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, 1962-11-15

MR.. MADURO: You have a different situation here
Senator Gomez. You have an entirely different situation
there. In ST. John | wish you were there yesterday. In
the first place, here you have a paved road; up there you
have a dirt road, up all the way past that bandstand /
telling you about. In the second place, the mud
comes down from the hill and comes right down the
road. A group of men can't clean that up easily. They
would have to be continuously cleaning this muck off of
the street. All you have to do is put up a retaining wall
to prevent all of that stuff from coming down. Mr.. Chair
Continued on page ~
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Oberdick-
VonLondinghom

Comdr. Emmett L. Van
Landingham, USN. and Mrs.
VanLandingham of Bethes-
da, Md. announce the mar
riage Of their daughter
Sandra Lee to Mr.. James
Allen Oberdick, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Goeffrey Oberdick
of Chevy Chase. The wedding
took place August 26 at the
Navy Chapel. The couple will
live in EaSton, Pa,
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Melen-Butt

Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Butt
of Takoma Park announce
the marriage Of their daugh-
ter Ina Sara to Mr.. Ralph
Burton Melen. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan Melen Of
Swampscott,> Mass. The we'd
ding took place September
2 at the Kenmore Hotel, Bos-
ton, Mass. The couple will
live in Waltham, Mass.
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Mosher-Robinson

Mr.. and Mrs. David K.
Robinson of Chevy Chase
announce the marriage of
their d daughter Joyce
Kathryn to Mr.. Henry Lewis
Mosher, son of Mrs. Eleanor
MoSher of Lisbon Falls. Me.
and Mr.. Wendall E. Mosher
of North Jay, Me. The we'd
ding took place September l
in the Chevy Chase Metho-
dist Church. The couple will
live in Waterbury, Conn.
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WEDDINGS

daughter Ellen to Mr.. David
Lee Graham, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William c. Graham of
New York City. The wedding
took place September / at
the Resurrection Lutheran
Church, Arlington. TIL e
couple will live in Ithaca,
NY
Evening star., 1962-09-11
keIIoher-Lorio

Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Loria Of
Landover Hills, Md, announce
the marriage Of their daugh-
ter Helen to Mr.. Francis j.
Kellaher, son of Mrs. William
]. Kellaher. ST., of BeltSville,
Nd, and the late Mr.. Kella-
her. The wedding took place
August IS at st. Mary's Cath
olic Church, Landover Hills.
The couple will live in Green
belt, Md.
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WiIey-Anderson

Mai. Gen. Charles H. An
derson, Commander of Lowry
Air Force Base. Colo, an
nounces the marriage of his
daughter Patricia to Mr.. Will
liam Donald Wiley, son of
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Of the late Mrs. Mary Kath-
ryn Anderson. The wedding
took place August Is at the
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Krouss-Epste

Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew M.
Epstein announce the mar
riage Of their daughter Ros-
alind to Mr.. Richard 1.
Krauss, son of the late DR..
and Mrs. Lester William
Krauss of Shaker Heights,
Ohio. The wedding took place
here Saturday. The couple
will live in Boston, Mass.
Evening star., 1962-09-11

Mr.. and Mrs. George Earl
Wiley of Littleton, Colo. Miss
Anderson is also the daughter
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main chapel Of the Afr
Force Base. The couple viii
live in Denver, Colo.
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Gruhom-WoIker

DR.. and Mrs. Robert N.
Walker of Arlington, Va. an
nounce the marriage of their
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Travelling With Grondpop

General Eisenhower, once the SUI
preme commander of the greatest mil
itary invasion force ever modified, re-
marked as he returned to Normandy
the other day that he was on a every
sentimental journey" This must in
deed have been so for the man who led
the fighting men Of so many nations
to "a famous victory"
But General Eisenhower said some
thing else as he stepped ashore from
the Cunard Line ship Queen Elizabeth
at Cherbourg. Travelling with Mrs. Eli
senhower and their grandchildren,
Dwight David Eisenhower, End, IA, and
Barbara Anne Eisenhower, Is, the
former President told reporters. I'm
making this trip as a grandfather and
for holiday"
1t is not difficult to recapture ones
childhood-in the mind and the men,
DRY, that is. And so it is also not diff
ficult to imagine the pride and delight
and interest of pair of teen-agers in
having "grandpop" show them where
a big war was fought, where he sent
his generals and his GIs to battle and
to triumph. There is reason for General
Eisenhower to feel sentimental, and no
doubt bit sadly so, about the fields of
Normandy. But we suspect that in
later years he will remember Senti-
mentally, and we hope more happily,
his return visit there with Mamie and
Dwight and Barbara,
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Fortunes of War

When is a war criminal
not a war criminal? The
answer: When he's on the
winning side.
A recent news dispatch told
the story of the execution by
firing squad of Roger De-
gueldre, formerly an officer
in the French Foreign
Legion. He was found guilty
of completely in 20 killings
as a soldier in the Secret
Army Organization in Al
geria. The Secret Army was
eventually routed, and now
the terrorists and aSsaSsins
of the FIN are the respected
leaders of a sovereign and no
doubt neutralist nation. No
one will now come forward to
accuse Ben Khedda or Ben
Bella of implication in muir
der, though they were direc-
tors of the terror.
History proves that there
is no substitute for strength
and victory, and the issue OF
morality is raised only to
losers. The Communists are
safe so long as the West con-
tinueS its weak policies of ne
gotiation and pacifiSrn.
Ronald II. Harner.
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Farewell in Moscow

In the minds Of some people, it is
unpatriotic If not downright diSloyal to
suggest that Mr.. Khrushchev's bark may
be worse than his bite. These people
think that the only safe and, indeed,
the only sane course is to assume that
nothing changes, that the Soviet leader
is our implacable and deadly foe, and
that he will remain so until he departs
this earthly scene.
It was with this in mind that we read
with considerable interest the report of
the farewell party given by Mr.. Khru-
Shchev for our Ambassador Thompson
and his wife, who have left Moscow after
very creditable tour of duty in the
Russian capital. 1t wasn't a long story
and it was placed back in the paper.
But 1t may be more significant than the
big headlines which Mr.. Khrushchev
attracts when he is in one of his missile
rafting moods.
The farewell party for the Thomp-
sons was given at the Khrushchev coun-
try house, something that has never been
done before. 1t was sumptuous, eight
course luncheon affair which lasted
some five hours perhaps on the model
OF the Shindigs at Hickory Hill. Mr..
KhruShchev told Ambassador Thomp-
son: go home and tell President Ken
nedy what said" wish we knew!)
And Ambassador Thompson told the
reporters: 1--WE have very free and
easy relationship. He scolds me and 1
Scold him."
From all this, we find it difficult to
picture Mr.. KhruShchev as a man in
exorably bent upon blowing up the
world, Russia included, If. this is neces-
'Sary for him to have his way. 1t sounds,
rather, as though he is a man who has
some understanding of the live-and-let-
live philosophy. If this be treason, to
borrow from Patrick Henry, we hope
that our critics will not hang us at high
noon on the morrow.
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May Be-?

The generally reliable Associated
Press reports that "the way may be
clearing for eventual United States rec
ignition of Peru's military govern
ment." Surely this must be in error.
May be? Eventual? This is nom
sense. The blunder which our gov
eminent committed in hastily suspend
ing recognition and stopping Alliance
for Progress aid to Peru must be cor
rected. And 1t should be corrected, not
eventually, but now. The longer we
delay the harder it will become to do
what has to be done.
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100 Years AGO

Our Civil War attracted a
small army of journalists
from abroad, who, with their
American colleagues covering
the action, became known as
the Bohemian Brigade. While
for the most part, the war
was reported effectively by
the foreign press, there were
many clashes among edito-
rial writer's who viewed the
conflict from the far side of
the Atlantic. The British
press devoted considerable
space to Americas family
fight, with accounts of the
various papers often being
favored with sentiment for
the Union or the Confed-
eracy. The Star of July 80,
1862, revealed that the Lon
don Times and the London
Spectator were dueling
among themselves over the
why and wherefores of the
War Between the States. The
Times of July 9, 1862, had
characterized Americans as
degenerate and insensate
people isolating them
selves only in order that they
may indulge in their own
fierce vices uncontrolled. :"
The Times concluded: But
the war can end only in one
way. Why not accept the
facts, and let the South be-
gomez" This could not be, re-
piled the Spectator, simply
because Americans are only
Englishmen in their shirt
sleeves and while a hope re-
mains they cannot give way.
Pluck and tenacity, however
unreasonable, are not exact
ly signs of degeneracy. We
fought for years to keep col
onies which the greatest men
among us declared all the
while we should be unable
to conquer; and though we
recognize the folly of our
persistence. it has not injured
our national character.
Let us look at the facts. No
sooner had the war COM
menced, than the Northern
people, supposed to be the
ones which of all others pre-
ferred material objects, laid
aside every pursuit and
staked their lives, their for
tunes and their future on a
war for an idea that idea
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Toward Dyno-Soor

President Kennedy has bestowed
well-earned honor-the annual Col
lier Trophy, aviation's highest non
! governmental award-on the chief pilots
engaged in the remarkable research
program being carried out far above
the earth with the fabulous Kills rocket
powered plane, whose launching plat
form is the B-52 bomber
The recipients of this honor (they
have also won the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal of the National Aeronautics
and Space ADMINISTRATOR include Air
Force Major Robert NJ White, who has
just flown the X-15, at a speed close
to 1000 miles an hour, to an altitude
of nearly SO mileS-which breaks all
world records for winged flight. And
another of the men given the award is
"Joe" Walker, who set similar record
(now eclipSed by Major White's) just
a couple of months ago. "Joe," Incl
dentally, like everybody else connected
with the Kills project, is anything but
happy go-lucky fly-boy. Actually, he
is physicist with doctoral degree.
What is it that these highly edu-
Gated and courageous Americans have
been doing with the Kills? The answer,
put in somewhat oversimplified terms, is
that they have been making a major
contribution to our country'S efforts to
gather as much knowledge as possible
about such problems as those inherent
in hyper-sonic speed, extreme altitude
and re-entry into the earth's atmos-
phere. Major White has flown higher
than any of his colleagues in this prof.
ect, but his record breaking flight will
be surpassed in the relatively near fu-
ture by one of those colleagues, if not
I by himself. The Kills program, in short,
is still in the developmental stage, and
it promises to result in a dramatic
breakthrough in space.
This breakthrough, as expected,
will lead to manned flight with winged
vehicle-Quite unlike the Mercury cap
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Power GROUPS

The labor unions and the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, in the past 80 years, have
become the two greatest po-
litical powers in the United
States, and they do throw
their weight around. They
are never satisfied and their
demands are for more, al
ways more.
If the Kennedy brothers,
the President and the Attor-
ney General, continue coddl-
ing the labor lords and the
NAACP cars, as they have
in the past, we so-called free
Americans in a few years will
have to join a labor union
and the NAACP before we
will be permitted to work
or enjoy equal opportunities
and civil rights, under the
strict rule, which the Ken
nedy brothers have gracious
ly authorized the unionists
and the NAACP to lay down
for their subjects to follow.
Nish Showers.
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suIe and much more efficient and ma
recoverable that will enable pilot like
Major White to go into orbit and return
to earth under power controlled and
Unanswered by himself for a landing
similar to that Of an ordinary airplane.
Our country is already well advanced
toward this goal with the Air Forces
Dyna-Soar, craft now past the design
stage and moving toward actual con-
Struction.
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Souso Memorial

Recently I introduced leg
iSlation to provide a living
memorial to John Philip
Sousa on the Mall near the
National Gallery of Art and
the United States Capitol
Building.
1t was my thought that
such a living memorial should
take the form Of music, the
alter, and other cultural facil-
tiles for summer cultural
programs. This would include,
naturally, a concert shell
where band concerts could be
presented by the Army, Navy.
Marine Corps, and Air Force
Bands. What finer tribute
could be developed for Amer
ica's great march king than
such a living memorial here
in the Nations Capital where
he made his home for so
many years?
Last year, as reported in
The Star, I did everything I
could to save the home of
John Philip Sousa at 318
independence avenue Sc,
where he lived for nearly
20 Of his most productive
years. This effort was de-
feated. Perhaps it was
doomed to failure from the
beginning. Our country seems
to be a long way from pre-
serving the homes of our
great artists as is done in
Europe.
My legislation to provide
this Sousa memorial stated
that it should be located in
the area bounded by Seventh
and First streets Southwest,
Constitution avenue and In
dependence avenue.
Contrary to some reports
such a living memorial to
John Philip Sousa would not
result in abandonment of the
Watergate Barge or even Of
one of the several clay ten
mis- courts on the Mall.
Carroll ID. Kearns
Member of Congress
from Pennsylvania
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New CoIumnist

I write in reply to Jenkin
Lloyd Jones column on
world government. AS an
analogy, consider Jones as
a writer shortly after the
Revolutionary War. He would
see a weak and ineffective
central government under
the Articles of Confederation,
continual squabbling among
the States, and the great
difficulties over apportion-
ment facing the Constitution
al Convention. Then he would
probably tell his readers that
either the States would re-
main separate or a stronger
one would conquer and rule
the weaker ones.
But, as we know today, the
above problems were solved;
the United States is the re-
suit of their solution. I feel
that the very similar prob
lens facing the establishment
of a world government can
also be solved.
Steven Teeter.
My husband and I are de-
lighted to see that Jenkin
Lloyd Jones is from now on to
be one of your columnistS.
We are quite familiar with
his writings and find him a
clear : thinking, hard hitting
American who will be a dis
tinct asset to your paper.
His very first column Is elo-
quent evidence of this.
Possibly, someone in au-
thority at The Star heard his
famous and excellent speech,
Who Is Tampering With the
Soul Of American" If this
helped influence your de-
cision, even heartier congrat-
ulations are in order.
Hope Steven,
LeeSburg, Va.
y y
Congratulations on your de-
cision to add Jenkin Lloyd
Jones column as a regular
feature. Even once a week
is better than not at all.
John r. MOreau.
\ \ + +
If there were more "unSelf-
ish female reformers" re-
ferred to by Jenkin Lloyd
Jones in his column of July
%, plugging world govern
ment," and fewer clever male
column1StS writing with evil
cynicism, it might be less
difficult to arrive at some
meeting of minds on the in
ternational scene. This same
talent for ridicule against
policy-makers who continue
to pursue 10Th century meth
DDS in this Goth century atom
ic era, rather than against
"the twittering lady from
New England" would offer
the kind of constructive writ
ing that one likes to expect
from responsible journalists.
The well-turned phrase is
admirable; the well thought
out idea even more so.
Janet N. Neuman.
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being the one which in Eng
land we call patriotism.
Supposed to be guided wholly
by impulse, they answered
the frightful disaster of Bull
Run by creating a new army
and raising loans on a scale
of more than European pro-
fusion. Without organi-
cation and almost without a
government, with no ade-
quate revenue and with half
their own strength in open
insurrection against them,
they have fought on steadily
for IA months, and in the
very thick of the contest
have created a navy, and or
ganized an army such as
raises the Union to the rank
of a first-class power. And,
be it remembered in their
praise, they have so fought
without the excitement of
success, have sustained de-
feats innumerable, have been
compelled to cast aside
statesman after statesman,
to see general after general
condemned as ignorant, dis
honest or wanting in fidelity
to the cause. They have done
all this without revolutionary
measures, without upsetting
the authority of the States,
without interfering, save for
three months, with the rou-
tine of daily life. There
are enough causes of sadness
in this American war with
out charges of degeneracy ad-
dressed to the only race who,
save ourselves, stands up for
the right of political free
dom. 1t is melancholy that
the progress of the world
should be stopped by the
wretched fear of democracy
produced by the conflict;
melancholy that eight mil
lions of human beings should
be encountering death to re-
tain the slaves whom the 20
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

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letters carry wrtterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used will be
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panied By self addressed,
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enough to be dynamic. They
have some faith-enough to
make them recoil from the
grosser forms of sin but not
enough to make them spirit
ual crusaders.
1t was the realization Of
how much goodness is stored,
instead of being poured, that
led Maltbie Babcock to pen
the verse in his hymn with
the ringing exhortation:
Be strong! Say not the days
are eDiI-tDho'S to blame?
And fold the hands and
GcQuieSce-O shame!
Stand up, speak out, and
brdUely, in Gods name,
Be strong, be strong!
That good minister, when,
he wrote those lines, had in
his heart the thrill of the
early church in which there
was an oppressive sense of a
desperate conflict, a fight to-
the death with malignant
and powerful evil. The
church of the New Testament
never thought Of itself as
being in a rest camp; it was
obviously on a battle-line. An
inspiring religious leader Of
our day. thinking of unused
goodness, declares - "the'
weakness of some parts of the
church today is the loss of
that positive quality of its,
life. 1t lies in the fact that
many people who ought to be
struggling against social
wrongs are not so much fight
ers as like dear old ladies in
snowy white caps sitting in
rocking chairs, not really
knowing that any fight is
going on" The Communists
know there is! The good peo-
pie OF America had better!
Too many have been
brought up to think that
goodness means repression;
but goodness consists in liv-'
ing for those things which
alone are worth living for.
That vision often is not
shared by those who are only
negatively good. Recently a
rather bored wife wrote to
one whose column is a reposi-
tory of worried peoples
peeves and problems. She
said she had been married
for many years to a man who
did not swear, or drink, or
smoke, or gamble, or carouSe
but, she had become fed
up with his impeccable good
ness, a piety that was not
harnessed to anything worth
while and which consisted
only Of things that he did not
do. From her complaint her,
life companion did not know
the meaning of righteous in
dignation. Who has not en-
countered this brand of hui
mainly whose motto is, 81 am
better than thou" whose
main drive in life is safety.
first" and whose favorite
seat in any contest is the.
fence? When a fight is on,
and the call is to stand up,
and be counted, such folks
want to take their goodness
up to a reserved seat in the
balcony. They seem to
choose the permanent role
Of being an inquiring neutral.
That attitude has been dag
nosed as "spectatoritis."
Whatever virtues they have
must be labeled Unused
Goodness" a.
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FROM THE STAR FILES.

million who fight for them
will not enfranchise; most
melancholy of all that in the
providence of God, we, who
introduced slavery, must,
though now free of the stainy
bear our share of the con-
sequences of that great.
crime -
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Blame for Crime

Can't help but take a min
ute off from the housework to
reply to Robert Kennedy's
call for more Fairgrounds as
a necessary means of pre-
venting juvenile crime.
There should be play
grounds available in a urban
area whether or not a crime
wave exists. One has no
bearing on the other. There
is aggressive behavior in
Fairgrounds as well as else
where. This Just changes
the scene of the crime, not
necessarily the crime.
The Attorney Generals
job is to apprehend GRIM
inals. He can't explain away
crime by saying that the
criminal is not to blame De-
cause he didn't have a play
ground. The streets Of
America have been play
grounds for all sorts of peo-
pie and some of them have
been leaders of men and
some of them brutes. We
are going through a period
now where because of social
sympathy for the misfit the
productive elements of our
society are being allowed to
suffer. This is a little diff
ferent from the usual pat
tern of revolution and it is
not Marxist in influence. 1t
is the problem of Chris
tianity. How far must one
turn the other cheek? What
will it lead to when a society
exists entirely for the service
of the misfit; will it not
eventually be self-eliminat-
ing? M. Mcdowell.
Attorney General Robert
Kennedy warns that Wash
ington's youth must be Of
fered a brighter future" II
the city's crime rate is to be
reduced. Other current news
items tell of wholesale van
dalism in the public schools,
and of a vicious attack upon
a woman praying in a church
a stones throw from the halls
of Congress.
Young Bob Kennedy made
a good impression upon many
who watched him, via tele-
vision, do battle with labor
union thugs and racketeers
under the fatherly guidance
of Senator Mcclellan. It is
most disappointing now tt
find him fitting so snugly
into the groove of political
demagoguery. He knows, Of
course, that in cities like
Washington minority groups
have never before had it SC
good. For some time condi-
tons and attitudes have
been most favorable for ad-
vancing their cause" He
also knows that the effect
has been not a reduction in
delinquency and dependency
but a substantial increase!
His own future was well
provided for long before
Robert Kennedy was born
But if he really were will
ing to make the political sac
rifice, he could do a great
deal to reduce crime by TAX
ing the advice of j. Edgar
Hoover and others like him
who have risen to positions
of trust without the benefit
of a silver spoon or the well
fare state.