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Evening star., 1962-05-27
Urban Renewal Apathy

The Arlington County Board Is
UNDERSTANDABLE concerned about the
apparent lack Of interest in the county
over proposals to eliminate urban blight
through redevelopment procedures Es-
pecially hard to understand is the fail
ure so far Of the business community
to give active support to an urban
renewal program. For the business COM
munity stands to gain great deal by
transformation of RoSSlyn and other
deteriorated areas into attractive, thriv-
ing commercial centers
While some improvement of the
Rosslyn gateway to Virginia has already
been made by motel and restaurant in
terests, too much of the old section con-
sists Of an array of unsightly buildings
housing businesses of a kind that de-
tract from the appearance Of the area
With the forthcoming extension of
Route 66 to the Key Bridge and the
widening of the Lee highway, major
alterations will have to be made in the
present pattern near those right-of-ways.
The sensible course would seem to adopt
an overall renewal program tied in
with highway projects, with effective
control through a renewal agency. Some
of the older business parts of Clarendon
also would benefit by similar redevel-
opment planning.
But citizens Of the county turned
down proposal for an urban renewal
authority in referendum held several
years ago-largely, it has been said, be-
cause Of apathy and misunderstanding
The county board has said it would pro-
pose another referendum for next No
vember if there was enough public de-
mand for second vote on the plan to
set up an authority. The board will seek
to learn the wishes of the voters-and
particularly of the business community
between now and June 2, when de-
ciSion will be made on the holding of
another referendum. If Arlington wishes
to keep pace with other forward-look-
ing Jurisdictions in the war on urban
blight, it should not forgo this oppor-
tunity to take the important first step
of setting up an agency to superintend
a renewal program.
Evening star., 1962-05-27

a substantial increase In the number Of
persons holding advanced degrees, mas
terS and doctors. In a sense, the Times
survey supplements this estimate In re-
porting that recruiting teams this year
also are seeking already graduated and
on-the-job people who are qualified in
the economics of both domestic and
foreign marketing and in long-range
business planning Professor E. Kirbe
Warren, Columbia University School of
Business Management, was quoted as
saying that too many American con-
Germs have been entrusting these func-
tionS to theorists or to corporate
misfits."
All Of this, of course, represents
opportunity to American youth. At the
same time, it poses a great challenge to
them and to the educational system on
which the Nations future depends so
heavily.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
ChoIIenqe for Today

At time when overall unemploy-
ment remains persistently high, it is
interesting and encouraging that the
job prospects for this years crop of COL
lege graduates appear to be very good
Not surprisingly, the most attractive
opportunities-in number and in begin
ming salarieS-are in the engineering
and science professions, although there
is greatly increased interest in finding
young people with qualifications in
various aspects of economics.
The nature of this demand, so much
heavier for brain power than for muscle
power, is good reflection of the fast
developing age of electronics, chem
istry, space exploration, industrial and
business automation, and of the wide
range of mathematical services that are
now employed in research and analysis.
The New York Times, for example, finds
that the most active recruiting this year
is being done by the aerospace and elec-
tronicS industries, and it cites salary
offers from $665 to $500 monthly for
beginning engineers. While these offers
are for top-bracket graduates, there is
evidence that the search is dipping low
er into the graduating classes to find
people who still are qualified for tech
nical work only slightly less demanding
In the economics field, two Govern
ment officials Clague and Nor
ton Levine of the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics-recently estimated that the re-
naming years of the 1960S will call for
Evening star., 1962-05-27
WithhoIdinq Tax

Dorothy Ford Mayhew's
letter MAY 19. 1882 object
ing to the withholding tax on
interest and dividends is in
deed heart rending. My
heart bleeds for the elderly
couple depicted in such dire
straits, due to having paid
their just and due taxes on
such income.
However. let us look even
closer at the circumstances
in which this unfortunate
pair find themselves.
If, as feared, the full 20
per cent of income. or 81 200,
is withheld, it follows by sim
pie arithmetic that one hun
dred per cent, or the entire
income, is $4,000. If $4,000
represents an average 4 per
cent return, it also follows
that the unfortunate couple
has $150,0O0 deposited and
or invested.
AS stated by the President,
and others, no new tax is
propose merely a new
method of collection. Those
objecting give the appear
ance of being afraid they
will now have to pay it.
Meyer NJ. Hitler
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Annapolis Showdown

Inc reapp0rtlOnment fOrmu a
agreed upon by the State administration
and by the Maryland Committee for
Fair Representation provides, in our
opinion, reasonable and adequate de-
gree OF representation for the residents
OF urban areas as far as the House
of Delegates is concerned. We hope it
is adopted by the special session of
the Legislature in essentially the form
proposed by Governor Tawes
Unfortunately, there is far less rea-
son to anticipate similar relief from
AnnapoliS-in the days Immediately
ahead, at least-with respect to the
State Senate.
This does not mean that the over
whelming rural domination of the Sen
ate "a degree Of rural-urban imbalance
even greater than that in the House)
may not also be broken. The Committee
for Fair Representation already has
initiated an appeal, and properly so,
against the failure of Circuit Judge o.
Bowie Duckett to rule that the present
Senate makeup results in an "invidious"
and unconstitutional violation of voting
rights. But in the absence of legal COM
pulSion, the prospects are not bright
that there will be legislative action.
The question Judge Duckett left hang
ing in the air is one of law, which will
have to be settled by the courts.
II the matter Of Senate represen-
tation remains inconclusive, however,
Judge Duckett left no doubt that the
era OF successful rural efforts to thwart
an equitable reapportionment in the
House Of Delegates has come to an end.
We hope that the reapportionment
forces possess sufficient strength to
enact their bill by next Thursday, while
only simple-majority vote is necessary
for passage. After June /, a vote of
three-fifths of the Legislature would be
needed to pass the bill as emergency"
legislation, and there is some legal uues-
ton as to whether a reapportionment
measure, involving the creation Of new
offices, would qualify as an emergency"
bill under the definition in State law
In any event, Judge Duckett has made
plain that he will retain Jurisdiction
over the matter to assure that, by one
means or another, realignmerit of the
House will be effectuated before the
November elections Rural legislators, if
they choose, may delay or complicate
the attainment Of meaningful reform;
they no longer can expect to block it.
They obviously do hope, however, to
water down the provisions of the Tawes
bill. And their primary goal, under
Standably enough, is to undercut its
permanent features those becoming
effective in 1966-which call for rural
areas to surrender 10 seats in the House.
BY the same token, of course, these are
the features of the legislative package
which are Of the greatest Importance to
urban voters. AS it stands, the Tawes
bill is compromise which gives Mary
land residents of the Washington sub
urbs less than complete equality with
the voters of less-populous regions No
further sacrifice of voting equality is
acceptable.
Evening star., 1962-05-27

even that slander points to
the kind of man that Jesus
really was.
In this month of May in
the Capital of the Nation.
where decisions are being
made which will make or
mar the future Of this old
world of ours. I gladly sat in
a foolish corner" At the
center of the banquet table
was an old-fashioned may
pole. Around the table were
men and women who are part
and parcel of the deeply seri-
GUS side of Washington life,
but for this hour they un-
bent. each one took a gayly
colored strand of paper at
tached to the maypole, and
the conversation and the
song in that foolish corner"
were as gay as the rainbow
streamers.
Looking and listening, how
AriStotle'S words seemed to
apply - There is a foolish
corner even in the brain of a
sage" That greatest master
of syllogism knew 1900 years
ago that often in some fool
ish corner action takes leave
of reason.
To one, the logical thing
when there is a mouse, is an
expenditure to purchase a
mousetrap, which is the end
of the matter, and the end
of the mouse. But to Walt
Whitman who was a poet,
and not a logician, "a mouse
is miracle enough to stagger
sextillion infidels."
The famous Greek thinker
was really not calling atten-
ton to a foolish corner" in
everyone's brain as a place of
fun and laughter; he was
contrasting the logic of which
he was master to the fool
ish" reasons which so often
govern decisions and actions.
When logic, clothed in the
somber garb of reason. cor
nerS the greatest thing in the
world - love - and demands
that it explain its prodigal
procedure, the vocabulary of
love has but one word which
throws any light on it's work.
ing. That word, because"
has often been called a
"woman'S reason"
Love, human or divine,
never is able to vindicate it
self or account for it's ac-
tions. When Mary poured the
precious ointment upon the
feet of her adored Master,
and the coldly logical Judas
blurted out, "Why this waste?"
his attitude was as clumsily
inert as would be an attempt
to measure a shaft of SUM-
light with a yardstick. Con-
fronted with hypocritical,
miserly. card-index demands
that even the heart be sensi-
BILE, Mary from her foolish
corner" could only say: Il
did it because. :" But for
20 centuries her corner Of
foolishnesS has been a white
memorial of her uncalculat-
ing love.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
On Helping Red China

For the time being at least, Peiping's
border police, after weeks of mystifying
indifference, apparently have put stop
to the flow Of refugees from Red China's
mainland into the British Crown Colony
of Hong Kong. The flow has been tre-
mendous, involving no fewer than 10000
men, women and children since the
beginning Of the month.
This exodus, which is somewhat
comparable to the Westward flight Of
East Germans (now blocked by the
Communist wall in Berlin), seems to
be attributable primarily to fears of
starvation, although other factors un-
doubtedly are involved. AS far as the
stomach is concerned, President Ken
nedy has made a sound commentary,
at his latest news conference, in declar-
ing that the refugees "do not seem to
be suffering from acute malnutrition,
but there isn't any doubt that there
is food crisis" in Red China.
AS to that, the President has taken
a common-SenSe position in declaring
that the United States would be happy
to lend helping hand in the situation
sion of interest or desire by the Chinese
Communists to receive any food from
us" and (2) evidence of need and guar
antees that the food would be properly
distributed. This latter point ought not
to be undereStimated. Certainly our
country would be foolish to offer help
without strings attached. In that re-
Spect, the following words from a recent
analysis by the Department of Agri-
culture are we'll worth keeping in mind:
Although detailed information is scarce,
it has become well established that a COM
bination Of mismanagement in the agricul-
tural collectveS or peoples communes"
natural disasters. and excessive exploitation
of the agricultural sector Of the economy has
preciptated a crisis of major proportions
The pressure Of food shortages on the
mainland has not caused the Communists
to break their external food commitments
The 350,000 tons of Burmese rice that the
Chinese Communists agreed TO purchase in
1861 resulted in the actual shipment of
37l 900 tons. OF this. only SIS 900 tons was
shipped for consumption on the mainland.
The balance was used to fill ChinaS eX-
ternal commitments, largely to Cuba and
Ceylon. There also has been diversion of
grain to Albania and East Germany. 49,.
The Communist Chinese government
stands on the threshold of a crucial year.
Another year Of managerial bungling
could tax the current regime in the form of
increased apathy and civil disobedience,
perhaps to the point of political instability .
1t remains to be seen if . the limits Of
the patience and endurance of the Chinese
people will allow the current regime to make
the gross errors inherent in the Great Leap
Forward" and still survive
Against this background, as Mr.
Kennedy himself has intimated, 1t is
necessary to be careful Thus, for one
thing, it would be unwise for our Gov
ernment to rush in with offers Of food
without first being asked for such help
by Peiping. And beyond that, almost
needless to say, 1t would be monumen-
tally absurd Of us to arrange for the aid
unless there were firm supervisory con-
trolls to insure against its misuse
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Roosevelt Memorial

I was strongly opposed to
the FDR Memorial until I
read John F.. Harbeson's ar
ticle in opposition to the
memorial in The Sunday
Star.
A portion of Mr.. Harbe-
sons criticism reading,
There is no order in this
design; it is a disorganized
agglomeration of ugly forms,
of ungainly slabs of differ
ent shapes and sizes set at
odd angles to each other"
seems so appropriate to the
Roosevelt administration it.
self that perhaps the memo
rial should be approved as
is.
Obviously the location of
such a memorial should not
be near memorials to Ameri-
cas- great.
r. T. Roberts.
Evening star., 1962-05-27

desperate battle in which the
corps of Sumner, Heintzel-
man and Keyes have been
engaged against greatly su-
perior numbers. Yesterday at
l O'Clock the enemy, taking
advantage of the terrible
storm that flooded the valley
of the Chickahominy, at
tackled our troops on the
right flank of that stream.
Gen. Casey's division, in the
first line, gave way unac-
countably. This caused tenn
porary confusion, but Heintz-
Gilman and Kearney most
gallantly brought up their
troops which checked the en-
emy. Our loss is heavy
but that of the enemy must
have been enormous. :"
(All the carriages in Rich
mond were used to bring in
the Confederate dead and
wounded; hotels were turned
into hospitals and there was
bitterness because churches
would not permit their use
to tend the casualties. Even
tobacco warehouses were
turned into hospitals, with
none of the comforts of
same.) On June 3, 1862, this
paper reported: e. The
country in which the battle
was fought is swampy with
thick underbrush. Most of the
fighting was in the woods.
Four separate charges
with the bayonet were made.
:. The carnage by the bay
onet upon this field probably
exceeds anything recorded in
history for many a score of
years. The English could find
but half a dozen men killed
by the bayonet at Waterloo.
The Excelsior Brigade and
the Irish Brigade, both from
New York, distinguished
themselves greatly by the i'm
petuosity of their onslaught
with this terrible weapon. :.
Jeff Davis and Gov. Letcher
were both at the fight. :"
In addition to losing Gen.
Johnston for months, the
Confederacy also lost Gen.
Wade Hampton temporarily,
Evening star., 1962-05-27
100 Years AGO

Robert Z. Lee, VINO knew
military science as well If
not better than any man of
his time, was about to put his
talent to work as a general
in the field a century ago.
His role as a desk strategist
directing the destinies of the
Confe d e r ate army ended
when Gen. Joseph E. john
ston was wounded in the Bat
tie of Seven Pines, or Fair
Oaks, before beleaguered
Richmond. Late in May, 1862.
Gen. George McClellan's
Army of the Potomac was
within 6 miles Of the Con-
federate capital. Observation
balloons, tethered to trees,
looked down on the city. Lee
reasoned that Richmond was
doomed If the Federals we're
allowed to continue their
buildup of troops and Lring
siege guns to bear on the city.
The Confederates took the
initiative and attacked on
May 81, 1862. What followed
was a bloody but indecisive
affair that Redeemed the
swampy waters of the Chick
ahominy River. A hint that
a battle was in the offing
was given in a dispatch
printed in The Star of May
80, 1852: within the past
three days, the disposition of
the whole rebel army before
Richmond seems to have
changed. Instead Of the reb-
els retreating . toward the
city, they are coming from it
in large numbers. Indi-
cations are that our progress
to Richmond is to be hotly
disputed. :" How true. A
Confederate officer of Ger
man birth, who had seen
European warfare at its
worst, said the butchery at
Seven Pines had never been
equaled. This paper on May
81, 1862, reported from Nc
Clellan's front: ". We
cannot advance but a very
few miles without bringing
on a general engagement, If
the enemy remains in his
present position. There seems
to be no doubt of the inten-
tions of the rebels. They have
concentrated their forces and
like a desperate gambler,
concluded to stake their all
on a throw of the dice. :"
Two days later The Star
printed a dispatch, dated
June /. 1862, from Mcclellan
to Secretary of War STAN
ton: ". We have had a
Evening star., 1962-05-27
This Coils for ReuI Astronuutic Acrobutics
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used will be
returned only when accom-
panied By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
FROM THE STAR FILES.

due to a bullet wound in the
leg. President Davis and Gen.
Lee rode back to Richmond
together. Lee was told that
he would soon get his orders
to take command. What was
then known as the Confed-
crates Army of the PENN
sula henceforth would be
called the Army of Northern
Virginia, headed by a man of
SIS, strongly built and in ex-
cellent health, who was to go
down in history as one of the
most imaginative generals of
all time,
Evening star., 1962-05-27
.PIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Abolish Corner
BY DR.. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate

Serious minded men and
women who are intelligently
informed regarding the pres
ent state of the world are
often sorely tempted to laugh
little in ominouS days such
as these. But never were
merry hearts more desper-
ately needed as this planet
plunges on to meet what
ever the future holds. That
future may be the most gold
en- age of which prophets have
ever dreamed. 1t may be for
a thousand years. a darker
age perhaps than history has
recorded. Man, himself. will
decide! But in the present
delicate balancing of the
scale a smileless gloom is not
on the side Of the angels.
More than 300 years be-
fore the coming of Christ,
Aristotle who was doubtless
the greatest master of logic
the long centuries have pro-
duced. and who showed how
to follow facts to their in
evitable conclusions, never
thelesS declared-"There is a
foolish corner even in the
brain Of a sage!"
In the Book of Proverbs
there is a sentence very near
the heart of genuine religion.
1t says, "A merry heart doeth
good like a medicine" Ev-
cry physician confirms the
medical value of a merry
h cart. No prescription
couched in mysterious Latin
and costing a hundred times
its real value. is half so heal
ing to ailing bodies as the
possession of a merry heart.
But when Solomon penned
that assertion he was not
thinking of the beneficial ef-
feet upon ones self but of
what a merry heart does for
other people. Phillips Brooks
still lives in Boston, although
the record is that he died in
1893. With a multitude of
others I keep track of my
engagements on a Phillips
Brooks calendar from which
his face looks out and of
which more are sold every
year. While he was the loved
Rector of Trinity Church one
of the greatest newspapers
printed this item-"It was a
dark and drizZling day, yes
terday. lowering clouds all
day but Phillips Brooks
walked down newspaper row
bowing and smiling to his
many friends and the day
was all sunshine"
And so thus it is in this
world of shadows unconsci-
ously. and in mystic ways
which link our lives into a to-
getherness, to weary bur-
dened men, the merry heart
doeth good like a medicine
of God.
With the deepest reverence
we say that in that ONE who
was the joyful man of sor-
rows, there was a foolish
corner" that is evident in
the humor which has never
been emphasized as it de-
served to be in the life of the
perfect man. They would
never have thought of say
ing Of John the Baptist what
they said of Jesus - John
was so stern. so unrelent-
ing. so tense. so joyless. But
how medicinal the merry
heart of the Man of Naza-
reth was! He loved to be
where laughter was, with the
children, and where in the
haunts of men, away from
the long-faced leaders of the
church, he could join in mer-
riment. Because of the sort
of affairs he attended they
called him a glutton, a friend
of publicans and sinners, but
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Democrats and Wars

In 1917 Wilson had us in
Germany; World War I. In
1912 Roosevelt had us again
in Germany and in Japan;
World War II. And in 1850
Truman had us in Korea.
This time mot a war" Just
a police action" Now Ken
nedy has us in Southwest
Asia.
The Democrats may not
start wars, but they sure
have a penchant for finding
them.
Isabelle A. DOlan