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Evening star., 1962-05-16

OLlc WOLLldIl ABdlIlSL MIS-
fortune, in Readers Digest,
reveals the initiative, courage
and power of a woman"
This one little housewife Of
65 has, through her feeling
Of compassion for suffering
humanity, organized a relief
service that has exceeded
human evaluation.
But, there's a project that
is not generally known right
here in our metropolitan
area.
In January, 1861, Mrs.
william C. Mohler, a doctors
wife and registered nurse,
conceived the idea Of con-
serving excess drugs to send
to a particular area Of need
in the Belgian Congo.
Before furniture could fill
her new home it was Stacked
from attic to basement with
non-narcotic drugs and med
ical materials. If her little
two-year-old child ever deve-
loped a complex it will be
over pills-pills she could not
touch, many Of them tempt
ingly pretty.
With the help Of her sister,
Mrs. Robert Popen, who took
over much of the tremendous
telephone job, and the driv-
ers and the collectors who
gathered in these excess
drugs, the first big step was
accomplished. This step es-
tablished the impetus for q
challenging continuation.
Even with the help Of
masses under the surveil-
lance Of doctors, this inter-
denominational project has
continued. It has grown to
where it has almost pushed
the walls out. The crying
need is for a guardian angel
who can supply needed space.
Many family S acrific e S
have been made but this
project has continued. Bad
weather, a sick baby. per-
sonal plans - have not de-
tanned it.
The endless hours Of tele-
phoning, collecting, alpha
betizing, coding. packing g
without breaking the drug
enclosing seal and repacking
to conserve every inch of
space, and then arranging for
transportation of these very
heavy drums, to a shipping
point, and finally ship pas
sage with the least cost, re-
quired more than ordinary
initiative. 1t has to be pro-
noted by love-love in serving
less fortunate human beings.
1t has been aided finan-
cially too by the faithful
support Of a few churches.
1t costs money too to send
out Is drums of SIS gallons
each in less than a years
time.
All Of us who have served
in any small measure on
Operation Drugs for Congo
have q feeling we have re-
ceived more than we have
given Of our busy lives as we
have worked weekly on vari-
Gus phases Of this project.
mrs. Robert Burns.
Evening star., 1962-05-16
Insurqent Sweep

With the issue of good government
squarely before them, the Democratic
voters Of Prince Georges County have
repudiated what heretofore has been
the iron-clad control of the Sasscer
machine. This offers opportunity, after
the November general elections, to begin
an era Of more enlightened political
leadership in Prince Georges and more
effective county participation in the af-
fairs Of the metropolitan community.
Not even the leaders of the Inde-
pendent Democrats, however, antici-
pated sweep of such dimensions,
sweep made all the more remarkable by
the fact that the insurgent campaign
was conducted largely by political un-
knowns who mounted their drive in
earnest only about five months ago.
This was in the classic mold of reform
campaigns, depending for its success on
a large turnout of independent voters
to overcome the organizational strength
of the machine.
Assuming, as expected, that their
victory is repeated in November, the
voice of the reformists will be strong
even on the Board of County Commits
sioners, where the old-line organization
maintained a slight margin of control
And more significant, in the long run,
was the Independents capture of the
powerful party central committee, and
nominations for the important local
posts of States Attorney and Sheriff
Their victory extended, as well, to the
halls Of the State Capitol, with nomina-
tions for State Senator and a majority
Of the Delegates to the General Assem-
bly,.
The issues of bossism, pinball
Evening star., 1962-05-16
THE PASSING SCENE
A Deserved Rebuke for Nehru
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

Congress may shortly ad-
minister an unexampled and
richly earned rebuke to Prime
Minister Nehru's neutralist
India by q mandatory cut in
the large foreign aid given
to India by the President.
If it does so act-and in
quiry on Capitol Hill indi-
Gates the odds to be no less
than fifty-fifty that it will
Congress will have, If some
what harshly, freed American
foreign aid policy from a self
made prison.
The prison has been this:
Having once granted assist
ance to a neutralist country
which Is especially critical of
us, we have always SHE'D
away from reducing it. The
fear has been that it would
be said we were using the
program as a stick to enforce
"conformiSm."
Thus. neutraliSt nations, of
which India Is a prime ex-
ample. have often seemed to
fare the better with us the
more constantly complaining
Of us they have been. Our
real allies for years have
spoken bitterly of this tru-
ism, which undeniably puts
some premium on interna-
tional responsibility.
Against all this background,
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has voted 8 to Z,
to direct the President to
strike 5000 million from $727
million in aid earmarked for
Mr.. Nehru.
Led by a Liberal
This counter-attack on the
worlds most SNUG politician,
Mr.. Nehru, was led by a
liberal pro-foreign aid Demo-
crat, Senator Stuart Syning-
ton Of Missouri, who only
two years ago was a Demo-
cratic presidential aspirant.
His amendment will have the
force Of law If the Senate
and then the House adopt
it, as it now looks they well
may.
Though It seems not to
have been too widely noticed
yet, the Symington rebellion
may be historic In the end.
1t will embarrass President
Kennedy. Though privately
he gets about as tired of Mr..
Nehru's self-righteous finger
pointing as nearly everybody
else here, the President still
Evening star., 1962-05-16

doesn't want to have to take
this public slap at India.y
The issue is complicated,
and it does not pay to be too
dogmatic about it. Undoubt-
edly, a thrust Of this kind
would outrage the Indians
worry and annoy all the
other neutrals, and give, the
Russians a chance to howl
a bit louder about "Ameri-s
can imperialism" -.-,
This will be the adminis-
tration's position. And 1t viii
add that Mr.. Nehru has,
after all, kept the worlds
largest country. apart from
Red China, out Of the COM
munist embrace. ~
A Matter Of Degree fSos
The administration will
find however, that the Sem
ate will not be deeply wor-
ried about whatever Mr.
Nehru may think. Its best
argument will be merely
that no matter how one sees
Mr.. Nehru, a requirement on
the President to cut his aid
would amount to Senatorial
interference with the Presi-.
dents right to conduct for
eign policy. LsE
This columnist, for one,
would not support the Sym
ington rider if he believed it
to be a genuine trespass on
con stitutional presidential
powers. But to say simply
that Mr.. Nehru can have
some but not all is surely
not the same as saying he
must have nothing at all.
One is degree; the other, is
principle. - -
The time had to come,
when this country decided
once and for all whether it
has a right to make its own
decisions on how much aid
1t will extend to others. ,,As
Risky? Yes. All the same
we ought to tell Mr.. Nehrt
and all the worlds little
NehruS that If the exercise
OF a perfectly valid right Of
national sovereignty is to be
made the excuse by them to
run off to the Communists,
then they must simply go
ahead and run. snc
We have been much too
afraid Of the Nehrus-in this
administration and in the
Eisenhower administration,
too.
Evening star., 1962-05-16
A BOOK FOR TODAY
The PeriIous Life of an OSS AGENT
By DONALD MINTZ

while they had stood him up
to be shot, we, his friends. had
been drinking brandy In the
apartment Of a Palatine count
IN the arms Of beautiful girls:
but all I could conclude was
that even If we could have
felt his loss more keenly. or
had known the moment he
was to die. we might have
but drunk deeper, danced
later into the night"
THE MISSION was ham
pered and lives were need
lesSly lost by what Mr.. Tomp-
kins considers the technical
and political incompetence
OF the Office of Strategic
Services. What he has to saw
here is important not only
Tor the past but for the pres
ent and future as well.
He was and is infuriated by
the policy Of supporting right
wing extremists with virtu-
ally no popular support-men
like Darlan and Badoglio. In
1874, he says, the 5th ARMY
aroused considerable hostility
and was seriously compro-
missed by its adherence to
King Victor EN- manuel
rather than the broadly rem
resentative Committee of Ma
tional Liberation.
Despite the fact that "al.
lied policy was dictated by a
high-level preference for
monarcho-Fascist elements"
Mr.. Tompkins relied on the
committee and particularly
on the Socialists whom he
considered "basically anti
Stalinist and democratic" He
understood the necessity of
distinguishing the Commu-
nists, who were inclined to
operate exclusively according
to their own devious ideas of
self or party interest" from
the democratic left.
His successes resulted from
that understanding, and he
feels that his failures were
caused by the inability Of the
OSS to comprehend even the
most basic facts Of European
politics.
And so. while Spy in
Rome" Is a thriller and a
good one. it also is much
more.
Evening star., 1962-05-16

@. When did Time maga-
zine select Halle Selassie as
its Man of the Year? e. G.
A. Halle Selassie of Ethi-
opia appeared on the cover
of Times issue of January 6,
1885, as Man of the Year for
1885. Times accompanying
article stated: Tn 1885 there
was just one man who rose
out of murky obscurity and
carried his country with him
up and up into brilliant focus
before a pop-eyed world. .
Without bubble or qualifica-
ton the best and wisest
ruler ancient Ethiopia has
ever had is the present Man
of the Year"
@. What town changed its
name to that of the late Jim
Thorpe, the famous Indian
athlete?-I. o.
A. The present town Of Jim
Thorpe, in eastern Pennsyl-
vania, was formerly Mauch
Chunk. Thorpe attended
Carlisle Indian School, some
30 miles distant. The towns
former name was Indian for
bear mountain"
Evening star., 1962-05-16

TompkmS. End d-paper r
maps by T. r. Miller.
347pp. (Simon & Schus-
ter, $500.
Peter Tompkins arrived in
German-occupied Rome a few
hours before allied troops
made their famous landing
at Anzio. From mid-Janu-
ary to early June, 1914, he
remained in enemy territory
organizing and supervising
an intelligence network and,
when possible, transmitting
information to the 5th Army.
Army.
In "a Spy in Rome" Mr..
Tompkins tells the story of
his OSS mission. In the
course Of it, he played
chemin de fer with q Ger
man, one Captain Priebke,
who was no less than "the
Observation-Disclosures officer at
Via Tasso in charge of un-
covering and eliminating
enemy agents and key par
tisan leaders" And he Joined
the PAL (Italian African
Police).
Both were unsettling ex-
periences and both were
part of the Job. For an
agent needs seemingly legiti-
mate cover as much as he
needs his intelligence net
work.
MIR. TOMPKINS tells of
the organization Of his opera
ton in sufficient detail for
the reader to understand
how these things are actually
done. OF course, there are
the usual strange comings
and goings Of the conven-
tional spy tale, but we un-
derstand the reasons behind
them. The book is free of
hocus-pocus and that in it
self would suffice to raise it
well above the level that the
title may suggest.
But there is more. Mr.
Tompkins, q former press anc
radio correspondent, is an OBJ
servant and self-observant
man. He can make us under
stand the psychology of his
situation-hunted and hiding
out, planning operations that
were sometimes successful ano
sometimes not, knowing that
some of his agents had beer
captured and tortured, build.
ing an organization anC
watching it being destroyed.
"The terror of being hunted
and the knowledge that if you
are caught you will be hor-
ribly tortured, perhaps fol
days." he writes, 'is a mos
unpleasant situation. A spe-
cific job, no matter how dan
gerous, can be worked up to
and the terror mitigated BY
action and the knowledge
that there will be an end, one
way or the other. But being
hunted, with nothing you car
do about it, except jump al
every sound, suspect everyone
who looks at you, and fee
trapped no matter where you
are, is a slow. steady form oi
torture, worthy of the most
fiendish of inventors"
Wild parties were part Of
the cover. AS one of Mr.
Tompkins' Italian associates
put it, IF we have to have
alibis. and we do, we might
as well get them in the pleas
antest possible way"
But this "pleasantest pos
sible way" led to some trying
emotional moments. Mr.
Tompkins thinks about an
agent who had been captured
and tortured. ''I realized that
at the height Of his ordeal,
Evening star., 1962-05-16
Likes Picture PAGE

I would like to thank you
for your new policy of in
cluding an occasional full
page photograph section Of
different places Of interest in
or around Washington. such
as the collection Of abstract
pictures on the new Dulles
Airport. and on your page Of
special pictures. such as your
1881: A Troubled Year"
I sincerely hope that you
continue them.
Steve Shupe.
Evening star., 1962-05-16
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Blast OFF at Titov

Blast OFF at Titov
The open welcome given
the Soviet cosmonaut, Titov,
was a disgrace to our coun-
try. Khrushchev will use
Titov's warm reception as
rich propaganda material to
further the cause Of atheistic
communism.
When I went to school we
were taught that aiding, abet-
ting and giving comfort to
the enemy were traitorous
acts.
We wined, dined, cheered
and clamored for Titov's
autograph.
Titov parroted the connie
line from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, expressing contempt
for our way of life, praising
the false ideologies Of COM
munism and fervently deny
ing the existence of God.
Why does America welcome
these emissaries Of Satan
and allow their poisonous
propaganda to be spread
throughout our land2
Kathryn T. BOwsher.
= =
After reading about Titov's
boastful atheism, and con-
sidering 1t as a product Of
the official propaganda de-
livered by Russia against reli-
gion, I wonder what kind of
society we can expect when
all vestiges Of Christian in
fluerfce disappear from mems
souls.
Titov Is no more than q
cold piece of a giant ma
chine, and there are millions
like him in Russia today.
They represent the anti
thesis of the noblest ideals
developed by our Western
civilization, which me ans
something beyond the cir
cumnavigation of the earth
or transportation to the stars.
After laughing about the
faith in God shared by mil
lions in the United States,
Titov has slapped the face of
this country, once more re-
vealing the spiritual medic
Gritty and the vulgarity Of
certain conspicuous Soviet
citizens. Guillermo s. Cabrera.
Matter of Fact
The Star of April II car
ried a report Of a Montgom-
cry County Board of Educa-
ton meeting at which the
teaching of foreign languages
was reviewed. I was very
much concerned at a quota
ton attributed to me which
suggested that would like to
drop the audiolingual ap-
proach in favor Of the odd
fashioned reading and writ
ing method" There must
have been some misunder-
standing, for I made no such
statement. On the contrary,
I think 1t is most important
that our students be taught
all the skills Of communi-
cation in a foreign language
listening, speaking, reading
and writing.
I did state my concern for
those students either now in
college or Just about to en-
ter who have been caught in
a transition period when both
goals and methods Of teach
ing foreign language have
been undergoing great
change, with the result that
high school and college
courses often do not "mesh"
very well. I suggested that
our staff address itself to this
problem.
While there may be room
for discussion in this transit
tion period as to the best
methods of developing in
students the communication
skills of listening. speaking,
reading and writing foreign
language, the need for de-
veloping these skills is so ap-
parent in our shrinking
world that there is general
consensus that all should be
stressed. Mrs. Samuel j. Kicker
Member, Montgomery County
Board of Education
Editors Note: The Star
regrets Mrs. Keker was mis-
sy,k1r.r1rn4aIA
Evening star., 1962-05-16

Pen names may be used u
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDiu be
returned only tphen accom-
panied By self = addressed.
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-05-16
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

A. reader can get an answer, by
mail, to any question Of fact by
writing The Star Information Bu.
reau. R35 q street NV. Washington
age or self-addressed, stamped
envelope.
Evening star., 1962-05-16
'Druqs for Conqo'

Milton A. MandeI.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16
End OF Frances
Asian Empire Is
Century Subject

The demise of French colonialism
in Asia is the subject of ''The Twen-
tieth Century" documentary, End
of an Empire to be broadcast
Sunday at on KTVF. Channel
Eleven.
. CHS News Correspondent Walter
Cronkite reports on the seven-year
war which ended in French defeat
and Communist takeover in the
north of Indo-China. CHS News
Correspondent David Schoenbrun,
who in 1854 saw the humiliation of
French forces at Dienbienphu,
where the French hoped for final
and decisive victory, is the eye
witness guest.
Exclusive films, never before pre-
sented in the United States. will be
shown of Red China's aid to the
Vietminh forces, the buildup of Ho-
Chi-Minh's peoples army in the
hills around Dienbienphu, and the
savage fighting which overwhelm-
ed the French. The films were taken
by a Soviet Union cameraman to
show the war from the insurgent
side.
After Dienbienphu, Indo-China
was divided into the Communist
North Vietnam and the non-Com-
munist South Vietnam. where fight
ing goes on among the Vietnamese
to this day.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16
..PROCRAM HICHLICHTS--

KFARTV program highlights for
Sunday are
INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME-
6-InternationaI sfiowstoppers in
elude acrobatic contortionist and
balerina performing fairy tales.
DISNEY = - First part of
Treasure Island" StevensOn's
Immortal adventure.
OZZIE AND HARRIET-8-Ozzie
and Joe surprise wives with secret
dancing lessons.
TALL MAN-8:30-BiIIy the Kid
IS accused of being Runaway
Groom. .
HAZEL-9-Hazel quits following
argument with Mr.. Baxter
9TH PRECINCT = $50 enge-
full woman disarms detectives in
s'La}y in Waiting" episode.
KTvF program highlights 70,
Sunday are:
BASEBALL GAME OF TIKI
WEEK-2-The Detroit Tigers NEE
the Boston Red Sox at Tiger Sta
diur Detroit. Mich.
C. E. COLLEGE BOWL-5:30-
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16

Muskingum College New Concord,
Ohio, alma mater of Astronaut
John Glenn Jr., challenges cham
pion Manhattan College New York
City,.
MISTER ED = $50 - Mister Ed
plays cupid in aiding and abetting
the course of teen-age romance.
LASSIE-7-Teaching obedience
to Little Sarge, a German shepherd,
becomes frustrating to Jimmy and
Lassie.
DENNIS THE MENACE-7:30-
When a dentist starts giving pres
ents to cooperative patients, Dennis
plots to have Mr. Wilson take care
of his neglected teeth.
ED SULLIVAN 8 Guests in
clude: Johnny Mathis, the Mcclure
Sisters. comedian Jackie Mason,
Guy Marks and Rip Taylor, The
Madcaps-a novelty act. Brascia and
Tybee, dance team, and waterbird
show.
TWENTIETH CENTURY s.
END of an Empire" deals
with the demise of French col
onialism in Asia signaled by the
defeat suffered by France at the
hands of the Communists at Diem
bienphu.
| sr4tAalfiiKSs PENNY4S tas;3oUGyfsss VIII
7 be Barbara StanWyck and Bob
Crosby Mary Livingston is also fea-
tured.
CANDID A-10-Children
asked to wink who can't close one
eye without closing the other is
one of the many sequences this
week.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16
KFAR-TV
CHANNEL z
NBC-ABC

3;3o-WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC)
5:00-Live Bowling
6:O0-INTL SHOWTIME (NBC)
7:OO-WALT DIS NEY SHOW
(NBC)
8.O0-OZZIE &. HARRIET (ABC)
8:3O-TALL MAN (NBC)
a:OO-HAZEL (NBC9
9:30-87TH PRECINCT NBC)
f0:30-Weather Map
Theater
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16
KTvF
CHANNEL II
CHS

1:30-Test Pattern and Tone
J:55-Sacred Heart
2:C0-BASEBALL: GAME OF THE
WEEK tCBS)
5:C0-Championship Bridge
5.30-COLLEGE BOWL tCBS)
6.00-Global Zobel
6.30-MR. ED (CBS)
7.G0-LASSIE #tCBS)
7.30-DENNIS THE MACE
(CBS)
8:00-ED SULLIVAN (CPS)
9:00-20TH CENTURY tCBS)
9:3O-JACK BENNY (CBSo
iO.00-CANDID CAMERA (CBS)
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16
Headline Singers
On Sullivan Sh0lU

Singing stars Johnny Mathis and
the three Mcclure Sisters share top
billing when they pay return visits
to THE Ed Sullivan Show" Sunday
at on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
Sullivan also. will provide three
answers to the question, where
are the new comedians?' when he
presents Jackie Mason, Guy Marks
and Rip Taylor The three young
night-club performers will deliver
monologues.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16

Savings Bonds bought on the Pay
roll Savings Plan account for over
40 per cent of the $412 billion Series
E and H bonds sold annually.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16

10:30-WHAT,S MY LINE (CBS)
11:00-Theater IL
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-16

If a man doesn't get happier as
he gets older, he hasn't learned what
he should along the way.
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-06
Wofch Those Weeds

AS one rides through Sussex
County and the nearby counties,
several acres of land diverted from
corn production can be seen. n
Sussex County alone over 10000
acres are being diverted from corn
production this year according to
Ed Ralph, Associate County Agent.
Many of these acres are covered
with weeds now, and several fields
have weed seed that is either ma
ture or nearly so. These seeds, if
allowed to mature, will give ou r
farmers trouble for years to come
Ralph said.
There are enough weed seeds in
our fields now to last us for quite
a while, so why ask for trouble by
allowing the present weeds to ma
ture and make seed the agent said.
Farmers should keep this in
mind for the good of their land
even if they are not forced to do
so to comply with the corn diver
sion program. However, in t IN S
program, weeds are supposed to be
kept under control as determined
by the county committees.
Weeds can be kept under control
by discing or moving. This opera
tion should be done as soon as
possible in order to prevent h e
weed seed formation Ralph remind
ed