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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-09-08


There are, Of course, many as
poets TO the so-caIled German
problem" but this feeling is deeI
and one Of the most difficult Il
resolve. When Khrushchev shut tho
border between the two Berlini
there were those who felt thu
Germans had it coming to them
after all, they are Germans,
many said. why should we d.
anything for them?"
That question b usually fol-
lowed by q long recitation Of
German indifference to the suf-
fering Of others when their mil
itarists were stTidlng the world.
We are reminded Of the persecu-
ton Of nOn-cOnfOFmlsts and art
lists, Of the burning Of books
and their apparent affinity for
right-wing reaction.
It il a powerful argument, but
I submit, it is a dangerous one
If we look only to the past, ouI
failure to act could be more costly
to US and all democratic institu.
tons than many now seem able tC
realize. What the Communists are
using, with a new twist, is the OLD
Nazi line, why die for DanzigT
But II we had stood up against
Hitler's aggression at almost any
early stage Of his march against
Europe, II is reasonable to be.
ieve he could have been stopped
short Of war. George KEENAN,
points out in his brilliant Russia
and the West under Lenin and
Stain that we now know the
Munich giveaway was unnecessary
because the Czech army was very
strong and the German generals
were actually ready TO remov'
Hitler rather than go to war.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-09-08

Copyright, 1891. Robert q
Bpivack).
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-09-08

present crisis would do well to re-
member that there are hundreds
Of thousands of men and women
In the West who cannot easily
make the emotional reimbursement
that the present situation demands.
For them, Hitler was not merely
Hitler. He was Germany and all
Germans.
When Menshikov says Ameri-
cans will not fight for Berlin, he
is playing on this lingering re-
sentiment. 1t is a clever propa-
ganda point and the Russians I'M
doubtedly viii utilize 1t to the ut
most.
Evening star., 1961-12-30

the frontiers of the mind in such dis
parate regions as the infinitesimal heart
of the atom and the boundless reaches
Of outer space.
In that respect, DR.. Leake has not
exaggerated 1--WE know too much," and
we know it in an age when it can be
an exceedingly dangerous thing. Nor
does this apply merely to science. The
articulateness and knowingness of our
time, for example, involve, wholly
apart from a tremendous and dubious
literary output, the fact that there are
still 25 billion pages of documents un-
der wraps in the Pentagon. This is an
appalling statistic, but it serves as a
good and dramatic measure of what
man is up against, in both the secre-
tive and non-secretive fields, as he
strives to command and comprehend
all the amazingly proliferating infor-
nation within his reach. To put it
mildly, the whole business seems slightly
frightening.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
We Know Too Much

The American Association for the
Advancement of Science is doing use
full thing in undertaking to set up a
special section to deal with the almost
unbelievable, and perhaps uncontroll-
able, torrent of new knowledge that is
pouring in on the mind of man. Any
and all moves along this line merit
commendation and encouragement. For
the simple fact is that the world is
getting so smart, is acquiring so much
Information at such a fast clip, and is
becoming so enormously articulate in so
many fields that it may yet suffer an
acute and possibly fatal attack of in
digestion as far as the facts available
to it are concerned.
This point has been effectively en-
phasized by Dr. Chauncey Leake of Ohio
State University. Speaking as former
president of the AAAS, at it's current
meeting in Denver he has summed up
the problen-and it is problem of the
first magnitude-in these words: 1--WE
know too much and can't find out what
we know Scientists have to get en-
gineers to help them find out what
they know" That is to say, there must
be electronic devices and related equip
ment to correlate the ever-groWing
avalanche of scientific and technical
data. And beyond that, wholly apart
from the young technicians needed to
operate these instruments, there must
be a new breed of highly disciplined
men of science-integrator and syn
theSizers capable of pulling together in
one piece, or organizing for easy refer
ence through a central clearing house,
all the information that is constantly
accumulating, in volume that stag
gers the most brilliant of minds, in
every area of human research and de-
velopment.
Never before in the history of the
world has there been anything even
remotely comparable to such an ac-
emulation And it has all come with
unprecedented speed within the past
two decades, largely as a result of the
many scientific and chronological break
throughs achieyed during the Second
World War. Nor is the pace of this
acquisition OF new knowledge-the great
mass of it disjointed or disconnected in
terms of being truly integrated part
of a clear-headed world of science
(Which probably is impossible) likely
to slacken in the years ahead. On the
contrary, it may we'll become faster
than ever as population continues to
grow at an explosive rate and as new
PaSteurS, Fermis or Einsteins are born
tGSattain startling new advances 4ng
Evening star., 1961-12-30
AGAINST q Rate War

Chairman Joseph P. McMurray of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
has issued timely and well-reaSoned
advisory statement on dividend policies
for the guidance Of savings and loan
associations and other institutions un-
der the Banks jurisdiction.
1t is, in effect, an appeal that
those institutions which have become
members of the Federal system should
not be stampeded into an interest
dividend rate war in reaction to the
qualified rate-ceiling rise recently al
lowed by the Federal Reserve Board to
of the latter have taken prompt
advantage of the permission, effective
January l, to lift their rates on GER
tain categories of deposits above the
per cent maximum allowed since
January /, 1857. BY doing so, they are
offering greater competition to the
other types of savings institutions
which already operate under higher
permiSSive ceiling.
The point stressed by Mr.. McMur-
ray, however, is that the Federal
savings and loan associations, for ex-
ample, have established a record of
safety and soundneSS over the past
80 years and that their competitive
position does not, and need not, de-
pend upon a premium" dividend. OF
concern to the Bank Board, of course,
is the danger that pressure for gen.
orally higher savings and loan dividend
rates would lead, in turn, to higher
charges for home financing-the field
in which these associations employ
the greater amount of their funds.
Such a development could have a
damaging impact on the home building
industry, and on individuals and fam
lilies who are seeking financing for
this purpose.
In what amounts to a reassuring
wait-andSee attitude, Mr.. McMurray
added that the Board will watch the
situation closely during the coming
year. With this promise, plus his public
tribute to the affected institutions and
their management record, the interest
of all seems to be well guarded.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Crockdown on SIums

Arlington County takes pride, with
good reason, in the. scarcity of sub
standard, Slum-like housing within its
borders That is one of the reasons it
has Jagged behind other communities
in adopting a minimum housing code.
But special citizens committee ap-
pointed by the County Board has asserted
that although there are fewer than
a hundred houses that rate as Slum
dwellings it would be wise to exercise
controls, with a view to cleaning up
present conditions and preventing any
spread of urban blight" The boards
approval of such controls was justified
and overdue.
The code sets minimum standards
for space, light, heat, ventilation,
plumbing, garbage disposal and the like
and gives county inspectors the right
under court order, to enter premises at
a time convenient to the occupants.
Coercive measures will not be taken
until owners have been given fair
opportunity to make Improvements. If
a house is closed as unfit for habitation,
county officials must make "every rea-
Sonable effort" to find housing else
where for the tenants.
Such restrictions are proper pro-
lection for the health and safety not
only of tenants of substandard housing
but of the community as whole and
therefore are in the public interest
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Church-Stote

C. Stanley Lowell asserted
in a letter December 81 that
the use of public schools by
Protestant churches involved
no question of church-state
separation because there was
payment of an adequate
rental to cover any possible
cost to the taxpayers" Mr..
Lowell stated: IF rent is in
deed paid and full value is
given for value received, it is
hard to see where church.
state separation is violated
1t appears that Mr.. Lowell
has proposed a money test as
a criterion for determining
whether or not a particular
program violates the So
called wall of separation be-
tween church and state"
If this be the case, then OBJ
viously the original proposal
of the Catholic Bishops for
Federal loans to parochial
schools is entirely constitu-
tional, for a loan, by its very
nature, would repay "fun
value for value received"
and cover any possible cost
to the taxpayers"
James A. Miller.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
School Lunches

Nutritious lunches for school chill
dren have become so universally avail
able in recent years that one tends
to take them for granted. And indeed
the dimensions of the National School
Lunch Program, as reported for the
past year by the Department of Agri-
culture, are impressive. BY all odds
this is the largest food-service oper-
alton in the country. From a rather
modest beginning Is years ago, the
program today assures well-balanced,
healthful lunches for more than IA
million children in some $4,000 schools.
This is in every sense, further
more, Well-balanced instance of Fed
eral, local and private cooperation.
The average cost of school lunches
throughout the country last year, for
example, ,"was 481 cents per meal Of
this, the children themselves (exclud-
ing those unable to afford it) paid
an estimated q cents. State and local
contributions accounted for Ill cents.
The remaining 10 cents was paid by
the Federal Government, through a
combination of cash grants, purchased
food and commodities from Govern
ment surplus stocks. While the great
bulk of the necessary food is pur-
chased by local agencies, the items
bought so far this fiscal year by the
Agriculture Department alone include
such quantities as 4O7 million pounds
Of ground beef, 38 million pounds of
chicken and, from surplus supplies, go
million pounds of frozen turkeys.
1t is good to know that even a
slight proportion of the ever-mounting
Government surplus is serving such a
worthy purpose. Still, for variety of
reasons, only about onethird Of the
Nations school children are benefit
ing from the program. Many of the
remainder, of course, eat their lunches
at home, or carry them to school. For
thousands of others, however, the as
surance of a full stomach at the noon
hour remains a need unmet, and one
which requires further attention.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
For the Record
We read, with interest, your

We read, with interest. your
December II editorial, ITO
Speed Traffic Justice" Ev-
erything YOU say as to court
congestion is true and there
is a very definite need for
a separate branch of Mu-
nicipal Court to deal solely
with traffic offenders.
The committee of the Dis
trict Bar Association is to
be congratulated for their
fortnight proposal for one
or two full-time judges who
would deal exclusively with
traffic court cases. 1t would
be hoped that our Municipal
Court would also acknowledge
this need. 1t has been said
that the majority of our
Municipal Court judges look
with disfavor on full-time
traffic court duty. and, If
this is the case. the appoint
ment of two new judges would
certainly be in order.
Your editorial states that
"The Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Board and the Traf-
fic Co-ordinating Committee
have indorsed the major pro-
visions of the Bar plan" It
is not our wish to de-empha-
size the splendid effort of the
committee of the bar associa-
ton, but we would like to SET
the record straight.
The Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Board (now the Cit
liens Traffic Board made
the proposal of a single traf-
fic court Judge more thar
IS years ago and consistently
each year has forwarded thi!
recommendation to the Com.
misSioners of the District o1
Columbia.
If and when the court re-
organization comes before
Congress, we are ready anc
willing to give the measure
our full and complete sup.
port.
Ernest r. Breet,
Chairman, Citizens Traffic
Board.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Man on Soopbox

Good for the students of
New York City College who
were responsible for Benja-
min j. Davis being "hissed,
booed and conked on the
noodle by a sign" not to
mention pursued" on his
disgruntled way, after ad-
dressing an arrogant chal-
lenge to our Department of
Justice to prove" he is still
national secretary of the
United States Communists.
What with our recent un-
happy participation in the
attempt to force Katanga to
its knees, and the muzzling
of responsible American anti
Communist voices, some of
our little Red termites might
get the idea the battle is
practically won.
Certainly it is a sad and
shameful thing to read of
the extremely offensive and
Grass "jokes" and threats be-
ing voiced right here in
Washington, and by high
ranking Soviet officials at
that. For example: Americans
should walk calmly to the
nearest cemetery" in case of
nuclear attack. And how the
Soviets will happily back
other "wars of liberation"
such as pious India's peace
loving grab of tiny Goa.
We hope the anti Connie
students were not made up
entirely of "Ukrainian and
Hellenic groups whose par
ents have suffered under
communism" It seems par
ticularly important that boys
and girls whose parents have
only known the blessings of
our American freedom also
realize the need to fight every
inch Of the way in order
that they and their children
need never suffer under COM
muniSm.
Lila ID. SOnnemann.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Moscow-Peiping Rift

BY now it is pretty we'll
agreed that the rift between
Moscow and Peiping is real
and obviously growing by de-
grees. Nikita Khrushchev is
by no means sympathetic to
Red China's brand of COM
munism, nor does he relish
Macs challenge to his leader
ship of world communism.
Add to this Red China's sup
port and encouragement for
little Albania in her stand
against the Russians, and
Mr.. K has himself a man
sized headache that could
develop into more complex
problems. The Chinese are
also disturbed because they
are not getting sufficient
economic aid or atomic
weapons.
No matter how little we
may think of the Russian
Premier, he would have to
go completely off his rocker
to give to the dubious and
irresponsible Chinese atomic
weapons which they may one
day use against their sponsor.
1t is quite possible N. K. has
looked far ahead into the
future and decided that in
the best interests of the So
Wet Union, it would be wiser
and more desirable to COM
promise his position with the
West than to get more deeply
involved in a Sino-Russian
alliance which may one day
backfire.
Herbert SomAers.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Teacher Screening

Now that DR.. Whittier and
the Montgomery County
Board of Education have
provided for the fingerprint-
ing, photographing and badg-
ing identification card) of
all teachers and administra-
tors in the county school
system, what will be their
next step in checking on the
morals, patriotism and pro-
fessional competency of the
people whom they employ?
Rorschach and WasSermann
tests? In setting up a Ber-
tillon system for the schools.
it seems to me that DR.. Whit
tier and the school board
have not gone far enough.
The Board of Education of
Montgomery County should
have on file for each en-
ploye, beside his signed con-
tract. his anti-subversive
affidavit (Ober Law, his
fingerprints, his photograph,
his badge number I'D. card
number. and of course his
application. his cephalic in
dex whether the employe is
brachycephalic, dolichoceph-
alic, or mesocephalic), his
shoe size, and his views
(signed and notarized) on
Buchmanism, polyandry, and
the Elizabethan Pool Laws.
Without such information
how can one judge the pro-
fessional desirability Of an
employe? The answer is OBJ
vious, isn't it!
niOgeneS IaertiuS.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson

The death at SO of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson closes the last chapter in the
interesting and climactically tragic
story of Americas World War I Presi-
dent and crusader for peace. The
poise and charm which helped her
bear up under the burdens of her
husbands wartime responsibilities, his
subsequent failure to win American
adherence to the League of Nations
and his lingering fatal illness re-
mained with her to the last. These
qualities, abetted by her innate intel
ligence and courage, made her an
admirable helpmate to President Wilson
in his most trying days.
Like her husband, a native of
Virginia, Mrs. Wilson was active in
movements to honor his memory in
his native State-and elsewhere as well.
She willed the house on S street in
which he and she died to the National
Trust for Historic Preservation as a
memorial to her husband. Nor did
she lose an opportunity during the
years since his death in 1924 to re-
iterate her faith in the ideals of peace
full settlement of International disputes
which he sought to perpetuate through
the Inflated League of Nations. 1t is
especially regrettable that she was
unable to participate in the dedica-
ton of the bridge at Alexandria which
memorializes her husband, for she had
looked forward to this event for a
long time. q,
Evening star., 1961-12-30
Insanity Verdicts

The recent case OF a woman
ordered released from st.
Elizabeths Hospital, after a
Judge ruled that she had been
unjustly declared insane by a
psychiatrist at her trial on
an intoxication charge and
confined for II months,
raises the disturbing ques-
ton of whether any citizen
might be incarcerated after
a mental examination.
No prison should have the
label of hospital. A person
committed to a mental hos
pital by a court, often fol-
lowing conflicting testimony
based on unclear law, is
subject to perpetual loss Of
liberty at the discretion Of
his doctor-jailerS.
Controversial questions Of
mental illness should not be
decided by psychiatrists rep
resenting a single viewpoint,
and those who are committed
ought not to be quietly for
gotten like the Count of
Monte Cristo.
Ronald III. Harner.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
On FEEDING WiIdife

Charles Trace we'll, who
adorned The Stars editorial
page for so many years with
his comments on the rela-
tionShips between man and
the small creatures which
are co-inhabitants Of our
world, would never have left
unanswered the letters Of
Kathleen Funkhouser (who
likes squirrels) and Mar
garet Jordan (who hates
them).
On the late Mr.. Tracewell's
behalf may enter a clarifi-
cation? In the first place
there was no local failure of
the acorn crop. There was
such a failure in Connecti-
cut where a late frost killed
the flowers of the oak trees.
Kathleen FunkhouSer OBJ
viously has been reading
papers from the wrong sec
tion of the country. In Wash
ington the acorn supply was
plentiful and. If she will just
take a look, all the squirrels
are just as fat as they usu-
ally are this time of year.
Mrs. Funkhouser counsels
us to put out food for the
squirrels but suggests that
we not use peanuts since if
we do the greedy" jays will
get them. 1t is a matter of
nicely Of Judgment which I
am not prepared to render
as to whether jays are greed
ier than squirrels. Offhand I
would say it was about even
if the day is bitter cold and
the subjects are hungry. I,
myself, am delighted when a
jay takes my peanuts. I like
both jays and squirrels.
Mrs. Jordan, belying the
generosity which is supposed
to underlie this season, hopes
that Mrs. Funkhouser is right
in thinking that the acorn
crop failed and that, there
fore, the squirrels will perish.
She even goes SO far as to
invite gunners to her place
to liquidate these pests. Mrs.
Jordan is annoyed with squir-
rels because they eat the
seeds which she puts out at
great expense to feed the
beautiful birds" TO her
squirrels are "buShy-tailed
rodents" which is one way of
putting it.
I suggest that Mrs. Funk
houser and Mrs. Jordan buy
adjoining places where one
can feed the birds and the
other the squirrels. AS for
myself I will remain happy to
give a handout to all the
small creatures who wait
hungrily in my garden each
winter morning.
Charles Alldredge.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
St. EIizobeths' Births

Stories in The Star about
the birth. over a period Of
years, of four illegitimate
children to a mental patient
at St. Elizabeths Hospital
are shocking. Shocking
enough that we should be
driven to re-examine the
morality of our laws and in
StitutionS which permit this
crime against humanity.
BY what rationale do we,
who assume responsibility for
the care of the mentally in
competent, permit them
freely to beget disadvantaged
offspring?
DR.. Overholser says 1t is
impossible to restrain such
patients without limiting
their freedom of action and
resorting to a jail-type con-
finement, and "St. ElizabethS
is not a Jail"
But DR.. Overholser did not
mention the rational altern-
ative, and neither has any
one else. Why must we be
dragged into the goth CEN
tury clinging to old taboos?
Sterilization" is the hu-
name answer to this prob
lem and if we, in the United
States, wish to attain the
goal of "every birth accom-
panied by a birthright," we
had better face it. We had
better lose no more time in
putting our best legal minds
to work on the project Of
developing protective ena-
bling legislation, and then we
had better enact it.
Marguerite Snyder.
Evening star., 1961-12-30
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Odors Important in Animal World
By THOMAS r. HENRY

sexes. In spite of the wealth
of anatomical information
available, little is known
about the nature or func-
tions of the substances pro-
duced."
Intelligence - whatever it
is-isn't everything. A child
can be a creative thinker
without an intelligence quo
tient high enough to be rated
as a gifted" youngster.
This is stressed in a re-
port to the National Academy
of Sciences by DR.. ]. P. Gull
ford of the University of
Southern California after q
two-year study of 1,400 ele-
mentary and junior high
school students.
New Ideas Needed
His research showed, he
reports, "a consistent find
ing that tests of creative
abilities bear little relation
ship to tests that go into
the determination of I.Q.
The pace of life is so fast
and the need for new ideas
so great that we need to dis
cover creative people earlier
in life. Even a very high
10. is not sufficient for
creativity. In tests of flu
ency and flexibility of think
ing and elaboration of ideas
to determine creative think
ing ability, a person is given
certain information from
which he is asked to gener-
ate a variety Of other items.
There is no one right answer
but potentially large num-
ber of acceptable answers.
DR.. Guilford, a former
president of the American
Psychological Association,
has been studying creative
thinking in young adults for
about 20 years. His work is
sponsored by the Office Of
Naval Research.
"An increase in average
scores from younger to older
groups, he reports, "indi-
Gates that creative thinking
abilities grow and develSC
through life. Boys tended
to do better than girls in
tests of flexibility of think
ing, whereas girls tended to
do better in tests of fluency
of thinking.
Detecting a problem is a
recognition that things are
not as they should be, which
may be the starting point for
creatiyA thinking"
Evening star., 1961-12-30
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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