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ment, but at raising their standing in
the community. David Riesman, former
chairman of the University of Chicago's
Center for the Study of Leisure and
author with Nathan Clazer and Reuel
Denney of the famous study, 'The
Lonely Crowd" holds that people in
modern America are often super-sensi-
tive to what others think. Instead of
playing for fun, many people play-act
for the eyes of their neighbors. For
example, people who dislike the water
may buy boats because they think boat
ing makes them appear gay, young-at.
heart, expert at gracious living. Others
force themselves to play golf or bowl
for the same reasons.
SGythe experts: If you like boating,
boat. If you don't, then don't be silly.
Same goes for golf, horseback riding,
bO'Cling, cOuntTy-club SOciGlizing or any
other sceekepd sport.
Summer-weekend gardening is an
other notorious example. Sociologist
Rolf Meyersohn has studied this sub
urban phenomenon. At his New York
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the time. They connect relaxation with
sin and feel guilty about having more
time for not ot.working.
In his widely-discussed book, ''The
Decline of Pleasure" famous critic
Walter Kerr touches on this problem.
The twentieth century has relieved us
Oflabor without at the same time reliev-
ing us of the conviction that only labor
is meaningful," writes Mr.. Kerr.
"Often we don't use labor-saving
devices to save labor" says Professor
Meyersohn. When a man gets an elec-
trio hedge-trimmer, he may see it as
an opportunity to plant (and trim)
more hedges.
In the same way, driven by this
"work-mOrality," some people take a
healthy, happy activity and push it to
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and nineteenth-century Europe, and
from our own pioneer forefathers, the
gospel of work" Advancing technol-
ogy has cut our work week to IS or 40
hours, but many people still have a
feeling that it's necessary to work all
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Now THAT SUMMERS half over, look
back over the warm-weather weekends
and vacations you've had. Have they
truly been periods of relaxation and
wOrry-free fun? Have they afforded
you renewed energy to face the follow.
ing week? If you can answer yes to
these questions, count yourself lucky.
The results Of recent studies and the
comments Of critics of the contempo-
rary scene indicate that the typical sum-
Her 'Ueekend is an eNpOtiOnGlly taxing
period for many people. Instead Of re-
LGxing the sUeek'S tensions, il too often
creates neIC ones.
MANY Of us have lost our capacity
for leisure" says noted psychiatrist
DIR. Alexander Reid Martin. As former
chairman Of the American Psychiatric
Associations Standing Committee on
Leisure Time and its Uses, he is prob
ably the nations best-known authority
on the subject. Other psychiatrists and
sociolOgists l talked to corrobOrated his
findings, and many more have expressed
their concern about the problem.
People unable to relax on week
ends, DIR. Martin pointed out, may suf-
fer instead such weariness and disap-
pointment that they are glad to get back
to work on Monday. For them, the
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Scots ore fun II yoU like booisI

apartment (which doesn't even have a
window box), he told me a significant
proportion Of the avid gardeners he had
interviewed admitted they didn't really
enjoy it. They did it to create an impress
sion of wealth or give gracious" look
to their homes, or because they felt it
was expected of them.
2. Work mOraIitys Many people feel
lost without work - miss the purpose.
fulness oft, the ready-made framework
on which to build daily life. This is
another spoiler Of summer weekends.
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burden Of a weekend may
aggravate worse symptoms -
depression, psychosomatic
problems (ulcers, hyperten.
siOn), even suicide tendencies.
A professor, DR.. James A.
Wylie of Boston University,
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I'm some ways weekends are
harder than work days" "one psy-
chiatrist told me. "On weekends
you must decide what to do"
DR.. Martin points out that
guilt also enters the picture. We
have inherited from eighteenth
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The authorities l talked to felt
there were four major sources
of trouble:
1. Prestige play. Many peo-
pies summer-weekend activities
are aimed not at simple enjoy.
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Too American families
tips help
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gave me more evidence that
something is wrong. He questioned
500 families about their recreation pro-
grams, asking each family whether its
members were satisfied with their week.
ends and other leisure hours. Almost
90 per cent weren't.
What are the reasons?
Just why do SO many people find
summer-weekend happiness elusive?
The anthnrifias I AalL0I IN fol.
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For Hospital PLANNING

In protesting proposal for a So
called proprietary hospital in Alexan-
dria serving only patients with means to
pay for their treatment, officials of the
present Alexandria Hospital have raised
an issue that is of increasing concern
In this area and elsewhere Experience
has shown that private hospitals in
evitably draw away from non-profit
community hospitals many paving
patients needed to offset deficits aris-
ing from treatment of INDECENT patients.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
Alexandra Hospital, in the midst of its
long-range expansion program, fears
the impact of the Projected private
hospital.
That the fears are not without
foundation is evident from the recent
decision of the Fairfax County Hospital
and Health Center Commission to eds
courage" the erection of proprietary
hospitals in the county unless they
receive the approval of the Metropolitan
Washington Health Facilities Planning
Council. In a letter to the Alexandria
Planning Council, Alexandria Hospital
authorities urged that the city postpone
action on any request for additional
HOSPITAL facilities until the interjusiN-
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dictional planning council has had "a
reasonable opportunity to assemble data
and study the probable future needs"
The letter said: "a proprietary hospital
which takes in only certain types of pay
ing patients and excludes emergency,
public welfare or charity cases and cases
requiring more extensive care would nee
eSSarily divert from the public, nom
profit hospital some cases which pay
their way. This would leave the latter
hospital with a larger proportion of
cases which do not pay their way and
would result in higher disqualification
charges for all paying patients"
Nevertheless, the Alexandria Plan
ming Commission approved the private
hospital project. In view of the ques-
ton of public interest raised by the
Alexandria Hospital, however, the City
Council, it seems to US, should consult
with the Metropolitan Washington
Health Facilities Planning Council
before taking action. In public health
matter of this kind, the interests of
hospital serving the community as a
whole should receive most careful con-
Sideration.
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In his June 10 column
William s.. White makes a
considerable misstatement of
fact which should be cor
rected. He wrote: e. SO per
cent Of a great majority Of
the Democratic Party is pro-
business"
Here are the facts:
According to the Indus
trial Union Department of
the AFL-CIO, in a report
published at the conclusion
Of the first session of the
87th Congress, 179 Democrat
members of the House of
Representatives voted 10 per
cent or more of the time in
line with the AFL-CIO legis-
lative program. These 179
Congressman represented 70
per cent of the Democrat
total in the first session Of
the current Congress.
While it would not be &C
curate to say that everything
business is for, labor is
against, it is safe to conclude
that the ITO Congressman
who voted 70 per cent or more
of the time in favor of labor's
legislative goals are not pro-
business, as Mr.. White sug-
gests.
Don A. GOodaIl
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Local War in Boy Stote

Eddie McCormack'S letter to his
Uncle John may reflect commendable
sense Of political responsibility. And it
may amount to even more than that,
namely, real smart way to keep other
Washington "big wheels" out of the
Democratic senatorial primary in Massa-
chuSettS.
Eddie, who is Massachusetts, State
Attorney General Edward ]. McCor-
mack, Jr., also is the nephew of our
Speaker Mccormack AS candidate for
nomination to the United States Senate,
Eddie lost bid for his party's conven-
ton Endorsement, the winner Of that
round being, Teddie-Edward M. Ken
nedy, youngest brother of President
Kennedy and Attorney General Ken
nedy. Neither the President nor the
Attorney General interviewed personally
IN the pre-convention Skin mishing.
Neither did the Speaker But when
Eddie announced he would contest this
matter further, in the party primary in
September, the Speaker said he would
campaign for his nephew.
So Eddie has now written his letter
to Uncle John, suggesting that the
Speaker leave the whole thing to Ted
and Ed-which is, perhaps, not a bad
idea. AS Eddie points out, the Speakers
intervention might obscure" the main
issue OF the campaign (the qualifica-
lions OF Ed VS.. Ted) and even be por-
trayed as contest between the Speaker
OF the House and the President of the
United States. In way, this could be
like tossing rock in quiet Massachu-
sets pool and having the ripples spread
all the way to Washington, or even
across the Nation. It is possible, too,
that President, aided by an Attorney
General and a large roster of other
energetic family members, would simply
be mounting too many guns for a
Speaker and nephew.
From this distance, Ed and Ted
seem both determined and politically
ingenious. So why not let them Just
have 1t out on their ownP
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Nehru in Poor Form

In his latest display Of somewhat
Supercilious pique before the Parlia-
ment in New Delhi, Prime Minister
Nehru has rendered singularly poor
service both to himself and to relations
between his "neutraliSt" government
and the free West, including particu-
larly our own country. He has done
so by putting on show of queerly ex-
travagant outrage over the recent
Anglo-American vote in favor of mild
resolution vetoed by the Kremlin in
the United Nations Security Council)
asking only that India get together with
Pakistan in new talks aimed at bringing
about a peaceful settlement of the
KaShmir issue.
Figuratively speaking, Mr.. Nehru
has gone into conniption fits over this.
With his usual literary flair, but with
the prose slightly out of keeping with
the hard realities, he has accused all
who have voted for the resolution of
being ignoramuses who do not realize
that "Kashmir is flesh of our flesh and
bone of our bone" Dramatic and strong
as these words may be, however, they
do not necessarily represent the truth,
as Pakistan will testify. Nor do they
Justify the Prime Minister'S rather
absurd and altogether mischievous as
sertion that Britain and the United
States "have always adopted an anti
Indian attitude on almost all matters
that have been of passionate interest
to u.s."
This is something that comes with
monumental Ill grace from a man
whose regime has received billions of
dollars in aid from our country, whose
people-by and large-have been will
ing to bear the burden because they
want India to prosper in freedom. Mr..
Nehru's comment is especially offensive,
moreover, because of its self-righteous,
holier-than-thou spirit Has he not ever
understood that Americans, not to men
ton the British and others, have be-
come quite fed up with his alter ego
Defense Minister KriShna Menon? This
mans arrogant poSturing and generally
pro-Soviet voting record in the U. N.
have long since marked him as one of
the most unpopular and most sinister
Of the worlds "neutralists."
Perhaps Mr.. Nehru may not care
much what America and the rest Of the
free world think about this. That is
his privilege, but he ought to know
that Americans cannot be blamed if
they find him more than a little bit
insufferable when he says they are I'M
friendly to India. Unfriendly? What
is the meaning Of all we have spent,
with the burden on every taxpayer Of
the United States, to promote a good
future for India? Mr.. Nehru has spoken
Enthusiastically bitter words that do not
sit well with us.
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Prefers the Old

Why do we hear no protest
on the part Of the Fine
Arts Commission regarding
Jackie's refurbishing the
White House? / remember
the protests when Harry
suggested his balcony on the
south entrance.
She now plans to "set up"
a museum in the White
Housed Can you imagine
Queen Elizabeth doing such
a thing to Buckingham Pal
ace? Her first project cost
$165,000. What this one will
cost is unpredictable. II she
continues, one may as we'll
visit antique shops in George
town as our once dignified
White House.
I. w. Ward,
Weaverville, N. c.
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Forbid Them Not

Jesus, according to st. Luke, remon-
Strated with his disciples and said: "Suf-
Ter little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not" Little children may
not approach Him, however, through
the public schools of New York. six
justices of the Supreme Court have for
hidden it.
At issue was this brief nondemon-
national prayer: Almighty God, we
acknowledge our dependence on Thee,
and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our
parents, our teachers and our country"
This prayer had been composed by the
State Board of Regents and was recited
each morning in at least some of the
schools
Had any child been REQUIRED to re-
cite the prayer, the court would have
mad every reason to forbid it. But this
was not the case. Those who did not
wish to participate were not even re-
CURED to be present when the prayer
was recited Thus, the real effect of the
courts ruling is to prohibit children who
might wish to do so from reciting the
prayer. And this in the name of free
dom of religion!
The First Amendment saws that
Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, the Found
ers having in mind the established
Cnurch OF England and similar early
EFFORTS in some of the colonies. But
would the recital Of this simple PRAYER
as recommended by a State agency.
be equivalent to enacting law respect
ing an establishment of religion? OF
course not, and Justice Black, speaking
for the majority, was obliged to concede
mat 1t does not amount to total es-
taolishment of one particular religious
sect to the exclusion of all others. :"
In our opinion it does not remotely ap-
proach this Nor does it bear any ra-
tlonal relationship to the religious
struggles of 200 or 300 years ago.
In his dissent, Justice Potter Stew
art noted that the Supreme Court be-
gins each day by invoking the protec-
ton OF God. It's Crier importunes: God
save the United States and this Honor
able Court" How long will this be toler-
ated? And what about the prayers
which are said each day in the
House and the Senate. Does this con-
travene the First Amendment?
Justice Stewart also noted that The
Star-Spangled Banner was declared to
be our National Anthem by an Act of
Congress in 1881. Yet its third stanza
reads:
BleSt Nth vtctory and peace.
may the hedU'n rescued land
Praise the POUR that hath made
ana PRESCRIBED US nation!
Then conquer ne must, ,Dhen
our cause 1t is Just,
And this be our motto "E1 God
Is our Trust"
Perhaps this could be substituted in
New York for the prescribed PRAYER.
But, on second thought, maybe it would
De better not to suggest it, The Supreme
Court some day might rule that Con-
greSs, in its Act of 1881, passed a law
respecting an establishment of religion.
and that the National Anthem, there
fore, is unconstitutional Far-fetched2
We are not so sure.
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Alternatives

Remarks about Senator
Mansfield appearing in a rec
ent editorial of The Star have
no justification. 1t is stated
that the people have not had
their say. This is wrong. The
Cathedral Heights-Cleveland
Park Citizens Association
and seven other citizens asso-
Citations Of the northwest area
have consistently opposed a
dual highway through Glow
er Archbold Park. Many
people talk about problems
before they investigate them.
If one would take the time
and a steel tape and measure
the distance between the
Towers Apartment on Cathe-
dral Avenue, which borders
the park. and the apartment
now under construction on
the other side of the park, he
would find that a dual high
way would leave the area of
the park between these pro-
perties. a solid strip oil, con-
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Truth Is TimeIess

Inc gross error Of our times
is the effort by the young
and the near-young to justi-
~ unSound thinking with the
cliche that we are living in
a changed world, and there
fore we must make pictures
which don't look like any,
thing, write ragged poems,
condone loose morals, excuse
filthy literature and advocate
freakish and dangerous gov
ernmental policies.
The trouble is more with
the conclusions than with the
hackneyed premises, since the
world is continually chang
ing, as, it should, but it
should be made to change for
the better. We should remem-
Der that truth never goes out
OF date, and that our laws,
social activities and other
constructive expressions must
be based on truth and sound
reasoning.
While fleetipg time is ever
changing our conditions, it
does not change the princi-
Piles which we must apply to
the circumstances of our par
ticular age. Truths respect
ing government and human
nature propounded by Plato
and other great teachers are
as applicable to our present
problems as they were to
those of thousands, or even
hundreds, of years ago.
Youthful professors, preju-
diced students and unsea-
soned executives should be
oriented before they attempt
to make US "go forward" by
turning us upside down. The
fads Of today are the freaks
of tomorrow. And the physi-
cal atom cannot explode a
single principle of sound eco
Monies and political science.
John w. Norwood.
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VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Satellites to Aid inMeosuring Earth
By THOMAS R. HENRY

The United States Cost
and Geodetic Survey soon
will launch a program, using
space satellites and the most
scientifically advanced cam
eras. to measure many parts
Of the earth with q hitherto
unknown accuracy.
The program will have as
its first objective measure
ment Of the true distance
across the United States with
a possible error of only 30
feet. AS the system advances,
positions Of Hawaii, Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands will
be precisely located. This will
be followed by measurements
of areas in South America,
Europe, Asia and Australia.
TriangulatiOn Process
The new method Of tri-
angulation Is based on the
optical tracking of balloon
type satellites from three or
four mobile camera tracking
hstations located on precise
Phase lines several hundred
miles long which will be &C
curate to about one part in
a million. The satellites, in
flated to a great size in space,
will be traced against a
background Of stars whose
identity and positions are
very accurately known.
Passive satellites" says a
report on the project. should
prove ideal from any obser-
NATIONAL standpoint due to
their size and reflectivity and
because of their scheduled
inclination and height. A
satellite will be large enough
to be photographed, high
enough to enable simultane-
GUS cross-country or inter-
continental observations, and
inclined favorably for OBJ
Servations anywhere on
earth"
The tracking system has
been under test for several
months at various exposure
rates and durations. Prelim-
mary evaluation of the Sys-
tenn has indicated that more
than 300 satellite images are
obtained easily on each
Photographic plate. This
makes possible a statistical
analysis over a longer por-
ton of the orbit than norm
ally would be feasible.
Studies Of hunger are being
made in connection with ex-
periments on the psychology
of fear, according to President
Kennedy's Science Advisory
Committee. To the average
person hunger only means an
uncomfortable feeling in the
stomach. associated with
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crete. There might be room
for a cat-walk on each side
but it would be necessary to
wear a policeman's reflection
uniform for safety. 1t is ridi-
culous to say that a dual
highway would be a fine
way Of making the park more
disable and enjoyable by the
public.
There is, however, a prac-
ticable alternative. That is,
If Chain Bridge Road and
Foxhall Road are widened and
not left merely a rich mans
retreat, this would take care
OF traffic in this vicinity
without depriving the public
Of a recreational area. These
streets are here and can be
improved, Senator Mansfield's
determination to preserve
Glover-Archbold Park as a
recreational area is COM
mendable. b.. .....-..
Mrs. Walter A. Sellers,
Chairman. Zoning,
Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Citizens Association
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The Republican Party 1.
turning hopefully to the cleo.
tons of Governors next No
vember. 1t is to the Cover
nors Of States. indeed, the
party must look for impor-
tant gains for the strength
ening Of the two-party sys-
tenn in this country and for its
national candidates in 1864.
Democrats today-occupy Gov
errors chairs in "a States;
the Republicans, only Is. OF
course, the G. o. P. is going
About to increase its mem
bershtp in both the Senate
and House. But the elections
OF Governors is even more
important for party building
for the future. Thirty-five
States viii elect Governors,
The big State Democratic
Governors, whom the Re-
pubhcans hope to replace
with their own, include those
in California, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Connecticut, Ohio
and Wisconsin. Other States
where they believe they can
make gains are Colorado. Ne
braska and North Dakota.
They look hopefully toward
Maryland but without much
assurance. And for a politi-
cal miracle, they eye Texas.
Some Are Safe
The Republicans realize
they have much to do to hold
governorships they now have
against Democratic attack.
Chief among these is New
York, where Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller is seeking re-elec-
ton. Others are Massachu-
sets. Minnesota, Arizona,
Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, Montana, New Hamp-
shire, New Mexico, Oregon,
South Dakota and Vermont.
In many Of these Republican
candidates appear reasonably
safe.
If the G. o. P. can hold
New York and pick up Gov
errors in California, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Connecticut and
Michigan, it would be virtu-
ally a grand slam victory. A
victory which would shake the
Democrats to the core. Fur
ther, it would provide the
G. o. p. with an array of
presidential and vice-presi-
Dental candidates Of merit
and potential national
strength. Democrats pooh
pooh the idea of any such
turn over of party control in
these States which, except for
New York, now have Demo-
dratic Governors. There is a
real chance, however, the Re-
publicans will elect Cover
nors of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Connecticut and Michigan. 1t
will mean hard uphill work,
but it could be done. In
California, where former Vice
President Nixon is battling
Democratic Gov. Pat Brown,
the odds appear even more
difficult for the Republicans.
Victories in the guberna-
torial elections in California,
Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Ohio would catapult Republi-
can Governors into the ma
tional political arena of
1864. where they would join
Cows. Rockefeller of New
York, and Hatfield of Oregon