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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Crime Heorinqs

This community Is indebted to the
hundreds of Washington citizens who
participated in the public hearings just
completed in each of the IA police pre-
cincts of the city, as well as the public
spirited members of the Commissioners
Crime Counsel who inspired and ably
conducted the meetings. Such sessions
as these, among neighbors discussing
neighborhood problems, would be salu-
tary even If they were an end In them
selves The hope, of course, is that they
will prove to have had a substantially
higher value.
It remains now for the Crime Coun-
Gil to sort out and, with the help Of ex-
perts in a number of fields, to analyze
the dozens Of complaints and 'sugges-
lions expressed at the hearings. BY
early fall the results of these delibera-
tionS should be cryStallized in series
of positive proposals to the Commits
sioners for more effective means to
reduce crime and delinquency through
out the city. No one was surprised that
the overwhelming emphasis in the pub
lie discussions rested on juvenile de-
linquency rather than on the So-called
professional" aspects Of crime, for the
broad category Of social misconduct
covered by this term is by all odds the
most critical and the most difficult to
be attacked in any meaningful long
range campaign against crime. APP
parently the timing Of $100,767 grant
to the District from the Presidents
Committee on Juvenile Delinquency to
plan such an attack was entirely for
tuitous It would seem to be only COM
mon sense, however, that the proposals
to be made by the Crime Council which
deal with juvenile delinquency be closely
co-ordinated with the plans developed
by the Presidents Committee.
In proposing the creation of the
new Crime Council last April, the Dis
trict of Columbia Chamber of Com
merce expressed strong concern as an
organization with the high incidence Of
crime in Washington. Perhaps the most
significant aspect of the recent hearings
was the demonstration of similar con-
Germ by the many responsible and law
abiding individual citizens who testified
Members of the Crime Council were
struck, on the one hand, by the absence
Of acrimony In the discussions of law
enforcement by the police, and, on the
other, by a variety of independent
graSS-roots efforts to combat crime and
delinquency. Surely suggestions to abet
and to further coordinate these efforts
will be given high priority in the de-
alterations of the council
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
More for Merrywood?

Only week ago the Fairfax Super
viSorS voted to hold no special coming
meetings during the month of July It
is not surprising, therefore, that a mi
nority Of the board, including Chairman
William H. Moss, was shocked" by the
motion pushed through by 4-to-3 vote
on Tuesday to schedule an extraordinary
public hearing July 26 to consider an
easing Of coming restrictions on new
apartments in the county.
II there was a certain element
of surprise in the action, the reason
seems quite clear. For the proposed re-
laxationS would permit up to a SO per
cent increase in the number of dwell
ing units and a height increase from
100 to $50 feet in the controversial
apartments proposed for the Merry
wood tract on the Potomac. The devel-
opers Of this project made strong pitch
for such further concessions in height
and density allowances at the time Of
their initial coming victory. But having
taken this first action, the Board of
Supervisors certainly is under no COM
pulsion now to further compound the
Objectionable impact of the high-rise
apartments on the Potomac Palisades.
Furthermore, the vote on the hearing
was taken with virtually no advance
discussion, and before either the Fairfax
Planning Commission or its staff had
an opportunity even to study it.
Entirely apart from Merrywood, the
new proposal would make very question
able changes in apartment coming poll
cies for the entire county. Much of the
justification for more high-rise apart
ments in Fairfax has been based on the
claim that these projects would be sub
ject to rigid density controls. A serious
change in these standards Of control
might well make the difference between
desirable project and an undesirable
one. It is true that the supervisors in
separate action on Tuesday relaxed zon-
ing restrictions on apartments in or ad-
jacent to commercial areas. But there
are economic and other factors which
sharply distinguish these projects from
those in purely residential areas.
The July 26 hearing, therefore, will
be OF very great interest to residents
throughout Fairfax County as well as
to those in the vicinity of the Potomac
Palisades. Meanwhile, the county plan
ners must express themselves on the
proposed changes almost Immediately
If their views are to contribute anything
to the hastily-called hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

exist anywhere and we are not so stupid
as to try to create such q kitchen"
How wrongheaded can the Soviet
Premier get2 The truth is, as he ought
to know, that the kitchen in question
quite modern, but typical by American
standards-most certainly does exist,
and it can be found in many homes
throughout the United States.
If there Is fakery involved here, it
is only in Mr.. Khrushchev's words. As
great numbers Of American housewives
can tell him, nothing could be Sillier
than to deny the existence of the up-to-
the-minute kitchen with the automatic
diShwasher that sometimes overflows,
the refrigerator that doesn't always de-
frost quite right, the toaster that oc-
casionally blows a fuse, ETC., etc. 1t all
adds up to a fact of life In our country,
and the Kremlin ought to stop making
ornaments long enough to give the
Russian people something like it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
America and q New House

In his Independence Day address at
Philadelphia, President Kennedy, taking
note of free Europe's steady progress
toward economic and political integra-
ton, has outlined fresh objective of
American foreign policy. He has done
SO by declaring that the people of the
United States will one day be ready for
"a declaration of interdependence" that
will make them an integral part of "the
new house" now being built by our
friends and allies across the Atlantic.
OF course, as the President has said,
the completion of this potentially great
edifice-a kind Of one-family structure
roomy enough to permit a lot of diversity
within the framework of basic unity
Is not going to be attained cheaply or
easily or overnight. Nevertheless, In his
judgment, there is every reason to be
confident that it will become a reality
in due time, and that our own country
will firmly link itself to 1t in "a mutually
beneficial partnership" In any event,
as he has put It:
& go. let the world know that thisls now
our goal. 49,. Acting on our own, we cannot
establish justice throughout the world =.
But joined with other free nations we. i. . . can
assist the developing nations to throw. off
the yoke OF poverty. We can balance our
worldwide trade and payments at the high
est possible level Of growth. We can mount
a deterrent powerful enough to prevent all
aggression. And ultimately we can help to
achieve world of law and free choice,
banishing the world Of war and coercion.
For the Atlantic partnership of which
speak would not look inward only. preoc-
clIpied with Its own welfare and advance
ment. 1t would look outward to cooperation
with all nations IN meeting their common
concerns. It would serve as q nucleus for
the eventual union Of all free men - those
who are now free and those who vow some
day to be free.
All this may seem to be quite idealis-
tie, but the world. every part of 1t, Is in
asprocess of change whose pace and
scope and profundity are without prece-
dent. Accordingly, although vaguely
worded, what the President has said
about "interdependence" "a relation
ship requiring closely co-ordinated poll
cies in all economic, political, diplomatic
and military areaSis in keeping with
the realities Clearly, "the new house"
he'envisions, with ourselves among those
lising in it, may well materiaiize in
the not too distant future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
TRANSMISSION Case

Press reports concerning
Jehovah's Witnesses objec-
ton on religious grounds to
blood transfusions for them
selves and their children
warrant q statement on the
matter.
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse
blood transfusions primarily
on religious grounds, and
have the constitutional right
to do so. It is this same con-
stitutional right which per-
mits persons of other reli-
gions to refuse other types of
medical treatment.
There are Biblical restric-
lions regarding the use of
blood. Genesis 9::3-5 says God
placed, a blood-eating prohi-
bition upon all the nations.
Modern day transfusing Of
blood is simply an intraven-
GUS feeding upon blood.
Blood TRANSMISSION has been
questioned by a number of
medical authorities.
Medical research has indi-
Gated that in ones blood is
ones life and personality.
Jehovah's Witnesses are
not campaigning against
transfusions; nor are we
stating that the medical res
ervations regarding transfu-
sions are the reason we avoid
such. We simply desire the
right to refuse this particu-
lar medical practice both for
ourselves and our children.
Edwin Johanknecht,
Minister, News S ervice
Director, Washington,
D. c. Congregations of
Jehovah's Witnesses.
y 4 y i
The story concerning the
Jehovah's Witnesses parents
who had to be compelled by
court action to allow a life
saving blood TRANSMISSION for
their infant should certainly
give us serious concern as to
how far we are willing to go
in our zeal to allow complete
religious freedom for every
one. Both s4@yysscide and
suicide are considered crimes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Potomac Palisades

Thanks to The Star for
recognizing the need for
prompt protection of the
Potomac Palisades. The Star
also recognizes that adequate
coming controls offer the only
real hope for adequate pro-
lection of this national hertz
age at this time.
The coming authority over
the Potomac Palisades is
shared by three Virginia
areas, two Maryland coun-
ties, and the District of Co
lumbia. Their planning
bodies. their Regional Coun-
Gil and the National Capital
Planning Commission are
advisory only, and have no
veto power. The coming bodies
in these six areas adopt plans
and policies which are not
binding on themselves, each
other, or upon their success
sors in office. A coming de-
cision affecting a piece Of
land, once made. can be re-
scinded only (a) before the
owner substantially develops
1t for the new use, and OBJ
upon a showing Of good cause.
Thus. reliance upon the
Regional Council and local
planning bodies for protec-
ton of the Potomac Palir
sades is unrealistic, because
their role Is only advisory.
Reliance upon the local zon-
ing bodies is improvident and
unrealistic in view of (a)
tremendous pressures upon
them for relaxing coming
rules, OBJ. they would each
sit in final judgment re-
garding the Federal interests
in the Potomac Palisades,
(c) unwise decisions in one
area would accentuate pres
sures in adjoining areas, and
I'D a breakdown in coming
protection in one area is
almost irreversible.
The Star observes that the
National Capital Planning
Commission has much to cor
rect in the District of Column
bia where it now functions.
This is a matter of leader
ship and stating. No person
or agency Is perfect. nor can
it please everyone. The prin-
ciple Of the Reuss bill for
granting to q Federal agency
a veto power over coming de-
cisionS affecting the Potomac
Palisades Is sound and nee
essary. It will not guarantee
perfection, but the United
States Constitution does not
guarantee happiness, either,
just the pursuit" Of happi-
ness.
James F. Vance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Report on Reconstructive Surqery
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

greater. This is a challenge
we must be prepared to meet.
The military services have q
responsibility to maintain q
firm research in the funda-
mental disciplines which will
be applicable to manage
ment or prevention of the
casualties to which mill
tary personnel are subject"
Several lines of approach
to making new men" al
ready have been outlined.
says the report, although the
antigens have remained to
date entirely elusive.
y d i d
There may be a substance
of some sort formed In blood
of persons who have been
healed after serious burns
which will promote recovery
and prevent poisonous or le-
thai effects in other burned
individuals.
This possibility is advanced
In a series of reports on burn
injuries just issued by the
American Institute of Biolog-
ical Sciences. These reports
came from a recent interna-
tional conference on burns
held under the sponsorship of
the Office of Naval Research.
Burn Vaccine Sought
There is great need, &C
cording to these reports, "for
studies on the interrelation-
ship between metabolic
changes brought about by
burn injuries and their eff
fects on bacterial colonization,
invasion and multiplication"
The body, it is known, tends
to build up defenses against
about everything that
threatens it, but the process
usually does not begin until
there has been some actual
injury.
Search for a burn vac
cine, according to the re-
ports, at present is strongly
under way at hospital and
medical research centers both
in this country and Europe.
Although no trace of the
elusive material has yet been
found its reality is consid-
cred logical. Burns now are
among the most difficult Of
all body injuries to combat
because of the lack of suit
able agents for the purpose.
The reports also deal with
the mecharfisms which cause
death in severe burn injuries,
toxins and convalescent Sc
runs and transportation of
organs for this type of
injury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Let's Hope It's True

$ Ronald A. Brown, president Of the
Flight Engineers Union, says the Ken
nedy administration, working through
Secretary of Labor Goldberg, is backing
legislation which would compel the
flight engineers to accept binding ar
bitration in their dispute with Pan
American and Eastern Airlines. If this
is correct, it has not been publicly
stated. But we hope 1t is true.
" The strike by the fight engineers
isa typical jurisdictional dispute. The
management of the air lines, not to
mention the public, is caught squarely
in the middle. 1t is the victim of an
inter-union dispute, about which it can
do.nothing. And this, we think, is clearly
and utterly wrong-especially in an in
duStry whose operations bear so directly
on the public interest.
1t is a reasonable assumption that
the Kennedy administration has been
marking time, pending final DISPOSE
ton of court order banning strike
against Pan American and the outcome
era vote among the rank-and-file of
Trans World engineers on a contract
accepted by their officers. Meanwhile,
Eastern has been shut down by the en-
Cheers since June 23
These two questions will be re-
solved within day or so. If the reso-
luton is adverse to the airlines and to
the public, we hope Mr.. Browns fears
with respect to administration support
OF legislation to compel arbitration of
the issues will prove to be well-founded.
And if George Meany is lending hand
to this end, as charged bys Mr.. Brown,
the AFL-CIO leader is to be commended
for making a sensible judgment as to
what is in the best long range interests
of organized labor and the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Rating Our Students

According to the article in
The Star h e a ded "U. S.
Schools Trail in Survey" the
English school child stands
head and shoulders above the
children of all other coun-
tries included in the survey.
Previous reports indicate
that the English child is SUI
perior also in physical fitness.
These are wonderful achieve
ments in the land Of social
lied medicine and that most
heinous Of all crimes-reli-
gion in the schools. Verify,
the wicked flourisheth like a
green bay tree. Hilda Wilbur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
Speaking of Fokery

I Nikita KhruShchev, who seldom
seems to stop talking and who never
lets facts interfere with any propaganda
he may wish to make, declared not long
ago that our 1859 American Fair in Mos
COW was nothing but phoniness from
beginning to end. BY way of example,
according - ham, the kitchen in which
he debated Richard Nixon was a COM
plete fake built to hoodwink and amaze
Russians" but actually 1t docs not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
THE POLITICAL MILL
Party Unity and the G. O. p.
By GOULD LINCOLN

Senator Barry Goldwater Of
Arizona has posed the follow
ing question for the @. o. P:
Should the party rely on the
regular party organization
national and State-or on the
regular organization supple
mented by organized volun-
teers? The Arizona Senator,
in a letter to Republican Ma
tional Chairman William E.
Miller, has strongly urged
that the regular party or
ganization be allowed to han
die party affairs and cam
paigns. As he put it: This
Party needs workers in the
main tent, not in the side
show" His comments and
letter were caused by the de-
ciSionS Of party leaders, meet
ing in Gettysburg with for
mer President Eisenhower, to
set UP a National Republican
Citizens Committee, q per-
manent organization with
headquarters in Washington,
to act along with, but sub
ordinate to, the national
committee.
Mr.. Goldwater, chairman of
the Republican Senatorial
Campaign Committee, is the
recognized leader of conserv-
alive forces in the Republic
can Party. These are the
forces who have contended
for years that II the party
would only stick to conserv-
ative principles and programs
and nominate a strict con-
sentative for President, Re-
publicans who have sat on
their hands in past cleo
tons, would come pouring
out from the woods on cleo
ton day and sink the Demo-
cratic opposition. No one,
however, has been able to
prove this contention. The
last two Republican Presi-
dents. Herbert Hoover and
General Eisenhower were
both regarded as progressive
candidates. They were both
nominated and elected be-
cause of their great services
Mr.. Hoover for his hand
ling of relief during the first
World War and Mr.. Essen
hover because of military
leadership in the Sc cond
World War. They both had
their troubles with the So
called Old Guard in their ad-
ministrations. The two Re
publican Presidents preceding
them were Mr.. Harding and
Mr.. Coolidge neither of
whom was ever accused of
being progressive.
Need for Unity
There Is quite a lot to be
said on both sides of the
question propounded by Sen
ator Goldwater's letter. Sen
ator Goldwater quoted Mr..
Eisenhower as citing the need
for unity in the Republican
Party, and added that he.
Senator Goldwater, was in
complete accord. He con-
tinued: Imagine, then, my
dismay on reading the Sum-
day New York Herald Trib-
une to learn that the Sat-
urday meeting was 0 prelude
to setting up an organization
in Washington to duplicate
what the National Committee
Is doing" The Arizona Sen
ator charged that most of
those named as leaders of
this new group contributed to
the divisive tactics of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

Human spare parts" which
can be indefinitely stocked
and used to replace perma-
nently impaired or destroyed
parts Of the human body still
are in the dream stage. The
Office of Naval. Research has
started an extensive research
program, with some good
prospects of success, to make
them practical in surgery.
At present grated tissues
are not retained permanently
by the human body but only
serve, says a Navy report, as
a temporary lattice which
bridges the defect until the
body can regenerate its own
tissue.
A useful tool for studying
transportation mechanisms,
the Navy investigators have
found, is the skin graft which
is always sloughed off in
about two weeks. In the
meantime. however, it may
have been replaced by the
patients own skin.
Like disease-producing or
ganisms, graft of somebody
elSe's tissue confronts their
hosts with substances that
are immunologically foreign
to them. They produce q re-
action or sensitization which
results in their rejection by
the body in self defense.
Major Objective
The agents for this rejec-
ton are so-called Transplant
tation antigens," much like
disease antigenS, none of
which yet has been isolated.
A major objective of the Navy
medical scientists win be to
isolate them and possibly
find means of multiplying their
action. About the only part
Of the body without them are
the red blood cells. Due to
this blood transfusions can
be made at will.
ave hope" says a Navy
report" to achieve isolation
of the transportation anti
gen in order to identify and
characterize its specific COM
ponents. If we can isolate
these components we then
may be able to develop means
for possible immunization of
individuals to a specific It's
sue graft.
Our last two conflicts,
World War II and the Ko-
rean fighting, produced an
enormous number of injur-
les requiring reconstructive
surgery. The toll Of future
disasters is likely to be still
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used will be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-05

1860 campaign when long
time and experienced Repub-
lican Party leaders were
shunted aside, ignored and
embarrassed. In this list also
viii be found those who were
responsible, in large part, for
policies of the Eisenhower
administration which ran
counter to the traditional
principles of the Republican
Party and the counsel of the
regular party leaders"
This is quite an indict-
ment-and by some might be
regarded as "divisive" itself.
There is a large body Of feel
ing in the Republican Party
that Mr.. Eisenhower stuck
strongly to fundamental Re-
publican Party principles.
The Goldwater letter also
brought to the fore the criti-
cisms of the last Presiden-
tial campaign in which for
mer Vice President Nixon
lost by a edge margin
to President Kennedy. But
the letter doesn't affect really
the question whether volun-
teer organizations, in addi-
ton to and supplementing
the regular organization, are
q good thing.
Volunteers Aid
1t was volunteer organiza-
tions which aided greatly in
the nomination Of Mr.. Eisen-
hover in 1852 and later in
his election. The so-called
regulars" violently opposed
Mr.. Eisenhower and support
ed the late Senator Bob Taft
of Ohio. And If the regulars
in Congress had supported
President Eisenhower's pro-
grams, the G. o. P. might
have done better in later
congressional elections. The
volunteers again aided in the
reelection of Mr.. Eisenhower
in 1856.
It was the regular" or
CARNATIONS, on the other
hand, in the States and the
regulars" in the Republican
national Committee who
turned thumbs down on the
candidacy of Governor Nell
son A. Rockefeller Of New
York for the 1860 G. o. P.
presidential nomination. The
Democrats heaved a sigh Of
relief when Mr.. Rockefeller
bowed out. Many Of them,
as well as Republicans and
independents, believe still that
Mr.. Rockefeller would have
defeated President Kennedy.
The nomination and cleo
ton of Governor Rockefeller
to the Presidency, obviously,
would not have pleased Sen
ator Goldwater and other
conservatives who regard the
New Yorker as an ultra-lib-
eral. Senator Goldwater in
his letter wrote: Let us be
done with these splinter
groups" Mr.. Eisenhower de-
nounced the terms liberal"
and conservative" and urged
all Republicans to unite. All
that's lacking, 1t seems, is a
real willingness. Mr.. Gold
water seemingly wants the
party to unite his way; Mr..
Eisenhower wants something
different.
About the proposed new
citizens organization: Assur-
ances have been given party
leaders, including Mr.. Miller,
that 1t will not attempt pol
icy writing, but confine it
self to getting out the vote.