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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Tandem in SPACE

President Kennedy has struck the
right note in Saluting RuSSia's two new
cosmonautS, wishing them a safe re-
turn, and congratulating the Soviet
Union on the exceptional technical
feat" involved in launching them into
orbit within "a hours of each other.
Clearly, as one American expert has de-
clared, the achievement is a tremendous
one marking a significant advance in
the timing of multiple launchings and
the precision of exploratory travel in
outer space.
Certainly it StirS the imagination
to think Of Major Nikolayev and Lieu
tenant Colonel Popovich whirling about
our earth with their craft, Vostok III
and VoStok Nv, in sort of tandem ar
rangement) at speeds in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000 miles an hour, and some
times apparently almost close enough
to see each other. And the spectacular
record-smaShing number of their orbits
is unqueStionably thing of high i'm
portance-a performance plainly indi-
eating that the ships carrying them are
much roomier than the capsules of our
Mercury Project. In addition, the per-
Torrance further confirms that the
Soviet Union in many vital respects
such as the power of its rocket booster
SyStemS-Still has long lead on us in
the space race.
Despite this, however, it would be
premature to view the Nikolayev-
Popovich flights as evidence that the
Russians will inevitably be the first to
carry out successful lunar expedition.
Some unnamed peSsimiSts associated
with the National AeronauticS and
Space Administration seem to have
already thrown in the sponge on that
score. But others at NASA, such as DR..
Eberhard ReeS, deputy director of our
Apollo program, have been willing to
be quoted, and their view is that the
race is by no means over and that the
United States may we'll beat the SovietS
to the moon with manned landings
there sometime between 1867 and 1870.
Still, the fact remains that the
Russians latest Spatial triumph (secrecy
still surrounds much of it, including
the Spacecraft themSelveS) represents a
propaganda windfall of the first mag
nitude, and Moscow is making the most
OF it. 1t is doing so by hailing the event
as something that demonstrates that
communism is vastly superior to West
ern democracy in all particulars, mill
tary, economic, social, spiritual, ETC.,
etc. 1t is depressing to see how the
Kremlin thus cheapens a truly fine
achievement. Well, our own country's
answer to it must be to spare no effort,
within reason, to move forward in space
with all possible speed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Trial Heat

To borrow the sense, If not the pre-
else language, Of the horse tracks, Re-
publican industrialist George Romney
had his first public political workout
last week and performed rather well.
He was "clocked" winner in the Mich
igan primary galloping easily to an
unconteSted G. o. p nomination for
governor and showing an encouraging
spread IN total votes over his also I'M
contested opposite number, Democratic
Governor John B. Swanson.
Not surprisingly, Democratic
spokesman were quick to point out
that popularity contests" in the VOL
VERNE State are additionally mislead-
1ng-that their entries usually trail in
primaries but in recent times have
turned in the winning votes in Novem-
Der. Democrat Mennen Williams, now
an Assistant Secretary of State, did
this on five occasions out of six in
winning the Michigan governorship,
and no doubt MIR. SwainSon'S supporters
are hopeful, if not confident, that he
will do likewise this fall.
Things may, in fact, turn out that
way. Politically, Michigan has been an
ambivalent kind of State in recent
years - tending to favor Democratic
occupancy of it's governorship but 1eav-
ing control of its legislature in Repub-
Ican hands. It has, on the whole, been
division that has not worked to the
States best intereSts-setting up an
almost automatic hostility between the
executive and legislative branches and
being largely responsible for trouble
some problems in the fiscal field par
ticularly.
If this is Michigans own affair,
however, the matter of measuring Mr..
Romney as political figure is less pro-
vincial. He has, Of course, been a sub
ject Of speculation as a possible Re-
publican presidential candidate per-
hapS in 1864, or perhaps even later. As
head of American Motors, he became
nationally and favorably known in the
industry field. At the same time, he
was demonstrating interest and effec-
tive energy in the area of civic and
political activity - climaxed a few
months ago by his decision to enter
formal politics by bidding for the gu
bernatorial nomination. He has, in eff
feet, won his first heat. Whether he is
even an entry in more important,
Q964) race is question that cannot
be answered until Michigan votes again
on November 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
'MeddIinq in Peru

It would appear that Am
baSsador Loeb'S meddling in
Peru has caused embarraSs-
ment to the President and to
the United States. The mill
tary junta there appears to
be friendly to us and accept
able to the Peruvian people
something that could not
have been said with any con-
viction about the putative
presidential nominee that Mr..
Loeb so pantingly supported.
Mr.. Loeb is a former high
official of the Americans for
Democratic Action. It is re-
liably reported that other
ADA members in the Ken
nedy administration were
primarily to blame for the
Presidents decision to with
draw the air-cover solemnly
promised the Cubans at
tempting to overthrow Castro.
Mr.. Kennedy could do
nothing that would restore
more the confidence of the
business community and the
country in general in his
administration than to re-
pudiate the ADA and to ex-
punge from his administra-
ton those who support its
aims-particularly in the for
eign policy field.
c. T. HelImuth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13

woman in the White House" and "the
few male reporters left in Washington"
will be trying hard to get recognition at
press conferences. And back at the
working level Of party political opera
lions, he adds the chairman of the Mems
Activities Division Of the National Com
mittee will be urging that all States and
counties "have male vice chairman
and that few males are selected as
convention delegates"
Your first name may not be Bill.
But come home, Mr.. Bailey, please come
home and let's forgive and forget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Politics in Century n

Democratic National chairman John
M. Bailey has left us emotionally limp,
even disturbed, by his preview of politics
in Century REPRESENTED before the
Western States Democratic Conference
in Seattle.
Mr.. Bailey, Connecticut Yankee
OF proved competence in his profession,
applied the light touch to his Seattle
enthusiastically qualifying himself
also as funny fellow, or amusing type.
This was neither disturbing nor sur
prising. The most competent politicians
must have sense of humor, or be
laughed right out of work. What was
disturbing about Mr.. Bailey'S preview
was the possibility that much of it may
come true.
Again, 1t is not the intrusion of more
and more electronicS into politics that
is mildly d1smaying. In this respect, for
example, Mr. Bailey foresees voting by
telephone from ones own air-condi-
toned home-with the only drawback
being that great strides in digitry" will
require dialing something like fifteen
digitS in order to Mark x" at the right
places. Happily, Mr.. Bailey is confident
that this extension of electronic con-
venience will permit the civilian astro-
naut en- route to another planet on cleo
ton day to cast his ballot-and so, too,
'the military man based on the moon
station, together with his wife stationed
with him."
Coming closer to partisanship, Mr..
Bailey assured his friends in Seattle that
the Democratic Party in Century 81 will
still "be the conscience of American
politics" and that "the Republicans will,
of course, continue to be minority
party" 1t is at that point that the Con-
necticut Yankee chairman becomes ON
inously prophetic. The Republicans, he
forecasts, will be muttering about that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Mowers Beware

The Outdoor Power Equip
ment Institute was delighted
to see your article in The
Star Magazine Of July 20,
having to do with the safe
use of power lawn mowers.
The institute has been much
concerned about accidents
involving power lawn mowers
and since its very incep-
ton has spent more time and
money on this problem Of &C
cidents than anything else.
Over the years we have
printed many millions Of our
little safety leaflets or cards,
and our recommendations
parallel your own. We have
supplied these cards to the
manufacturers, most of
whom include them in a
shipping carton with the
lawn mower, and we also
have supplied them, of
course, to anyone interested
in the program.
We have collaborated with
the medical profession, busi-
ness interests, and any num-
Der Of Government agencies
in the development of arti-
eles on safe moving because
our studies indicate that well
over 80 per cent of all the &C
cidentS are the result of care
lessness in one form or an
other. To try to do something
about the other small per
cent the institute has spon-
sored and caused to be pub
lished by the American
Standards Association the
ASA Safety Specifications
for Power Lawn Mowers.
This is concerned with the
design and specifications of
the equipment as produced
by the manufacturers and
most manufacturers whose
mowers conform to these
specifications are now at
taching a label or some iden-
LITIGATION to that effect on
the mower.
We are still continuing our
efforts in every way to i'm
prove our user education pro-
gram and we are always de-
lighted to find anyone who
takes the time and trouble
to get something in the pub
lie press on this subject of
lawn mower safety.
Harold X. Howe.
Executive Secretary,
Outdoor Power Equipment
Institute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Anniversary in Berlin

One year ago today the Kremlin's
East German puppet regime began
building the mountainous wall that has
converted the Soviet sector of Berlin
into virtual jailhouse. In terms Of both
physical looks and spiritual meaning,
the structure is almost unbelievably
ugly and vile. And beyond that, of course,
1t constitutes in all its grimneSs, in all
its bleak mixture Of barbed wire, harsh
concrete and dirty cinder blocks, an ut
terly damning indictment of the nature
of communism,
Through its Embassy here, the gov
eminent of free Germany has issued a
special commentary to mark the first
anniverSary-a very dreary occasion at
beSt-of the wallis construction. The
commentary is well worth quoting. De-
claring that the wall has made it "ex-
ceedingly difficult for Germans in the
Soviet Zone to continue voting with
their feet by fleeing . through the
Berlin escape hatch" to the Anglo
French-American sectors, it goes on to
add: But despite the fact that they now
do so at the risk of their lives, over
1920" have managed to escape to the
West since last August Is. Other points
in the EmbaSSy'S statement include the
following:
Since the wall was put up, over 100 per-
sons have been killed or seriously wounded as
result of violent action by Soviet Zone
armed personnel. -.
Despite these measures of violence and
terror, the Soviet Zone authorities have been
confronted with the passive resistance Of
broad segments of workers and the majority
OF the farmers. The production of consumer
goods and foodstuffs has dropped to the low
est levels in years.
When the wall went up, it was feared
that it would affect West Berlin adversely
psychologically and economically. =. The will
to resist, however, has only been stiffened by
the Soviet action. The attention of the world
has not turned away from Berlin On the
contrary, the escape or murder of single per-
son who attempts to flee to the West is given
more publicity today than was received by
the millions who came over in the decade and
half preceding the erection Of the wall.
Despite the wall. West Berlin's economy
has proSpered, though its work force was cut
sharply on August 49, 1861. West Berlin
ers worked overtime and workers came from
the German Federal Republic to replace those
who had been walled up in East Berlin By the
following May Berlin's industrial production
had risen by per cent despite the closing of
the border. "
The wall is testimonial to the bank
ruptcy OF the Communist idea in Central and
Eastern Germany. The will Of human beings
tc live as free individuals will outlast concrete
and barbed wire.
Well said. Certainly the awful edi-
flee that the Communists have put up to
seal off East Germans from West Ger
mans Is one Of the most gruesome things
OF its kind in modern history. One Won
derS how the Kremlin can really feel
proud as RuSsia's two new cosmonauts
orbit the globe. In their own way, these
courageous young men put to shame
the oppressive earthbound acts Of
Nikita KhruShchev & Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Furnishing Ropists

How much lower must we
sink in coddling criminals
before Congress acts to stop
the almost hourly rapes Of
women, and other sexual as
saults Of the most depraved
nature?
Make castration the pun
ishment for rape, and that
crime would drop by 90%
within a month. OF course
that Is not q procedure
pleasant to contemplate, but
when women are raped in
elevators, or raped at knife
point by rapists who threat
en- harm to their children, or
are knitted when kneeling at
the altar, and when women
attacked have lain in hos
pitfalls for months from
shock, we have to realize
that the victims Of these
crimes are entitled to pri-
mary consideration, and that
the time has come to put a
stop to them. no matter how
drastic the remedy.
Frank G. Campbell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
SobIen Affair

Rather than devote his
efforts to introducing legis-
latlon to penalize Israel and
its airline, Rep. Walter might
be better advised to:
l. Concentrate his atten-
ton on the United States
ridiculous failure to keep
convicted spy Soblen in the
United States until Jailed
and permit him to escape
our country on a commercial
airliner; and
2. Determine why. after
Soblen's expulsion from Is
rael in U. S. custody, he was
so loosely guarded that he
was able to stab himself and
gain entrance into England.
I don't hear Mr.. Walter
condemning Britain, which
has custody Of Soblen and also
won't ship him to the United
States, although I presume
that Soblen is as much Brit
aims enemy as Israel's!
It would be shameful for
1srael's government to fall
because Of Soblen-victim-
lied by a comedy Of Incl
dents not Of its origin or
responsibility
Donald e. WOIpe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Striking Doctors

In his letter regarding the
Saskatchewan doctors strike,
Tom Jones asks the ad-
mittedly moral question:
Should doctors be allowed
to striker" The question
might be reStated more per-
ceptively as what means
shall doctors Cor indeed, any
group be allowed to employ
in defense Of a way of life?"
The answer to such a ques-
ton lies only in a value judg-
ment. A judgment aimed at
the best good Of the most of
the people. Even so, concur
rent regard must be given
the minority, since collec-
lively they comprise the ma
jority.
The Saskatchewan govern
ment would have us believe
that the only change effected
by their Health Insurance
Act, with respect to the doc
tors, is the source of their
incomes. It is in fact a great
deal more than that. 1t
means that the doctor, who
has been independent by ira
dition antedating Hippoc-
rates, who has been gov
erned in his practice by his
wisdom and conscience alone,
is now an employee of the
State, and is now subject to
the political designs of bu-
reaucrats who know nothing
of his art Of medicine. 1t
means that the morality of
which Hippocrates spoke is
being taken from the hands
Of the doctors and being
placed in the tickle hand of
government.
I have spoken Of the mi
nority. What of the major
ity? How will the public re-
act to patronizing doctors
whose allegiance is divided
between their employer and
their patients? What sort Of
person will be motivated to
study medicine in the future?
And how will the sons and
daughters react to the type
OF care he offers?
The doctors, as much as
any professional group, cred
ltably meet many moral
questions daily. 1t is my be-
lief that the Saskatchewan
doctors did not waive these
considerations on the day
their strike was enacted.
David A. HOdgson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13

however, every concession
made to such men as Senator
Morse and Senator Estes Ke-
fauver Of Tennessee has led
only to more and more de-
mands and more and more
violent accusations. Senator
Kefauver, for example, now
proceeds to the incredible
charge that this bill Is "the
most gigantic giveaway in
the history Of this country"
If this Is so, the President,
his cabinet and immense ma
jorities in both parties in
Congress are prepared to de-
fraud the country as it has
never been defrauded before.
By q ratio Of more than IS
ito the House Of Represent
atives has already sealed the
fraud. For it has passed, the
bill by 354 to 9; the Senate
long has been ready to ap-
prove it overwhelmingly, too,
If only the filibusterers would
allow a vote.
= -
If the President does not
now denounce and destroy
this almost hysterical thrust
at the heart Of capitalistic
democracy he will have sur
rendered to a small coalition
Of shouting damagogues and
good but deluded men who
are still Populists at heart in
a world where populism has
been dead for half a lifetime.
Moreover, he win have let
himself down and his prin-
cipal Cabinet officers - in
GLIDING Attorney General
Robert Kennedy and Secre-
tary Of State Dean Rusk-
as well. And he will have run
away from that high noon
showdown which sooner or
later he must at any rate
face with the left-wing Of his
party: viii this administra-
ton finally submit to these
iTesponsibles on the left, or
will it stand at last and fight
them to the end and thus
maintain its due authority
and responsibility?
The question is genuine,
not rhetorical. For every day
the irresponsibles are throw
ing away Congressional seats
to the Republicans in the
elections Of this fall. They
can throw away the Presi-
dents seat. too. in the cleo
tons Of 1864.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
'Sukorno's New Task

In your editorial, "Sukar-
nos New Task" you touch q
subject close to my heart, for
I spent some days in Dutch
New Guinea in December,
1860, visiting the wild in
terror valley of the Baliem
River, as well as the Hol-
landia area. AS the Dutch
report stated, the people gen.
orally are quite different in O
number Of respects from the
typical Indonesians. This Is
especially true Of the hun
dred thousand or so who live
in the isolated valleys Of the
Baliem River and its tribu-
taries, in the mountainous
interior. They are pygmoid,
with languages and customs
and physical makeup that
distinguishes them from
coastal dwellers.
On the subject Of Western
New Guinea, I should add
that a considerable percent
age Of the natives are becom-
ing Christian. To turn that
area over to the dictatorish
clique Of MuSlims who rule
IndoneSia would be cruel and
in my estimation, very
thoughtless.
In your comment about
"Meddling in Peru" I want
to quote what a Colombian
businessman told me in 1856
just before I came back from
two years there with "Punto
Quarto." I had said to him
that the U. S. Point Four
people had no desire to inter-
fere with their internal af-
fairs or their politics. He
responded with dignity:
Senior, don't you realize that
everything your experts come
here to do is intended to
change our way of life-and
that is q kind Of interfer-
ence? We expect you to in
sist that our dictatorish
leaders give us more freedom
and opportunity. AS long as
you bend your efforts to his
wishes, your aid only
makes his hold over us
stronger"
Lorenzo w. Lowe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Reissue of Whitmon's Works
By DONALD MIMI

ter OF these WORKS Tor the
modern reader.
The most dreadful fustian
and the most powerful rhe-
toric coexist uneasily In these
pages. Describing the Battle
Of Charlottesville, Whitman
can write "Of scenes like
these. I say, who writes
who e'er can write, the story?
OF many a Score-aye. thou
sands, North and South, Of
unwrit heroes, unknown
heroisms, incredible. i'm
promptu. first-claSs despera-
tions-who tells?" ~.
But in the same paragraph.
he says of the casualties:
Likely their very names are
lost. Likely. the typic one
Of them (Standing. no doubt,
for hundreds, thousands),
crawls aside to some BUSH
clump, or ferny tuft. on re-
ceiving his death-shot-there,
sheltering q little white,
soaking roots, grass and soil
with red blood-the battle
advances, retreats, fits from
the scene, sweeps by-and
there, haply with pain and
suffering (yet less, far less,
than is supposed, the last
lethargy winds like q SER
pent round him-the eyes
glaze in death-none recks-
Perhaps the burial-squads, in
a truce q week afterwards,
search not the secluded spot
And there, at last the
Bravest Soldier crumbles in
the soil Of mother earth, un-
buried and unknown"
IMPRESSIVE AS THIS is,
1t contains a certain note Of
exultation that is discom-
fitting a century later. There
is in Whitman much of the
old feeling of the glory Of
war, and it is only in the
hospital scenes that that
spurious emotion vanishes.
The lecture on Lincoln's
death contains an explicit
false claim: 81 read from my
Memoranda, mainly written
at the time, on the spot, and
revised frequently since"
(The word mainly" Is q poor
OUT But the lecture and
the section Of the Memo
randa" from which it was
drawn were carefully re-
searched" as Mr.. Basler
says. The layman Is easily
convinced of the justice of
the assertion.
The lecture is in the style
Of its times, but for all the
bombast and the absurd clas-
steal illusions. it is vivid,
dramatic and still readable.
Perhaps we shall be hear
Ing it in a few years. If so,
one hopes that centennial
declaimers will ponder the
newspaper accounts of Whit
mans quiet style Of reading
quoted in Mr.. Basler's intro
duction and not tear the
passion to tatters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. Some years ago I saw a
list Of the worlds most i'm
portant trees that included
many fruit trees. Is this list
available?-D. D.
A. You may refer to a list
OF the 40 most important
trees" published in Nature
magazine. 1t was based on
centuries-long continued and
diversified usefulness to man.
kind, and also on products
not duplicated by other spe-
cies of trees. The 10 most
important" trees chosen on
this basis were the date palm,
coconut palm, almond, apple,
fig, mulberry, olive, lemon,
cinchona and rubber. On