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Evening star., 1962-05-21
SoIutes Zoo Police

Lack of representation of
the National Geological Park
Police at the ceremonies
honoring the Districts three
top police officials" in OBJ
servance of National Police
Week is hardly commendable.
People of the Washington
Metropolitan area, and the
country as a whole, who evi-
IDENTIFY take for granted that
they, their families and par
ticularly their children will
be properly protected from
crime, accident and the many
other horrors that invade our
community environments, are
entitled to be correctly in
formed and made aware of
the job requirements. respon-
sibilities and performance
of this important segment of
our law enforcement bodies.
TO qualify for the National
Geological Police Force, a
man must have had at least
three years previous expert
ence in police work. No other
force in the District main
tains this standard require
ment.
Men of experience having
previously worked on the New
York City. railroad, armed
services, United States Gov
ernment, Metropolitan and
various other police forces
comprise this seasoned police
group. AS we'll as regulation
revolvers they must also quail
ify with high-powered rifles
for the public protection in the
event of a possible escape of
one Of the many dangerous
animals housed in the park.
knowledge of proper anti
dotes and their application
for bites, scratches and/or
poisoning is also a prime req
uisite.
The Zoo Park is opened to
the public free of charge seven
days a week and never has
shown any discrimination for
race. creed or color. All peo-
pie are extended the same
rights and privileges. They
are afforded the best indi-
vidual courtesies and protec-
ton that can be had any,
where in the United States.
This 176-acre park, policed
by only 80 men, oversees the
welfare Of approximately
1000 people on an average
day and handles as many as
$4,000 people on Saturdays,
Sundays or holidays. Between
5000 and 5000 automobiles
traverse this public park on
busy days. The Zoo proudly
boasts that never has one
traffic fatality ever been re-
corded
The men have a pride in
their job and a pride in the
force. I, too, have a pride
and admiration for my ,hus-
band in the job he has and
the work he performs as a
member of the National Zoo
logical Police Force. It's high
time due recognition and re-
spect was afforded these men.
Dorothy L. Porter.
Evening star., 1962-05-21
He Sticks to 40 Hours

The cloud on the New Frontiers
economic horizon is, it seems to us,
somewhat larger than a mans hand.
Jacob PotofSky is president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, generally considered to be
a responsible union. At the unions con-
vention early last week, he drew "the
loudest cheers of the day" when he
came out for 35-hour work week with
mo reduction in pay"
He was followed to the speakers
platform by George Meany, AFL-CIO
president, another union man with a
sense of responsibility. Mr.. Meany
brought cheering audience" of cloth
ing workers to their feet when he said
that unless we very quickly see" an
end to unemployment the AFL-CIO will
start Nationwide drive for the 35-
hour week-again, of course, with no
loss in pay"
Labor has had no better friend in
the White House than John F. Kennedy.
When reporter last Thursday asked
him about this 35-hour week business,
however, the President replied: 'I be-
X.
I've said that from the beginning"
The President is thinking in larger
terms than Mr.. Meany or Mr.. Potofsky.
AS union leaders, the problem of un-
employment, certainly a serious prob
lem, may be the top item on their
priority list And it is problem, if one
looks at nothing else, which might be
eaSed by 35-hour week. with no loss
in pay. 1t could be eased still more,
we suppose, by going to a 30-hour week
or a 25-hour week-in each case, of
course, with no loss in pay.
The trouble is that we live in
highly competitive world. A reduced
work-week, with no loss in pay, prob
ably would help the unemployed by
making it necessary for employers to
hire more people. But, somehow, these
added workers would have to be paid.
And the cost of paying them, to some
degree, would have to go into the selling
price of the goods they produce.
The end result would be to price
these goods out of the competitive
market. Mr.. Kennedy knows this (the
union leaders know it, too, even If they
can't afford to admit it) and this is
why the President holds out for the
4O-hour week. But the pressure is great,
and it will become greater on a man
who owes his election, in considerable
part, to union support. This small cloud
on the horizon is larger than the casual
observer might think. If Mr.. Kennedy
is to hold the wage-price line, and in
the end the consequences of not holding
it will be as disastrous for organized
labor as for other Americans, the Pres
ident most surely will need the active
support of an informed and determined
public opinion.
Evening star., 1962-05-21
Palisades Policy

Agreement by the Fairfax Super
viSorS to discuss the preservation of the
Potomac Palisades with Arlington and
Interior Department officials is a hope
full step. The misfortune is that such
conferences were not held before the
Fairfax Board re-zoned the MerryWood
Estate for high-rise apartments.
That action, however, will have
served useful purpose if local jurisdic-
tions now have been awakened to the
fact that there is need for agreement
on the type and extent of restrictions
which should be imposed on private
development in order to preserve the
beauty of the Potomac gorge 1t is as
certain as night follows day that pres
sures for other projects on the Potomac
banks will increase as the market for
suburban residential housing continues
to grow. What is required is that polit-
ical leaders of the counties bordering
the river-in Maryind as we'll as in Vir
ginia-jointly hammer out a decision
as to where the lines should be drawn
as a guide for future zoning actions
1t Is true, of course, that no such
agreements reached now could legally
bind the actions of future governing
bodies. If the agreements were based
on sound and rational conclusions, how
ever, and accepted by the metropolitan
community as whole, they would de-
crease the likelihood of arbitrary actions
and also help those officials who want
to preserve the beauty Of the Potomac
Valley.
This does not mean that there
might not be certain areas or parcels of
land where for variety of reasons rela-
lively high-density development might
be acceptable. If so, however, the time
to make the determination is before a
crisis arises. AS a starting point, the
Evening star., 1962-05-21
Wasted Resource

Your editorial, Wasted
Resource" seems a bit con-
fused. Reducing the danger
of floods in low areas along
the river by building a series
of dams and impounding
basins above tidewater
sounds to me like cutting off
a patients head to cure his
headache. Certainly If these
low lands along the river are
turned into impounding
basins there will be no more
danger of floods.
1 wonder if having a beau
tiful valley and running river,
devoted to parkland and pri-
vate acreage. to which one
may go to get away from the
stencil of bus exhaust in the
city, is not perhaps one of the
principal overall needs that
should take precedence in
considering the engineers
proposal.
AS for additional water for
drinking and other purposes,
if we would forget about
these destructive dams and
just clean up the river. we
would have all the fresh
water we need in the upper
Potomac estuary. I don't care
much about drinking sewage
even if it comes from behind
a dam.
r. R EOSheP1.
Evening star., 1962-05-21
Fairfax Schools

The Fairfax County School
Board - leaders of a school
system, molders of children,
model Enthusiastically ex-
hibited again that they cam
not be trusted, believed, or
even listened to.
This board shouted mis-
quote" when the newspapers
laid open their plan to rese-
gregate all Negro children
into Luther Jackson Inter-
mediate and High School
after the public heard that
these childre n, previously
placed after a long lawsuit in
white schools-had been arbi-
trarily transferred back to
the all-Negro school.
These paragons of trust
promised private audience to
Negro parents-"w without the
need for lawyers" they said,
to discuss transfer of their
children from all-Negro, large
geographical, non-neighbor-
hood schools to the schools
which actually do serve their
own neighborhoods and white
playmates.
Two weeks later they voted
that such an audience should
not be held. It would waste
the time of the school board
since strict geographical
proximity was the only cri-
terra acceptable by them.
Geographical proximity does
not, of course, apply to the
white students who live closer
to a Negro school. These
white children, as far as the
county is concerned, obviously
live closer to a white school.
I cannot trust the Fairfax
County School Board-i- 1 can
Evening star., 1962-05-21
RECOMMENDATION

Two announcements OF
national weeks" have been
proclaimed by the U. S. Gov
ernment for what I would
assume to be the time we
should think about what
ever they want us to think
about and pay similar hom-
age to the same. The idea of
having any kind Of weeks
ascribed for any kind of sub
ject is incomprehensible to
me. What is the purpose of
such weeks? I have heard of
Secretary Week." Trans
portation Week." and the
latest gem Plan your Vaca-
ton Week. Since when has
it been necessary to have our
thinking so channeled and
organized by anyone?
When government tries to
influence individual thought
and action by proclaiming
national weeks in which to
do or think about anything,
it is indicative Of the kind of
governme e mt which would
dare to directly control the
lives. and thought of the
governed. It is perhaps psy-
chologically subtle to be con-
stantly told what we ought
to respect or to do, but
ominous that time periods
are being regimented for the
honoring of subjects that
they feel is our duty to
honor, or for the doing of
projects that they feel we
should do.
1t would seem to me that
this is the time when we
ought to do such and such"
cannot be too far removed
from this is the time when
we must do such and such"
by proclamation of any de-
magogue in the White House
who would have his will i'm
posed upon American citi-
zens.
Carolyn T. NyStrOm
Evening star., 1962-05-21
Victory in Senate

In your editorial, Victory
in the Senate" you say, and
rightly so, Political pres
sures being what they are, it
is not-eaSy to cast a vote
which can be attacked, how
ever unjustly, as hampering
civil rights ETC." 1t is also
not easy for a newspaper to
come out and say what needs
to be said either, in a city
with a majority population
such as this one; your cour-
age is refreshing in a situa-
ton where expediency is the
order of the day.
We can just imagine what
would happen if 9Th graders
were permitted to apply for
motor vehicle operators per-
mits. We can also imagine
what would happen II the
Federal Government were to
arbitrarily supersede the var
ious criteria Of the so States
used in deciding whom shall
be granted motor vehicle op-
orators permits and whom
shall be denied.
If 1t. is important, there
fore, that the States shall
have control over the motor
vehicle operators within their
domain, it is even more i'm
portant that they shall have
control of the voting process,
for whereas a few stupid
drivers could injure a few
innocent people, a Nation of
stupid voters could put a man
into power who might bring
about the downfall of this
Nation. Obviously, a 9Th
grade education is not quail
fication enough for the vot-
ing franchise.
r, Alexander Mullen.
Evening star., 1962-05-21

tention to all this. His coun-
try was in ruins, hungry, ex-
hausted. But his armies and
marshals, heavy with fat and
medals and drunk with vodka
and victory, had already
trampled half of Europe un-
der foot, and he was con-
vinced they would trample
over the other half in the next
round. He knew that he was
one of the cruelest, most
despotic personalities in hu-
man history. But this did not
worry him one bit, for he
was convinced that he was
executing the judgment of
history"
IN A BRIEF conclusion,
Mr.. Djilas shows that he is
no "revisionist;;" from Tito's
point of view, Jail is where
he belongs. 81 was inter-
ested, and am interested,
in how such a dark, cunning,
and cruel individual (as
Stalin) could ever have led
one of the greatest and most
powerful states, not Just for
a day or a year, but for 80
years! Until precisely this is
explained by Stains present
critics-I mean his successors
they will only confirm
that in good part they are
only continuing his work and
that they contain in their
own makeup those same ele-
ments-the same ideas, pat
terms, and methods that pro-
PEELED him. :. The ruling
Party followed him doggedly
and obediently-and he truly
led it from victory to victory
until, carried away by power,
he began to sin against it as
we'll"
At the same time Stain
has a great accomplishment
to his credit. HE trans
formed backward Russia into
an industrial power and an
empire that is ever more re-
solutely and implacably as
piring to world mastery"
But unfortunately, even
now, after the so-called de-
Stalinization, the same con-
clusion can be reached as
before: Those who wish to
live and to survive in a
world different from the one
Stain created and which is
essence and full force still
exists must fight"
Evening star., 1962-05-21

not trust. therefore, Fairfax
County officialdom. Neither
do I wish to pay again and
again for separate but un-
equal schools" or for law
suits which lead nowhere.
AS a Fairfax City resident
once in favor of consolida-
ton - 1 will vote for the
city remaining as an inde-
pendent city, should a refer
endum be held.
l shall place my trust and
faith in Robert Walker. city
superintendent of schools, who
has stated often that he does
not intend to waste time and
money on even setting up a
separate segregated school
system. He has assured us
that it is his intent to offer
a freedom of choice plan.
Freedom-for Negro parents
to send their children to
either an all-Negro county
school or the nearest Fairfax
city School-which will not,
obviously, be all of one color
but will serve a true geogra-
phic and political unit.
S. Stephen Kegeles, Ph.D.
Evening star., 1962-05-21
Virqinio Poll Tax

Senator Byrd tells the
Senate that in Virginia any,
one can vote as long as he
can sign his name; then a
chorus of Virginia solonS SOL
emnly states that the Vir-
ginia poll tax keeps no one
from voting. The Virginia
voter must be pardoned for
his Alice in Wonderland ex-
preston, for these state
mentS simply do not jibe with
the facts.
The poll tax is $1.50 a
year; that much is true. What
is not mentioned is that if
you have lived in Virginia for
four or more years and have
never paid a poll tax, you
have to pay for the last three
years, plus interest. Further
more. the poll tax must be
paid six months in advance
of a general election.
The 1860 presidential elec-
ton was preceded by record
breaking registrations in ev-
cry State. But what happened
to the Virginia citizen who
chose to vote for the first
time? If he had the foresight
to decide in May (two months
before the national conven-
tions) that he wanted to vote
in November, he found that
he had to pay up any unpaid
poll tax due for the past
three years. with interest. He
found. in short, it would cost
him $4.94 before he could
register. If his wife also
wanted to vote and had never
paid a poll tax, then it cost
roughly $40 for this couple to
register and vote.
If our hypothetical citizen
waited until after the con-
ventions, however, he found
that there was absolutely
nothing he could do in July
to vote in November if his
poll tax was not paid up. If
he had paid for two of those
three years, same story. If he
had paid but lost his receipt
and there was no record of
his payment for one or more
of those years, same story.
During the 1860 campaign
I was co-chairman of the
Democratic registration drive
in Arlington. In precinct
after precinct there were
hundreds of people who were
unable to register because of
the poll tax. This year, as
chairman of precinct oper-
ations for the Arlington
Democratic Committee, feel
considerable qualification that
my committee distributed
$4,000 poll-tax reminders; I
am also we'll aware that this
isn't nearly enough to do the
job effectively.
Yes, Santa Claus, there is
a Virginia. And it's about
time someone did something
for her.
Vivian KalIen
Evening star., 1962-05-21

This is the point the Re-
publicans have instantly and
rig ghtly recognized. From
former President Eisenhower
down they have been warn
ing that they would leap with
all force upon the smallest
indication that the Demo-
Gratis, holding control of both
White House and Congress,
were only investigating them
selves preliminary to clearing
themselves.
And this the Democrats
would surely be doing-in the
public's mind, at leaSt-if the
Senate investigation were in
charge of some bleating
Democratic ultra-liberal ach-
ing to come to the aid of his
party. Mcclellan, in a word,
will do the best possible job
from the standpoint OF the
administration and the Dem
cratic Party exactly because
he owes and claims no exces-
Sive loyalty" to either.
Another StalWart
The same kind of thing
has happened already in the
case of right-wing charges of
undue censorship of military
men. These accusations, too,
could have been infinitely
harmful to the adminiStra-
ton but for another con
Servative Southern Demo-
crat," Senator John c.
Stennis Of Mississippi. Like
Mcclellan, Stennis is not a
good" Democrat by the
standards of the ultra
liberals. Accordingly, the
"gagging" inquiry recently
conducted by him largely
satisfied the country simply
because it was a fair and full
job, protecting nobody and
vilifying nobody.
Like Mcclellan, Stennis
has the mind not of a pro-
Secutor and not of a defense
lawyer, but of judge.
All this compels this
columnist to offer, with un-
becoming but irresistible i'm
modesty, the White law of
practical politics. This law
is that if Southern Democrats
"disloyal" to the national
party-in the ecstatically
simple criteria of the ultra
liberals-did not exist, they
really would have to be in
vented.
Evening star., 1962-05-21

formulation of policy on the Potomac
Palisades might well be channeled
through the Metropolitan Council of
Governments and the Regional Planning
Council. This is precisely the purpose
for which these area-wide bodies were
created-not to dictate policy to local
jurisdictions, but to help them arrive
at independent policy decisions on mat
terS which are of concern to the entire
region
Evening star., 1962-05-21
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
YuqosIov Morxist's Moscow Diary
By DONALD MINTZ

CONVERSATIONS WITH
STAIN, by Milovan Djilas.
Translated from the Serbo-
Croat by Michael B. Petro-
vich, 211pp. (Harcourt, Brace
& World, $3.95)
Milovan Djilas, a Yugoslav
Marxist whose latest sojourn
in Tito's jails began recently.
met Stain on official busi-
ness on three separate occa-
sions. Conversations with
Stain" is primaily a record
of DjilaS' personal reactions
to those meetings. The neces-
Sary political background is
indicated, but the book is not
a work Of political history or
theory. 1t is a personal ad-
dendum to THE New Glass"
and Land without Justice.
Mr.. Djilas first saw Stain
in 1914 when he went to the
Soviet Union to arrange for
aid to the Yugoslav Parti-
sans. This was duly forth
coming. Though at the time
Mr.. Djilas was utterly dedi-
Gated to the cause of Soviet
communiSm-the chapter re-
counting this episode is
called "Raptures" - he was
nevertheless somewhat dis
.turbed to be interrogated by
lone of those northern blonds
with limpid eyes whose bux-
omness enhanced her beauty
and strength"
Nor did the Soviet leaders
truly understand the political
situation in Yugoslavia.
Though "the struggle against
the (German) invader" was
still going on, "the war and
the civil war had already
shown the Communist Party
to be the only real political
force" In short, the revolu-
tion had been accomplished
without the Red Army.
THE SECOND journey to
Moscow took place in the fol-
lowing year when a treaty of
alliance was signed between
the Soviet Union and Yugo-
Slavia.
At this point, Mr.. Djilas
began to be a doubter. 81 was
not yet able to draw the con-
clusion," he writes, that it
was precisely the (locaD
Communists who were the
butt and the means by which
Soviet hegemony was to en-
sconce itself in the countries
of Eastern Europe. Yet I sus-
pected as much"
This trip calls forth a num-
Der of fine remarks about
Stain as a man. with him.
pretense was so spontaneous
that it seemed he himself
became convinced of the
truth and sincerity of what
he was saying. He very easily
adapted himself to the dis
cussion of any new topic, and
even to every new person
atty"
The third.miSsion to Mos
cow took place in 1948 in a
final attempt to stave off the
break between Yugoslavia
and the Soviet Union. For by
then it had become plain that
the Socialist camp" was a
distinctly aggressive empire
dominated by the Soviet Un-
ion, not a cooperating group
of like-minded states defend
ing nothing more than their
own legitimate interests.
The portrait of the Stain
of 1948 is anything but flat
tering. "An ungainly dwarf
of a man passed through
gilded and marbled imperial
halls and a path opened be-
fore him, radiant. admiring
glances followed him, while
the ears of courtiers strained
to catch his every word. And
he, sure Of himself and his
works, obviously paid no at
Evening star., 1962-05-21

@. What was the Dunn
barton Oaks Conference?-
c. j.
A. This was a conference
held in a famous old home,
Dumbarton Oaks, in WASH
ington. D. c., in 1914. 1t
was here that the foundation
for the United Nations was
laid. The United States, the
United Kingdom, the Soviet.
Union, and China announced
their decision to recommend
the creation of IN interna-
tional security organization.
@. What was Greek gnomic
poetry?-L. B.
A. A gnome is a short pithy
saying, often expressed in
figurative language, contain
ing a reflection, a practical
observation, or a maxim.
Gnomic poetry, which was
popular in Greece in the sixth
century B. c.. was the ar
rangement Of a series Of these
maxims or sayings In verse
form. Very little Of this type
of poetry has been preserved.
Evening star., 1962-05-21
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Evening star., 1962-12-30

Of new hardware, no matter how start
ling or useful they may be. The lasting
wonders of our time will turn out to be,
again, the discoveries Of certain posi-
bilities for man - for example, the pos.
sibiLty of gathering scientific knOwl.
edge, and of applying it to technology
cal improvements.
Related to this last point is the
wonder of the possibility of a demo-
cratic, eeGIitariGH form of society. More
and more, discrimination and related
social evils are fading. Whereas slave
quarters and other ghettOs once consti-
tuted the major portion Of most ancient
cities, now the possibility of increased
material afiluence and education for all
among other factors is changing
Western society more and more toward