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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

steel and other durable goods industries
are contributing. Production disrup-
tions in steel in 1S59-resulting from
the combination of irregular inventory
buying and the strike itself-undoubte
ly contributed to the 1960-61 recession
The same unfortunate course and its
damaging after-effects could be re-
peated this year unless all parties recog-
nize their own and the national inter-
eStS.
Against this background, there is
encouragement in the fact that spokes-
men Of both industry and labor have
referred to greater understanding and
a more reasonable attitude than pre-
vailed between them three years ago. 1t
is promising too that negotiations will
open tomorrow, full four and one
half months before the contract ex-
piration date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Prods City Heads on Georgetown Waterfront Renewal

needed in urban renewal are
funds for relocation and
Federal subsidy to make up
the difference between the
cost Of purchasing the land
and the proceeds resulting
from its resale.
The land to be purchased
in the area is in nonresident
tial use. Hence, no money Is
needed for relocation Of
families. Because the value
Of Georgetown land for
residential purposes as shown
by actual recent sales Is
substantially higher than its
value as industrial land, the
NCPC staff estimates that
no subsidy will be required
for these transactions.
4. urban renewal means
'slum clearance and slum
clearance applies only to
substandard dwellings,"
It is understandable, though
regrettable, that this concept
should still persist in high
official circles. But the fact
is that urban renewal has
for several years now been a
far more adaptable and
more encompassing piece of
governmental machinery than
the original slum clearance
prcSram was. Urban renewal
Is and must be used as a
positive force for the orderly
redevelopment Of our cities.
By undertaking urban re-
newal at Boiling Field, the
Commissioners recognize that
even, or perhaps especially,
unused land needs urban re-
newal to control its rede-
velopment in a way that will
be best for the community as
a whole. Quite wisely, they
did not sell Boiling Field
to speculative bidders to do
with as they wished. The
same principle should be
applied to the unused and
the misuSed land on the
Georgetown waterfront.
Samuel Herman, Chairman,
Executive Committee
The Georgetown Canal
and Riverside Council
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Challenges McGM

Ralph McGill'S column Of
February 8, entitled Time to
Denounce the Extremists" is
fulsome. He says:
"A recent convention Of
right-wing groups meeting in
Oklahoma featured a speak
er who devoted almost 100
pages Of manuscript in sup
port Of a thesis that the
American Negro Is a very
inferior person, indeed, and
unworthy Of any citizenship
rights or privileges save those
scraps that superiors are
pleased to toss him. Anti
mitic calumnies which
were old when Pharaoh hard
ened his heart were pro-
claimed in vulgar and OBJ
scene fashion"
Christian Crusade held a
convention in Tulsa during
the latter part of January.
If Mr.. McGill's reference is
to Christian Crusade, I chal-
lenge him either to furnish
proof Of his charges (parti-
cularly the charge Of obscen-
ity) or refrain from such
charges In the future.
r M. w. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Feathers FH

Senator Williams, who has
acquired the habit Of prying
seems to have uncovered a
huge stockpile of feathers.
He does not show the ex-
tent and size Of the stock
pile, but he does show that
we have recently sold from 1t
100000 pounds.
Nor does he show the color
Of the feathers, but obviously
they were not white feath-
ers. since we have retained
those and used them in Ber-
lin and Cuba, and now in
GAS. We are also under
taking to plaster them onto
our generals.
One wonders if the invoice
Of those sold included the
feathers plucked from the
American eagle at the time
the &c" was taken from his
scream by General Eisen-
hover in Korea, who prompt
ly truckled out Of that unhap-
py land, dragging the flag
behind hinP through the rice
paddles and canals.
J. w. Hassel.
Dallas, Texas.
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Wrong Time

Delegate Carlton B. Sickles of Prince
Georges County may very well be right
when he says there are still loopholes
in the Maryland savings and loan regu-
latory law which should be plugged by
State legislation. But the rejection of
his plea that the House of Delegates
conduct a grand inquest" into the en-
tire subject at this time was wise de-
cision.
For such probe would require more
time than Is available in the 30-day
session now under way. Nor is this the
kind of investigation which should be
conducted without full and careful prep
aration. Indeed, the session is all too
short to handle the business already be-
fore it. Had the Sickles motion carried,
the prospects for favorable action on
the important pending bills almost
surely would have been lost. Finally, it
is hard to imagine productive results
from such hastily instituted inquest"
in the supercharged political atmo-
sphere which surrounds the savings and
loan issue.
No doubt, as some opponents Of the
inquest" charged, Mr.. Sickles was poll
tically motivated, at least in part For
the Mahoney ticket, on which Mr.. Sic
kles is running for congressman-at-
large, has made the savings-and-loan
scandals a major issue in the Demo-
cratic primary campaign. No doubt,
also, some of those who voted against
him did so in the hope Of taking some
OF the political heat off the ADMINISTERS
ton of Governor TaweS.
But there were others who felt that
the timing of the SickleS proposal was
wrong, that it would be mistake to tie
up the House Of Delegates on this single
issue during short session." aid that
the conduct Of grand inquess" by the
house as whole may not be the best
way to investigate. With these members
we agree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
No Dental Elixir?

One of your staff writer's
in The Sunday Star drew a
grim picture of $1,000 chill
dren with decayed teeth who
had no money for private
treatment, $4,000 of whom
could get no help from the
Districts clinics. Consider
able finger-pointing on the
part of authorities involved
was done in trying to fix re-
sponSibility. In problems Of
this kind 1t is difficult for the
casual reader to decide from
the welter of charges and
counter-charges who's on
first" Be that as it may,
much argument has ap-
peared at the expense of tubs
Of ink to prove that sodium
fluoride judiciously added to
our city drinking water would
provide a dental elixir that
would greatly retard carries
in children's teeth.
At the risk involved in be-
ing vocal for the so-called
"crack-pots, health nuts, and
emotionally unstable people
who oppose fluoridation" as
a menace to general health,
may I ask what these $1,000
kids have been drinking in
re &c mt months - spring
water? And if this figure re-
leased by the District Dental
Society represents only needy
children who can't pay for
treatment, there must be
four or five times that many
whose parents can and do
pay for dental care. Where
do their carries come from?
Too much pop, candy, and
ice cream, or not enough
Washington tap water? If it
is the latter. our dedicated
fluorid a toni SITS should
launch an imbibing cam
paign to prove their case,
thereby enabling the District
Department Of Health to OPP
crate within their budget.
Brother!
New Dentures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Arms and the Summit

together with its allies, the United
States is taking an UNDERSTANDABLE
cautious and skeptical view, though not
fatty negative one, of Nikita Khru-
shchev'S proposal to begin the impend-
ing 18-nation disarmament meeting at
Geneva with summit conference of
the heads Of all the governments in
volved. This was made clear by Sec
rotary of State Rusk in an interview
last night.
In keeping with resolution adopted
by the United Nations General Assem-
bly,, the Geneva get-together has been
scheduled to open on March IA as a non
spectacular gathering of relatively low
er-echelon negotiators. Last week, how
ever, President Kennedy and British
Prime Minister Macmillan, in special
and possibly unwise message to Mr..
khrushchev, suggested that the Geneva
sessions be launched on higher level,
with the foreign ministers of Russia
Britain and the United States attending.
The Soviet Premier, in response,
now has proposed to do things in much
grander style by going to the very sum-
mit-well above that of the foreign min
listers, and in fact as high as one can
get In inter governmental negotiations.
Possibly he is acting in good faith.
But certain realities tend to make his
idea look like little more than an exer-
else in Red propaganda-a display of
seemingly sweet reasonableness calcu-
lated, among other things, to put Mr..
Kennedy and Mr.. Macmillan on the de-
fensive in relation to Anglo American
preparations for resumption of at
mospheric nuclear tests.
These tests, of course, as Mr.. Ken
nedy has indicated, will be undertaken
as they are likely to be, and Soon-if
the security interests of America so de-
mand. Mr.. Khrushchev's call for sum-
init meeting next month-which is OBJ
viouSly much too early date for such
a conference-should not weaken our
Governments resolve to set off what
ever detonations may be necessary to
make sure that nothing is left undone
in coping with the potentially ominous
consequences of last falls unprecedent-
ed series of Soviet atomic hydrogen
SIloCS III Cne atmosphere.
Apart from all this, even as our
Government leaves the door open to a
possible summit meeting in the months
ahead, numerous factors argue elo-
quently against the idea of staging such
a get-together on the date suggested
by Mr.. KhruShchev. Under the most
propitious circumstances, to put it mild
ly, there is little or no reason to expect
that an early gathering of 10 heads Of
State-an awkward and unwieldy gath
ering at best, and a tower of Babel at
worst-could arrive at quick and sane
decisions, in quick and sane manner,
as regards the fearSome problems of
the nuclear age.
Still, in his latest note to our side,
Mr.. Khrushchev has at least limited at
the possibility of Soviet readiness to
work honestly for an abatement in in
ternational tensions. If that is the fact
OF the matter Zone must keep ones
fingers crossed, Of course), then the
forthcoming Geneva disarmament con-
ference, even without the attendance Of
heads Of state, may achieve something
of value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

Your timely editSrial of
February 8 underscores the
urgent need for immediate
action in the redevelopment
Of the historic Georgetown
Waterfront area. 1.-THE lack
Of interest" Of the D. C. Com
missioners toward the sketch
plan being prepared by the
staff Of the National Capital
Planning Commission must
derive from misinformation.
Their surprising recent &C
ton in attempting to shelve
the plan becomes downright
shocking when one considers
the fallacies on which it was
based:
l. urban renewal action
for that area may be all
right, but it can wait for a
few years."
This fails to recognize that
the area will be redeveloped
whether there is urban re-
newal action or not. Large
tracts Of land, like the King
coal yard and the Rosslyn
Steel property. are presently
available. 1t is only natural
to expect that these tracts,
bound to follow with the
continuing industrial dec NJ,
will be redeveloped in a sa,'
that will bring their OWL
the greatest profit. EE
greatest profit can obvious
be gained from high rise Oh
flee buildings which are per-
mitted under the present
coming regulations.
It Is already a matter Of
public record that an attor-
ney representing a prominent
advertising and public rela-
tons firm has applied for a
permit to build a five-story
office building on the ;ery
edge Of the historic C&O
Canal at 31st street. This
proposal is, Of course, OBJ
noxious to historical pres
ervationists and others who
want to enhance rather than
destroy the enjoyment that
thousands Of people con-
stantly derive from the
Canal. But this contemplated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Strange Reasoning

This is free country, and any man
is entitled to say what he thinks-no
matter how far off the beam he may
be-. This, of course, applies to people
who ought to know better, including
New York's Governor Rockefeller.
The Governor, in televiSion ap-
pearance, criticized President Kennedy
for the failure of last years invasion
Of Cuba. With this criticism, most
people will agree. The President should
either have called off the landing or
provided the air and sea support neces-
sary to insure its success. It was a
major blunder to cancel the needed
support and still permit the then hope
less undertaking to go forward.
Mr.. Rockefeller, however, jumps
from this sound position to the IRA
tioilal conclusion that the Cuban fiasco
was, responsible for the failure" Of the
Punta del Este conference. His reason
ing was that "the great United States
had failed to live up to the Monroe
Doctrine" and that, in consequence,
the big Latin American countries felt
they could not depend on us for help
II they were to be involved in difficult
ties over Castro.
This is strange doctrine. In the
first place, the Punta del Este confer
ence, in our opinion, was a substantial
success, not failure Secondly, there
must be something wrong with the
Governors crystal ball. For it did not
reveal to him the fact that all of the
Latin governments voted to condemn
Castro's Communist regime. Nor did it
expose the reasons-reasons having
nothing to do with the abortive Cuban
invasion-which prompted at least some
of the big countries to abstain on the
vote to exclude Cuba from the GAS.
We do not suppose the point can be
proved one way or the other. It is our
belief, however, that the Governor wan
dered far afield when he suggested that
the governments of Brazil and Argen-
tina, for example, abstained on the
exclusion vote because they feared,
after the Bay of Pigs affair, that the
United States would nots offer support
in event of Castro inspired attack
on them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
NeutroIs?

Like a curious and doubt
full little boy, I am begin
ming to think there is some
thing about Western coloni-
alism and Imperialism that
Uncle Sam didn't tell us.
Otherwise. how would 1t be
possible for three supposedly
neutrals as India. Yugoslavia
and Egypt, who have &C
cepted hundreds Of millions
from us for their welfare and
support, to vote against us
on so many world issues?
Herbert SOmmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Ait Stake in Steel

Fg The unusual extent to which the
Federal Government is intervening on
behalf Of an early and no-strike agree
nent on new Steel-labor contract
should be helped by certain self-interest
considerations within industry and labor
ranks alike.
The contract which expires next
June 80 is product Of bitter negotia-
tons and a costly strike of record
length, 116 days, in 1859. Among the
costs, it has been estimated that the
average Steelworker lost nearly $4,000
in wages during the shutdown and that
the pay and fringe gains finally agreed
upon have not yet completely offset the
strike time losses. Hurting the industry,
as well as labor, Is the fact that nearly
four months Of no production opened
the American market to an import flood
OF foreign steel, and it is noteworthy
that in certain categories Of steel this
high level of imports has continued dur
ing the three years since. It is partly
reflection of this increased competition
that an estimated 100000 steelworkers
currently are unemployed, and likewise
that membership in the United Steel
workers union has declined by about
the same number.
From the industry standpoint spe-
officially, production stoppage this
summer would seriously damage present
prospects of profitable year. Heavy
inventory buildups in anticipation of a
strike inevitably are followed by sub
sequent decrease in demand, resulting
I'M an up-and-down production schedule
that is less efficient and less profitable
than one of more sustained regularity.
An administration appeal to refrain
from panic-buying Of steel was made
several weeks ago, and was repeated in
Labor Secretary Goldberg's message last
week to industry and union leaders
when he spoke Of the Importance of
avoiding abnormal expansion in the
steel industry, followed by compen-
Sating contraction"
Even more basic In this whole pic
ture is the matter of the national in
terest, a point which both President
Kennedy and Mr.. Goldberg have empha-
sized in their appeals for early negotia-
lions and agreement without strike.
There is ample evidence, for example,
to support Mr.. Goldberg's statement
that "the Nation Is in the midst Of a
Vigorous economic recovery to which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

purposes Of TRANSMISSION NAV
be brought nearer in the next
decade. Tooth banks and
tooth transplants are q hoped
for possibility"
Looking somewhat further
afield is the growing Of new
organs for old within the
body itself. This remains a
long-term goal and is hardly
to be expected in the next
decade, although fundamen-
tai experimentation now is In
progress.
Search for the cause or
causes Of human cancer"
says the report, now ia
almost a crash program. Cru
cial knowledge is slowly but
surely being accumulated.
Demonstration of the virus
cause Of variety Of cancers.
including leukemia, in certain
laboratory animals has re-
newed our thought towards
control of this dread disease
and already has led to in
tensified research. There liz
growing, if not entirely con-
elusive, evidence that relates
the cancer problem to the
general problem Of environ
mental health.
THE area of research on
host-parasite relations en-
compasseS all the relation
ships between man, and
other animal and plant hosts.
and the beneficent, neutral
and harmful parasites, in
Guiding viruses, that in
Test and infect. An extension
OF the parasite concept can
orlng the invasive cells of
cancer into the same category.
Other Expectations
This research area is one
OF extraordinarily broad
scope, including, as it does,
all the infectious diseases. A
vast amount Of work already
has been done during nearly
a century but the area re-
mains near or at the top of
the research list"
Finding of new and more
potent antimetabollites and
antibioticS now has a high
priority. Antimetabollites are
among the most promising of
the agents now being tested
for anti-cancer action, and
offer continued promise in
the attack on invading dis
ease organisms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

building is practically a de-
light in comparison with
other uses that are actively
under consideration-motels,
10-story office buildings etc.
all of which are permitted
under present coming.
Once such uncontrolled
redevelopment takes place,
urban renewal will no longer
be feasible. Now, when the
sites are unused, is our only
chance to save the George
town waterfront area for the
Small-scale recreational, park
and residential uses which
the NCPC staff report so
wisely recommends.
2. 1--WE should finish the
urban renewal projects al
ready under way before I'M
dertaking new ones"
This is the essence Of the
Rabaut bill approach which
we thought the Commission
erS themselves had rejected.
To achieve economical adj
ministration of urban re-
newal it is always desirable
to have new projects under
advisement. Neither the PLAN
ming agency (NCPC) nor the
the executing agency (RLA)
has given any indication that
the waterfront project would
ri Sc them any undue bur-
i. - also unfortunate that
the Commissioners have in
troduced the priority list
concept, because the infer
ence appears that one section
of the District of Columbia
is in competition with an
other with respect to the
need for the adoption of
urban renewal. The problem
of the Georgetown water
front area is a District of
Columbia problem Of first
rank.
8. urban renewal action
on the Georgetown water
front area would siphon off
resources that should be
applied elsewhere"
The financial resources
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

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ton. Those not used iDiH be
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VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Major Medical Advances in Offiinn
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

Medicine looks ahead "con-
Servatively" to a host of ma
jor advances in the next few
decades.
The predictions are, among
other things, for replacing of
many lost or diseased body
organs. final determination of
the cause and possibly the
cure for cancer, and locali-
cation Of minute brain areas
involved in consciousness and
thinking. Some of the most
advanced treatments of today
probably will seem crude in
comparison with what is to
come.
The forecast by Dale r.
Lindsay and Ernest M. Allen
OF the National Institutes of
Health Of the United States
Public Health Service is in a
report to the American As
ISOLATION for the Advance
ment Of Science.
Detectives Cited
Some Of the major advances,
says the report, probably will
be In the area Of prosthesis
in the broadest sense pro-
ducing workable substitutes
for organs. Further investiga-
ton directed to the follow
ing detectives is expected:
Developing artificial heart.
valves. techniques for main
tanning some part Of the body,
for example a cancerous ex-
tremity, under a separate
circulation with a high con-
centration of some remedial
agent, devising a means of
replacing failing kidney func-
ton and deviSing a substitute
for lost vision or lost sense
Of equilibrium.
Research may be expected
to continue on the problem
Of rejection of skin gratis
and organ transplants, for
example of kidneys, which
now occurs except in cases
where the recipient and the
donor have nearly identical
genetic backgrounds. Blood
and bone marrow transfu-
sionS may be an associated
development, if the general
problem Of rejection of for
eign tissue ever is solved.
This same process of rejec-
ton is, Of course, beneficent
when the body combats for
eign tissue of an invading
pathogenic organism. Tissue
culture of bone marrow for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Urban Satellites

The establishment Of q
Department Of Urban Affairs
is the greatest threat to free
dom in all the history Of our
Nation, no matter who heads
it.
It will make all cities and
towns satellites Of Washing
ton, The true purpose Of
this department is to by
pass all city and State gov
ernmentS and to bring these
cities and towns under direct
control of the executive
branch Of the Federal Gov
eminent.
1t will replace freely elect
ed officials responsible to the
citizens Cor voters) who
elected them by political ap-
pointees responsible to the
President. This is the breed
ing ground for dictatorship
and unlimited bureaucracy.
The a d m in istration has
used control Of tax monies
to enforce its dictates upon
the people and has shown
that it will stop at nothing,
including trying to bypass
United States Congress. Let
the voters beware!
Allen A. Stuart,
Phoenix, Ariz.
i 4 4 4
Some people would have
us believe that the opposi-
ton to the new Department
Of Urban Affairs stems from
the fact that a Negro would
be appointed as its head.
I am opposed to another
monstrosity in Government
even were my uncle to head
it. Just think of the thou
sands of cities, towns, villages
and hamlets that would be
told from Washington how
to carry on their affairs.
H. E. Shipley.