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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04

Of education Is to elect a
school board Of moderate
philosophy and some business
ability.
Tracy Coleman.
4 + 4 y
President Garfield once
gave a definition for an edu-
cational institution that is
as valid today for Mont
gomery County as it was
nearly 100 years ago for VIII
liamS College. "Give me a
log hut. with only a single
bench, Mark Hopkins (the
President of Williams) at one
end and I at the other, and
you may have all the build
ings, apparatus, and libraries
without him"
Thus was recognized the
one pre-eminent requirement
in a school (including a uni
verSity) - quality in the
teacher.
Scientists supported this
when they attributed the
fact. for a recent study, that
each had chosen higher edu-
cation through the recogni-
ton of his individual capacity
by a perceptive and inspiring
high school teacher.
The taxpayer in Mont
gomery County wants quality
in education; he has paid for
it, and he should have known
quality delivered.
John Crawford Webb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04

in the Maryland campaign,
and fully identified with
them in their feeling Of re-
spect and esteem for Gen.
Mcclellan, entertain e d
through a long and most
friendly association with him,
I feel that it is not as a
stranger that I assume their
command
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04
Montgomery Schools

Reduced to its basic issues,
the Montgomery school con-
troverSy revolveS about two
simple questions. Do we truly
have a system of education
in Montgomery County which
is as excellent as the liberals
would have us believe? Are
we spending more money
than is necessary to produce
really good education?
Liberals say that eight
years ago they inherited a
tottering school system with
substandard buildings, un-
qualified teachers and obso-
lete methods of operation,
and that through their eff
forts it has become a paragon
of excellence among school
systems. To prove this they
cite present lack of crowding,
the number of scholarships
among our graduates, and the
alleged high quality of our
education in general.
Actually the new construc-
ton program was started
long before the liberals took
over, and crowding Of the
schools could have been
eliminated at a far lower
cost than the amounts spent
during the last eight years.
Between 212 and 3 million
dollars could have been saved
in this year alone by a re-
duction in construction costs
of So per square foot. This
could be done without dam
aging in any way the utility
or adequacy of the schools.
After eight years of liberal
domination of the school
board, our average children
are still having the same
troubles and graduating with
the same weaknesses in basic
subjects. The only difference
is that it is now costing us
70 per cent more to cope
with these weaknesses. If
you doubt this, examine the
California Achievement Tests
Of '61-'62 which show areas
Of serious weaknesses in
reading comprehension,
arithmetic and spelling,
among our students. The
liberals point with pride to
the graphs which show our
children are at, or close to
the national average. There
is small reason to rejoice at
this when we consider that
with the raw material at
hand the educators should be
producing students who rank
at the top in national stand
ings.
The best solution to the
problems Of quality and cost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04
Legislative Lambs

The top social security tax
per worker was 500 in 1858.
In 1862 the tax is $3.50. In
1868, without the medicare
give-away, it will be STA.
If Mr.. Kennedy's rubber
stamps" are elected, the top
social security tax in 1868
would jump to 1901 per year
or over double the 1858 tax.
This represents an increase
in tax of approximately 81
per week from 1862 to 1868.
Undoubtedly the increase will
retard the economy or accel-
crate the downSwing if one is
underway. The tax will in
crease again and again as
give-aways are made more
attractive to free-loader pres
sure groups.
Our defense is to purchase
rubber stamps at the variety
store at much less cost. In
lien of life like rubber
stamps" we should elect can
didateS who have intelligence,
decision : making experience
and wisdom; individuals who
are constructive doors, not
just takers; representatives
who are worth every cent of
the $22,500 Congressman SAL
airy plus at least an 100000
overhead cost per year to the
taxpayers; persons, W h o,
when arriving at a decision,
consider the effects on all
of the people as well as on
their constituents. Certainly
we do not want a dictatorship
composed Of meek lambs as
the peoples representatives,
blindly following a glib leader
who has yet to learn how to
make a timely solid decision.
Oscar Stiegler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04

haps with some exaggerated distress,
this mild" disease. It can go harder
with adults: In epidemic form it can
disrupt military training plans and in
flict disability on unborn children Of
pregnant women. Now the time is ap-
preaching when preventive vaccine
will be developed. If this sort of thing
keeps up, We'll conquer the common
cold one of these days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Capturing Mountains
BY DR.. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate


space-exploring day tell us
Of the exploits of our scien-
lists who are bent on cap
turing other worlds than the
one which is our home. The
prospect is so exciting that
often we hear the lament
from those who cannot hope
to be alive a half century
from now: I'VE wish we
could see what our grand
children will see." Today,
with eyes on outer space mil
lions are talking glibly Of
reaching the Moon and Venus
and points beyond.
But man who talks now so
confidently of capturing
other worlds has not yet las
seed some of the most de-
fiant parts of the earth on
which he was born. There
are some of natures mo
trespassing" signs which have
never yet been struck down
by human hands. The an
nails Of 1862 are already no.
table as, navigating safely
with amazing skill, two polar
subs after thousands of
miles voyage beneath the
sea, kept a rendezvous under
meath the North Pole and
emerged triumphantly above
the icecaps.
There are still colossal
pieces of natures handiwork
piercing the sky which mock
puny mans determination to
scale their heights. They
have proved more invulner-
able than even the air and
the sea which to so large an
extent have been brought
into the domain of mans
subjugation. When there is
reckoned the cost in peril,
toll and pain in capturing a
mountain, the question has
been asked, why are intrepid
men ready to pay the priceP
That question was answered
by one Mount Everest climber
who later gave his life in an
attempt to reach the summit.
At a gathering in Boston he
said: IF you cannot under
stand that there is something
in man that responds to the
challenge of the, mountains
and goes out to meet it
that the struggle is the
struggle of life itself upward
and forever upward - then
you can never see why we
co."
The secret of that inner
urge which on winged feet
has lifted so many to dare
the crags is, as George NAL
lory of Cambridge, who also
finally persisted near the tan
talizing, topmoSt pinnacle,
exclaimed: "B cause it is
there!"
But as we think of the
conquest of mountains for
this year Of our Lord, there
is another victory on it's rec
ord. This has to do not with
the frowning surface of some
sky-climbing peak, but with
the formidable interior of a
mountain. Those of us who
on moonlight nights have
gazed in rapture at snowy
Mount Blanc and have seen
DARN g climbers struggling
toward its peak have been
thrilled to know that at last
earth's longest tunnel has
pierced its base. The Mount
Blanc tunnel is to be ready
for traffic in the spring of
1864. The workers from both
sides, as the dust was still
settling, met as the final nj
troglycerin charge went off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04
Not MeosIy, at All

For every recently printed, bleak
news item, there is to be found (if one
searches with care) another to revive
the spirit. Now we learn that Walter
Reed and Harvard researchers have
isolated the German measles virus. AS
children, most of us experienced, per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-04
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters cdrry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only 1Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
REPORT----
Lotin America Stirred Little
By Alliance for Progress

open and expand the OAS
offices throughout the capitals
.of Latin America. Mr.. Moscoso
has promised him SIS million
towards those ends from the
Alliance for Progress sppropria-
tons currently being debated
by Congress. But he needs
more.
Wary Of "OverseIlIng"
But Mr.. Posada and his
counterparts throughout Latin
America are noticeahly wary
Of taking a Madison Avenue
''oyersell" approach to the Al
lance for Progress.
I'VE do not want to raise
hopes we cannot fulfill" said
one Of President Romulo Bet
ancourt's advisers in vene-
zuela. Programs like school
building and house construc-
ton take time to complete.
Many have not even begun. +"
He thought for q minute.
But you may be sure that
when we have some tangible
evidence Of progress under the
Alliance, we shall publicize it
to the hilt."
The critics Of this approach
answer that surely a middle
ground must exist between
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Church to Conduct
Contest on Leisure

Youngsters of the Faith
United Presbyterian Church will
present essays on How I Use
Ny Leisure Time" at $50 pm,
Sunday, at the church, Twenty
first street and Alabama avenue
Sc.
Prizes viii be awarded to all
is participants in the essay con-
test. and special awards will go
to the best elementary, junior
high, and senior high students.
Detective Lieutenant Rudolph
P. Biro, of the Juvenile Division
Of the METROPOLITAN Police De-
partment. win speak following
the essay readings.
Evening star., 1962-09-30

schools Of a prayer written by
state officials.
The Republican candidate
said amendment Is necessary
because Of the varying In
terpretations placed on the
courts action. He suggested
that 3 prayer be made legal
and that it be nondenomina-
tional Of the New York type,
to be said in schools ito re-
mind our children Of all our
religious heritage"
Mr.. Nixon reiterated his
stand that he win not be a
candidate for President in 1854.
Asked about a possible Nixon
draft. he replied: There viii
not be a draft in 1854. I will
see to that"
Evening star., 1962-09-30
NixonAdVocutes
Amendment on
School Prayers

SALINAS. Calf. Sept. 2s
(AP).-Former Vice President
Nixon touched on the Supreme
Court prayer decision during
a three-hour telethon last night
in his campaign for Governor
Of California.
Answering one Of 645 ques-
tons telephoned in, Mr.. Nixon
advocated an amendment to
the United States Constitution
clarifying the ruling barring
recitation in New York public
Evening star., 1962-09-30

"oversell" and the present mo
sell" They argue that you can
not create the national ell
mate Of involvment and sacri-
flee essential for the Alliance
without raising hopes. An
aroused public. they say. is in
dispensible to get the reforms
necessary to finance the vast
house and school building pro-
grams.
It is fundamentally a politi-
cal question. The premise of
the Alliance for Progress is
that reforms can be instituted
democraticaIly with United
States aid. But at the moment
the Alliance means next to
nothing to the Latin publics
who are supposed to generate
the pressure on their govern
ments to implement it.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
INTERPRETIVE REPORT.
By GEORGE SHERMAN
star staff Writer

From the vantage point Of Latin America the Alliance
for Progress has become handwrngng operation Of
ingless words and unkept promises.
It lacks theological drive 1t lacks hemisphere organi-
zaton 1t lacks commitment from anyone below limited
number Of top-fight economic planners
In country after country southern continent you
Evening star., 1962-09-30

Mr.. SheFmon returned recently from
a long swing through Latin America.
Evening star., 1962-09-30

1llQ appalling 1slOIduCE 04
even the most basic concepts
Of the Alliance. Indeed, the
inquiring North American Wis
itor soon begins to feel self
conscious about discussing it.
Politicians can reel off all
the slogans OF reform by heart.
but few have any clear idea
holF they are to be put into
practice. Their constituents.
who are supposed to mobilize
tl1e pressure for these demo-
cratic reforms. do not even
know the slogans.
ut is absolutely amazing. /"
said q North American student
who was part Of q YMCA work
group spending the summer In
the siums and universities Of
vafious capitals. These young
people do not even know that
their governments have COM
nltted themselves to work
jointly with the United States
on social and economic re-
forms"
We talked in front Of q
crowded bus terminal in the
cehter Buenos Aires. All around
yobng Argentines were busy
saiing emotional fafewells to
their North American help
mates.
Never Heard Of Charter
ywe stayed up to three
o'clock this morning arguing"
tHe young man continued. I'VE
took out the Charter Of Punta
del Este and went over it point
by point. Most had never seen
itsbefore."
This charter, signed in Uru-
quay in August, 1861. by all
AEaerican countries except
Cuba, was to become the blue
PRINT for progress in Latin
= America. 1t sets minimum eco
nofnic growth rates, plans for
eliminating illiteracy, health
standards over q ten-year
period.
But in the year since Punta
del Este the Alliance has quietly
TUNED into a North American
operation. It's aims and pros
poets are much better known in
the United States than in Latin
America-where the progress is
to take place.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
o. S. Caught in wise

The United States is caught
in a gigantic wise. On the one
hand, we have committed our
selves to over 81 billion a year
in aid to Latin America during
the SOS. This commitment
means the right to pass on pro-
grams and projects and a hugh
technical bureaucracy to i'm
plement those judgments.
On the other hand, the de-
sire is to destroy the image OF
a North American give-away
program" That means sharing
responsibility with Latin Amer
ican bureaucracy which is woe-
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Walls Barely Heard

Walls Of everyone from sem
ators to businessmen over how
the United States tax dollar
should or should not be spent
reach South America like faint
echoes from another world. In
Latin ears they are Just more
fuss and fury over another
billion-dollar aid program.
United States architects OF
the Alliance readily admit this
shortcoming. Theodore Mos
coso, United States Coordinator
Of the Alliance, said only yes
terday in a speech at Marquette
University: II am convinced
that the greatest need Of the
Aliance to-day lies in this
psychological field"
N Latin American eyes, he
continued, "the Alliance il
something far away, up North
buried under mountains Of
papers in the offices Of Wash
ington bureaucrats."
The more important question
is why has 50 little been done
to create the popular mys-
tique" the Alliance so badly
needs. The answer lies partly
in the complexities of trying
to raise this vast underdevel-
oped continent by its boot
straps overnight.
But much Of the answer alsc
lies in the Incompetence ano
foot-dragging Of Latin Ameri-
can leaders both here and In
their own countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-18

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The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17

The death toll from highway acci-
dents in Lincoln County has reached IL.
This is one less than the IL highway
fatalities recorded for the II months OF
1861 in Lincoln County, and we still
have over months of 1862 to go. It's
something to think seriously about, and
the pressing need to curb the traffic toll
Of the county's IL highway fatali-
ties this year, three have been children.
Highway Safety officials, State lead
ers, such as Governor Terry Sanford are
again expressing deep concern over the
useless slaughter on our highways. Legi-
slatorS are being called upon to join in
a non-political attack on the highway
death toll.
A three-pronged program featuring
the three E's of highway Safety-Educa-
ton, Enforcement, Engineering = has
been adopted by the National Safety
Council
This newspaper believes firmly that
if there is proper implementation of
massive program in these three (E) ar
cas-, there would be an impressive re-
duction into the horrifying statistics that
annual cost so many lives and deal a
staggering waste in lives and property.
Part of the blame for the rise in
highway deaths has been aimed at the
N. C. General Assembly. 1t has been
pointed out that our lawmakers in past
sessions have declined to pass vehicle
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17
LincoIn's Traffic Toll

inspection law, mandatory test for in
toxication and several other suggestions
to strengthen the hand of safety officials.
Only a check at the record will show
quickly and plainly that drinking is
major factor in fatal accidents. Speed IS
a leading killer, too. But, mechanical
failure may be greater factor than has
been suspected.
The Shelby Star has observed edi-
torially that the reduction of highway
accidents will not take place because of
wishful thinking or of intensive cruising
cruisers of state troopers, at least not to
any important degree. The Times con-
ours in that opinion, and feels, like The
Star, that the reduction in the traffic
toll will take place when legislators gath
er enough courage to provide stringent
and specific legislation calling for:
l. Comprehensive and mandatory
inspection of vehicles.
2. Mandatory intoxication tests for
drivers suspected of drinking.
3. Tightening of driver licensing
procedures to include periodic physical
and road skill tests.
4. Sufficient funds to Suppor
teams of Notwithstanding accident in
veStigatorS to concentrate on areas OF
unusually large accident numbers.
5. Required installation of basic
safety equipment such as seat belts.
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17

The Dakota County Star in Nebras-
ka sometime ago waded into a question
which confronts newspaper people, and
this includes The Lincoln Times staff,
frequently.
Inasmuch as it seems appropriate
to National Newspaper Week Ito be OBJ
served soon), and because it says so well
what The Lincoln Times has tried to ex-
plain on occasions, we pass it along as
if it were our own, the following editor
ial entitled 'What Good?"
A newspaper editor often hears re-
marks similar to TT would have been
better if you hadn't printed the story"
or what good did it do to print such
story?"
1t usually is heard when some un-
favorable situation develops involving
an individual or some event, organiza-
ton or even a community.
Usually such criticism stems from
the same individuals who seek and eX-
pect favorable publicity whenever the
occasion warrants and sometimes when
it doesn't.
Some say no worthwhile good is ac
complished when a respected citizen is
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17
What's Good Of Printing IT?

drawn into court test We submit, how
ever, that it proves that the laws are
made for everyone that nobody rates
immunity.
The ''unfavorable publicity charge
was heard in previous years during polio
epidemics and during floods when some
individuals thought the press was doing
irreparable damage by reporting the
facts
We believe however that an inform
ed public is by far the best policy. There
is no greater enemy to rumor and ex-
aggeration.
This newspaper has never been an
"all is peachy' type publication which
reports only the favorable occurrences
and overlooks anything which might
tend to be unfavorable to some.
A newspaper is mirror which re-
fleets the activities of community and
sometimes, perhaps, that mirror will be-
come clouded.
We believe these policies, maintain
ed and fostered through the years, for
mulate an adequate reply to critics who
object to this newspaper publishing some
news events as they occur.
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17

position in attempting to guide
social changes along non-explo-
sive pathways. But Golden
would have the explosions. They
are more profitable for oppor-
tunists willing to turn controv-
ersy into cash.
A local newspaper has re-
sponsibility to all of its readers
and to its community. We know
of few southern newspapers that
have attempted to hide lnevi-
table change from their readers.
Most contain everyday compe-
tent and complete news reports
of activities on the integration
front. And most editors freely
comment when these events
move into their circulation area.
Their comments, under the
rights of a free and unrestrict-
ed press, are their own bust
ness. Some are liberal, some
moderate and still others con-
servative.
Not all, we are sure, conform
to what might be Golden's model
of an editorialiSt.
He, on the other hand, does
not conform to ours.
Shelby Stal
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17
ABOUT NEWSPAPERS
What A Survey Shows

times each weekday. Also. the
average reader looks at IA pa
pers every day.
How do you read your paper
front to back? Carefully?
Seventy-one per cent read one
page after another; 81 per cent
scan the paper; two per cent
look only at specific items. Also,
65 per cent read from the be-
ginning page by page while 35
per cent turn first to some spe-
cific item, then return to be-
ginning.
Standard circulation reference
sources indicate that Al per
cent of the total U. S. average
daily circulation comes from
morning papers and SO per cent
from afternoon papers.
Which do you feel closest to
your favorite radio station,
TV, or newspaper Thirty-three
per cent said the TV channel
they watched most often, IA per
cent radio station listened to
most, and 13 per cent had no
preference.
The survey was conducted by
ADULTS and Surveys Co., Inc,
in consultation with the Ad-
vertising Research Foundation.
-GaStOnia Gazette
The Lincoln times., 1962-09-17

This isn't National Newspaper
Week, but here are some facts
we'd like to pass along.
Did you know, for instance,
that newspaper reading is at its
peak among the adult majority
between 80 and 54 years of age?
That newspapers are read by
72 per cent of the teenagers,
age Is to 20? That the papers
are read by IA per cent of the
young adults, q to "a?
Newspaper reading also holds
up well among the growing
body of people aged 55 and over.
The leadership percentage here
is rs.
When do people read their
newspaper? According to a re-
cent survey, here are the facts:
a. M, before or with breakfast,
III per cent; a. M, after break
fast, IL per cent noon, meal
time, two per cent; afternoon,
II per cent; p. m., after dinner,
80 per cent; other times, three
per cent; no habitual reading
time, SO per cent.
The newspaper is not normal
ly read in a single sitting. In
fact, the typical reader picks up
and looks into his paper "a