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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Old and New Germany

The recent letter you pub
lished suggesting a ban on
TV showings of old films
that reveal Nazi activities in
an unsympathetic light, was
a staggering shock. Its bold
advocacy of forbidding
truth, had an early Hitler
flavor.
1t is much too soon to
WhitewaSh the NaZis. If there
were no movies of Nazi
frightfulness there would still
be among us many who re-
member their children and
parents were blown to bits
by German bombs. That the
same German missile special
lists are now employed in this
country is for many of us a
bitter cup Of tea.
That Germany should be
called our ally fills me with
misgivingS. Germany is CIV
en- to attacking it's allies. Did
it not have a nonaggression
pact with the Soviet while it
invaded Russia along a thou
sand mile front?
While your correspondent
is trying to suppress the old
documentaries perhaps she
should root for a regulation
fascist book-burning as well.
A. w. Reynolds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Offers to Swap Bureaucracy for Good Old Days

What a nostalgia picture
your editorial writer brought
up with his comment on the
Federal Trade Commissions
breakdown" on the bubble
gum manufacturer who gives
away baseball players pic
lures with his wares and his
reminder of similar pictures
with cigarettes 50-odd years
ago.
There was that little boy
in knickers with one leg al
ways down because the metal
buckle at the knee chewed
the cloth so that it wouldn't
hold. The other leg did hold
and became a baggy reposi-
tory for marbles (clays and
glass and aggies), tops Gre
member the one with the
sharpened knurl to knock
other tops from the ring and
sometimes split themD, wads
of string, shiny brass rings,
two horseshoe nails papa
was going to make you a
ring out Of one of them, a
pocket knife, and, prize of
prizes, a bullying deck of pic
lures of baseball players. AS
The Stars editorialist men
toned. you didn't buy the
cigarettes with which these
cards came CPiedmontS, 1
think they were), but your
men friends saved them for
you and you out-traded other
boys: III swap you Honus
Wagner for Tinker, and Ty
Cobb for Evers and Chance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
More Than a MYTH

1t takes more than one successful
rally to prove, or for that matter to dis
prove, the fact of conservative revolt
on the campus" Even so, the show put
on in Madison Square Garden by the
Young Americans for Freedom deserves
more than passing notice.
At this affair, some $4,000 "young
Americans" paid more than $4,000 for
the privilege of listening to Senator
Barry Goldwater and other conservative
speakers. In comparison, a liberal
"counter-rally" in. st. Nicholas Arena,
designed to destroy the myth" of con-
servatiSm on the campus, was flop. Ad-
mission was free. But only about $500
young liberals moved into the filled
hall to hear Senator Hubert Humphrey
proclaim that "the problem in America
Is not empty seats, but empty heads"
Senator Goldwater told his audience
the astounding" truth is that "con-
servatiSm has gained foothold and Is
growing rapidly in the metropolitan
areas of the Nation" There is some
evidence, in addition to the Madison
Square Garden rally, to support this If
one is to judge from the speeches and
the slogans which made the biggest hit
at the YAF rally, however, this young
conservative movement is not unlike the
man who was in too big hurry to know
or care where he was going.
For example, Senator Goldwater
brought down the house with aereState-
ment of his favorite theme-that the
United States must have "a policy of
victory" over communism everywhere in
the world. This may be useful ammuni-
ton for stump speech. It sounds good
and it whips up the crowd. But it really
is phrase, not policy, and we do not
think it will serve as a foundation on
which conservatism can expand its foot
hold and continue to grow. For at some
point it will become necessary to spell
out what is meant by this policy of VIC
tory" and the probable consequences
may not be at all attractive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Orderly Research

The Board of Management
Of the Federation of Home
makers salutes your paper for
its excellent and timely edi-
torial, Orderly Research"
Naturally taxpayers would not
wish to impede medical re-
search which may improve
treatment of devastating dis
eases and knowledge of the
causes of such ills and their
prevention. But certainly the
record of reckless generosity
on the part of recent Con-
crosses in granting appropri-
ations for the National In
stituteS of Health Gar in ex-
cess of budget requests and
of the ability of NTH to use
same) should be curbed. At
the same time, Congress has
been very frugal with appro-
priations for the Food and
Drug Administration - the
consumers agency. This
practice seems inconsistent.
Since 1854 Congress has
been constantly adding to the
duties Of FDA through new
legislation. However, in
creases in FDA's budget have
not permitted it to efficiently
carry out such expanded re-
SponSibilitieS. For example,
eight years after passage Of
the Miller Pesticide Act of
1854, FDA is able to check
less than l per cent Of all in
terstate shipments of produce
for excess residues of danger
GUS pesticides due to lack of
funds, personnel and equip
ment. Yet only last summer
Congress dealt this con-
sumner agency punitive budg-
ct slash thereby eliminating
80 proposed new jobs in food
additive control. Later, HEW
Secretary Ribicoff, in an
economy move, pared $1.2
million from FDA's insuffi-
Gent budget. This meant new
personnel for checking on
peSticide residues were not
hired.
1t seems to us that Con-
greSS is putting the cart be-
fore the horse" when it ig-
nores the urgent financial
needs of FDA but bestows
excess and unrequested mil
lions on NH. Perhaps tax
money spent for increased
and more frequent inspection
of our food supplies might
result In prevention of Ger
tain illness.
Ruth G. Desmond,
Secretary, Federation Of
HomemakerS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

A letter from "Publius"
(Star, March 2, 1862 states
some erroneous definitions
which he credits to the Bu-
reau of the Census.
Urban places, as the Gen.
suS Bureau defines them, are
places of $500 or more pop
ulation. This definition has
been in use since the 18th
Decennial Census $4,000.
"Publius" is incorrect, there
fore, in stating that the base
was changed from 1000 to
$500 only as recently as 1850.
AS for New England towns,
only those whose density Of
population is definitely of ur-
ban character are included in
the urban category.
"Publius" also states that
the Census Bureau now in
cludes some vague suburban
and surrounding areas" as
urban population. These are
the closely built-up areas ad-
joining central cities of 50,-
600 or more population. For
example, Silver Spring, Wheat,
on, Alexandria, Arlington
County and parts Of Prince
Georges County, adjoining
the District of Columbia, are
included in the Washington,
D. c., urbanized area. Far
from being vaguely defined,
maps showing the exact
boundaries of the urbanized
areas are published in the
individual State reports of
both the 1850 and 1860 CEN
suSeS. Reports Of the cen
Suses from 1910 to 1910 pre-
sent statistics, in a similar
way, for metropolitan dis
tricts. The urbanized areas
are refinements of the process
for determining the boun-
diaries of the earlier metro
politan districts.
Silver Spring and Wheaton
also serve as good examples
OF unincorporated places that
are defined as urban by the
Census Bureau. Certainly,
"Publius" would agree that
their population could not be
classified as rural.
A. w. Won Strive.
Public information
officer,
Bureau of the Census.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
The Worst Is Yet to Come

The Supreme Court has given due
consideration to the plight of home
owners whose nerves are shattered and
whose properties are deprecated by the
noise of aircraft taking off or landing
at airports. These unfortunate victims
OF aviation progreSS-Some of whom are
to be found in this area-deserve to be
recompensed for the damages done
them by the laundering jets and turbo-
jets. But who is to pay for the broken
windows, cracked plaster and other
damages caused by the sonic booms of
such faSter-than-Sound aircraft as the
Air Forces new record breaking B-58
bomber?
In the case of homes near Penn
Sylvania civilian airport, the high court
by To decision has ruled that owners
of the airport are liable for the damages,
thereby relieving the Federal Govern
ment as we'll as airline owners and
operators Of financial responsibility.
This ruling undoubtedly will have far
reaching repercussionS, with the filing
OF many claims that could have serious
effects on airport management and the
airline industry. However, there can be
no denying the business of the courts
ruling that property owners are entitled
to reasonable protection against aircraft
noise.
Would 1t be less just to hold that
persons whose homes or business places
happen to lie beneath the flight path of
a jet plane trailing an almost continuous
sonic boom should have some sort of
protection or recompenSe for damages?
Take the amazing round-trip transcon-
tinental flight of the B-58, for example.
That sleek and powerful bomber
streaked from Los Angeles to New York
City and back in hours, AZ minutes and
81 mountaineering twice the speed
of sound. AS 1t passed over the country
side its sonic boom shocked and rocked
nearly everything in a 40-mile-wide
SWath, except at times when it reached
an altitude of $4,000 feet. That it flew
lower than that for long stretches is
indicated by reports of smashed win
doWs, crockery and ceilings that have
come in from California, Missouri, New
York and elsewhere.
The Air Force had characterized the
coaSt-to-coast sonic blast as "the sound
of freedom" and has suggested that the
public must learn to live with it," 1t is
reassuring, of course, to know that we
have such fast and formidable bombers
in the skies, ready for an emergency
But it is not easy to learn to live with
noises that wreck nerves and property
And If, as is likely, the worst is yet to
come in the Jet era ahead, no time
should be lost in devising some means
of relief for the threatened public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Loyal to PHS

I, for one, feel proud and
fortunate to have been an
employe Of the Public Health
Service for more than 16
years.
No agency Of Government
has a better record for Civ
ing its employees every possible
chance to prove themselves
and to advance when the
opportunities arise. Such a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

it was not good that the
people were so dull-witted
that they could not foresee
three disastrous wars in the
following 40 years.
1t was good, very good in
deed, that a cigarette manu-
facturer could use intelli-
gence, with complete homes
ty, in merchandising and not
be spanked" by Washing
ton bureaucrats on the spe-
ciouS ground that he was
taking unfair advantage of
other cigarette m kerS
whether or not he signed
tight contracts with the sub
jects of his give-away cards..
Other makers could use their
own intelligence to attract
business, and they did!
Too bad your editorial
writer pulled his punches. He
should have added that, if
the ETC is going to adopt a
policy of denying to a COM
pany the benefits deriving
from its bold progressiveness
and ingenuity, we might as
we'll close up shop and go
home.
Verify, the ETC has spoken!
How soon can we expect
official Washington to take
away from the people all
benefits from other original
thinking, enterprise, and in
dustriousnesS such as now
accrue under patent, trade
mark, and copyright laws
and traditions!
Fred d. McHugh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Lyons Memorial Fund

Friends and colleagues of
the late DR.. John H. Lyons
are establishing the John H.
Lyons Memorial Fund at the
Washington Hospital Center.
This fund will be admins
tered by the Board of Trus-
tees of the Center. 1t will
be used to assist needy pa
tients including nurses, and
to aid in the education of
the house staff and nurses
at the Center and at any
other institutions in which
DR.. Lyons was interested.
These detectives were near
to the heart of this noted
Washington physician who
died last month.
Those wishing to honor DR..
Lyons memory are asked to
draw their checks to the
Washington Hospital Center
indicating that the contribu-
ton is for the john H. Lyons
Memorial Fund, and mail to
the Administrator, Washing
ton Hospital Center, Wash
ington 10, D. C.
The committee for the fund
includes Mrs. Edward w. Fay,
DR.: Daniel B. Moffett, DR..
Worth B. Daniels, DR.. Cren-
shaw D. Briggs, DR.. Thomas
w. Mattingly, DR.. Harold H.
Hawfield and Samuel H.
Kaufman.
George A. Hyde.
Director of Public Rela-
tions, Washington
Hospital Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Camera in Balloon to Shoot Sun
By THOMAS R. HENRY

direct the telescope until the
pointing is correct.
photographs of the solar
surface taken from balloons
had a higher definition than
had ever before been OBJ
tanned. Three main features
were observed. The granules
come in widely assorted sizes.
Many are only about $50
miles in diameter, as ex-
pected, but some are as large
as 1000 miles. The granules
were found to change more
slowly than was thought.
They last on an average Of
eight minutes, which is twice
as long as old photographs
from the ground seemed to
indicate.
Perhaps the most inter-
esting result is connected
with the filaments surround
ing dark sunspots. These
turn out to be extremely
thin and to live much longer
than the average of the
granuleS. Very high magnetic
fields are associated with the
sunspots."
To Extend Program
Spurred by the earlier sue
ceSses, the three cooperating
organizations are proposing
greatly to extend the pro-
gram with rejecting tele-
scope whose ability to see de-
tails will be at least three
times better than has been
possible to obtain in the past.
The program, largely in the
hands of the Office of Ma
val Research, now is in pre-
liminary planning stages.
New objectives set by the
astronomers are, according to
a Navy report:
Analysis of the divisions
in the rings of Saturn, to
throw more light on the Or
bits of the billions of particles
that make up these rings.
Studies of sudden atmos-
pheric changes that take
place on Jupiter, which may
help to explain Jupiter's myS-
ferrous red spot"
Possibility of getting mans
first look at the surface of
cloud shrouded Venus
through brief holes in the
cloud cover, If such holes
exist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry 1UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used will be
returned only 1Dhen accom-
panied by self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
THE POLITICAL MILL
Massachusetts Political Middle
By GOULD LINCOLN

The political leaders, in
Guiding those in the legisla-
ture, the Governor and other
State officers, have been
marking time since the pro-
spect of favorable congress
sional action for Is Con-
greSsmen for the State ap-
peared in sight. Now that
it has become almost certain
that such a measure will not
be revived, these leaders must
fish or cut bait. There are,
it is said, some politicians in
the State who would relish a
Statewide congressional cleo
ton, believing that they
might have a chance of get
ting themselves elected to the
House. For if the races are
to be Statewide, any one
who wants to run can file
from any city or rural COM
munity.
A RumOr Arises
When it appeared likely
the State might have to give
up only one congressional
district, the rumor grew and
grew that the 10th District,
represented for the last 10
years by Congressman Law
renee Curtis, a Republican,
would be carved up so as to
place in Speaker McCormack's
district 7 wards in the city
of Boston, in Representative
Joe Martins district the city
of Newton, and in Repre-
sentative Thomas P. ONeill's
district, Brookline.
Mr.. Curtis is an announced
candidate for the Republican
senatorial nomination. But
if Mr.. Curtis should not win
the approval of the Republic
can pre-primary convention
in June, he could still seek
reelection to the House,
whether the races are to be
at-large or by districts, or he
could fight it out with other
candidates for the senatorial
primary election in Septem-
Der. Mr.. Curtis was once
State treasurer, when he was
elected at-large. In 1860 he
won reelection to the House
in the 10th District by 49,
900 votes. One of his oppo-
nentS for the senatorial nom
nation is George Lodge, son
of former Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge.
On the Democratic side,
there looms a probable fight
for the senatorial nomination
between Attorney General
Edward Mccormack, a neph-
eW of the Speaker, who has
already announced his can
didacy, and Edward Kennedy,
youngest brother of President
Kennedy, who is expected to
declare himself a candidate
at an early date. If they go
to the mat, the intra-party
fight might have reprecuS-
SionS which would affect the
whole political struggle for
Governor and Congressman.
There still persist rumors
that, despite his announce
ment, Mr.. Mccormack may
leave the field to the PreSi-
dents brother and accept a
Federal appointment. It's not
the way of an Irishman, how
ever, to retreat from a fight.
What the legislature and
Gov. Volpe will do about
congressional reapportion-
ment legislation remains an
important question. Some po-
litical leaders are guessing
they will come to a compro-
mise and others predict there
will be no compromise and
that the States congressional
delegation will be elected at
large. One thing seems sure,
there will be great pres
sure for a compromise re-
districting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

with the fact it must do it's
homework - it must rediS-
trict to meet the requirements
of the 1860 census, as the
other States which either lose
or gain seats in the national
House of Representatives al
ready have done. Democratic
politicians had hoped that a
bill proposing to add three
members - one from Massa-
chusetts, one from Missouri,
and one from Pennsylvania
would get through Con-
gress. The House, however,
recommitted the measure,
after Speaker John McCor-
mack, of Massachusetts,, fin
ally turned against it. Re-
publican leaders in the Con-
gress as well as Democratic
have expressed belief the
measure is now dead. And
from a national interest point
of view, it is a good thing.
The membership of the
House of Representatives is
435, the number fixed many
years ago and firmly adhered
to, Notwithstanding bitter
fights after each decennial
census to add to the men,
bership in order to save this
or that State from losing
seats. To have added the
three seats now would have
set a precedent for other ad-
ditions in the future - and
the House might become I'M
wieldy to a greater extent
than it is today.
The political picture in
Massachusetts, this year, al
ready greatly involved in
both the Democratic and Re
publican camps because of
the plethora of candidates for
senatorial nominations for
the seat formerly occupied
by President Kennedy, has
become even more clouded.
Unless the State Legislature,
now in session and controlled
by the Democrats, puts
through a rediStricting bill
and it is signed by Republi-
can Gov. John A. Volpe, all
congressman in Massachusetts
will be elected at-large, which
means not by district sec
lions but in a Statewide
election. The number of Con-
gressmen will be reduced
from IA to IL, because of
the distribution of popula-
ton as shown by the 1860
census, and the act of Con-
gresS which provides for au-
tomato reshuffling of the
number of Representatives
allotted the States.
At-Large Contests Risky
Running at-large has a
terrifying sound to Congress-
men who have made friends
and political alliances in
their own particular districts.
And running at-large in a
State like Massachusetts, can
be a risky thing for both
Democrats and Republicans.
A Republican sweep or a
Democratic sweep might have
disastrous effects for men,
bers of the House who have
given many years service to
their constituents and to
their country. Speaker Nc
Cormack and former Speaker
Joe Martin, one a Democrat
and the other a Republican,
would have to fight for their
political lives in a Statewide
contest. Massachusetts, Vot-
ers-many of them registered
independent" - are unpre-
dictable. For example, in
1860 they reelected Republi-
can Senator Saltonstall,
elected a Republican Cover
nor, and at the same time
cast their votes for President
Kennedy in a big way over
his Republican opponent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

policy becomes an agency de-
voted to humanitarian causes.
1t is distressing to me to
see the reputation Of the
Public Health Service chal-
lenged by a few malcontents
and persons with axes to
grind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

With self directing tele-
scopes mounted on balloons
Is miles in the sky, plans are
under way to photograph the
face of the sun and other
celestial objects with a wealth
of detail never before OBJ
tainable.
This is expected to result
from a joint project of the
Office Of Naval Research, Ma
tional Science Foundation
and Princeton University.
Outstanding is the prob
lem of solar granules seen
as bright Specks densely
spread over the suns surface.
They have been studied for
many years but with unSat-
iSfactory results because pho
tographS taken from tn e
ground have been somewhat
fuzzy and fine details are
blurred.
These granules, according
to a report Of DR.. John D.
r. Bahgn, Princeton astron-
omer, just published by the
Office of Naval Research, are
thought to be rising cur
rents of turbulent gas that
play an important part in
the transport of heat from
the hot solar interior out
ward into space. But they
are so minute they are diff
ficult to observe. They have
diameters of only about $50
miles. Granules of this size
would be too small to be
photographed over a distance
of 80 million miles by any
ordinary techniques.
How Telescope Works
Some success has been at
tanned, however, with previ-
GUS balloon-mounted tele-
scopes, and with cameras that
take a picture a second over
a period of two hours. The
telescope is self directing.
Says DR.. Bahgn's report:
pairs of photo cells are so
arranged that the telescope
points to the center of the
sun when both cells of a pair
see the same amount of light.
If the telescope is not
pointing correctly, one eye
receives more light than the
other and this information
activates motors which re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Defining Urban Areas

Rubye Mullins.
The Detroit tribune., 1962-01-27

politicians that most Of Americas economic troubles
be blamed Washington msddIins and mevnsIng tax
burdens Here IN New York. however. nothing has been
learned since 1897
Nothing has been learned Of the simplest economic
truths Of the vertes. His Honor Mayor Wagner,
whom the Republicans apfy describe as BvmbIing Bob,
has clearly demonstrated his nsivete during he recent
days Of his campaign for re-elsefion.
FIRST, NE HOWLep ABOUT RENT INCREASE UN-
DER RENT CONTROL. NEXT. HE DECLARED WAR ON
"PRoFiTeERINc" IN MILK UNDOUBTEDLY WILL WIN
HIM SOME VOTES AMONG THE MORE MENTALLY RE-
TARDED CITIZENS. But SURELY he HAD ALL or THEM
IN THE BAG ALREADY.