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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17

A letter published in your
columns August 7, 1862, from
T. v. Ryan criticizes the con-
dition of U. S. Route 40 in
Western Maryland.
It is true that U. S. 40 is
the lifeline to w stern
Maryland, but it should be
noted that the first highway
improvement scheduled by
the administration of Gov
ernor Tawes was on U. S. 40.
At present, the State Of Mary
land has under contract four
separate projects on U. S. 40
involving the use of $5.6 mil
lion.
This is the most work ever
done on this highway at one
time in the history Of our
State. According to present
plans, U. S. 40 will be a mod
ern highway from Baltimore
to Garrett County by 1865,
something no other admins
tration has ever given the
State.
OdelI M. Smith,
Assistant to the Governor
of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Fitness for Students

The Presidents disappoint-
ment in the physical fitness
of the youth of our Nation
could be altered considerably
if Federal laws were enacted
to require all physically able
school children to participate
regularly in healthful body
building exercises for 20 to
40 minutes each day. This
should be made part of every
school curriculum, and spe-
cial consideration and cred
its should be given for indi-
vidual effort and achieve
ment.
Almost Immediately a pro-
gram of this kind would i'm
prove the physical and moral
fitness of our boys and girls.
AS it stands now, some of
our high school students can
hardly find their way around
the corner without holding
Mama's hand.
Herbert SOmmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Sticky Wicket

One mans meat is another
mans poison, but I fail to
understand Bernie Harri-
sons violent attack on crick-
ct which, after all, is only
a game-but what a game
His article was highly in
sulting to all Englishmen,
w e lsh m e n, Australians,
South Africans, New Zea-
landers, Rhodesians. Indians,
Pakistanis, and West In
dams.
All of these people have
adopted cricket as their ma
tional summer sport. and
all participate competitive
ly on an international level.
Apart from being the most
manly, scientific. and skillful
of games, cricket has also
served as a channel OF
friendship between the
worlds greatest family OF
nations. 1t Is for this rea-
son that we cricketerS are
often more than amused
when we hear the likes of a
Bernie Harrison refer to base
balls World Series. World"
Series? Who else plays this
glorified game Of FOUNDERS ?
Baseball is to cricket as
checkers or draughts is to
chess. 1t is not a crime to
play one and not the other,
but why make such a song
over it! This simply is not
cricket, Mr.. Harrison.
John p. Callahan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
THE PASSING SCENE
Bitter Aftermath of the FiIibuster
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

behavior of these filibus-
terers has been unpardon-
able, even there.
1t means that the pro-
fessional liberals have at
last overreached themselves.
Whatever influence the DEM
ocratic leftwing may con-
tinue to exercise at the White
House. its practical influence
upon legislation has fallen to
an all-time low. For not
only President Kennedy was
under assault in this long
demonstration on the floor.
Many others - including the
Democratic and Republican
leaderships of the Senate
were assaulted, too, If usually
by innuendo. And they will
not forget.
A Boomerang
And, ironically, 1t also
means that the one constant
goal Of the professional lib
erals-a change in the rules
to make the gag more easily
applicable to people the lib
erals do not like-has been
gravely if not fatally hurt.
For many Of these same lib
erals. Senator Morse and
Senator Paul Douglas Of
Illinois notable among them,
for years have called the fill
buster immoral and intoler-
able-when the Southerners
and others use it.
In taking up the weapon
they have so long denounced,
they have only proved what
has always been the simple
truth, which is that there is
no need to change the rule.
When any bill is a good bill
and has heavy support it can
always prevail, filibuster or
no filibuster and rule or no
rule. 1t is not impossible to
apply the gag; it is only diff
ficult. And 1t is not even diff
cult when a true majority Of
the Senate truly wants some
thing done.
What has long thwarted
liberal designs is not that the
rules are wrong but rather
that liberal bills are usually
wrong-wrong because they
are extremist and intolerant,
as was the proposal here to
Socialized communications,
the one area in which we
are ahead of the Russians
in the race for space. 1t is
not bad rules which is their
trouble. 1t is a bad case. And
this the liberals have now
managed to prove out Of their
own mouths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
ChinchHIo Demand

The 20O-odd members OF
the Eastern Branch Of the
National Chinchilla Breeders
of America, Inc. dncluding
some so Washington area
ranchers) are always glad to
see stories about chinchilla
in the press. Both as a
chinchilla rancher and
friend of DR.. Gene Rubacky.
we congratulate you on the
story by William Grigg,
"Chinchillas to Test NAL
formation Drug" in the July
81 issue of the Star.
There is one mistatement
of fact in Mr.. Grigg's article:
"Ranchers." he said, have
more animals than they can
sell as pelts." There is an
acute shortage of pelts to
satisfy the market demand
for Empress Chinchilla,"
the trademarked merchandise
of the Farmers Chinchilla
Cooperative of America, In
corporated, better known in
the trade as "FCCA." Only
this month, a general ap-
peal went out to shippers
throughout the world from
FCCA headquarters in New
York, where the precious fur
is sold to high fashion houses
of the United States. Rome,
Paris, London, etc. stating:
I'VE need more pelts." FCCA
has made settlements to
ranchers for all pelts received
prior to January l, 1862, and
the current inventory neces-
sary to bundle pelts in
matched offerings in the
various grades of merchandise
is alarmingly low. Once an
item has been established
with a reputation for quality
such as the most enviable
position of Empress" in re-
cent years, it is an economic
fact of survival to continue
an adequate source of sup
ply with which to nurture
the created demand for the
item.
Fenwick N. Buffum
Publicity Chairman, Eastern
Branch, National Chinchilla
Breeders of America
Editors Note: The En-
press is a particularly fine
chinchilla for which there
is a large demand. Other
chinchillas. Just as useful for
scientific work, are not in
such great demand.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Way the Ball Bounces

After reading the criticism
the sports writer's are now di-
recting against Mr.. Quesada,
one is inclined to say This
is where I came in" How
Mr.. Griffith must laugh. all
the way to the bank, as he
reads the affections now be-
ing expressed for his success
Sor-and so soon.
AS the BARRIERS say-Next?
]. Jackson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. When was the book
name d Penguin Island"
publishedNI. F..
A. Penguin Island" a bur-
lesque allegory of French his
tory, was written by Anatole
France in 1908 and published
in English translation the
following year. France,
whose full name was Jacques
Anatole Francois Thibauit
and who lived from 1914 to
1924, created in the book
a society conducted by pen
gums and having most of
the follies of civilized society.
1t is a satire on French his
tory and on civilization it
self,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
ProceduroI Methods of Conoress
BY DONALD MINTZ

Professor Berman is against
the machinery largely be-
cause it does not produce the
results that he favors. Is he
then not confusing the neu-
trail organization Of the Con-
gress with its political COM
plexion?
NOT AT ALL, he says, for
the fact is that the machin-
cry is not neutral. There is
a conservative bias that is
built into the Congress" The
Rules Committee, whose
makeup is dictated by more
or less automatic procedures
which assure conservative
domination is an example,
as Professor Berman sees it.
So is "the bare fact that
the rules are cumbersome
-. The procedures that fol-
low the introduction of a
bill and its reference to COM
mittee are so formidable
that they might well have
been devised by men who
hated the thought that legis-
lation would ever be enacted.
At a time when liberals in
sits that the Federal Govern
ment take positive steps to
fashion a more equitable and
democratic society, a barrier
to all congressional action
hurts their cause directly.
Conservatives, who demand
far less Of government, lose
little"
One Of Washington's most
distinguished columnists has
written of the crisis in the
relations between the Presi-
dent and Congress, a crisis
that he says is mot personal
or even partisan so much
as it is institutional" Bas-
lcally, he agrees with Profess
sor Berman for he considers
that Congress "as now or
ganized, or disorganized, is
designed to defend rather
than to change the status
quo"
As criticism mounts, it
seems inevitable that a good
deal of it will be directed at
the political predispositions
OF the supposedly more or
less objective mechanism Of
the legislative branch.
Professor Berman is in
tensely interested in the
Civil Rights Act itself. He
thinks that the Act is I'M
satisfactory and that a good
many Of the reasons lie in
the nature Of the operation
OF Congress. His book grows
out OF that feeling. Its main
defect is doubtless that it
tries to do too much in too
few pages. The subject Is
both large and tangled and
the formal seems construct
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Results of NeqIect

The latest findings of the sample"
probe OF General Public Assistance re-
clplentS fully sustain the earlier indi-
cations that this category of the city
relief program is rife with free-loading.
fraud and fragrant administrative neg
lect. Even in view of the appalling
evidence Of the earlier, more limited,
studies, the results of the new investi-
gative report are shocking.
In brief, among 81 random cases
checked, all but 10 relief recipients
were disqualified. The general relief
grants are intended to help sustain
adults unable to work because of tenn
porary disability. Some of the ineligibles
however, were found to already have
adequate financial resources, apart from
their relief checks. Some were no longer
lncapacitated. Some few should have
oeen transferred to other welfare pro-
grams, at less cost to the city. Some
amazingly, were in public institutions.
including jail That these abuses could
prevail, undecided for no one knows
how long, is almost beyond COM
prehenSion.
Moreover the damage which thev
have done the welfare program as
whole is intensified by the fact that
this category of relief is financed solely
through local funds, without contribu-
tory help from Federal welfare aid. At
least a portion of these local funds. If
they had not been wasted, might we'll
nave been Siphoned into useful and
juStifiable welfare expenditures. It is
not taxpayers alone, therefore, who
have been cheated.
In the last fiscal year, we'll over a
million dollars was spent on this pro-
gram. The precise degree Of waste will
not be known, of course, until all the
cases are checked. Thus far, less than
per cent have been covered. In some
categorieS of welfare abuse, especially
those involving children, the removal of
meligibleS poses difficult problems which
VIII have to be worked out. These
problems presumably do not apply to
the general relief category. And in
THESE instances, there is no excuse for
any delay in corrective action.
., Such findings as these fortunately
have increased a general recognition
by the community, at long last, in some
instances, that along with compassion
Tor the needy of the city there also is
a'SerlouS and very real requirement to
root out waste, inefficiency and fraud.
No doubt there is a valid need to ex-
pand certain aspects of the welfare
program especially those which are
designed to help those now on relief
become Self-Sufficient. But these desir-
able expenditures are hardly likely to
be made in the amounts required until
respect is revived for the total program,
and that will occur only when there
are assurances that welfare dollars are
going only to those who truly need and
deserve them. The debt which the city
owes the thorough land, at times, the
ViciouSly maligned) investigations in
augurated by Senator Byrd of West Vir-
glnla becomes more obvious day by day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17

The Democratic liberals
extremist filibuster attack on
the administrations bipart-
iSan space communications
bill ends in foredoomed de-
feat in the Senate, but its
bitter consequences will lin
ger on and on.
This episode, which in
volved an effort by the lib
erals to force Government
ownership of the space COM
munications system and a
freeze-out OF private indus
try capital. has had repercus-
sions which its initiators
could never have foreseen.
In the heat of debate, poll
ticians can sometimes say
many things and get away
with them. But in this case
the leaders of this small band
of filibusterers - Senators
Wayne Morse of Oregon and
Estes Kefauver of Tennes-
see-have made "giveaway"
accusations against President
Kennedy and Congress itself
so extravagant and repeated
as to raise a serious question
whether they have not read
themselves out of the Demo-
cratic Party.
If the violence Of their at
tack on the President and
Congress has not torn that
party apart in the country, it
has certainly done so in the
Senate, from top to bottom.
What they have said. unlike
what may be said and later
unSaid on some political
stump, is in the books for
keeps-in the Congressional
Record.
Their assault on a Presi-
dent Of their own party
and on immense bipartisan
majorities in both Houses of
CongresS-has been the most
savage within the memory
of old Washington hands.
Verdict Against Them
If they have not alienated
themselves from the White
House. beyond question they
have deeply alienated them
selves from the United States
Senate, and from every fac
ton save their own. The 63
to 81 vote by which the Sen
ate-for the first time in 81
years and for the fifth time
in all history-clamped down
the gag rule to silence them
Is incomparably more than
some dusty procedural action.
1t amounts to a verdict from
the most tolerant of all Amer
lean institutions that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDill be
returned only Uhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17

The CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
OF 1860 by Daniel NJ. Ber-
man. LAB pp., facsimiles.
macmillan Co., $1.75 (pa-
per-bound).)
The long and unedifying
quarrel between the House
and the Senate over the
chairmanships of appropria-
tons conferences and the
subtle way in which the tiff
was settled has called atten-
ton to the procedural meth
DDS Of Congress.
At the same time, there
have been disturbances in
SasSer, Georgia, seat of Ter
rell County. The Terrell
County Board of Voter Reg
istrars was involved in the
first court decision under the
Civil Rights Act of 1860.
"A Bill Becomes A Law"
by Daniel M. Berman, Asso-
ciate Professor of Govern
ment and Public Administra-
ton at American University,
is particularly timely because
1t deals with both the Civil
Rights Act and the manner
in which the Congress makes
our laws.
The book, says Professor
Berman, lis a description of
the way in which a particular
bill became law" But "it is
intended to provide some un-
derStanding of congressional
procedures generally"
"The Civil Rights Act of
1850" he continues, was Sc
lected because it encountered
an extraordinarily large num-
Der Of the devices available
for the purpose of passing
and DISQUALIFICATION"
GIVEN THE NATURE of
the law, it is not likely that
anyone could approach Pro-
lessor Berman's topic with
out strong convictions.
Professor Berman is neither
secretive nor apologize about
his. He defines the liberal
as lone who Qike the author)
considers the use of Federal
power indispensable for the
amelioration of economic and
social inequality" The con-
sentative, on the other hand,
tends to think that such a
recourse is usually unneces-
sary and always dangerous. "
Professor Berman follows
the difficult path of the bill
through two sessions of the
seth Congress as it goes in
and out of committee, is re-
written subjected to amend
ment, filibuStered against,
forced out of committee and
much more besides.
Generally the description
Is clear, but there are a few
difficult moments. It is hard
to picture amendments being
offered during a filibuster.
Yet that is just what Pro-
fessor Berman appears to
suggest for a time. From his
description it is impossible to
understand the manner in
which speaking time is ap-
portioned when the House is
sitting as a Committee of the
Whole. There Is a curious er-
ror whereby a freshman
Senator" is given credit for
IAN unusual victory" in in
ducing the Committee of the
Whole to accept an amend
ment.
Professor Berman's tone
throughout the book implies
severe criticism of Congress-
ional procedure. A "Conclu-
sion" at the end makes this
explicit.
This section. brief as it is,
is a valuable contribution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17

country remembers that a
taX-cut is an idle gesture il
there is no income tax.
X. NJ. Haggerty, d. ID. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-17
Report on u. S. 40

John p. Callahan,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-18

agreed They ignore the ocaed vintage years
every year California great because the climate
They're dnker They enjoyment first
and tradition last
adona the other hand sudder about the whole thing
They agree California good like pick what they
BEST by year. They look for vintage wine from California 10
them it's very significant and they enjoy it!
though they may both groups TRADITIONAL and
will voluntarily agree major thing When comes to California
wine the important thing enjoyment
TIES STAR
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01
Hampden-Sydney's
Grant OF $500 For
Physics Equipment

The United States Atomic
Energy Commission under its
Nuclear Science Educational
program has given Hampden-
Sydney College grant Of
$780, The grant is to be used
to purchase special equipment
for the laboratories in the ele-
mentary course of physics. All
BIS. students will be using this
additional equipment in their
physics laboratory as well as
the advanced students in chem
istry and biology.
This electronic equipment was
requested by DR.. W. 7. Joyner,
associate professor of physics.
DR.. Joyner's special field Of in
terest is fast electronics as ap-
Piled to nuclear physics. He is
at present working OF Ct vernier
chrcnotron fer use IN tinle-of-
flight fission wort: for Oak
Ridge.
Financial aid such as this
gram enables the small liberal
arts college like HampdeE- sgd
ney tG maintain its excellent po-
sition IL the field Of preparing
men for acience. 4 survey re-
Gently made listed Hampden-
Sydney as ranking 18th OFT Of
1900 institutions of higher learn
ing in the percentage Of gradu-
ates going on to obtain Ph.D.
degrees in science.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01
RibicoU Proposes Fight IN 1868 Orer
Segregated Schools On Military Bases

istration wishes. Unless all signs
are wrong. this is what Rlbicoff
seeks to bring about.
The fate Of the postal rate III
crease bill. it now appears. may
hinge on the outcome Of a battle
over a HouAe-approyed ban on
handling of communist propa
ganda.
The ban was written into the
bill at the insis'ence of House
Republican leadership as the
price for COP support of the
measure. Kennedy forces, on
the other hand. oppose the
amendment and repeatedly hope
to get it modified by the Sen
ate. Should that happen, the
measure would be returned to
Senate-House conference for
compromise of the differences,
then sent to the House for an
other look. If the change was
not to COP liking. Republican
support might be Withdrawn
leaving fate of the whole mea-
sure less than certain.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01
Music Program
At Buckingham

BUCKINGHAM, May 81 - Miss
Kathryne Owens. of Dillwyn, will
present her pupils in two pro
grams OF piano music Monday,
June 4 at $50 pm. and Tuesday.
June 5. at 7:30 pm.
Pupils participating in tho rro-
rams are Steven Coleman, Larry
Davis. Henry 4.ali DAVIS, LAnua
Waycaster, Joel Loving, Betty
Ruth Sprouse Wayne Dawson,
Betty Jean Rokes. Ivan Davis,
Robin DAVIDSON, William Sprouse,
Pamela Sprouse, JEANNE Griffin.
Sherry McCIaW and Evelyn Yau-
cey.
Miss Ovens will present EVELYN
Yancey in a program of music
Sunday, June 3, at pm.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01
John Randolph,
Pupils Piano
Recital June 5

The 2eth annual recital of
,Tohn r n d p h Elementary
School pupils of the DoWdy
School Of Music will be pre-
sented Tuesday, June 5, at 8
pm. in the school auditorium
in Cumberland county.
The program will consist of
piano solos. duets and trios. Stu
dent recitalists will be:
Carol and Claudia Seay, Mary
Frances Allen, Brenda Moore,
Beverly Motley. Beth 3lanton.
Virginia Ayers, Ruth Black,
cudy Smith, Linda Foster, Ann
Ayers. Peggy Ingle, Reuben Ann
Johns, Diane Coffey, Gail Stimp-
son, Nancy Ha2legrove, Barbara
Moore and Steve Musulin.
School patrons, parents and
the public are invited.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01
Attend Oil Firm
Centennial Meeting

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Brisen-
tine. of Prospect. ana Mr. and
Mrs. James Mccall, of Rich
mond, returned Tuesday after a
three-day trip to Atlantic City.
They ate nded the Eastern
Regional District meeting of
Cities Service Oil Co. The com
pany is celebrating its Tooth an
niVerSary this year. and, the
visiting distributors were com
pany guests at the Chalfonte-
Haddon Hotel.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-01

The pro Kennedy forces
sought to limit the current ex-
tension to one year. That failed.
too, largely because of Southern
forces in the House who insist
ed on ~ and got - two-year
extension covering the term
ending in June of next year.
But if Indignation can be
made the price of qualifying for
the money, many a Dixie law
maker will withdraw support
and the program can be re-
shaped in any form the Admin