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Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26
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There has been great deal of talk in Montgomery
County in recent years. most of 1t since we switched TO
the system of electng school board members about the
fiscal RESPONSIBILITY of school board members and
some of their actions regarding administrative, cr1cu-
lum and personnel matters
Some of this criticism has been valid. Some of it has
been reckless and Irresponsible And will soon be
vaid-as campaign to fill four of the seven school board
seats gets into high gear.
We dislike as much as anyone else the "hbera" and
conservative labels that banded about so loosely but
like everyone else-we unable to improve on them
Accordingly there to be alternative to categorZ
ing the two factions that the principals in school board
elections as bera and conservative Possibly the label
moderate" be thrown in to help clarity some OF the
muddled situation.
In the Forthcoming campaign the liberals will be out
to preserve the firm control they have had over school
affairs in recent years And the conservatives will be out
to wrest this control from the liberals
In the past the losing conservatives have argued that
their losses were not because majority of county voters
preferred their liberal foes but because the liberals through
calculated strategy placed only of their members in
the race for given seat while the conservatives in
numbers and splntered the conservative vote that the
liberal candidate with solid vote behind him squeaked
through.
To settle this issue once and for all have sugges
ton to make to the liberals why don't you disclose to the
conservatives how it is that you able to execute this
devastangy effective technique in every election? Then
armed with these hitherto secret techniques they too will
be able to do the thing in the forthcoming election
And then it all will become beautifully simple One con-
servave liberal in each and when the ballots
added up there won't be any question Either the con-
servative will have the liberal will have won. And
the conservatives will not then be able to advance their
usual argument
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26

Downstairs / was directed to
another building a block and a
half away. At this building I
was given written instructions
to another office about a mile
away, and upon my arrival
here was told that this was the
wrong office. There 1 accepted
an offer to forward the slip
with a letter and a self-ad-
dressed envelope to the correct
office. 1 have not yet received
my dollar. If a dollar is to be
given to witnesses, why is it
so inconvenient to collect?
1 did not expect payment in
the first place. But l did ex-
pect to be called within an
hour of the time 1 was asked
to appear; 1 did expect that 1
would not have been called un-
less my testimony was needed.
The waiting room was full Of
other people; it would be inter-
esting to know the aggregate
time and money wasted.
Mrs. II. d. JOynton, Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26

Rockville was host to 81
American Field Service students
and 2 chaperones during the
week of July 9. These students,
representing % countries, had
lived and studied in high schools
in California and Texas for the
past year. Their visit to Wash
ington was their last stop be-
fore returning to their homes.
On behalf of the American
Field Service we wish to ex-
press thanks to the many peo-
pie in Rockville who partici-
pated so whole-heartedly in the
first BUS Stop" our city has
had.
The enthusiasm, planning, and
hard work done by Neil Of
sthun, Bob Lazun, and Norman
Mcmahon of the City Recrea-
ton Department resulted in an
evening of dancing at the Teen
Center, where Rockville teen-
ayers met and mingled with the
ATS students. The students
were especially pleased to find
the Center decorated with flags
of their countries. We thank
Mayor Ecker for coming to the
dance and welcoming the stu
dents to Rockville.
We are grateful to members
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26
Reply TO Editorial

A former prime minister of
The Union of South Africa,
the late and unlamented Jan
Christian Smuts, is reported
to have made the following
statement in New York: Next
to the ass, the Negro is the
most patient animal in the
world" l have never believed
this, but apparently there are
people who if they do not be-
lieve this is true, believe that
it ought to be true. Unfortu-
nately, the editors of The
Mnogomery County Sentinel
belong to the latter group.
How else can one explain
your lead editorial of July 19,
CORES Reaction Regret
table?" You attack Julius
Hobson, eastern regional di-
rector of CORE, because he is
impatient with a circuitous
procedure whereby certa in
citizens must obtain rights
which automatically adhere
to other citizens. / do not be-
lieve that any citizen who pos.
sesses all of the rights of
citizenship, is qualified to tell
other citizens who are denied
them, when they may enter
the main stream of American
life and the pace at which
they may obtain these rights.
You write: "After more
than a century of such dis
elimination being perfectly
legal it seems highly logical
and proper to take this extra
step before violators are con-
victed and thrown in Jail"
What a poor defense of the
past. Have you never heard
of Plessey versus Ferguson
and the 1854 Supreme Court
school decision? Have you
forgotten the restrictive cove
nant cases and the ruling of
the Supreme Court in 1913 on
restrictive covenants?
Is it too much to hope that
the Federal Courts will rule
that a public business which
gets its license to operate
from the state or a political
subdivision of the state can
not call upon the state to use
its police powers to enforce q
trespass law, for reason OF
race and color alone, without
that state being in violation
of the due process clause oi
the Fourteenth Amendment?
We extol such men in Amer
lean history as Patrick Henry
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26

of the Richard Montgomery
ATS Club who helped immeas-
urably.
The facilities of the Rockville
Presbyterian Church were made
available to the group. The Sec
retary of the church, Mrs. Burk
Fauley, very graciously mimeo-
graphed the students diary of
their 23-day bus trip across the
country.
1t has been most gratifying
to have so many Rockville cit
liens participating and making
a community activity of this
worthwhile program designed
to foster understanding and
good will amongst nations all
over the world.
Very truly yours,
Evelyn III. Mohn
(Mrs. Kermit b. MOhn)
Bus Chairman
Mary E. Bridges
Mrs. Robert w. Bridges)
President
Richard Montgomery
Chapter
American Field Service
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26
Give COP Credit

The Republicans deserve
much credit for their decision
to choose their nominees in a
free and representative county
convention. If they can do
that well in making the best
of the Democrats failure to
reapportion in time to hold a
primary, think what the Re-
publican Party could do to
clean up the mess the Demo-
Gratis have made in Rockville!
Sincerely,
b. j. Eisele
Montgomery County sentinel., 1962-07-26

SUBSCRIPTION RATES
District OF Columbia
One Year $3.50 Two Years $50
Telephone: Garden 1-770o
Mailed In Maryland and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-26

CARE = administered Peace
Corps projects were cited by
Mr.. Reuter- as examples OF
CARES expanding impact"
throughout the world. NEDICO
sends teams Of American
physicians and nurses and
medical supplies to under
developed areas. DR.. Peter D
ComanduraS is an assistant
executive director Of CARE In
charge Of the MEDICO pro-
grams.
Donations to CARE last yeaI
totaled $9.160,160. a rise OF
about 2 per cent from the So
955, 430 in 1861, Mr.. Reuter- re-
ported. The average donation
was $3.50 last year, he said ir
his annual report.
Senator Douglas, Democrat Of
Illinois, praised CARES person
to-person aid program, which
he said "helps overcome the
difficulties inherent in any
government to government
program"
TT is to your credit that vol
have moved out from food Il
self-help," Senator Douglas tolC
the CARE directors.
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CARENomes NewHeod,
Reports Record Volume

valuable asset to the Govern
ment in achieving the aims Of
its Food for Peace Program.
said Harold s. Miner, CARE
president, in praise Of Mr.,
Reuter-.
Mr.. Reuter- told CARE d.
rectors at a Mayflower Hotel
luncheon meeting that the or
ganization shipped $64 million
worth Of food. self help tools,
medical supplies and other
equipment to people overseas
during the fiscal year ended
June 80. This was an increase
of 20 per cent over last years
volume Of $50 million. he said
Last years volume sent CARE
past the half billion dollar
mark in overseas aid since the
nonprofit agency began operat-
ing in 1916.
The merger Of CARE anc
MEDICO in March and two
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Mental Observation
Shortcut Dropped

to the hospital for 80 days for
mental observation.
Details Asked -
The Judge ruled that the
petition should be properly
filled out. giving full circum-
stances Of arrests for mental
observation before the arrest
ing officer signs the petition
and the petition is notarized,
The Judge noted that this
procedure was not followed in
the Burgwald case after her
arrest in q garage near her
home on July Is.
Frederick A. Thuee, Mental
Health Commission Chairman
said last night that hence
forth the proper procedure will
be followed In all cases. He ex-
planned that the method of al
lowing the arresting officers in
mental observation cases to
sign the petitions in blank has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-26

The Mental Health Commits
sion yesterday dropped q prae-
tice Of long stand ing-designed
to speed commitment Of pa
tients for mental observation
in the wake Of q judges ruling
that the practice was not tech
nically legal and proper.
The issue came up as District
Court Judge Edward A. Tamm
ordered the release from Dis
trict General Hospital Of Anne
Burgwald, 43, Of the 2400 block
Of Sixteenth street NV, In
granting q petition for q writ
Of habeas corpus filed by her
attorney, I. william Stempil.
After q hearing Tuesday,
Judge Tamm ruled that Pvt.
Thomas McGlynn Of No. Is
Precinct should not have car
ried out the practice permitted
by the Mental Health Commits
sion Of signing q blank petition
to have the woman committed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-26
By CLARENCE HUNTER
Star Staff Writer

CARE delivered $64 million
Yurth Of aid to needy people in
q countries last year for the
largest volume Of assistance in
il 16-year history, Richard w.
Renter, its departing executive
director. reported yesterday.
president Kennedy on Tues
day named Mr.. Reuter- the new
executive director Of the q. S.
Food for Peace Program.
The CARE board of directors
granted Mr.. Reuter- an indefi-
ME leave Of absence and ap-
pointed Frank L. Goffio, the
agency's deputy executive d.
rector. CARES new chief ex-
ecutive.
The board believes that the
intimate understanding and
administrative skill he has
gained in the performance of
his duties will prove an in
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C0nvence to Officers
Mr.. Thuee pointed out that
this practice was followed In an
effort to speed up the process
Of getting petitions filed to &C
commodate policemen and
other law enforcement officers.
Mr.. Thuee conceded that the
abandoned practice could con-
tfnue to haunt the commission
through the protests Of other
patients whose mental observa-
ton petitions we're also signed
in blank.
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Convence to Officers

been done In occasional cases
for longer than 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05

House Minority Leader Hal
leck then boosted on the "Ev
and Charlie" show that the
party had disproved the neg
alive image Democrats were
seeking to attach to it.
The administration started
out with Congress last jan
uary in a rather muted key.
Foreign trade was described
by its political tune-compos-
ers as the big issue which had
to be fought to the finish on
a bipartisan basis, and con-
troverSy was a bad word.
Today there is considerable
gloom at the White House
regarding the other end Of
Pennsylvania avenue. The
situation in the House is
viewed as being out of hand,
with little Improvement, in
prospect. It does not come
with stunning impact that
the new House Democratic
leadership is not producing,
for not too much had been
expected of it.
Committees of both Senate
and House are the surprise.
1t had been expected that
most administration bills
would at least be reported
out and subject to debate for
educational purposes, but
many major ones are blocked
in closed-door hearing rooms.
Others are being refash-
Toned and will bear only a
purely coincidental relation
ship to the originals. With
his own party in nominal
control of Congress, this puts
the President on the spot.
A big reason for the situa-
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DAVID LAWRENCE

"A new DOCK has Just been
published which will certainly
be widely talked about where
ever the influence of religious
groups in politics is discussed.
1t is an authorized biography
Of Cardinal Spellman. 1t tells
for the first time the inside
story Of how and why. after
a lapse of SO years, relations
were resumed in 1889 between
the White House and the
Vatican. 1t covers a period
of ten years during which
the late Myron C. Taylor,
formerly head of the U. S.
Steel Corporation, served as
the personal envoy of the
President of the United States
to Pope Plus XII. Mr.. Taylor,
who had been appointed by
President Franklin D. RooSe-
welt, submitted his reSigna-
ton to President Truman in
1850.
The intimacy portrayed be-
tween the Vatican and Presi-
dent Roosevelt will doubtless
cause some Catholic publica-
tons to repeat recent COM
ments that a President who
is a Protestant evidently can
do some things to please
Catholics of voting age that
a President who, like Mr..
Kennedy, happens to be a
Catholic feels it would be I'M
wise politically to do.
Whatever the comments
may be. the fact is that the
book, which was written by
Father Robert I. Cannon, a
former president of Fordham
University, contains an au-
thorized version Of a very
interesting chapter in Ameri-
can history. Excerpts from
Cardinal Spellman's diary
and quotations from unpub-
lished letters written by
President Roosevelt to the
Cardinal tell of a contact be-
tween dignitaries of the
Roman Catholic Church and
the White House which has
never been duplicated. In
fact, the author Of the book,
after reviewing President
Humans unsuccessful at
tempt in 1850 to get Congress
to establish diplomatic re-
lations formally with the
Vatican, says Wistfully:
And there the matter has
rested ever since. Mr.. Tru-
mans successor, with no pres
sure from Catholic America,
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Problems in Biportisonship

increasing - and right - in
Movement against the Com
muniSt aggressors In Wet
Nam; Mr.. Kennedy's long
hesitation before resuming
nuclear testing in the air.
even though the Russians
had long since done so.
On all these occasions. the
congressional Repub licans
have listened to the national
interest rather than to party
interest and have rightly de-
clined to draw their guns
against the President.
In ordinary justice these
Republicans - and notably
their chief spokesman, Sem
ator Everett Dirksen Of Illi-
nois-deserve a public salute
for this. 1t can be fairly said
of them Though not of such
purely partisan instrumental
tiles as the Republican Ma
tional Committed that they
have drawn the gun only
when they have felt absolutely
obliged to do so.
They have carried self-dis-
ciplined bipartisanship to the
farthest limit than any set
of politicians, being human.
could be expected to carry it.
When. therefore. they do
draw the gun for a shot or
two, as in Senator Dirksen's
recent expression of concern
at our harshness to our old
European Allies over colo
NAL" issues, they are en-
titled to be heard, and with
respect.
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White House and the Vatican

Park of Cardinal Pacelli,
secretary of state at the
Vatican. Clater Pope Plus
XIII that forged the most
important link in the chain
of events leading up to the
final decision"
The book mentions the
fact that the elder Kennedy,
while United States Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, was
appointed by President
Rockwell to act as his special
representative at the corona
ton of Pope Plus XII.
Father Cannon writes that
lit was another first, the
first papal coronation at
which the United States
Government had been Off
cially represented" Bishop
Spellman's diary says in this
connection on March II,
1899:
Joe Kennedy phoned me
from London expressing his JOY
at all that has taken place and
the honors he has received from
the Holy Father. He said Car
dinal O'Connell (BoSton) is
against recognition of the
Vatican by the U. S. A."
President Truman on Febru-
airy 8, 1850, in a letter to Joseph
Kennedy, wrote:
1T is indeed helpful to have
all this background information
concerning the origin of the
Taylor mission from one who
had so large and influential a
part in the preliminary nego-
tiations."
Most people today probably
are not aware of the fact. as
stated in the new book, that
the United States and the
Vatican have had quasi-diplo-
matte relations about eight
times.
THE Cardinal Spellman
Story" just published by
Doubleday & Company, re-
sembles in many respects the
biography of the late Cardinal
Gibbons, who died in 1921 at
the age of 81 after an eventful
career in the public eye. The
latter work, in two volumes
which was written by John
Tracy Ellis, professor of Ameri-
can church history at the
Catholic University, and pub
lished in 1952-tells the story
of the eminent prelate's many
contacts and friendship with
Presidents Grover Cleveland
and Theodore Roosevelt, which
in those days also became sub
jects of political controversy.
Copyright, 1852.
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Republicans Showing Sef-DiscipIine
In Efforts to Back President

the facts and only the Presi-
dent must be trusted to deal
with it all in the end. This
the congressional Republic
cans have wisely, and even
bravely, recognized.
The deep blue sea which
yawns beneath them is this:
There is always the chance
that in going along with the
Democratic administration
they may go along all too we'll,
and so later have to share
blame for policies which may
be seen in the afterlight as
bad for the national interest.
Life, of course, is always
unfair to any minority party.
For such a party can never
take up all-out opposition in
foreign affairs without en-
dangering the whole country
and at the same time is al
ways vulnerable if its gen.
crosby can be shown in retro
spect to have been too un-
critical.
The present situation. how
ever. is especially difficult,
simply because the present
world itself is one of monu-
mental difficulties. In the
short time of Mr.. Kennedy's
presidency. the Republicans
have had all these fat and
easy partisan targets: The
tragic failure of the lost pa
triots' invasion of Cuba; our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

One hundred Navy emerge from two weeks in
aout shelter One took one look at the latest headlines
from Moscow-and went right back in again.
A poll shows 78 cent of the people approve of
President Kennedy Eight cent with his policies
and 70 cent like him for being nice to Caroline
Vice President Lyndon Johnson addresses conference
occupaona safety His recipe for occupaona safety Stay
within camera range of Lieut.. Col. John Glenn.
Space John Glenns rocket capsule become
the gocompact of the seventes-and the go-cart
eighties.
An Air Force B-58 bomber will cross the continent at
twice the speed of sound The sound is taking beating
these days. its lone remaining stronghold is Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05
Preston Reelected
By Hospital Center

A. Murray Preston. a vice
president of the American
Security and Trust Co., has
been reelected president of the
board of trustees of the Wash
ington Hospital Center.
Corporation members also
elected two Washington physi-
clans, DR.. Hugo V. Rizzoli and
DR.. Ernest A. Gould, to three
year terms on the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05
Walker Is Named
Masonic Leader
Of District Units

Harry C. Walker, general
supply officer for the Army
Ordnance Corps, was elected
and installed last week as the
Masonic Orders Most Illustri-
GUS Grand Master of Royal and
Select Masters of the District
of Columbia.
Mr.. Walker, a past master
of Lebanon Masonic Lodge No.
7 and present treasurer of the
Mount Pleasant Council No. 5,
R&SM, succeeds Eugene F.
Shouse in the Masonic post.
Succeeding Mr.. Walker in
the post of deputy grand mas
ter is Virgil E. Burner. Other
officers elected at yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The congressional Republi-
cans are stoutly walking a
high and swaying wire over
foreign policy, in a complex
and very dangerous world.
Their twin difficulties are
clear, but their rewards have
been meager. Their sense of
decent responsibility has
been, to date. too little appre-
ciated by the non-political
public. Little known, too, is
that on the really tough for
eign showdowns they have
given President Kennedy at
least as much vital support
as has his own Democratic
Party.
The Republicans are caught
between an excessively nasty
devil and an excessively deep
blue sea. The devil they have
thus far avoided, with great
self-restraint, is the tempta-
ton to make politics by Of
fering irresponsible criticism
Of the Kennedy administra-
ton in our marching series of
foreign crises.
This kind of criticism,
though unhappily not un-
known before this in both
parties when one or the other
has been in minority opposi-
ton, could put this country
and all the free lands in
grave and immediate peril.
Everywhere - over Berlin,
over Southeast Asia, over
Cuba, over the disarmament
question-the situation is
filled with a sinister delicacy.
Only the President has all
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43d annual Grand Council as
sembly at the Masonic Temple
Thirteenth street and New York
avenue NV, include:
Marion K. Warner, granc
principal conductor of the
work; Ralph L. Hebbard, Crane
treasurer; Otto B. Roepke
grand recorder, and Samuel T
Farmer. grand chaplain.