. / would like
to know how to make the
room sparkling and gay, to
promote wakefulness in
gueStS!"
Dear Mrs. ]. B. Nc:
The whole Of the letter is
too long to quote - but
I would get rid of all those
tired sounding gray blues.
Introduce some reds, oranges,
fresh yellow. And frankly,
think up some challenging
conversation. Are you sure the
guests are JUST CranQulllZeQ
and not BORED?
Mrs. J. d. F. asks:
I'VE have painted our
daughters room "Appleblos-
som" pink. What color should
the dust ruffle and coverlet
be? Would white with pink
striped sheets be all right for
curtains?"
Dear Mrs. J. d. F.:
Pink and white stripes or
those dainty pink rose bud
sheets would be pretty for
both curtains and coverlet.
Edge the coverlet with a white
embroidered ruffle. and for
the dust ruffle use a plain
pink (if you use the stripes)
and q leaf-green If you use
the rosebuds.
Evening star., 1961-07-09

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Evening star., 1961-07-09

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Evening star., 1961-03-28
Demonstration of Soviet's Game

lished at the conference
table.
To head them off, however.
will require the determina-
ton to stand fast, to bolster
the Royal Laotian army with
everything the West can
provide, and to run the risk
Of another Korea or much
worse. We had powerful
forces in and near that coun-
try and easy access by sea.
There are none Of any real
military value in or near
Laos.
Deeds speak so m uc h
louder than words. In Laos.
the Soviet deeds shrek to the
high heavens of Soviet i'm
perialist ambitions. There
can be no question of intent.
The whole operation is
simple, brutal aggression.
Perhaps the free world is
lucky to have. at this early
date, so convincing a demon
Stration of Communist du-
plicity. Perhaps it is not yet
too la tie for realization of
grim reality.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
DAVID LAWRENCE

Peace in Laos is far Off
and 20 Is war. Despite an the
outward display of firm d.
plomacy by the West, the
Soviet government will have
its way in the end.
First, there is to be q
"cease fire." but it will come
only after more conVerSa-
tions and propaganda inter-
changes. It will be hailed, Of
course, as . victory" for the
West. Then there viii en-
sue q three-nation confer
ence to work out a truce.
Next will come a 14-nation
conference to set up q "neu-
trail government" in Laos.
All this takes time-maybe
months - but eventually the
Communists will have OBJ
tanned q substantial part Of
Laos, If not all of it. That's
the defeat which lies ahead
because the West will not
unite to take decisive action
to stop Communist penetra-
ton in Asia, Latin America
and Africa.
For the history Of So-called
neutral" setups is tAat the
Communists move in and
take over from the inside.
They resort to bribery, in
timidation and actual incite-
ment to riots and demonstra-
tionS. The outward profession
Of interest in neutrality"
has resulted In Communist
victories in several instances
in the paSt-first in Poland.
then in CEechoSlovakia. next
in China, as coalitions"
were formed of Communists
and Nationalists. Then Indo-
China was carved up in 1854
by the same formula Of q
cease fire" followed by q
truce commission and the
setting UP of so-called in
dependent states.
What did President Ken
nedy gain, therefore, by the
dramatic announcement at
his press conference last
week. by the dispatch Of Sec
retary Of State Rusk to
Bangkok for the meeting Of
the Southeast Asia Treaty
Evening star., 1961-03-28
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Operation in Laos Called Aggression,
Simple and Brutal, For All to See

guage. The cynic who said
that language. and particu-
larly words, were invented to
obscure meaning was indeed
perceptive. He certainly knew
the uses to which the word
could be put.
In the mountainous little
kingdom Of Laos, the Soviet
Union is putting words to
shame. Tons and tons Of
weapons, ammunition. mill
tary supplies are being
poured into Laos in the capa-
cious bellies Of Soviet nyu-
shin transports. airlifted
from Hanoi in Communist
North Wet Nam.
While Mr.. KhruShchev
contemplates his shoe, figur-
atively q planning q new
peace" offensive. his air
craft are busy supplying the
Pathet Lao armies in their
bid to capture by peaceful
means" at the table this
Southeast Asia bastion, so
strategically important for
the Communist imperialism.
At Geneva, Semyon Tsa-
napkin. willy and shrewd.
tosses monkey wrenches with
urbane abandon into the
wheels of the conference
seeking (for almost three
years. q way to end nuclear
tests. His boss, it is said. no
longer has an interest in an
agreement on stopping nu-
clear tests. He would rather
tie the question to the larger
issue Of general disarma-
ment. it is reported.
All this adds up to tn e
Communist version Of peace
full coexiStence.
Somehow, we have the
feeling that this peaceful
coexistence is of a similar
nature, to the peace that
comes to the lamb, strayed
from the flock, who has a
brief encounter with the
wolf.
Most Of our policymakers
and all our military leaders
familiar with the situation in
Laos take a very grim view
Of the current predicament
there. They have q premoni-
ton that the Reds will take
over the kingdom after its
neutrality has been estab-
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Another Soviet Victory in Laos

the West can get from the
Communists Is another di-
vided country, with Northern
Laos going to the ComInu-
nistS and Southern Laos
going to q so-called neutral"
regime. st
But what happens in q
neutral" country? From
South Vietnam, for instance.
which Is next door to Laos,
comes word that the military
situation is almost as bad
as 1t Is In Laos. South Wet
r1am,s army has been getting
military help from the West,
but the area is infiltrated by
10000 disciplined and highly
trained men from Commu-
nist-controlled North Wet
nam. Almost half the 5000
villages In South Vietnam
have been taken over by Com
munist agents.
What is the answer? The
United States and Britain and
France, despite the talk Of
military Intervention, reveal
: every day that they, do not
wish to take any such action
because it might, lead to a
big war like the, one in Korea.
The Communists are betting
that the Western allies are
bluffing. So. as in the days of
Hitler in the 193Os, the free
world retreats step by step,
hoping against hope that a
dictator will be reasonable.
A cease fire" seems likely
now only because the Rus
SLAMS know it will lead to a
"neutralized" Laos. This is
exactly what they want, but
between now and the day
the cease fire" actually takes
effect. Communist forces will
gobble up some more territory
in Laos.
President Kennedy is earn
eStly graphing with the whole
complicated situation. But
craftsmanship" that isn't
well co-ordinated or backed
up by allies who will fight
II neceSSary-hut who appear
to be unprepared to go to the
brink Of war or to take the
consequences Of their firm
statementS-will have little
effect on Khrushchev. That's
why this year he may chalk
up another conquest in Asia.
Copyright, 1ssD
Evening star., 1961-03-28
A Truvesty on Commemorotions

parts of that Valhalla to
which all good soldiers go,
may be able to smile at the
1861 version of that hog
killing-like contact. But they
will hardly laugh out loud.
Most Of those who fought
there on that spring day
were unframed youngsters in
new, ill-fitting uniforms and
with strange little under
stood rnuskets in their hands.
But what dignity or reward
will there be in a school l-boy
charade with popguns made
quately re-enacting a day?
Once was enough.
A study Of the Civil War
Is recommended. It Is well to
relearn that it need not have
been fought. Unhappily, IL
got into the hands of the
extremists on both sides. One
Of the more disturbing things
about reading history is to
discover how often extrem-
lists have had their way. This
has too often been true be-
cause they seized on an
emotional issue and shouted
down all those who sought
to introduce logic, truth or
reason.
But let all who read note
well one basic fact.
Getting on board with ex-
tremists is something like
boarding an aircraft. One
cannot get off until it lands.
And only the pilot can bring
1t down. The pages of history
are filled with the tragedy
Of those who entrusted them
selves to travelling with the
extremists of their time and
who crashed with them.
BY, all means let us me-
morialize the war and those
who served 1t honestly and
well. But, let US have done
with the tourist dollar as
poets, which add nothing
save to the pockets of pro-
moters. !
Evening star., 1961-03-28

It's once again the same
thing. It's the old story
the tale told by an idiot, full
Of sound and fury. But this
time we cannot say signify
ing nothing" in the words of
the Bard Of Avon; it signi-
fies a great deal. We speak
Of Laos.
There have been many
months and many words
since the man who dominates
the Communist hierarchy
from the frowning battle
ments Of the Kremlin began
his pitch for peaceful cock
istence." Premier Nikita
Khrushchev has beaten the
drums for everything blissful
in mankind's: experience. He
has cajoled, threatened, beat
en- desks with his shoe, sent
seemingly earnest messages
Of conciliation, and ratified
his rockets menacingly.
All Of this, Of course, in the
interests Of peace; every
last maneuver Of it designed
to relax tensions" in inter-
national affairs. Mr.. Khru-
shchev is "the apostle" Of
peace and tranquility. Only
the wicked warmongering
capitalists" of the West stand
in the way Of a peaceful world
in which swords have been
beaten into plowshareS and
the hydrogen bombs have
been disassembled, their COM
ponents consigned to hospi-
tails for the relief Of suffer-
ing.
At the United Nations, the
Soviet Foreign Minister at
tacks Secretary General Dag
HammarSkjold because, in the
Gromyko view. the Secretary
General is promoting colo
nialism. imperialist division
in the Congo. Moscow stands
firm for peace: all the rest Of
the political world seeks to
exacerbate tensions, promote
strife, encourage discord, set
brother against brother.
1t is, indeed, q beautiful
picture. like a landscape Of
rural New England In the
bloom Of early spring.
And q picture it Is indeed
nothing more.
The tragedy Of the modern
world is the duplicity of the
word-any word in any Ian
Evening star., 1961-03-28

fourth vice president; Edward
w. Lewis. fifth vice president;
Alfred H. F. Selby, financial
secretary; Richard w. Tillman,
assistant financial secretary;
Walter A. Jones, treasurer; /;
Frank d. Mckinney, recording
secretary; Thomas v. Richard
son, marshal; Alex a n d II
Rhone, assistant m arsh q /;
Charles B. Jenkins, historian;
the Rev. Charles 8. Pryor,
chaplain and Edward w. Lewis,
entertainment chairman.
Board members are j. CIar-
ence Young, Rufus Byais. the
Rev. James D. Pair, J. Harry
Prater and Charles w. Will
liams.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Russian Believed Getting q Size-up
OF Kennedy MettIe on Laos Issue

rose garden and talked with
each other alone. The only
interruption was Mrs. Ken
nedy, saying goodby on her
way to Palm Beach for Eas-
ter where her husband will
join her later.
An informed view here Is
that this private talk was
the heart of the matter and
not because Of what was said.
because neither the President
nor. indeed. Mr.. Gromyko
would change their official
positions. But the President
wanted to impress upon the
Russian that while he was
not belligerent, he was not
bluffing and would take
such steps as seemed needful.
This view suggests that
Soviet penetration of Laos
is secondary in the Kremlin's
considerations to Soviet pen
etration Of the mettle Of the
new American President. Mr..
Kennedy realizes that he is
to Q degree still an unknown
quantity in any calculations
by Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev.
He is eager to become bet
ter known in ways presently
open to him. One way appar-
emily seemed to him the
private talk with Mr.. Gro
myko, unflanked by aides
much more familiar to that
experienced Russion, as U. N.
Ambassador Stevenson and
Charles Bohlen, former AM
Evening star., 1961-03-28
DORIS FLEEsoN

President Kennedy told So
Wet Foreign Minister Gro
myko that an immediate
cease-fire was the important
thing in Laos.
Soviet Foreign Minister
Gromyko expressed the hope
to President Kennedy that no
action by the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization OF. any.
Western nations would be
taken until Moscow had q
chance to. study the Laos
cease-fire proposal put for
ward by the British, with
United States support.
Mr.. Gromyko stopped short
Of Pravda, Communist Party
newspaper in Moscow which
had said Russia would agree
to an international confer
ence on Laos, leaving open
the question of how to arrive
at Q ceaSe-fire. This must be
put down aS q disappoint-
ment but later events, per-
haps quite quickly may can
eel it.
The White House impress
sion, meanwhile, is that re-
lief Of tension is possible in
the Buddhist kingdom where
Soviet-supported Communist
forces seem to be having
little trouble with Western
backed Royal L.aotian troops.
Following their formal
conversation at which others
were present. the President
and Mr.. Gromyko sat on o
bench in the White House
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Gromyko Looks Over President

baSSador to Moscow. They
and several others were pres
ent at the official session.
The President could hardly
say to Mr.. Gromyko: Look
me over" but the implication,
was there. Mr.. Kennedy
speaks precisely and rather
formally; he lacks the fam
boyance often associated with
his Irish ancestry. But he
has his own cool Yankee way
Of "summoning up the tiger"
In . tight situation.
1t is to be doubted that
the conversation in the rose
garden was all pleasantries.
The Kennedy self conf
dence is seen also in his will
ingness to leave the softer
diplomatic leadership to the
British while he takes hard
decisions to bring United
States forces into more for
ward positions. 1t Is perhaps
9 suitable ALLEGATION Of duties
Is between the youthful
American and the elderly
British Prime Minister, Har-
old Macmillan, whom he met
in q sudden and dramatic
Palm Sunday conference at
Key West.
The New Frontier seemed
very real to reporters, long
familiar with both leaders,
as President and Prime Min
lister posed for the cameras.
The contrast, they are saying,
could not have been more
dramatic.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
RALPH McGILL
Bottle Re-enoetment Held Tourist Bolt
And Dissevice to Memory of War Dead

In this uncertain, though
best Of all possible worlds,
1t begins to be apparent that
the major tourist-bait attrac-
tions conceived to celebrate
the centennial Of the Civil
War should be called off or
understood for what they
are. There Is ample reason
to commemorate the conflict
which brought an end to
chattel-slavery and made US
. Union In fact beyond the
power of legalistic, hair
splitting Sophistry to destroy.
Articles. books, discussion
groups. and actions Of COM
memoration which have pur-
pose and dignity are excellent.
But what we have now are
increasing numbers Of per-
sons wandering about in the
South wearing sleazy imita-
tions Of Confederate uniforms,
growing boards, reliving old
hatreds, m Q king ancient
wounds bleed again, reviving
Ku Klux Klans, working
themselves into immature
fits Of enotionalisrn recreat-
ing old battles, and other
wise doing q great disService
to the memory Of those who
fought and died in the War
Of 1861-65.
South Carolina has invited
the National Civil War Com
mission to Charleston and,
on learning that . respected
Negro woman, o citizen Of
New Jersey, was on that
States delegation, promptly
barred her from participa-
ton. This has q certain un-
believable crassness about it
to the point that one wonders
why the South CarolinanS
had imagined no Negro dele
gate might turn UP in re.
Sporse to their invitations.
Evening star., 1961-03-28

After all, the Civil War
was not an all-white affair.
There were Negro regiments
on both sides. And while it
is customary to say the war
was not fought over slavery,
this Is only technically true.
The conflict developed out
Of the attempts to extend
slavery into the territories.
Without slavery, there would
have been no war. The South
acknowledges O debt of graft
tude to the thousands Of
slaves who, during the four
years Of war behaved with
such understanding and good
will that they left legends
yet handed down in some
families. That Charleston
should insist on having a
segregated version Of the war
100 years after It began is
one Of the more incredible
stories Of our time. Happily,
. satisfactory substitute ar
rangement seems to have been
made.
We do not need to refurbish
old myths.
There is to be a so-called
replay Of the Battle Of Bull
Run 1T a cost Of some $780,
900. This will be, at best, q
travesty In comparison. viii
they, one wonders, show the
carriages filled with Congress-
men and some Of the more
fancy ladies Of pleasure who
drove out from Washington in
1851 with hampers Of picnic
food and iced champagne, to
watch men die? It would be q
touch Of humor to report
their hurried. pell-mell flight
along the dusty roads with
the rout Of the Federal army
spilling along behind them.
Some Of the more than 1000
who died there that day,
looking down from the ram
Evening star., 1961-03-28
.KremIin Expected to GetIts Way in End
Despite Vests Diplomatic Display

Organization, and by the
sudden conference with
Prime Minister Macmillan?
There is no evidence that
the Communists have been
impressed by these moves.
Moscow knew all along that
the United States was bar
gaining for q cease fire"
and that the threats Of mill
tary intervention meant lit
tie. Spokesman for the Brit
iSh government notified the
world that it was not getting
ready to send British troops
into Asia. The United States,
Of course, had said that it
would not act alone, but
only in cooperation with its
allies.
Russia has known all along
that it could halt any mill
tary moves Of the, West by
agreeing at any moment to a
cease fire" With character
istic boldnesS when holding
trump cards. the Kremlin de-
cided first to get as many
conditions as possible ac-
cepted before agreeing to q
cease fire" in the local fight
ing In Laos. It's what comes
after the truce that's really
important. For the Commu-
mist plan is to take over from
within after the neutral"
status Of Laos is supposedly
established.
While q big war seems un-
likely just because Of Laos.
sooner or later q showdown
will be forced between the.
Communists and the Free
World. This is what hap
pened in the 1930S after Mu-
mich. The Soviets now have
rendered the United Nations
helpless in the Congo, as
Moscow continues to send
arms and supplies to So
called neutral" states In
Africa while refusing, Of
course, to pay any Of the
expenses Of the U. N. for the
whole Congo operation. Yet
the West doesn't do any,
thing about this default.
British officials in London,
moreover. are reported to be
saying that it's too late now
to save Laos, that the most
Evening star., 1961-03-28
POTOMAC FEVER
BY Psts Wyma
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ode to the dilemma in Laos: The Laotians gentle
They do not like fight They take guns with smiles
and grace-and bury them at night.
Economic Boss Walter Heller notes signs of business
Improvement More people going into debt than three months
ago.
Russia's Gromyko confers with President Kennedy On
Laos RuSSias willing to meet hafway-and settle for so
per cent Of anything she hasn't grabbed yet.
Vacaonine college students battle police in Lauder
dale Fla What youth in this country needs little Peace
and Quiet Corps
company prepares to market instant beer Recipe for
housewives: Add water and slur.' ...-...
You always tell when Mrs Kennedy Is back in town.
Caroline doesn't get her picture in the paper.
Evening star., 1961-03-28
Inhobitonts, Inc.,
Reflect Nixon

William D. Nixon was re-
elected president Of the Oldest
Inhabitants, Inc, last night.
The S9-year-old Mr.. Nixon
at first had declined re-nomi-
nation, but consented to serve
his l9th year as president.
Other officers named are
William H. Burrel, first vice
president; William /. Lee,
second vice president; j,
Howard Quander, third vice
president: John c. Payne,
The Nome nugget., 1961-03-01
Pair Admit Disposing of Four Children

PETERSBURG, Va. LR - Vir- ginia State Police said today itinerant carnival worker Ken meth E. Dudley has admitted dis posing of the bodies of his four missing children.
 Police said Dudley, AT, and his wife Irene, A, have told "con- flicting stories" as to where the bodies of the four children were disposed.
 The Dudleys are being held on charges of causing the death of a daughter Carol Ann, 2, by mal- nutrition, exposure and neglect in Virginia. Her body was found Feb. g in woods in Southern Verginia wrapped in a tattered blanket.
 The Petersburg-Index said to- day grave of an unidentified little girl in Prescott, Ariz., may lead investigators to the first of the four missing children.
 State Police Investigator E. M. Lloyd, assigned to the Dudley case, said "the little girl in the Ari- zona grave may just be the break we are looking for. Thus far, we have been unable to locate any of the bodies of the children"
 Ten children are known to have been born to the Dudleys.
 Police have conducted a wide spread search for the four miss ing children, identified as Nor. man, now 12; Charles, 10, Claude 5; and Debbie, 4.
 Dudley told investigators in ar oral statement the children diec one by one from various ailments and illness as the itinerant carni- val worker and his family travel ed from coast to coast.