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Evening star., 1961-07-05
Opponents Slate
Alexandra TuIks

Four Alexandria candidates
are scheduled to address a
meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow in
George Mason School, Cam
eron Mills road. Alexandria.
The speakers will be In
cumbent Delegate James M.
Thomson and his opponent,
Dennis K. Lane, and Incumbent
Commonwealth's Attorney Earl
F. Wagner and his rival STAN
ley I. Bregman.
The meeting is sponsored by
the North Ridge Citizens Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Encouraging Crime

A New York State crime inveStigat-
ing commissions report on how crime
SyndicateS finance their operations
should be read by officials and citizens
who are inclined to take tolerant view
toward the gambling racketS. The COM
mission, after year-long inquiry into
illicit gambling operations, declared
that Syndicated gambling, not narcotics
or other illegal activities, provides most
of the revenue for the underworld. And
it stressed that this flow of revenue
could not continue without law enforce
ment apathy or, in some cases, cor
ruption.
Two paragraphs of the commissions
report are worth repeating here. The
first states: Gambling revenues are
used to pay for murders, to underwrite
the labor racketeer, to corrupt the
public official, to erect still, to obtain
firearms unlawfully, to purchase con-
traband drugs, to pave the way for the
introduction of prostitution" The
second statement is that "the average
bettor, the police officer who looks the
other way, the judge who let's off a
persistent violator with a light fine, still
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Chides Capitol Wives

The Sunday Star Society
Section reports that in a BIZ
partisan petition by congress
sional wives, a summer re-.
cess for Congress is being
sought.
In our era Of jet travel,
air-conditioned offices and
homes, well paid Senators
and Congressman and their
staffs, with all the prestige
and privileges of the office,
it seems extremely bad taste
for the women of our legis-
lative families to be so ir-
responsible.
Congressional wives appar-
emily know the gossip about
everything and the news
about nothing. Since when
does Everyone else get the
summer off :" except per-
haps the 6 million unem-
ployed who are off in all the
seasons?
No one is dragooned into
this job-they all fought
hard to get their exalted
rank. This is one trial bal
loon which should be shot
down fast. Have the folks
at home" received this news
in their local press?
Apparently these people
have no real conception of
service. Let us as voters re-
member this spirit when our
solons become so noble at
election time.
Maurine E. Brannigan
Evening star., 1961-04-16
so Years AGO

Just as today's Western
fans thrill to film and TV
horse operas, so did lovers of
the Old West grow excited so
years ago at the appearance
here of Buffalo Bills Wild
West Show. The Star of April
II, 1911 ran a big picture Of
the long haired, white
goateed eX Indian scout
astride a white mustang. The
show grounds were at 18th
and H streets NE, where
hundreds of wagon loads of
ashes were dumped on muddy
ground to make it usable.
Buffalo Bill Cor Col. Bill
Cody spent the morning
brushing up on his patented
Stunt-shooting thrown glass
balls out of the air with a
rifle while at a gallop. His
Sidekick, Pawnee Bill, puffed
on a cigar and told specta-
tors: He makes it look easy,
but it isn't. It's the hardest
shooting feat in the world"
The show included cowboys,
Indians, buffalo hunters,
ropers, cowgirls, insurrectoS,
MeXicanoS, MoorS, hussars,
pony express riders and
several hundred other geni-
uses of show business.
When Buffalo Bill rode on.
he saluted the elite who sat
in the dollar seats
Evening star., 1961-04-16

do not seem to comprehend the fact
that by their actions they aid and
actually encourage the government of
the underworld"
While the report was intended to
deal chiefly with conditions in New
York State, where bookmakers do a
gross business of about half a billion
dollars annually, its findings un-
doubtedly have general application.
And the commission is right in holding
that the gambling SyndicateS could not
function as prosperouSly as they do if
there was sufficient public demand for
effective enforcement of anti-gambling
laws. For, as the FBI Crime Reports
have stated, community gets only the
degree Of law enforcement it wants and
supports.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Old Tie Game

A major policy decision repeatedly
has been made by Secretary of State
Dean RuSk. He plans, at the next
white tie" affair he attends, to wear a
turned down collar instead of the con-
Ventional bat-wing type.
1t is not that he is especially hot
under the collar. Rather, the stated
reasons for this assault on we'll
established Sartorial custom are these:
l. 1t is SenSeless to follow a style
laid down by some fop centuries ago.
2. Former Secretary of State Dean
AcheSon wears turned down collar
and looks OK.
8. A turned down collar hides the
messy hooks in adjustable ties that are
all too frequently visible in male full
dress attire.
From the foregoing, it is perfectly
clear to what lengths the New Frontier
is willing to go in its drive to break with
the past. And, If anyone wants to know
where the past begins, it appears to be
anything prior to the Truman Fair Deal
1t may be that adjustable hooks mar
the elegance Of Starched white bat
wing collar. Nevertheless, we have our
doubts about the desirability Of con-
ceSsionS to simple comfort in the face
of the ruggednesS Of our enemies behind
the Iron Curtain. Furthermore, at the
risk of being considered Old Frontierish,
we wish to go on record as preferring
the bat-wing collar. 1t just looks better,
especially with neck-size do-it-your-
self tie.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Anonymous Touqh Talk

Quite naturally, the Kennedy ad-
miniStration is pressing the Russians
to get moving on the British proposal
for cease fire in Laos For while the
Russians stall, whatever the reason, the
military position of the proWestern
government in Laos is going steadily
down the drain.
More than two weeks have passed
since the Kremlin, responding to Brit
1Sh note, indicated that it favored nego-
tiationS on the Laotian question, but
CLOSED over the matter of cease fire,
which we say must precede negotiations.
Meanwhile, the SovietS have stepped up
their support of rebel forces, the royal
troops have been falling back, and the
Laotian people, with massive indiffer-
ence to the military threat, have been
dancing in the streets and throwing
water at one another in celebration of
Buddhist New Year festival.
To say the least, the Western posi-
ton in Laos is not one of strength. 1t
probably will continue to deteriorate,
and there seems to be little that we
can or will do about it. It takes more
than this, however, to discourage that
time tested Washington institution
the anonymous spokesman. According
to the Associated Press, one authority"
has put it this way: mo one should
underestimate our determination. We
feel strongly about seeing any country
cut up piecemeal and we do not intend
to stand for it."
This is tough talk, but if it is only
talk, which we suspect is the case, it
had better been left unsaid. Nothing
is gained for the United States by taking
firm stands, even through anonymous
authorities, unless we intend to main
tain them.
Evening star., 1961-04-16

Immediately appropriated a
So million war fund and
called on New Yorkers for
10000 troops. The South
jeered at a mere $4,000 SOL
diers. Confederate Vice Pres
ident Alexander Stephens
said rs times that many
would be needed to conquer
Dixie. The Confederacy met
Lincoln'S proclamation head
on. The Star of April 18,
1861. reported from Mont
gomery. Ala, that Confed-
crate President jefferson
Davis had pro claim e d:
Whereas, Abraham Lincoln
has announced his in
tention Of invading the Con-
federacy with an armed force
for the purpose of capturing
its fortreSSeS, and thereby
subjugating the free people
thereof to the domination of
a foreign power it has
become the duty of this Gov
ernment to repel the threat
ened invasion, and defend
the rights and liberties of
the people by all the means
which civilized warfare
place at it's disposal. :"
Virginia was still within the
Union fold, but on April IT,
1861, that States legislators,
in secret convention, agreed
to submit the matter of Sc
cession to popular vote on
May %. The Nations Capital
was on the alert. The Star
said on April Is, 1861: "All
the roads and avenues lead
ing to Washingto are
clio sely watched, and ar
rangements are made to
promptly concentrate the
military forces at any
threatened point. The
military guard at the several
public buildings was largely
increased last night. :"
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Checking on Empires

If it is handled properly, the new
system Of Zero budgeting" to be in
Stituted in the District government, by
Commissioner Tobriner should produce
significant benefits.
Under traditional procedures, the
tendency Of municipal departments in
preparing budgetary requests is to use
existing programS-that is, the amounts
OF money they received last year-as
starting points, upon which to. add
money for expanded or new activities.
This not only fails to uncover waste, or
expenditures which might reasonably be
curtailed; it tends to foster bureaucratic
empire building. Under the new ex-
pertinent proposed by Mr.. Tobriner,
task forces" would carefully review the
total program Of each department,
to search for economies in carry-over
programs as well as to Scrutinize the
validity of new expenditures-to start,
in other words, from Zero"
Mr.. Tobriner suggests that each of
Ethe three-man "taSk forces" include an
official Of the department concerned, al
member of the management office and
an official drafted" from some other
department. To these members, how
ever, why not add a carefully
chosen private citizen in each case, one
who has no vested interest in the pro-
gram involved, who could contribute an
element of complete impartiality? Apart
from the desirable goal Of economy, such
studies should lend credence to the
various appropriation requests when they
reach Capitol Hill for decisions.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
'C'est ST BonF

Bravo for your editorial Of
April IL "C'eSt 81 Bon! I
never enjoyed SO much such a
gem of literature. Simply de-
lightful; a real bouquet, not
Of candied violets, but Of
charm, elegance and witt
cism to the Nth degreel
Having a French language
background, I lack adequate
vocabulary in English to ex-
press my admiration and
enthusiasm, but / hope that
the author will be able to
read between the lines and
also catch the spirit which
prompted this congratula-
tory note.
Madeleine Pasche
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Pir1mit Run Parkway

AS a tax-paying citizen, I
would like to object violently
against the proposed Pimmit
Run Parkway through Nc
Lean. Three recent observa-
tionS in this area have con-
vinced me that the Board Of
Supervisors Cor whoever is
responsible for the planning
and construction of utilities
and highways have little or
no foresight and absolutely
no concern >for conserving
the taxpayers dollar.
Eight years ago the Pim-
nit Run disposal plant was
erected at a cost in excess
of several hundred thousand
dollars. This plant has just
been closed. Last year the
Federal Government pur-
chased a large tract Of land
along Pimmit Run to be de-
veloped as a recreational
park. The proposed parkway
will pass directly through this
park. During the past year
that section of Route 1913
near the new CIA building
has been beautifully finished
into a four-lane highway.
This new highway is now be-
ing torn up to install sewers.
It would seem that the sewers
might have been installed be-
fore the highway was expen-
sively surfaced.
Instead of destroying the
last truly "close-in" suburban
living area in Virginia and
substituting a network of
speedways and highways for
a recreational park it is
hoped that the Board of Su-
pervisors will exclude every
other possibility before ap-
proving a highway along
Pimmit Run.
Frank A. Finnerty, jr., M. d.
Assistant Professor Of Med
icine and Pharmacology,
Georgetown University Medi-
cal School.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
FROM THE STAR FILES.
100 Years Aoo

President Lincoln lost lit
tie time in mastering an
army following the fall Of
Fort Sumter. On April Is,
1861, he issued a proclama-
ton calling for $4,000 Fed
eral troops. Senator Stephen
A. Douglas, the Presidents
erstwhile political foe, called
at the White House the night
before the proclamation was
made public. He said he
would sustain Lincoln in all
his constitutional functions
to preserve the Union, but
urged that the first call be
for 100000 men. The proc
lamation, appearing in The
Star the day it was released
stated: Whereas the laws Of
the United States have been
for some time past and now
are opposed, and the execu-
ton thereof obStructed, in
the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judi
cial proceedings, or by the
powers vested in the mar
shals by law: Now, therefore,
I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent of the United States,
in virtue of the power vested
in me by the Constitution
and the laws hereby do
call forth the militia Of the
several States of the Union,
to the aggregate number Of
seventy five thousand, in or
der to suppress said combi-
nations, and to cause the
laws to be duly executed.
The first service assigned to
the forces will probably
be to repossess the forts,
places and property which
have been seized from the
Union, and in. every event
the utmost care will be OBJ
served to avoid any
devastation, any destruction
Of or interference with prop
erty, or any disturbance Of
peaceful citizens in any part
Of the country. :" The
States still in the Union
responded with patriotic fer
vor. Governors vowed their
troops would be first in the
field. New York's legislature
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Is Years AGO

A devastating tornado
swept through the South Is
years ago, leaving a trail Of
dead and injured and ruins
from Arkansas to South
Carolina. The Star of April
6, 1886, estimated $50 had
been killed and 1000 hurt.
Hardest hit were Tupelo,
Miss, and Gainesville, Ga.
These figures were revised
sharply upward the next
day, when it was revealed
AIS bodies already had been
recovered and more than
1,700 were known to have
been badly injured. One
hundred and fifty-eight
were known dead at Gaines
vile and 1877 at Tupelo.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Objects to Motel

On April 20, at 9 am,
the Board of Zoning Appeals
of Montgomery County will
consider a request to build
a large motel on a small
site Immediately adjacent to
the present Silver Spring
Library.
The tract involved was
changed from residential to
Commercial office" a few
years ago. even though it
was beyond the master plan
commercial area. This was
accomplished by presentation
of elaborate plans for a fine
small office building sup
posedly forming a buffer to
less desirable development.
Needless to say, this building
was never constructed.
The present idea to change
the now granted commercial
office zoning fits the pattern
of land speculation. Why not
construct a big motel on a
wholly unsuitable site? 1t is
very likely that motel zoning
will triple the value Of the
land.
The fact that seems to
pass the planners vision and
the SPECTATORS greed is that
Silver Spring is still a rea-
sonably attractive commu-
nifty and the library Is one
of its most beautiful build
ings. Construction of a posi-
bly, gaudy. aSsuredly crowded
motel to tower over it GER
tainly will be one more blot
to the community. The tre-
mendous increase in traffic
on the already congested
Colesville road and Ellsworth
drive areas would create
additional confusion.
Motels provide a needed
service to tourists and should
be located on the periphery.
Certain motels cater to a
somewhat undesirable Glen
tele and there would be this
question in locating next to
a library.
Surely, some more suitable
purposes could be found for
the site, such as a church,
parking area, community
buildings, or even compact
Georgetown-type housing.
Ernest E. Harmon, M. d.
Evening star., 1961-04-16

lOIlOT OH CQelr nOmeS, CQer
colleges, and their genera
ton. But that in many cases
the homes out of which un-
bridled youth come are in
volved is suggested by the
reported angry parents"
who resent the restrictions
the police rightly put upon
such exhibitions of raw i'm
pulses.
Our schools and the
churches do much, and can
do more, in strengthening
the moral fiber of those who
fill up the classrooms; but
the foundation stones upon
which all other agencies
must build are hewn in the
quarry Of the home. We may
pile up the display Of our
towering civilization, we may
pour out billions for defense;
but what a country will
amount to in the end de-
pends upon what is going on
in its homes. The home is
always the nursery of the
good life,
To a modern mother a
minister remarked: I'VE
have missed Jane from
church school lately" The
mother replied: You don't
have any idea how many
things these children have
to do. For her own good Jane
had to drop something" And,
so, in a secular home where
there was no altar that
something" dropped was the
place where in close cooper
alton with the home char
acter might be nodded. And
who can blame the minister
for saying, as he referred to
that case: THAT mother
wants Jane to be-well, what
does she want Jane to be?
Does she want her to be
without any real understand
ing Of the business Of living
as God her Creator purposes
it? Or is she content to have
Jane, with all the many
things these children have to
do, be the kind of person
who gets her morals from
Hollywood and her under
standing of life from the
slick paper magazines and
the corner-of- -the-mouth gos-
sip of her companions at
social functionS?"
Every good thing can be
started at the Nations era
dies. Every bad thing can be
stopped at the Nations era
dies. And what is started and
what is stopped at this foun-
tain of the peoples life de-
pendS largely on the quality
of the Nations homes. The
home is the hope! 1t is out
OF that realization whence
comes the assurance of Grace
Noll CroWell-
So long as there are homes
tDhere fires burn,
And there Is bread;
So long as there are homes
1Dhere lamps are lit,
And prayers are said:
II loUe and loyalty and faith
be found
Across these SillS,
A stricken nation can recover
from
It's grGUeSt ills.
Although q people talter in
the dark,
And nations grope,
With God, Himself, back of
little homes
We still can hone.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IT
letters carry tDrtters' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condenSa-
tton. Those not used iDiu be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
The One Hone
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS, DID.
Chaplain United States Senate

If America is ever defeated
it will be in and through
its homes. AS long as that
source of its strength is
maintained no enemy can
Surmount its bulwarks and
trample its glory in the dust.
Its strength will ever be as
the strength of 10 as long as
its homes are springs of vir-
tue and unsullied idealism.
Not in arsenals which
fashion deadly weapons of
defense is to be found the
guarantee of a nations per-
petuity, but in homes where
the strong virtues of the past
blossom in the life of the
generations following. On
the walls Of the homes of a
former day were often found
laboriously wrought notices
God Bless Our Home. I"
Unless that prayer is an
swered in a renaissance Of
disciplined idealism, America,
as we have known it, is
doomed. If our homes go, all
is gone!
In this confused and fear
haunted day, when the air
is freighted with alarm, there
is constantly enumerated by
newspapers, magazines, COL
umnists, and by radio and
television, the perilS which
threaten all that western
civilization holds dear. But,
in our concern with prob
lens which grid the earth,
the most dangerous psyche
logical trick being played on
multitudeS is tosmake people
obliviouS to the vital fact
that the thing that threatens
most is nearer home. We
carry it around with us-it
is, in short, ourselves.
A great evangelist used to
say to the multitudes who
came to hear him that he
had had more trouble with
himself than with any other
person he had ever met. Ber-
nard Baruch bears down on
this blind spot in today's
perspective when he says
1--WE blame the Nations
troubles on others-Russia,
the Government, labor, busi-
ness, whatever our favorite
whipping boy may be; but it
is far more likely that we
, will find the source of our
national trials in our own
failures as individuals to dis
cipline ourselves to do what
the Nations well-being
demands"
There is nothing in the
present crisis which the Ma
tion'S well-being demands
more than a new old empha-
sis on the Nations homes. A
hundred times more than
houSe-building, America a
needs home-building. BY
their fruits ye shall know
them.
A Harvard expert on social
trends declares: "At the pres
ent rate Of decentralization, if
left alone, the family system
will break up before the end
of the century" From a null
titude of homes young men
and women are being sent
out into the fearful modern
traffic, riding in machines
without moral brakes or
steering gear.
One does not deserve to be
catalogued as a "blue-nose
puritan" or as a "prudiSh
kill-joy" if he raises the
question, What is wrong
with the homes in which
thousands of hoodlum college
students (men and women
have been reared when their
only idea of an Easter Va
cation" is to get as far away
from home as possible and
let themselves go as rowdies
and, too often, as liber-
tineS-lying around on unlit
beaches, guzzling beer and
doing what comes natur-
ally'?" Thank God and good
homes. this does not repre-
sent the great army of mod
ern youth who. by their
ideals and conduct. reflect
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Bernard s. White.
Bishop on Vishinsky

In the piece, "Vishinsky
Made 1t Clear" Jim Bishop
summarizes the policies and
tactics of the Soviet Union
and Communist philosophy.
He does this better in less
than one column of news
print than many books and
articles have done in reams
Of describing a sad situation.
Now If Jim Bishop or any,
one else could come up with
as concise a solution to this
sad situation maybe the sun
would rise again ION all Of
the major empires Of the
West"
Robert e. TrimbIe.
4 \ 4
In your excellent publica-
ton, The Star, ! particularly
look for that most interesting
column Jim Bishop. Re-
porter" His "Vishinsky Made
1t Clear" was splendid.
George j. Burger.
Vice President, National Fed
Grafton Of Independent
Business.