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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-26
Time for q Vote

The debate, If it can be called that,
on Senator Hollands poll tax amend
ment has dragged on long enough. 1t
is true that no great harm has been
done since no business of urgent i'm
portance has been delayed in the Senate.
Still, we think that the Senate, and we
are sure that the country, is getting
tired Of windy discourses on the weather,
the Supreme Court and similar subjects
that have nothing to do with the
business at hand.
There is no issue Of States rights,
expanding Federal power or anything
Of the sort involved. No claim can be
successfully maintained that an intol-
Grant and Incorporate majority is try
ing to force something down the throat
OF the South. This Is simply proposal
to amend the Constitutions proposal
which must be approved by thirds
vote in the Senate and the House and
then ratified by three-fourths of the
States before it can become effective.
In short, Senator Holland is advocating
a procedure which faithfully adheres
to the democratic process. Those
Southerners who are Stalling action by
what amounts to filibuster in fact if
not in name are posing as champions of
nothing better than the proposition that
the minority has right to impose it's
will on the majority.
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Bad Legislation

A pending measure in the House
H. R. 98O8-would, If enacted, constitute
a wholly undesirable precedent in bad
legislation.
It contains two especially undesir-
able provisions. One would prevent any
price advertising by retail liquor dealers
in the District. The other would forbid
the sale of any liquor below an arbi-
trarily established cost" figure.
Presumably some one back along
the sellers line expects to make more
profits if the bill is passed. Clearly,
however, it would not benefit the con-
sumner, who would merely be stuck with
a higher price. This is bad bill and
it should not be passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-26

change names could readily
be devised. with each one diff
ferent mot several beginning,
for instance, WAL. }. It
matters not that they be
known words, although most
OF them could easily be. Con-
slider how quickly the public
adopts coined words, such as
"nylon" and "radar."
To estimate the number
OF possible exchange names
each with a vowel in the
first three letters one might
do this: Take the 10 conso-
nantS now on the phone dials
ca" is omitted) and multi
ply by the number of vowels
e including "y"), which
would give ia different con-
sonant-vowel combinations
as word-starters. Then, since
each of these two-letter COM
blnationS could take a con-
sonant, multiply ia by 10,
and the result would be 2166
conSonant vowel conSo-
nant combinations. Of these,
possibly 166 might have to
be discarded because of in
appropriateness, but m o S t
could be heightened into
known words or names, as
BABcock. DARrow, and ZEN
18th. Others could be COM
pleted as coined names -
BYDell. PIBlof, etc.
Then. beginning with a
vowel, there would again be
possible 2166 vowel-conso-
nant-vowel word-starters, as
Exeter. Academy, AJAX,
with coined names like
AJOrAn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-26

1t looks as if Britain is
trying to lead the allies
down the same appeasement
trail that Neville Chamber
lain charted Is years ago.
We must not let Lord Home
make another Munich out
of Geneva.
1t appears that De Gaulle
is the only leader with
courage enough to take the
unpopular stand of not
attending these propaganda
fiaScoes. Viva De Gauite!
A. J. Clark.
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Officials Family

The Sunday Star had an.
interesting article by Alan S.
Emory. concerning Seymour
j. Rubin, counsel for the
Agency for Independent De-
velopment. Another interest,"
ing article could be written
about Walter L. Lingle, jr.,
vice president Of Proctor &
Gamble until he was selected
by President Kennedy as No.
2 man in direction of the
Foreign Aid Program as
deputy administrator of the
Agency for International
Development, where he will
have responsibility for gen.
eral administration and man
agement of AID under
Administrator Fowler Hamil-
ton. Mr.. Lingle, 81, a Repub-
lican, has been serving as
deputy to Mr.. Hamilton.
Mr.. Lingle's parents and
grandparents had a lot to do
with the old "Thyatira Pres
byterian Church." founded in
Rowan County, N. c., in 1853.
This church is still active to
present date. His father, DR..
Walter L. Lingle, DID,, LID,
his two brothers, parents and
grandparents attended this
church and the three brothers
became ministers from this
church. DR.. Walter L. Lingle
wrote the History of Thya-
tira Presbyterian Church,
1753-1948," and was president
of Davidson College. David
son, N. c., from 1929-1941.
He was moderator of the
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the
United States, South. Author
of many books, he wrote a
page in the Christian OBJ
server for II years prior to
1856, when he passed on. His
parents and grandparents
are buried in Thyatira Church
Cemetery. He and his brother,
DR.. Thomas w. Lingle, are
buried in Davidson College
Cemetery.
The writer is not related.
If so. it would have to be
before 1871.
n Hf1a~Ia
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OK, AT&T, What's Wrong With Exc, AGA, Etc.?

AS the telephone company
prepares to take a giant
backward step, much to the
agony of its customers, by
discarding the very helpful
named exchanges for the mis-
erably confusing numbered
ones, AT&T gives the lame
excuse that by 1870 the Ma
ton will run out of telephone
numbers, using the present
exchange names. The COM
pany claims that there are
only about $40 disable names.
But what dear old AT&T
fails to ponder about num-
bered exchanges is this: If
the exchanges in, say, the
New York calling area (Which
now has about 485 Offices
should double by perhaps the
year 1000, the telephone
company will run out of
three-digit numbers.
There are only 900 such
numbers (from 100 to 800
the combinations are not
limitless, as AT&T seems to
imply. And the numbers are
not each distinctive; many, of
course, have two digits alike,
as 222, 223, 224, which will
make exchange designations
doubly hard to remember.
Named exchanges are, be-
yond question, more helpful
to the dialer. And the use
of the first three letters, as
is done in London (instead
of two letters and a number)
is still more helpful, as CIR
cle-0000. There is no dearth
Of such names: in fact, more
than 1000 pronounceable ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-26
A BOOK FOR TODAY
An Old Fire Created q Burnino Issue
By DONALD MINTZ

1911, and there had been
talk of making their install
lation mandatory. But they
cost money and the Protec-
tive League Of Property Own
ers announced that such a
requirement would be tan
tamount ito a confiscation
OF property"
One would think that the
insurance companies would
have demanded safety meas
ures as sound business prac-
tice. They did not. Shortly
before the fire the New York
State Assembly had had a
special committee investigat-
ing corrupt insurance prac-
tees. Leaning on the find
lngs of the committee and
an article on the subject by
Arthur E. McFarlane, Mr..
Stein shows that it was posi-
BILE for the companies to
make more money from poor
risks than from good. He
shows too that the Triangle
co. had had 8 fires in 8 years,
that nothing had been done
about it and that shortly be.
fore the big fire an inspec-
tor had somehow missed see
ing an illegal accumulation
OF fabric cuttings.
IN MARCH. 1858, Mr..
Stein saw another garment
district fire. Il stood there
in the rain and, as if in a
nightmare, watched a re-en-
actment of the Triangle hor-
ror, which had occurred not
more than five city blocks
eWay.
This was no new building
such as the Asch had been
at the time of its fire. No,
623 Broadway was already
80 years old at the time of
the Triangle fire. Now, it
was II years old. 1t was six
floors high, had no sprink-
lers; its fire-escape was
worthless; there had been no
fire drills"
He met one of the sur
Vlvors of the Triangle dis
aster. "She gripped me by
the wrists and shaking me
demanded with anger and
despair:
What good have been all
the years? The fire still
burns"
A1Ier InlS catastrophe, the
laws were frightened. And in
1861, the New York State
Legislature sent to the gov
ernor a bill resembling those
tighter laws.
The book that Mr.. Stein
has written so well then, is
not entirely about what hap
pened in the past when the
rigors of competition were
sometimes paid for in blood.
1t is a book that shows us
that we must still devote at
tention to the most funda-
mental of ali urban codes,
codes which it is difficult to
believe have not been made
adequate by now.
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L. C. Lingle.

Besides these, there are
hundreds of other beginnings.
Consider the known words
that begin with a vowel and
two consonants, as Empire
and oxford; and all the
words that begin with two
consonants, as Granite,
PLAZA, Spruce, Whitehall,
and STIRLING enough
no doubt to bring the total
of disable exchange names up
to 1900 or more.
And even if the present
misunderstanding system
1.-TWO letters and a number)
were retained, there could
still be 2250 different and
pronounceable designations.
AS shown above. there are
ia conSonant vowel word
starters and ia Vowel-con-
Sonant ones. plus about %
double consonant beginnings,
which would equal $50. Each
of the $50 could take each
Of the nine digits, making a
total of 2250 possible desig-
nations.
Why then can we not have
the eaSy-to-remember named
exchanges? If AT&T really
wants to hear the voice of
the I--5pIe on this issue, it
should It them vote - by
enclosing with each telephone
bill a printed ballot to be re-
turned with the checks. But
perhaps the shock of the re-
turns would be too great for
even so powerful a company
to bear.
= u,,A
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'ImpoctedT School Aid

The House Appropriations Commit
tee once more has overridden an attempt
OF President Kennedy-just as it over
rode similar efforts by President Eisen-
hower-to gradually reduce the program
Of school aid to federally impacted
areas.
Mr.. Kennedy had requested an ap-
preparation of $232.3 million, which
would have represented about 81 per
cent of the maximum amount of aid
authorized by law. In raising the ad-
ministration request by $50 million, the
committee not only ignored the plea for
a reduction in the allowable percentage;
1t provided a full 100 per cent of the
amount permitted by law.
The committee defended its action
on grounds that Congress has not seen
fit to change the basic law, although the
committee itself said it felt there was
merit" in proposals for changes which
would reduce entitlementS, especially
for such areas as the area Immediately
surrounding Washington, D. c."
This is strange reasoning. Certainly
the suburban school districts Of the
Washington area are no less hard
pressed for funds than are others in the
Nation, and they are considerably more
affected than most by the presence of
the Federal Government. There is no
fair basis on which they could be singled
out for discriminatory cuts.
We believe, however, that there
would be merit in gradual reduction
in this form of Federal subsidy. This
program, it should be remembered, was
initiated years ago to assist school dis
tricts which, especially during the war,
were overwhelmed by additional school
needs as result of the location of Fed
eral installations. Surely many im-
pacted" areas already have had suffi-
Gent time to adjust their own resources
to these conditions. A slow but progress
Sive curtailment at this point should
provide sufficient time for local areas
to assume what eventually must be &C
copied as local responsibility.
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ALGIERS

AhAI1CIbO
1t was not a terribly i'm
pressive ceremony.
Somehow, by some mys-
ferrous means of communica-
ton, about 1000 people had
got the word. In the eve
ming they assembled silently
facing the lines of security
police and troops at the foot
of the monument to the dead
in the central square of the
city.
There were no cheers and
little talking. There was not
even any real sense of anger.
The people simply stood and
stared at the black helmeted
police. And the police
equally silent and solemn
stared back.
Weak Cheer From Crowd
Presently down the street
came a small parade led by a
group of men carrying a
wreath of flowers. While the
people strained to see, the
slower bearers paused at the
police line for a short palaver
and were let through. A
weak cheer arose from the
crowd as they climbed the
steps toward the monument
to pay homage to the dead
in the battle Of Bah ell Oued.
After the singing of La
Marseillaise there were a few
choruses of "Algerie Fran
caise." Passing truckloads of
paratroopers drew cheers and
cries Of "larmee avec nous"
(the army is with u.s.. But
the troops did not cheer back
and one man who started
yelling de Gaulle assassin, :"
was quickly silenced by the
crown.
Another gestured toward
the soldiers standing behind
machineguns in their ar
mored cars. 1T is true" he
kept saying. 1T Is true that
we are foreigners here now"
Never since the beginning
of the Algerian war seven
vars ago have the people of
Algiers been shocked as they
have been shocked in the last
three days. The fighting be-
tween the French army and
the secret Army Organization
has brought home to them
facts to which they have sys-
tematically blinded them
selves for years. For the first
time they are beginning to
measure the consequences of
an instruction which has
absorbed their complete 10y
atty. For the first time many
are beginning to realize that
the cause Of French Algeria"
was lost long ago.
This was emphasized by
the solemnity of the Saturday
evening ceremony.
This psychological shock Is
by far the most important re-
suit of the fighting over the
last few days. 1t is one thing
to talk about using the French
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

recognize the need on their
own part for some adjust
ment to changing conditions.
But Mclean parents can
hardly be blamed for resist
ing a plan that would assign
their youngsters to a school
that would be not only new
with all the problems af-
fecting academic standards
that implies) but could not
be finished before November
and probably not until spring,
and that would be located in
many cases at a greater dis
lance from their homes than
the school they now attend;
a plan that would assign
these same families in a few
years to another new school
which it is agreed the Nc
Lean area will need.
Planning by all county Of
ficials concerned in any way
with providing school facili-
ties must find ways to mini
mize the dislocations and in
equities inherent in the re-
jected districting plan.
Margaret P. Horne.
AS a taX-paying resident
of Fairfax County I feel a
righteous indignation that a
portion Of my tax dollars is
being allocated to the build
ing Of much-needed schools
that will remain idle. These
schools will remain idle be-
cause some high school stu
dents do not feel that they
want to leave their class
mates or their school clubs
and activities, or the alma
mater itself. The situation is
made worse because parents
support their childrens' atti-
tude, and the school board in
turn honors the complaints
of the parents.
AS an educator I also pro-
test that such a position is
nj ghly untenable. Surely
there is no one today who has
not heard of the hue and cry
over the last decade that
there is a tremendous short
age of classroom space in
our public schools; that
teaching is impaired in over
crowded conditions; that
teachers cannot teach effec.
lively with the burden of an
excessive pupil load. These
and many other similar
statments are offered as lip
service by the public and are
understood only too well by
the teachers forced to work
under such conditions.
J.W. H.
4 II Il
The Fairfax School Board
should reconsider changing
the school coming district in
which I live. Our community
has already had our children
attend four new schools. In
each case our community
was called on to help form
PTAs, help with playground
facilities and even cafeteria
duties. Would it be such an
unreasonable request for our
cOnnOnIInitv mt N bo
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Fairfax Schools


Fairfax County's School
Board has recorded one of
the most indefensible actions
I have ever heard Of. BY
yielding to "old school tie"
hysteria, it's members have
laid themselves wide open to
charges of nonfeasance, if
not actually to charges of
malfeaSance.
The decision to leave one
new high school completely
unused next fall, with two
others to be Only partially
occupied, perpetrates a fraud
on every taxpayer in Fairfax
County.
I, and tens Of thousands of
others, are paying heavy and
ever heavier taxes to build
schools required by the popu-
lation explosion in Fairfax
County. Public policy with
respect to educational stand
ards demands that attend
ance figures be held as near
as possible to the limits of
building capacity. Yet here
we have a school board de-
cision to abandon entirely, at
least for next year, one new
school with a capacity of
1000. Two others will be
used only to about so per
cent Of capacity, while six
old schools remain heavily
overcrowded.
In the meantime the tax
payers all Of them are
paying off the debt incurred
to build these schools. In
Surance and other obvious
costs must be met even on
the unused building-or, if it
is not protected "a hours a
day, what a wonderful time
the vandals will have!
If this Is not a case of
nonfeaSance and malfeasance,
when ever was there one?
Howard b. BIOomer, jr.
y = y 4
John LawSon's story on
the Fairfax County School
Boards action setting up
high school districts for next
year calls for comment. "Pu-
pill togetherness" and being
liable to claim to have at
tended dear old such and
such high" do not represent
the motives of those who pro-
tested being moved to new
high school districts. Rather,
for the most part, it was con-
Germ for academic standards.
In the Mclean community it
was a wish to have ones chill
dren attend an established
school into which parents
have put a great deal of time
and effort, rather than a
proposed school on which
construction has not yet been
begun, located completely
outside the community.
School officials have made
a Herculean effort to provide
facilities for the huge in
crease in school enrolment;
at the same time they have
raised standards and en-
riched programs. Parents ap-
preciate the magnitude of
these achievements; they also
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saS speaks kindly of Dallas County and
we are not disposed to comment other
wise. This does seem to have been an
educational, as well as profitable, exer-
else in measuring voluntary compli-
ance," however, and lot of other folk
might recognize that what can happen
in Dallas County can happen elsewhere.
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THE TRIANGLE FIRE. nv

IhE IHIANGLE FIRE, by
Leon Stein. 224 pp., illus. q.
B. Lippincott Co., $4.500
To many first and second
generation Americans, the
words Triangle fire" are a
symbol of the dreadful time
in the first decades of this
century when Jewish and Ital-
ian immigrants were ruth
lessly exploited in the sweat
shops of New York's garment
district.
The Triangle ShirtWaiSt Co.
was just another such shop,
better than many as a mat
ter of fact, for at least it
was decently lighted. But on
March Is. 1911, fire broke out
on one of the three floors of
the Asch Building that were
occupied by Triangle. When
it was over, 146 were dead
burned, asphyxiated or
crushed jumping to the pave
ment below-many of them
girls in their teens and early
tWenties.
The owners of the firm
were indicted for manSlaugh-
ter. The District Attorney
maintained that the death of
at least one of the workers
was the direct result of the
illegal locking of an exit door.
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck,
the owners, hired the cele-
brated Max D. Steuer as their
attorney. They were acquit-
ted.
Now, Leon Stein, editor Of
Justice" the publication of
the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union, has
gone back over the records
of that celebrated trial, back
even to the police blotters
and fire department records
of that fateful March Is. He
has tracked down many of
the survivors and interviewed
them with obvious care and
sympathy and yet dispassion.
From these sources and from
newspaper accounts he has
written a vivid and detailed
history of the fire.
THE TRIANGLE fire &C.
CURED so years ago yeSter-
day. But it is not yet pos
sible to read of it without
emotion. For it was not an
act of God; it was the direct
result of human greed.
Even if that celebrated
door was open, the exits
would still have been made
quate. The building code at
that time decreed that the
number of exit Stairways was
to be proportional to the
number of square feet per
floor but somehow failed to
bring the number of stories
in a building into the cal
culation though Manhattan
was rapidly growing upward.
Had there been sprinklers
in the building, the Triangle
fire would never have as
sumed serious proportions.
Sprinklers were available in
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other school change? I do
not feel I am a "disgruntled
parent" because I want my
child to continue in the
school he is presently at
tending.
June M. Lainhart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-26
Settlers Begin Facing Reality
Foreign Correspondent Of The 81

army to break the criminal
conspiracy of a few Thousand
diehard fanatics. The fact is
that making war on the Sc
cret Army really means max
ing war on the European pop
ulation of Algeria. This was
something that the people
here never expected the army
to do. And today some 5000
people surrounded by troops
in Bah ell Oued are learning
the seriousness of their mis-
take.
Beyond this, however, it Is
hard to measure the effect Of
the army's victory" over the
European terrorist. The num-
bers of killed and wounded in
the fighting, arrests being
made, stocks of arms and ex-
plosives being seized do not
represent, so far as can be
learned here; a decisive blow
to the strength Of the GAS.
Almost certainly most lead
ers Of the organization had
left Algiers several days be-
fore the fighting began. There
is considerable speculation
that hot-headed enthusiasts
rather than professionals
started the battle which vio-
lated most of principles laid
down by the GAS leader,
former Gen. Raoul Salan. Al
ready the myth is spreading
repeated by some army Of
ficers - that Communist
provocateurs" were respon-
sible for the first opening Of
fire on French soldiers.
BOmbingS Continue
In any event, the GAS
seems to have lost little Of
its potential for murderous
hit and run tactics. Bomb
ings and assassination since
the battle of Bah ell Oued
have continued at a normal
rate in most major Algerian
cities. Algiers is still virtually
paralyzed by strikes called
by the terroriSts. Police show
little more enthusiasm for
intervening than they did
before.
Despite what has hap
pened, the GAS shows every
sign of continuing it's cam
paign of terror and intimi-
dalton. Whatever the Army
may do, it's leaders may still
hope by bringing about the
gradual breakdown of the
whole system of civil admin
lStration to sabotage the
agreement for a peaceful
settlement of the Algerian
war.
But, in the end. it is the
people themselves that will
decide the outcome. When
the people lose faith in the
leaders of the GAS and the
cause they represent there
will be no more need for
troops and tanks in tine
streets of Algiers. And today,
at long last, there are signs
that the people are begin
ming to see the light.
Navajo times., 1962-07-25

HOSTEEN ATCITTY, Thunderbird
Lodge. Chinle: Translated) "De-
finitely, tourists will buy fuel, food,
and lodging needs. This brings
money to the reservation, So we
must welcome the tourists and
their economy as we'll"
Navajo times., 1962-07-25
BY Hosteen Nez Ill

GRACE LEE. Shiprock, NM: IL
do think that the tourist trade will
boost the Navajo economy and this