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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17
County Business Briefs
By Joel Thomas

of worker that has made Saint
Elizabeths the leading public
mental hospital in the coun-
try. Psychiatrists, psychologists,
social workers, chaplains, psy-
chodramatists, psychiatric
nurses and volunteers are fea-
tured as working members of a
valuable mental-health team.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17
Showcases Available

Guardian Federal Savings and
Loan Association has made the
showcases in its Silver Spring
Branch available to the public
for exhibits of interest or value
to the community, and will well
come suggestions of groups or
organizations that would like
to make use of them.
An exhibit, Careers in Mental
Health" prepared in cooper
alton with Saint Elizabeths Hos
pital, is currently on display.
Photographs highlight the type
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17

peas, and tomatoes. Prospective
spinach acreage is less than
last year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17

Your INDEPENDENT Agent
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17

The Crop Reporting Board
said a 10 per cent increase over
last year in planted acreage of
nine vegetable crops for pro-
cessing is in prospect for 1861.
The board noted increases in
planted acreage for green lima
beans, snap beans, sweet corn,
cucumbers for pickles, green
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17
Custom Tailors

Bethesda Custom Tailors, a
new establishment devoted to
the custom making of clothing
for men and women, both civil
ian and military, has opened at
1886 Wisconsin ave. in Bethesda.
Partners in the new venture
are Irving Braunstein and Saul
Ingber, both previously associ-
ated with Wilner's in downtown
Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-17

Montgomery and Frederick
counties rural letter carriers
will be hosts to other rural car
riers of Maryland at their state
convention in Frederick next
Monday and Tuesday.
Evening star., 1961-12-21

because the Kremlin has been caught
In the act Of training some of his
countrymen to overthrow him, and It's
embassy in Conakry has been directly
implicated in riotous demonstrations
against his regime.
What could be more ironical, or
more infuriating, from Mr.. Toure's
viewpoint? After all, up to now at
least, Guinea's government has been
about as far left as any could be with
out being completely in the Kremlin's
pocket. Still, 1t apparently has not
been sufficiently pro-Soviet, and so
Moscow has sought to bring about its
downfall in order to insure the coun-
try's complete communication.
If reports may be believed, how
ever, Mr.. Toure has uncovered the
plot in the nick Of time, and he feels
now that the Kremlin has acted in a
manner impelling him to oust Soviet
Ambassador Solod and turn away from
communism and all It's works. This Is
very interesting, If true, but let's wait
and see-with fingers crossed.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Combating Dependency

Secretary Ribicoff has promised
challenging and, If means can be found
to carry it out most welcome re-orien-
tation of public relief programs. It's
primary aim is not merely to provide
financial assistance to the needy but,
as the Secretary expresses it, to find
constructive approaches to get people
off assistance and back into useful roles
in society"
No one can quarrel with this goal;
the problem is how to accomplish 1t. In
his initial 10-point program, Mr.. Ribicoff
placed major emphasis on the need for
additional welfare workers, so that more
intensive efforts can be made to help
those now on relief to gain Self-Suf-
ficiency. He said that several categories
of dependent children should be visited
by caSeWorkerS at least once every three
months. In the District, where such
visits are made about once year, this
would mean hiring 143 new welfare
workers at an additional annual cost
of $630,OOO, exclusive Of Federal aid.
The immediate question, of course, in
view of the fiscal dilemma which already
plaques the city, is where the money
would come from. But more important
question is whether such expenditures
actually would accomplish the desired
results. For the evidence that this is so
is far from conclusive. And unless
convincing case can be made, there is
slight chance indeed that additional
funds of this magnitude will be provided.
Gerard M. Shea, the District welfare
director, believes on the basis of pilot
project conducted here several years ago
that such an effort would be fruitful,
and lead eventually to financial savings
in the total welfare program. If there
are facts to justify this belief, Mr.. Shea
should develop them fully for the con-
Sideration Of the Commissioners. For
surely the attainment of self-Sufficiency
is more advantageous to needy families
and 20 the community as whole than
are ever-expanding welfare benefits
which simply encourage public de-
pendency.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Down Louisiana Way

In a special election, Louisiana's
Fourth Congressional District has voted
Democratic, encouraged Republicans
and given no comfort to the New
Frontier administration of President
Kennedy.
It has voted Democratic by choos-
ing one Joe D. Waggonner, jr., Dem
ocrat, as successor to the late Rep
resentative Overton Brooks. It has
encouraged Republicans by giving more
than $4,000 votes to G. o. P. candi-
date Charlton H. Lyons in a district
that has not elected Republican
since the post-Civil War Reconstruction
days-leaving Mr.. Lyons in this case
less than 5000 votes behind the win
ner. Toward the New Frontier and its
interest In such matters as civil rights,
the northwestern Louisiana district,
which shares borders with the States
of Arkansas and Texas, turned its
back completely. Both candidates cam
paigned as conservatives in every polit-
cal sense of the term.
Mr.. Waggonner will not, of course,
hold any balance of power in the
next session of the House. In its
way, however, the Fourth District has
shown, as has been indicated in other
recent instances: (1) that traditional
distaste for Republicanism is not as
strong as it used to be in the Deep
South and (2) that the impatient
mood of so-called liberalism remains
subject to some checks within Demo-
cratic ranks.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Indio's Aggression

The government of India
displays aggressive militancy
towards the weak and unim-
portant Portuguese enclaves
at Goa and elsewhere on the
Indian coast, while seemingly
hesitant even to admit the
menace of mum S t
China'S advance through the
northern passes.
British rule in India had
it's faults perhaps, but we
will wager that had it con-
tinued, the Communist inva-
sion either would not have
occurred at all, or would have
been met head-on, with no
a mpt to save face"
by picking on a weaker
adversary. r, C. Parker.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
The Single Women

Phyllis I. RoSenteur in her
book "The Single Women"
gives the impression that the
ultimate goal in life through
which happiness and satisfy
ing living are attained is
marriage. A Actually, it is
through marriage that life's
painful complications multi
ply many times, and often
there are few compensations.
if any, to alleviate these. A
woman who was a social serv-
ice worker for years, told me
with much conviction she was
glad she was an old maid, as
she had seen so much of the
miserieS which accompany
marriage. If it were not for
the sex urge which hypno-
tizes the most intelligent peo-
pie into a state Of blind mar
COSTS, there would be many
fewer marriages! But people
usually have to learn things
the hard way. In this case
they have a choice of being
lonely and not married, or
lonely and married, with a
lot of tragedy thrown in.
Although mothers are the
most vitality important work.
ers of all, because Of their
impact on the welfare of the
world, through their influence
on it's componentS, their chill
dren, they are the victims of
one of the worlds greatest
injustices. They have no ben
efits in their own right, as
workers, but only those they
get through their husbands;
and if their husbands evapo-
rate for any reason, they are
often left destitute.
Full-t m e mothers often
have no wages or assets. The
money they get is for run
ming the house and family.
They literally work for their
bed and board, only! This is
a slave state which we de-
plore in other countries.
Mothers have no status as
human beings - only a SEN
timental one, on occasions.
At other times they are
merely dumb beasts Of bur-
den who are considered to
neither rate nor want rights,
benefits, and security!
Legislators should work for
correction of this amazing in
equity in this archaic cave
man state!
Isabel c. Moore
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Motorists Woes

A deplora Bile condition
exists in the Maryland Motor
Vehicle Division. Every citi-
zen of the State and every
holder of a Maryland drivers
permit is affected by the
chaos that exists in the
transition to a new permit
ruling.
Apparently no one is aware
of the new rules except for
the clerks in the courts who
collect the fines from inno-
cent residents of Maryland
who are being hoodwinked
into paying fines and receiv-
ing points" for expired liz
censes which they have no
way of knowing have expired.
A citizen has the option of
facing trial or paying a fine.
So many Of them depend
upon automobiles for their
livelihood, that they are lit
orally terrified at appearing
in court and pay their fines
promptly.
These poor souls have
never been notified that their
licenses are expiring. Some
States have equitable systems
for bringing this to the at
tention of the permit-holder
well before the date of ex-
piration. so payment for a
new license can be sent in.
Why cannot Maryland have
this system. rather than Gre
ating a state of fright and
panic amongst its citizens?
We believed we were paying
taxes for this kind of service.
Carl l., ZeytOOnian,
Evening star., 1961-12-21
In Appreciation

On behalf of the members
of the Public Welfare Advis-
ory Council, I wish to express
our appreciation for the con-
tinual interest that members
of your staff have had in
the Department of Public
Welfare efforts. We are par
ticularly grateful for your
recent editorial on the Pub
lie Welfare Training Center
which we hope will set a
precedent for other public
welfare departm n
throughout the country. The
continuous concern and en-
thusiasm which several mem
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Bankruptcy and the u. N.

For the first time in its history,
the United Nations, acting through the
General Assembly, has voted in favor
of floating bond issue to finance its
operations. 1t has been forced to do so
primarily because all too many of its
members - particularly such strange
bedfelloWS as the Soviet bloc, most of
the Arab states, and France, Belgium,
Portugal and South Africa-have flatly
refused to pay what they are supposed
to pay in support of U. N. troops in the
Congo or in the GAIA Strip between
Egypt and Israel
Since these two undertakings in
Volve, respectively, outlays Of $40 million
and SIG million every month, the non-
payment of the assessments levied
against the disappearing members has
put the U. N. in the position of having
to cope with prospective deficit of
not less than $170 million by next
June &c. Thus, wholly apart from the
losses it has suffered in terms of political
prestige as a result of what a great
many people regard as it's disastrous
mistakes on issues like the Congo and
midas aggression against Goa, the
world organization has had to worry
about economic bankruptcy, complete
financial collapse.
Fortunately, however, at least for
a good number Of months to come, the
bond-issue plan will enable the U. NJ to
avoid such collapse. The issue will
to1 conn
at an annual interest rate of per cent.
The bonds themselves, which obviously
would not appeal to individual investors
looking for reasonably safe and good
paying securities, will be made available
only to governments and their official
lending institutions, along with private
non-profit trusts and foundations. Our
own country has promised strong sup
port for the project, and American
dollars undoubtedly will constitute the
biggest investment in it,
This, of course, is but one of several
dubious aspects of the plan. After all,
why should the United States continue
to be by far the biggest contributor to
the u MS cash register? How long are
we So4IlS W udNe W 4ooI GAe HdJOI
part of the bill while countries like
Soviet Russia, which is constantly
boasting about how economically SUI
perior it is, persist in refusing to pay
their fair share? Clearly, these ques-
tionS will have to be resolved SatiSfac-
torily one of these days or the American
people will revolt against the idea Of
being played for suckers. Meanwhile,
though, the bonds approved by the
Assembly serve the wholesome twofold
purpose of keeping the U. N. alive and
emphasizing that our country cannot be
expected to carry the bulk of the burden
much longer.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Was Justice Served?

Although the United States Court
OF Appeals has reversed District Court
Judge Holtzoff's ruling freeing an alco-
holic who had been committed to ST.
Elizabeths Hospital, the lower court
judge has raised a question which
ought to be answered The question,
reduced to simple terms, is whether
justice and common sense are served
when sane person addicted to drunk
enness-in this case "lady Of refine
ment and education"-is committed
to st. ElizabethS as insane.
The case referred to involved a
woman, described as an alcoholic, who
was brought into Municipal Court
on charge of drunkenness She at
tempted to plead guilty, but the court
refused to accept the plea. Instead,
on the basis of psychiatric testimony
to the effect that she was suffering
from an anxiety neurosis," the Mu-
nicipal judge sent her to st. Eliza
beths Hospital for treatment of insanity.
A habeaS corpus proceeding brought
the case before District Court Judge
Holtzoff. A psychiatriSt for the Gov
ernment testified In that court that
the woman had a "Sociopathic per-
sonality" which justified her commit
fense pSychiatristS said she had no
mental disease or defect and one, on
cross examination, said that while
"sociopathic personality" is listed in
an authoritative manual as a mental
disease, so is "bedwetting."
Judge Holtzoff, in holding that the
Municipal Court should have accepted
the woman's plea Of guilty to the
drunkenness charge, ordered that she
be freed because her constitutional
right Of due process had been violated.
But the Court Of Appeals reversed this
finding and sent the case back to
Judge Holtzoff with instructions to
follow the rules laid down by the ap-
pellate court in the Lynch case. In
this case, now pending before the Su-
preme Court, the appellate tribunal
upheld a lower courts refusal to
accept a guilty plea of a defendant
described as of unsound mind at the
time of his offense and in need of
further treatment. The man was sent
to st. Elizabeths. But Judge Holtzoff
had said he did not believe the cases
were comparable.
In the woman'S case, Judge Holt
zoff pointed out, obviously she should
not be among insane people" Yet,
he declared, sane people are being
sent to mental institutions, due very
largely to the very unfortunate clas-
sification-with which a majority Of
phychiatrists disagree-on the part Of
St. Elizabeths Hospital Of sociopaths
as persons having a mental disease" :"
Certainly If alcoholism or bedwetting
can be cited as evidence Of insanity,
many people have reason to be concerned
over some of these "sociopathic" cases.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Brain S Halves Can Act IndependentIy
By THOMAS r. HENRY

emy of Sciences by DR.. Ken
meth S. Norris, University Of
Los Angeles zoologist, based
on observations made on sew
eral whaling expeditions in
the Pacific.
Pacific pilot whales, which
may travel in schools Of
more than 100, for example,
have an unusual hunting for
nation. They will line up in
a single rank. side by side.
which may stretch well over
a mile. Quite obviously this is
a designed formation for
broadening the areas in the
quest for food. When any
member of the hunting ex-
pedition encounters a school
of edible fish he signals and
the entire assembly descends
on the area for a feast.
These whales also have an
ingenious mechanism for
seeing that babies keep up
with the fast pace of the
adults in a school. BY stick
ing close to its mother, but
without touching her or NOV
ing its own flippers, the
young one is carried along
hydrodynamically on the
water flow pattern between
the two. They move as fast
as 80 miles in a day. The
time they spend on the sur
face usually is only for the
purpose of breathing.
Highly Intelligent
"Captives". says the report.
"give us evidence Of a high
order of intelligence which
places them high on the list
Of the most advanced ami
mails. Their brain volume
body weight ratio is very
high. In absolute size their
brains may exceed those of
humans"
Good brains, he points out,
are not confined to partic-
ular species. They seem to be
distributed generally though
out the whole cetacean race.
Most of their behavior is
difficult to observe, since it
takes place under water.
When whales have had
their fill Of food" says the
report, they have been OBJ
served to indulge in some
good old-fashioned loafing
on the surface. This may
include just lolling around on
their backs, waving their
tlippers or standing up in the
water. The loafers also tend
to chatter quite a Bit"
Evening star., 1961-12-21

Congratulations to The
Star for its presentation of
the work-releaSe plan for
D. C. prisoners in Mr.. I'll
rana's articles December 10
and II. This is without doubt
one of the most important
innovations in penology in
the past 80 years.
In a series entitled Law
in The News" The Star out
lined the essentials of this
plan as far back as 1856
in describing the Huber Law
in Wisconsin. Since that
time, California, Connecti-
cut, Minnesota, and North
Carolina have adopted sim
liar laws with great success.
as pointed out in Mr.. tt
rana's articles. In Europe the
plan has had recognized sue
cess in Sweden, Norway, Den
mark, Holland and elsewhere
as reported by the United
Nations.
In addition to the success
full operation of the plan in
st. Paul. Milwaukee reported
that during one five year
period Q949-1954, work-re-
lease prisoners in that area
earned $333941, saved relief
rolls of the city a total of
$l76,90l, and saved institu-
ton costs $202,317. In one
year Q954), for example, 442
work release prisoners
earned $154,911. They paid
to Milwaukee County for
room and board $19,946 plus
$11,798 as the county's share
in surplus earnings total
$31, ,744. Also from this $154,-
Gil, the sum of $74,887 was
turned over to prisoners fam
lilies and $7,783 was paid by
such prisoners toward per-
sonal debts.
In addition to the success
ent economies, during a 10
year period of operation of
work-release, Jail officials in
Milwaukee report that only SO
out of 1894 work-release priS-
oners have gone AWOL. The
plan is eminently sound pen
ologically. The savings in
keeping families united and
in maintaining and restoring
the self-respect of offenders
are even more important
than the money earned. In
days when most jails and
prisons are idle houses and
bursting at the seams with
more prisoners than their
capacity provides for, the plan
has the added advantages of
providing constructive en-
ployment, of reducing ten
sions and disciplinary &C
tions due to overcrowding, and
of avoiding the added con-
Struction of more useless
and harmful penal monstros-
tiles.
Let us hope that the Coun-
Gil on Law Enforcement of
the District will act favor
ably on Donald Clemmer's
proposal to try the plan out
in Washington. From the
taxpayers point of view, if
from no other, the plan de-
serves a chance to demon
strate what a forward-look-
ing correctional administra-
tor like Mr.. Clemmer can
do. If the plan is a success
in Milwaukee and st. Pau.
and elsewhere, why not in
Washington?
Howard B. Gill,
Director, Institute of Cor
rectional Administration
American University.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry ,DrtterS c0rrect
names and addresses All let
terS are SUBJECT to cOndenSd-
tton. Those not used tDtlI be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopeS.
Evening star., 1961-12-21

bers of your staff have had
over the years is sincerely
appreciated.
I trust that your staff will
continue to work with the
Department of Public Welfare
in the future so that there
may be a better understand
ing and acceptance of the
Public Welfare Department S
efforts.
]. E. Bindeman.
Chairman, Public Welfare
Advisory Council.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
McGroN Fan

I have just read Mary Nc
Grory's column, "Untermeyer
On Spot In the New From
tier" Whenever I see Mary's
by-line I read her because !
know I am going to chuckle,
but, boy, she is a knowing
gal.
Kathleen G. Rurnell.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
THE two halves of The brain

lie IWO IldlNeS VI IIle UTdlIl
may act as independent
brains, at least so far as
visual learning is concerned.
They can get into each
others way.
Experiments demonstrating
this have just been reported
to the National Academy of
Sciences by DR.. C. E. Tre-
varthen of California Insti-
tute Of Technology. They were
carried out with split-brain
monkeys.
To test this hypothesis,
says the report. an appa-
ratus was designed that en-
ploys polarized light to make
the two eyes see different
things at the same point in
space. 1t makes it possible
Ito present the subject with
different, even contradictory
tasks simultaneously, one Wis
ible to each eye, and to test
thereby the functional inde-
pendence of the two sepa-
rated brain hemispheres.
Competition Occurs
"A subject with simultane-
ously presented contradictory
tasks has shown that surg
ically separated brain halves
may learn side by side at the
normal rate, as if they were
quite independent. There are
occasions. however, when one
hemisphere learns normally
while the other is slower or
fails to learn at all.
Competition between the
two halves of the brain ap-
pears to take place nearer the
motor level of integration
near the brains base. FIRE.
quently there is a preferen-
tial contralateral coupling,
such that eye and limb CEN
ters are in the same half of
the brain, the right eye
learning when the left hand
is active and vice versa.
TESTS, in which the ex-
perimenter has full control
over eye-hand combinations
which the subject is allowed
to use, show that eye-hand
pairs on the same side may
become efficient at learning.
This occurs even though, un-
der the experimental condi-
tions, the main motor GEN.
ters for the limb involved are
in the opposite hemisphere
and are surgically separated
at all higher levels from the
centers receiving the visual
information"
4 =
Whales have brains.
This is the substance of a
report to the National Acad-