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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Busy Money-Mokers

The Treasury Department an
nouncement of record coin production
by, the United States Mint in fiscal
1852 indicates that there is no recession
in the money-making business For the
twelve months recently ended, the
plants at Denver and Philadelphia
turned out total of 3,46O, 524, 142 do
nestle. coins with a face Value of S14S,-
311,430 - compared to 3,O58, 791 1873
pieces with face value of only SOL, $751;
800 in fiscal 1861.
For those faced with the daily sales
tax nuisance, it is not surprising that
more than rs billion of the 1862 coins
We're pennies. What is more puzzling
is the Treasury disclosure that demand
Tor five-cent pieces from the Philadel-
phia plant has forced speed-up in the
production schedule in that denomi-
nation. What does nickel buy in Phil
adelphia these days? For that matter.
what does it buy anywhere?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Still Uncertain Trumpet

One may doubt that there are simple
explanations Of the military shuttle
which primarily affects NATO and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. -
General NorStad, after long tour
Of duty as NATO commander, is retiring.
He will be succeeded in all probability by
General Lemnitzer, now Chairman Of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff This latter spot
win be filled by General Taylor, military
adviser to the President, who bowed out
as Army Chief Of Staff in 1859 with
strident blast in his book, The Uncertain
Trumpet, against the military policies
Of the Eisenhower administration.
OF first concern is the NATO change
of command. General Norstad's service
has been truly distinguished and we
hope the whole story Of his departure
is told in the friendly exchange of
letters between him and the President.
But there is some doubt on this score.
Reports from Europe suggest that Gen.
eral NorStad, at SIS, is retiring because
of fundamental differences with the
Kennedy administration on questions
Of military strategy, particularly with
respect to providing NATO with a
nuclear capability. Obviously, such a
dispute, If it exists, is not a matter for
lay Judgment, but the mere fact Of its
existence would be disturbing.
This becomes the more true In the
light OF some Of the circumstances
surrounding the choice Of General
Lemnitzer to replace General Norstad
as commander of American forces in
Europe land, presumably. also as NATO
commander. oa a1t
Running through the news stories
are suggestions that General Lemnitzer
is being moved out as Chairman Of the
jos because the President holds him
responsible in some degree for the Cuban
invasion fiasco. The facts on this have
never been made public. But we doubt
very much that General Lemnitzer ever
Endorsed the invasion effort except on
the understanding that 1t would have
adequate air and perhaps naval support.
We do not think the rawest second lieu
tenant would have advised Mr.. Kennedy
to let the invasion attempt proceed after
the latter'S decision to call off the air
cover. -->->- so. - -@s.(
Nevertheless, the reports persist that
General Lemnitzer Is under cloud, that
he has never been fully restored to Mr..
Kennedy's graces, etc.
It seem to us that, the President,
II these reports are untrue, should
emphatically diSavow them. Otherwise,
General Lemnitzer, actuallya very able
officer, will go to NATO as kind of
Kennedy discard And this could be
doubly unfortunate il the reports from
Europe respecting disagreement with
General Norstad are true.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

Fly in the SKY

The Army's Nike-Zeus has per-
formed remarkably well in intercepting
in the Central Pacific an Atlas missile
fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California, nearly 5000 miles away.
Technically and otherwise, there can
be no doubt that this achievements
bullet hitting bullet, so to speak, at
great attitudes and over immense dis
tanceS- constitutes an event of major
importance. Further than that, in terms
Of propaganda, it serves as good and
timely answer to Nilkita KhruShchev's
recent boast about the ability of Soviet
rockets to hit "a fly in the sky"
Well, in sense, this Nike-Zeus
triumph shows that our American anti
missile rockets have a similar capability.
But there is reason to doubt that it
constitutes a really decisive break
through, as some have proclaimed, in
the all-important business of building
up genuinely automatic defense
against incoming intercontinental bal
listic missiles. There are ways, with
decoy ICBMs and with saturating forms
Of attack, to Illustrate all such forms of
defense at present, and Premier Khru-
shchev himself probably realizes that he
has given voice to hyperbole in talking
about swatting Spatial flies.
Defense Secretary Mcnamara, in
his admirably restrained statement on
the Nike-Zeus interception, has kept
the whole business in proper perspec-
tive. He has hailed the event as evidence
that our country knows what it is doing
and talking about in its efforts ITO
understand the capabilities and limita-
lions of anti-missile systems" And he
has gone on to suggest, as If in answer
to Mr.. KhruShchev, that the Soviet
Union is quite foolish If it thinks that
its fly-in-the-sky rocket = as of this
stage, anyhow-is as good as Mr.. X
seems to think it is.
Actually, regardless of what may be
going on in Mr.. Khrushchev's mind,
there can be no doubt that our own
country is making substantial progress
In the field of anti-missile missiles. In
some respects, the problems involved
seem so complicated as to be virtually
insoluble, but there are those who think
otherwise-young men, most of them,
who are toying with mathematical for
mulae and mechanical computers in
a way that may well lead to truly
effective defense against the ICBM. In
all probability, our children will be the
solvers Of the problem If it can be solved
at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
FROM THE STAR F|LES..

The reports that she is per-,
sonally impure are as unjust
as they are undeserved. She
has a blind devotion to an
idea and passes the boun-,
dairy of her sex's modesty to
promote its success. She, with
all her faults and false de-
votion to ideas, which are at
the foundation of our politi-,
cal and social disorders, has
not yet lost the browning.
virtue of woman. Reporters
who thus attack a woman,
defenSeleSs within their prov
ince, exceed the license which
justice and fairness even ,
allot to outlaws. During the
past campaigns in the val-
ley, this woman has been Of
immense service to the en-
envy. She will be now, if she
can. She, therefore, should at
once be passed beyond our
lines, sent to Richmond, and
allowed to remain with those
with whom she deeply sym-1.
pathizeS. :" According to-.
Bellies own story she was
commissioned as captain
and honorary aide-de-camp"
to Gen. jackson. She was arr
rested again in August, 1863,
and the following spring She
sailed for England with let.s
tiers from jefferson Davis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
One Doctors Memorial

DR.. John H. Lyons was more than
a superior physician and surgeon. He
was man Of charity, an inspiration for
his profession, builder of hospitals.
Perhaps he is best remembered as
kind OF paragon Of the, beloved family
doctor.
These qualities were very much in
the minds Of colleagues and friends
when they founded the. John II. Lyons
Memorial Fund month after his death
last February H.. Now, only four months
later, the fund has reached $25, 900. And
even more heart-warming is the fact
that donations came from 468 individ-
uals-former patients and, ,co-workers
of DR.. Lyons.
There is no fund drive; no formal
solicitation. The altruistic aims are two
fold: ~ To have annual lectures In
DR.. Lyons name, alternately at WASH
ington Hospital Center and Children's
Hospital, by eminent medical men
throughout the Nation, and (2) to help
people in need. The latter provision was
purposely generalized to include emer
gencies arising among physicians, nurses
and others.
A committee headed by DR.. Harold
II. Hawfield, for four years an admiring
associate Of DR.. Lyons, outlined the aims,
specifying that they should be financed
through the funds interest alone Thus
two of the late physicians warmest in
terests, education and charity, are being
well served. The fund will be admins
tered by trustees Of the Washington
Hospital Center. 49,
There will be no appeal to founda-
tons or corporations. This fund will
grow from the gifts of those who knew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
so Years AGO

Perhaps Winston Church.
ills way with words may be
attributed in part to the fact
that he kissed the "Blarney
Stone" so years ago. The
Star of July %, 1912, report
ed that Churchill, then first
lord of the admiralty, had
visited Cork, while holiday
ing in Ireland, and allowed
himself to be lowered by the
heels from a ledge of Blar-
neyeCastle so he could press
his lips to the famous stone.
"Henceforth," said the story,
Mr.. Churchill is a danger
Gus public man, according to /.
tradition, for learned lexi-
cographers state that he who
kisses the Barney Stone is
endowed with the power to
barney and to blarney,
they say, is to humbug with
wheedling talk so as to gain
a desired end, or to have
exceptional facility in the art
OF flattery and compliment.
After Churchill had per-
formed the act, the same.
was done by his secretary
who writes Churchill's LETT
tiers to political correspond.
entS. :" =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Bread Alone

Earl Voss' article on July
IA concerning the Commu-
nists' failure in Red China
is an excellent statement of
the materialistic position.
That he sees fit to quote at
great length from his anony-
nous diplomat in Hong Kong
is a reflection on Voss' own
concept of economic deter
miniSm.
We need not dignity by
comment or criticism the
limited analysis made with
respect to possible conse-
quences of different action
by the United States Is years
ago. But the statement and
the article, like our foreign
policy, leave us with no more
than an alleged necessity to
continue indefinitely with a
no-questions asked-foreign-
aid policy.
Admittedly I'VE can't spend
enough; and we are told,
I'VE can't afford to end (our
foreign policy, because go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
1t Might Have Been .

.t#s Whittier, in his musings on Maud
Muller and the Judge, reminded us that
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the
saddest are these: ut might have been"
In strictly nonsentimental sense,
this has an application to something
: that has just happened in West Vir-
GINA. The Navy had started to build
massive 50,000-ton radio telescope at
the Sugar Grove research station. It
was to be the largest thing Of its kind
IN the world-an outstanding feature
OF the States centennial celebration
next year-and It was expected, or at
least hoped, that free-spending visitors
would come from far and near to see
1T. But now 1t all belongs in the category
OF things that might have been.
Progress struck, and the new be-
came obsolete even before it had come
into" being. The Defense Department
regretfully announced that, since the
big, eye was begun in 1858, science had
found new and better ways Of getting
the job done. There are newer and more
efficient ways of exploring outer space,
listening for signs of life on other
planets, mapping the surface of the
moon for mans future conquest, etc.
Hfor economic reasons alone, prob
ably no one was more sympathetic to
the West Virginians than Defense Sec
rotary Mcnamara. He had to tell them,
and all the taxpayers, that SALT million
already had gurgled down the drain.
But 1t was less than the 1882 mil
lion Congress had voted for the project
that now is Joining the Order of the
White Elephants. And at the mounting
costs, the venture might have reached
5000 million.
But how about those SALT million
fortune in any mans life? Had it all
evaporated In vain2 The Navy saws
some scientific data were gathered,
which doubtless is true. But the truth
is that mans mind is moving faster
than his physical and financial ability
to keep up. This is a fact of life which
applies to all Of us and which will be
costly in many areas, weapons included.
For better or worse, however, we are
stuck with 1t. t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Woterqote's Assets

Your music critic. Irving
Lowens, doubts wheth er
"Watergate activity can JUS
tifiably include listening to
music" He is wrong, as the
large and appreciative Water
gate audiences will attest.
There are many ways of lis
tening to music and some ex-
pressions demand a more
concentrated attention than
others. The band music pre-
sented at the Watergate is
ideally suited to the outdoors
an gives a lot more than
merely admiring the moon
and water. 1t is truly an
ideal setting and one can
quite easily become impervi-
Gus to scattered Interruptions
of passing planes. The rhythm
of the music carries it along
and the missing bars are well
known in familiar. favorites.
Whatever the Interruptions,
the music complemented by
the ideal setting, gives a lift
to the spirit which alone
should justify its continued
existence, and be a rebuttal
to the critics whose only
criterion appears to be good
listening.
The Watergate is Wash
ington's unique and splendid
gift to the receptive people
who flock to it in cars and
buses. on foot and by canoe.
The enthusiastic response of
the people is proof enough of
its assets, which SO nightly
outweigh any liabilities. An
evening at the Watergate is
a rewarding evening indeed.
Mrs. J. T. Rogers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Equal Time

Several bills are now before
the Senate affecting the
equal opportunities provision
of Section 315 Of the Com
munications Act. The pro-
posed legislation would have
the effect of giving a mo-
noply Of free radio and TV
time for the political broad
casts Of the Republicans and
Democrats while completely
denying similar rights to the
Socialist Labor Party and
other minority parties.
If these bills are enacted
into law, the right of minor
ity parties to publicize their
programs will be seriously
abridged. Therefore, it is my
opinion that this legisla-
ton is in essential conflict
with Article v Of the U. S.
Constitution. Manifestly, the
proposed bills do not prohibit
changes in politics but they
do make agitation for change
excessively difficult.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

An article in The Sunday
Star entitled "Arlingtonians
Spread Their Influence Affair.""
started THE non-partisan
coalition )" This is a COM
pletely untrue statement and
is most misleading. First, how
can you be for something
without being against some
thing else? Second land most
importantly, the Abe group
has sponsored its own candi-
date in every Arlington Coun-
ty Board election since 1857.
This is non-partisan? Ride
ulous. The people in back of
the ABC have been successful
in hypnotizing the Civil Serv-
ice Board into supporting
their ridiculous position.
Not Hoodwinked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Anti-InteNectuuL

1t is not surprising to read
that American intellectuals
are afraid of Living in the
Shadow Of Atomic War" Let's
establish first of all that in
this county, when one speaks
of intellectuals, the unspoken
prefix is usually pseudo"
It's an American paradox,
but nevertheless it is so.
These sensitive souls are tru-
ly quaking in their tennis
shoes - Saul PETIT Is correct
in that. However, the reason
he gives is that "intellec-
tuals" have deeper and more
esthetic minds, so they can
ponder a crisis more pro-
foundry. To me, this is way
off base. The real thought
processes of these quavering
quiz kids are threefold:
First, like it or not, we
must admit that America, a
very young country with a
rough-and-tumble history, is
anti-intellectual. So, people
who think Of themselves as
leaning toward learning are
essentially very insecure, like
anyone who knows that he is
widely disliked. So, when the
first real crisis hits, they
fall to pieces.
Second, intellectuals know
instinctively that they can
exist only in peaceful times.
Throughout history, social
upheaval has elimina t e d
thinkers in favor of doors.
Therefore, it's not surprising
to find that peace-pickets
are usually eggheads.
Third, because they lack
the real genius that makes a
Henry Ford, these BUSH
league brahmins usually hold
some sort of WPA-type job
with a grandiose title rem
iniscent of the proverbial
glorified file clerk. If a war
comes they know they would
get promotions and raises
that they can't get in peace
time economy. It sounds to
me as If many of our home
grown doubledomes uncon-
sciously want war, and are so
guilty about it that they
doth protest too much"
Florence King.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
100 Years Ago

Some of the best spying
in the Civil War was done
by women, and not the least
of these was a pert miss
named Belle Boyd, who was
only II when the State s
started fighting. Belle tells
in her own memoirs, Belle
Boyd in Camp and Prison, Z"
how she aided the Southern
cause. She is said to have
been of particular help to
"Stonewall" Jackson during
his Valley campaigns, pro-
viding him with information
that enabled him to catch
the Federals by surprise on
occasions. Once, early in the
war, she eavesdropped on
Union officers as they made
plans in her aunt's home in
Front Royal. She achieved
this by lying on the floor of
a closet above the down.
stairs dining room, and max
ing notes of what she was
able to hear through a hole
bored through floor and CELL
ing. Then she Sneaked from
the house, saddled a horse
and galloped Is miles
through the night to tell the
Confederates what to expect.
Another time she dashed
across a field separating blue
and gray armies, her bright
dress and white apron a
prime target, and waved her
bonnet as a sign for Jack
sons men to advance. She
wrote that Jackson once
thanked her in a personal
note, saying: II thank you
for myself and for the army
for the immense service that
you have rendered your
country. ;" Belle Boyd was
arrested when Union troops
retook Front Royal about
this time a century ago and
spent some time in the Old
Capitol Prison here. The Star
of July %, 1862, quoted a
correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, writing
from Front Royal: 81. Her
acknowledged superiority for
machination and intrigue has
given her the leadership and
control of the female spies
in the Valley of Virginia. She
is a resident of Martinsburg
when at home, and has a
pious, good old mother who
regrets as much as anyone
can the violent and eccen-
trio course of her daughter
since this rebellion has bro
ken out. Belle has passed the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

first freshness Of youth. She
is a sharp-featured, black
eyed woman of Is, or care
and intrigue have given her
that appearance. Last sum-
mer, whilst Patterson's army
lay at Martinsburg, she wore
a revolver in her belt and was
courted and flattered by
every captain and lieutenant
in the service who saw her.
There was a kind of Di YER
non dash about her, a smart
pertness, a quickness of re-
tort and utter abandon Of
manner and bearing which
were attractive from their
very romantic unwontedness.
The father of this black eyed
vixen is a paymaster in the
Southern army, and formerly
held a place at Washington
under our Government. She
has undergone all that So
ciety and position and edu-
cation can confer upon a
mind suited to the days of
Charles II or Louis XIV-a
mind such as Mazarin or
Richelieu would have de-
lighted to employ from its
kindred affinities. Well, this
woman I saw practicing her
arts upon our lieutenants
and inexperienced captains
and in each case uniformly
felt it my duty to call them
aside and warn them of who
she was. To one she had been
introduced as Miss Faulkner,
to another as Miss Andrews
and SO on to the end of the
chapter. She is so well known
now that she can only prac-
tice her Establishments upon
new raw troops and their Of
ficers. But from them she
obtains the number Of their
regiments and their force.
She has, however, a trained
band of coadjuters who re-
port to her daily-girls aged
from Is upward women who
have the common sense not
to make themselves as con-
spicuous as she, and who re-
main unknown, save to her,
and are therefore effective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

much Of the world depends
on it and because the Com
munists are waiting to pick
UP the pieces, If we do"
To so many writers, diplo-
mats, and statesmen there
is no way out. Here they are
correct: There is no mate
realistic way out.
LIOyd buchanan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

is fear! AS Secretary Of State ?
Dean Rusk has declared,
among Khrushchev's trou-, ~
bles, in his world of coercion. -
are discussions within its T.
ranks, national resistance to .
this modern imperialism and =
a growing demand for free r.
DOM" Beneath the rug isyy
smoldering hatred wherea-.
grapes of wrath are stored. !
Some day from the volcanic
depths Of captive people the y
hot lava will flow again as it r
did in Hungary when those .
ndoctrinated for years. -
mostly youth, turned with
bare hands against the ag.1.r
gresSors. Here is the Vests = 1.
essential asset. TIT
Then, under the rug, are s,
the octopus-like tentacles Of
the most greedy and ruthless
colonialism on this terres-g-j
trial ball so thorough and5N.
cruel as to make the ancient
Romans seem like benefac-,T
tors. And as we call the roll .
Of the captive nations, outa9F
side Russia. let us not forget ~
that lis million people, in -
what is labeled USSR, are
captive non-Russians. No. :
wonder that to the United.
Nations President Kennedy
said, in a straight-from-the- :
shoulder address. Let US
debate colonialism in full and
apply the principle of freean
choice in every part Of the
globe" In the u. N. think of
the irony of the United States
being asked to join Moscow, =
including the Red representa-
alive from Hungary, In an :
investigation of colonial poll
cies of our ally, Portugal
thus alternating friends and
becoming colleagues with the
greatest colonial tyranny in
the world whose colossal sins
are ignored. ~
The captive peoples, in and
out of Russia with its iron :
grasp, must be encouraged to-
keep alive in their hearts the :
hope that some day the type
Of tyranny they now endure
will be thrown into the ash
can of history.
Long ago the people OF
Cornwall, England, marched
in angry protest when their
beloved Bishop Trelawny was
a captive of despotism and
condemned to die. Across the.
centuries comes the sound of
their hot wrath. "And
shall Trelawny die, and shall
Trelawny die, then 10000
Cornish men will know the :,
reason whyl" =,
AS the hammer and sickle
even now is reaping its dead
ly harvest of genocide, a hor- ~
rible word which the diction-
airy says is "a deliberate =
systematic determination of
a racial, political or cultural !,
group" listen to the solemn.
vow of the free world 81,
And shall cGptiUe nations die,
Shall cGptiUe nations die? =
Then millions OF Americans
Will knoto the reason why. H.;