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Evening star., 1961-05-04
Free Trade

During recent weeks much
has been written in news
papers and other publications.
in opposition to the Buy
American" program supported
by some manufacturers and
organizations. Reference has
been made to the United
States shipping more goods
overseas than it buys. We
should like to offer a few
little known facts in rebuttal.
True, the United States had
a favorable balance Of trade
last year. Unfortunately, in
our trade with some countries
we suffered a net loss Of Jobs
for American workers-which
is the important thing to
consider.
For example, we exported
about 5000 million more goods
to Japan in 1861 than we
bought from them. On the
surface, this appears to be
a satisfactory arrangement.
If you examine the under
lying facts you will find that
Japan'S purchases were pri-
marily in raw materials such
as coal, cotton, wheat, soy
beans, barley and hides-all
Of which have a low labor
content and helped to sustain
an estimated 100000 Ameri-
can workers.
On the other hand, Japan's
exports to the United States
were primarily finished goods
with a high labor content.
While we enjoyed a favor
able dollar trade balance with
Japan last year, we estimate
our economy suffered a net
loss Of half a million jobs.
Some publications have re-
ferred to the necessity for
free trade" in this world.
We agree, but, unfortunately,
free trade is not a reality.
We believe the many inequi-
ties in foreign trade regula-
tions between the United
States and Japan, as well as
other nations, should be cor
rected. Free trade must be a
reciprocal proposition.
AS a case in point, more
than 4 million Japanese
radios with three or more
transistors) were sold in this
country last year. I might
point out that the basic raw
materials in any transistor
radio in the $25 to $50 range
cost only an unbelievable
1872 cents. However, six hours
labor are required to convert
these materials and to assem-
BILE the components into a
finished radio. The American
electronicS worker earns an
average of 81 an hour, while
the japanese counterpart
earns from 20 to Is cents an
hour.
Our Government has no
restrictions on the number
Of Japanese radios that can
be imported. A 121a per cent
duty is imposed on these ra-
dioS, compared with an 18
per cent levy on any Ameri-
can radios that might be
shipped to Japan. The jap
aneSe government, incidental
ly, maintains such rigid trade
restrictions on American ra-
dios that less than a thousand
were permitted to enter their
country last year-after i'm
posing a higher duty on these
higher cost radios than the
United States has on cheaper
Japanese radios.
Through Government sub
Sidy, Japanese manufacturers
also enjoy extremely low
transportation rates and can
ship radios from Japan to the
United States for about the
same cost that our company
can ship from Chicago to New
York. In addition, American
products must help support
a multitude of Federal, State
and local taxes.
How can this be called
"free trade" when exporters
enjoy advantages that hurt
American firms and America
workers?
Martin Sheridan
Vice President,
Admiral Corp.
Evening star., 1961-05-04

even II an agreement were
reached on Laos, the Congo,
or disarmament, it would
only be temporary. On the
basis Of their past record,
they don't figure to honor
any contract for long. From
our point Of view, it would
be foolish to put our trust
in an agreement the Com
munists consider a timely,
convenient scrap of paper.
Herbert SOmmerS
Evening star., 1961-05-04
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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in Pravda, IzveStia and the French press
are without basis in fact"
The objective Of this particular
rumor mill is to harm French-American
relations. We doubt very much that it
will succeed, however, and we expect
that Mr.. Kennedy and President de
Gaulle will meet in Paris at the end of
this month in an atmosphere of mutual
respect.
Evening star., 1961-05-04

If Castro moves against our
naval base at Guantanamo,
our armed forces will be
used.
Senator Fulbright, chair
man Of the full Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, has said the
invasion was a blunder for
which the White House. the
CIA, the Defense Department
and the State Department
must bear responsibility, No
one should expect the Presi-
dent to declare his intention
of using armed force against
Castro and the Communists
in Cuba-certainly not until
he is ready to do so-or until
after the action has been
taken. In the meantime, the
American people are kept
waiting to learn what, If any,
thing, is to be done about
Communist Cuba. There has
been no unwillingness on the
part of the people as a whole,
There has been suspicion.
however, that some of Presi-
dent Kennedy's advisers have
taken a hang your clothes
on a hickory limb but don't
go near the water" attitude,
which may have contributed
to the Cuban fiasco.
Question Of Prestige
The unfortunate part of
this whole Cuban episode,
beyond the fact it has re-
suited in a firmer Communist
grip on the island, lies in the
position it has left us in
the eyes of the world, includ-
ing the eyes Of the other
American republics. What is
happening to the prestige of
the United States abroad
prestige that was made an
issue in the presidential cam
paign of 1860? Democratic
spokeSmen, including Mr..
Kennedy, spoke again and
again of the loss of prestige
under the Eisenhower ad-
ministration. Today, former
President Eisenhower, former
Vice President Nixon and
other Republican leaders
have assured President Ken
nedy they will support him
in international operations
Cuba and elsewhere-for the
safety Of the United States
and the free world. They
have not criticized the Presi-
dent for having failed In the
Cuban affair. They wish the
country to show q united
front as a champion of the
free world and an opponent
Of the spread Of communism.
Mr.. Kennedy has taken a
firm position in all his pro-
nouncements and messages
to the Communist leaders.
He cannot afford, however, to
have another Cuba" It may
be that in his Chicago speech
and other statements about
the perils confronting the
United States and the sacri-
fices he has been hardening
up the American people. He
may be correct in saying they
are their own worst enemy
because they are unwilling
Ito do what must be done"
But there is one sure thing
they have not been put to
the test in this admins
tration.
President Kennedy served
gallantly in the Second World
War. Like his predecessor,
Gen. Eisenhower, he Is a
strong advocate of peace. He
realizes that we can lose the
peace as well as war If we
show weakness and unwil-
lingneSs to do what must be
done. The people will do
neither If he provides the
leadership Of which he is
capable.
Evening star., 1961-05-04
THE POLITICAL MILL
Kennedy Hardening Up the People?
By GOULD LINCOLN

Now the American people
are being blamed-for what?
For not being willing to do
what must be done to check
the drive Of world com
munism-to win the cold
war. President Kennedy said
as much in his recent ad-
dress prepared for delivery
in Chicago.
"Our greatest adversary"
the President wrote, "is not
the Russians. 1t is our own
unwillingness to do what
must be done" Why is the
President so sure the Ameri-
can people are unwilling to
do what must be done? In
the first place, they have not
been told what they must do
except to sacrifice.
Was the President refer
ring only to financial sac
rifices-to an outpouring Of
more and more money to be
collected in taxes by the
Federal Government? II so,
the people have been put on
notice. The Kennedy domes-
tic program, If fully imple-
mented by legislation for
all kinds Of social welfare
programs, will demand more
and more Of the peoples in
come. But even in his tax
program the President has
asked for certain remission
Of taxes to meet certain tax
increases.
OF course, more money will
be needed by the Federal
Government for meeting the
Russian challenge in space,
in missiles and in their abil-
ity, along with their Chinese
allies, to conduct limited
wars" Is the President sure
that the people will oppose
such expenditures If they
have to pay for them? There
has been no reason to believe
that the Congress, or the
people will resist necessary
expenditures for the security
Of the United States.
Or was the President refer
ring to an unwillingneSs on
the part Of the people to fight
a war? The people quite
naturally want peace - but
not at any price. They have
never in their history failed
to make the sacrifices nee
essary when this country has
become involved In war. The
United States Is committed in
many parts Of the world to
aid in repelling Communist
aggression, or any other
aggression, when made upon
nations Of the free world. It
is committed. too, to act In
its own self-defense against
Communist aggression.
Problem Of Procedure
The question is when and
how Is the Nation to act on
such commitments. Only a
couple Of weeks ago the coun-
try was faced with the Cuban
problem, and whether to GO
all out-with arms If neces-
Sary-to aid the Cuban rebels
against the Communist dom
mated regime of Fidel Castro.
1t does not help matters now
to say that, of course, If we
wanted to, we could have run
over Castro. We didn't. AS
OF today, no plan has been
advanced by the Kennedy ad-
ministration for dealing with
this Communist government,
the first set up in the West
ern Hemisphere, and only 90
miles from our shores. The
Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee has been told
there is no present plan for
any operations against the
Castro government-but that
Evening star., 1961-05-04
Labor and Missiles

If press accounts of cur
rent labor practices and in
flated wage scales at some
Of our missile plants are ac-
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hen-and-egg idea that what
comes first is of no concern
as long as executives do not
have to sit on their hands
waiting for legislative deci-
sions.
Is bold executive action call
ed for, or is not legislative dis
cretion still the better part of
valor? Is it of prior import
ance to us to see to it that
new technologies in global en-
terprises keep pace with our
own crash projects SO that no
part of the world fails to fol-
low our lead; none remains
"under-developed?" Or should
we not rather, while national
ism still prevails largely boil
stored by its most reactionary
phase, Internationally mind
our own business first? Are
we ourselves building for a
future that cannot endure OBJ
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-29
WSSC Awards County Contracts

thesda, $89,472 for water mains
and sewers in Snakeden Branch
and Seven Locks I'd.
r. c. Co., Inc, Beltsville,
$30,951 for sewer construction
in White Flint Park.
Oak Port Construction Co,
College Park, $19,615 for water
mains, sewers and house con.
nections in Randolph Hills.
w. M. Ennis & Son, Centre.
vile, Va, $17,161 for water
mains, sewers and house con-
nections in Meadowwood.
M & L Construction Co., Hy-
attsville, $16,412 for water
mains, sewers and house con-
nections in Kemp Mill Hills.
Marbro Co., Inc, Adelphi,
$1,000 for sewer construction at
the National Institutes Of
Health.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-29

With a national power grid,
for example, subsidized and
unregulated private enter
prise in generating electric
power could be given access
to the system at mileage rates
for transmission to customers
anywhere on the grid, with
only competitive controls to
keep service rates reasonable.
Utility commissions should
thus be eliminated as price
fixerS.
AS for highways, both his
tory and common sense tell us
access to traffic lanes (orig-
inally in harbors for ships)
dictate the concentration of
trade and population and the
zoning Of land. Rallied cities
and towns, built around the
Union Depot, will soon De
even more obsolete than they
are now as airlanes increas-
ingly dominate the scene in
traffic, and Arrears, driven by
electric fuel-cells instead of
combustion engines, threaten
to displace not only the cur.
rently modern" automobile
with its call for extravagantly
expensive h G h w a y S and
bridges setting up bottlenecks
that are so easily blocked by
even small explosive shells,
but also the central gener-
ating stations upon which
rallied traffic depends in
urban mass-transit along with
the highway vulnerable high
tension transmission lines;
witness the New York black
out recently.
The current bankruptcy of
long-distance, ultra-high-speed
the New Haven RR. convinc-
ingiy marks the passing of
commuter rails, but without
implying that freeways can be
made to take their place and
promote indefinite urban
growth in the spiderweb man.
ner. The wave O the future is
suburban but not therefore
one of commuter service UNI
limited. If more people work
III the city, they will have to
live there; and cities are out
NODDED by their vulnerability
under conditions of war.
Airlanes can be Stacked"
like Los Angeles freeways
without ay concrete or steel
construction other than at
ports; and in the future these
can be much smaller and more
widely distributed Ethan such
affairs as the Dulles and
Friendship Airports) even for
travel; result, less stacking
and fewer bottlenecks.
Now Blair Lee is both a city
planner and a candidate for
the u. S. Senate. He should
therefore be able to offer us
more specific prescriptions as
to new thoughts, vision, and
imagination in planning" not
for arbitrary coming, but for
transport and communication
first = except for the still
greater priority Of tax reform
and simplification! The es-
sence of economy lies in prop
er priorities lin doing first
things first; which turns out
to be exactly contrary to the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-29
SENTINEL ON GUARD

to almost anybody else will
ing to pose as an authority
and organize another Parkin-
sonian Bureau regardless Of
palpable conflicts of interest.
Our lawmakers seize upon
any and every possible alibi-
a whipping boy who can be
publicly spanked and fired
with grand eclat each time
the electorate kicks the ras.
Gals out"
So LET Us Begin" all over
again, on a truly New From
tier, starting from scratch on
constitutionality, by noting
here the parallel between the
case of the new law on taxing
land in Montgomery County
to preserve open spaces" and
the case of the federal income
tax. Both were unconstitu-
tional and destructive of the
political laissez faire-of free
institutions-as the founders
of the state and nation saw
the matter. Both have been
made formally constitutional
but not, therefore, wise in the
resulting build-up of rampant
bureaucracy and its ineluc-
table conflicts of interest.
Both of these non.fiscal OBJ
jectives in taxation are, in
deed, incompatible with the
theme of Progress and Pow.
erty, which the Sentinel has
just revived in it's columns.
Since this reprint, on creating
slums by taxing improve
ments, cites Australia as a
shining example of single-tax
benefits, it should be noted
that experience at one time
led them Il do not know the
present status of this law to
outlaw arbitrary assessment
of land values and require
competitive bidding in tax
payments or rent, leaving the
use of land on a laissez faire
basis of free, competitive
choices Invested of coming
controls.
Let me, then, take Darwin
Stolzenbach to task for his
apologies to land-use planners
for laying down transit ia
cilities in advance of coming
decisions. 1t takes hens to
lay eggs; highways beget
zones. Laissez faire princi.
pies are not equivalent to an
archy; but they allow the
state only indirect control
over the development of CAPT
tai values comparatively, in
land and in patents. Common
carriers, like a national high.
way network, a postal service,
a power grid of nationalized
transmission lines, are not in.
compatible with enterprise
that is freed from all inter-
ference with its price struc-
ture or profit margin except
by the competitive effects of
chronological obsolescence.
To be equitable, then, the
use of publicly held common
carriers and land can only be
allocated comparatively, i.e.,
by eliminating the regulative
agencies and enfranchised
monopolies at the same time,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-29
BY Alden Potter

Yul Brynner's appeal for
charity in the re-run of
Rescue" a CBS-TV Report
on refugee camps, conceded
with the Sentiners timely re-
vival July g., in a reprint on
"Why Create Slums?", of
Henry Georges Single Tax
theme. In dealing with pow
erty an ounce of prevention is
surely better than a pound OF
cure. But neither charity as
cure for poverty nor the
Single Tax as a preventive for
slums are panaceas. Neither
is realistic in dealing with the
stern realities of population
pressure. Why? Because their
proponents count too many
chickens C"renewable re-
sources") and too few human
beings (similarly renew
able") b e fore they are
Matched. This results in the
naive optimism of political
and religious d m a ogy
camouflaged as faith in Provi-
dence and in prayer.
Alfred Marshalls classic
principles" in the gloomy
science of economics-all its
values rest on scarcity!-says
that economies Is biological
discipline. This brings 1t with
in the pale of the Darwinian
Theory of Evolution through
a selective, competitive strug-
gle for survival, not of the fit,
but of the fittest. Indeed, 1t
can hardly be denied that the
"pessimism" of scarcity in
value theory has the moral
support, seen by Nautilus, OF
the Christian Gospels: THE
poor always we have with
YOU" Under the blind leader
ship of a naively optimistic
and hypocritical altruism,
poverty can and often does be-
come so catastrophe that the
agonies of peace exceed those
of war. Blind optimism has
created an ineluctable dilem-
ma In which good intentions
have paved the road to bell
and the rigors of reality make
q mockery Of charity.
Against this, Science" Is
promising, but not delivering,
an endless frontier which
even a Topographic explosion
could populate without hard
ship. In fact, both mechanical
and medical science are mixed
blessings. When they devise
means for combating famine
and disease they raise utopian
expectations which translate
morals into q belief in q Devil
who creates poverty by pro-
noting gluttony. Providential
plenty being assured by the
gods Of modern science, only
y dog in this manger Of
abundance could cause pow
erty! Calm endurance and
resignation are so easily trans
lated by deceptive propaganda
into psychotic despair! !
Through Utopia always re-
cedes like a mirage, still "al-
ways" is a naughty word
when linked with scarcity,
even though Christ himself
used it to say that the Earth
can never be turned into a
Garden of Eden.
This scientific optimism
is precisely the pagan ma
terialism-the false doctrine
against which Christ con-
tinually warned his disciples.
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tyrannical truth, sinners cling
to their self-idolatry-to the
dignity and worth of Man"
and the pride that goeth be-
fore a fall. Here, indeed, are
the scientific elite against
whom Paul warned Timothy,
saying: 20 Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy
trust, avoiding profane and
vain babblings, and opposi-
tons of science falsely SO
called"
The Handmaiden of Science,
mathematics in the ancient
Greek manner, was even then
seducing human intelligence
with specious arguments; and
for today, let me cite an opin-
ion from competent authori-
ties that the Handmaiden is
still a meretricious hussy. In
England about ten years ago
the head of the section on
mathematics, E. H. Neville,
addressing the British Associ-
alton for the Advancement of
Science, characterized the his
tory of mathematics as fit
gossip for a school of scam
dali" In the United States DR..
Warren Weaver, then Presi-
dent of the American Associ-
alton, writing in the Christian
Century Gan. 5, 1855 on
rs cienc e and Religion"
pointedly quoted from a
treatise on Logic for Mathe-
maticians': There is dis
turbing possibility that pres
ent-day mathematics is Sc
riously In error"
This note might be extend
ed into a volume of argu-
ments supporting these con-
tentions; but space forbids
and we shall have to assume
their validity so we can turn
attention to the sweeping i'm
plications of the illusions of a
gold standard" which are to-
day determining the mathe-
NAUTICAL thinking behind insti-
buttons of money and credit
throughout civilization" Me-
tallic standards have proved
so illusory as to have pro-
voked attempts to use taxes
and exemptions, not fiscally,
but to accomplish liberal" po-
litical detectives unconstitu-
tionally. The problem of
money was repeatedly en-
countered in Christ's disputes
with the Pharisees, the blind
leaders of the blind in his day,
and is explicitly restated in
that same last chapter of the
First Epistle to Timothy:
"The love of money is the
root of all evil"
Mathematical alterations, in
statistics and prices for ex-
ample, involving the unsolved
issues in initiation and that
great economic riddle" of
capitalism, interest land
usury), are still as deeply in
volved as they were when
Isaac Newton was Director of
the British Mint and headed a
Recoinage Commission which
was supposed to have all the
answers-but had only fulfil
ity. A degree of clarity in the
midst of this still rampant
confusion can be seen in the
circulation, in financial circles
recently, of Oscar Wilde's
quip: "A cynic Is a man who
knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing"
Though commonly used syn.
onymously, price is not value
and money Is not wealth
(though both are included in
"capital'). 1t is not the love
of wealth that is the root of
all evil.
Defying all efforts at clari-
fication, mathematical quack-
cry is taking over the whole
field Of knowledge in the
guise of "the scientific meth
3D." making research entirely
a matter of measurment. Ig-
noring Anthony Standen's
Science Is a Sacred Cow!"
probability theory and statis-
tics have become a system of
| juggling averages to conjure
-.
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Pros and Cons . :.
Continued From Page u

Continued From Page u
York Times, the Sentinel,
scholastic magazines and Wash.
ington newspapers.
The spirited debate, moder-
ated by Karen Lubarr, 9202
Chanute dr., Bethesda, was de-
clared a draw-but observers
and the students themselves
agreed the countrywide debate
ahead win have to end more de-
cisively.
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solescence? Can our culture
never become under-develop-
ed, with no place-in-the-sun;
nor any on Mars or Venus
either? Is not our mathemat-
les eft gossip for a school of
scandal?" Is not the split in
the Caucasian race the result
of this intellectual scandal?
Whom the gods would de-
stroy they first make mad!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-29

Six contracts, totaling $685.
1913 for construction of water
mains, sewers and house con-
nections were awarded by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission in Montgomery
County.
They went to:
Taylor Construction Co., Be-
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