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Evening star., 1962-09-17
Cooperative Approach

The chances are exceedingly slim
that Congress will act on the various
legislative proposalS-Some Of which
are downright silly-for discouraging
Objectionable private development along
the Potomac Palisades. A more hopeful
and sensible approach is that Just un-
dertaken by the National Capital Re-
gional Planning Council.
AS first step, the council staff
will attempt to develop a plan recon-
mending specific land-use policies for
the Potomac banks on both sides of the
river. II general agreement can be
reached among the planners, the coun-
Gil will refer the plan to the Metropoli-
tan Council Of Governments, the mem
bers Of which are representatives Of the
political governing bodies in the coun-
ties, cities and towns of the Washington
region. At that point, again assuming
general concurrence, the Council of
Governments would be in position to
prevail upon the governing bodies In
each Jurisdiction to abide by the pro-
visions Of the plan in their exercise of
zoning powers and other land-use con-
trolls.
Agreements reached through this
procedure would not, of course, be le-
gally binding. But If the recommended
policies make sense, If their value is
recognized by the metropolitan COM
munity, the pressure of. concerted public
opinion surely would make it more diff
ficult for any single jurisdiction to take
actions which are contrary to the in
tereSts of the entire area. This is pre-
cisely the sort of function which was
visualized when the Regional Planning
Council and the Council of Govern
ments. were created to cope with re-
gional problems. Neither group has the
authority to dictate to local govern
ments. But the possibility that they
may develop cooperative and voluntary
agreement on standards for the preser-
vation of the Potomac Palisades is we'll
worth exploring.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Insights Into Contemporary Society
BY DONALD MIMI

Of a glorious world into which
men and women will someday
enter, where there are no
longer any physical strains
and emotional conflicts"
The distinction between
what is tangible and what is
not has been lost. The mani
pulation of things and facts
becomes a problem in human
relations. ain the end it
seems more important that
the client feel the (leaky)
pipe to have been fixed, or
feel that for some exotic rea-
son 1t cannot be fixed, than
it is for a job actually to be
DONE" For the number Is no
longer concerned with pipes
except in a casual and Incl
dental way. His function Is
to handle people who though
once customers are now
clients.
The SECOND AND THIRD
parts Of the book suggest the
sort Of cure we need and
means to bring it about. Like
the first part, they are in
formed with brilliant insights
brilliantly expressed.
But in these later sections,
Mr.. Heckscher, supposing
that there was q time when
things were better, appeals to
history. Unfortunately his
history is a simulacrum. He
refers to beloved London"
of the Elizabethan period
because he is impressed by
such things as H. o. Taylor's
view of intellectual life in
the 18th century. But "the
public happiness" ultimately
refers to the community while
intellectual history Is made by
a handful of men. Sociolog-
ical insights may be judged
against social history but
surely not against intellectual
history arbitrarily attributed
to society as a whole.
Nor are matters helped by
semantic confusions, occa-
sional verbal tricks. and q
pervasive land probably un-
conscious) upper-class bias.
One may object to these
obvious flaws. One may
doubt Mr.. Heckscher's rem.
edy for our present parlous
state: The cultivation of
detachment and q sense of
irony. These traits, after all,
do not generally lead the in
dividual to concern himself
with society. Or one may
agree in whole or part and
yet find the instructions for
cultivation vague or objec-
tionable. rs
But this does not diminish
the value of Mr.. Heckscher's
insights into contemporary
society. "The Public Happi-
ness" is important both for
these insights and for fire.
quent prescriptive dicta that
are not injured by. the loose
logic Of doubtful theory.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
WATCHING THE World
Berlin Roles Reversed in Cubo.
By CROSBY S. NOYES


be in themselves eminently
sound and desirable. But
they add up for most people
to a search by the admins
tration for an alternative TO
a policy Of nuclear retalia-
ton. Nuclear war may be un-
thinkable, but it Is precisely
because it is unthinkable that
we do not expect Mr.. Khru-
shchey TO attack in Berlin.
And if the confidence Of the
allies has been shaken in re-
cent months, what about the
reaction of Mr.. Khrushchev?
He has always doubted
publicly that the West
would, in fact, fight for Ber-
lin. Though privately he may
be a good deal less confident.
developments of the last few
months can hardy have fall
ed to lower his estimate Of
the risk involved IN q grab
for the city.
For Mr.. Khrushchev. Cuba
may well be the critical test
case. There Is no more rea-
son, after all, to think that
Mr.. Khrushchev Is bluffing
in Cuba than there Is for him
to think that we are bluffing
in Berlin.
In terms Of vital national
interest the stakes are about
even. In each case surrender
would be costly. not in @ ma
terial sense, but because Of
the moral and prestige values
involved. The United States
could not surrender In Ber-
lin without bringing on itself
a disastrous loss Of conf
dence throughout the world.
Mr.. Khrushchev, for his
own purposes. has chosen to
build up his own commit
ment to Mr.. Castro to al
most equivalent proportions.
And surrender in Cuba would
have repercussions almost as
serious for him.
Mr.. Khrushchev, to be
sure. may well be bluffing
in Cuba. But to assume that
he is or to take action on
such an assumption could be
mortally dangerous. Almost
certainly it would convince
Mr.. Khrushchev that we on
our side were bluffing in
Berlin with consequences
that are only too predictable.
Mr.. Kennedy's handling Of
the Cuban crisis has adroitly
avoided the major dangers in
Mr.. Khrushchev's test case.
He has not assumed that
Mr.. Khrushchev is bluffing!
He has argued sensibly that
the presence Of a small COM
munist force off our shores
does not in itself constitute
a threat to American secu-
rity-any more than our
presence in Berlin represents
a threat to the Communists.
He has ruled out armed In
tervention except in the case
Of aggressive action by Cuba
Ia contingency which. in
turn, can be ruled out In.
Berlin. And finally. by ad-
vising American people to
keep their shirts on ain
this nuclear age" he has also
served an oblique warning
on the Kremlin to keep its
own shirt on in Europe-a
warning which, 1t is to be
hoped. will not go unheeded.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
THE PUBLIC HAPPINESS,

by August Heckscher. 304
pp. (Atheneum; $5.75)
August Heckscher has
played a trick on the legions
of political dopesters who in
habit Washington. Obvious
ly, one would think, a book
calle d THE Public Happi-
ness" by a man who is Special
White House Consultant on
the Arts will contain tidbits
that can be expanded into a
comprehensive theory about
VIII at the Administration
will do next.
But "The Public Happi-
ness" is not that sort Of book.
From the point of view Of
the oracles Of Pennsylvania
Avenue, it contains nothing
new.
And this Is Just as well. For
what is said here is import
ant - too important to be
obscured by becoming in
volved with short-term sooth-
saying.
Mr.. Heckscher a assum e S
that one may enjoy a pub
lie happiness" separate a n d
distinct from his private hap
piness, or to put it in diff
ferent and less extreme form,
that happiness can be seen
''in a perspective somewhat
different from that in which
1t is ordinarily viewed"
THE perspective" h e
writes, sis that Of politics:
not the politics Of manage
ment and elections. but poll
tics in the old, classical sense
of man in relation to his
fellows and the community in
relation to a good and mean
ingful existence" For "the
individuals experience m a y
be enriched or diminished ac-
cordihg to the way the per-
son stands to his fellows"
THE FIRST PART Of "The
Public Happiness" is an anal
ysis Of the public unhappi-
ness. Basically. the trouble
is alienation, for "in tn e
modern world men become es-
tranged from one another
and from their ENVIRON
ment. :"
Life is complex: 1t is
becoming ever more so. One
gets out of touch. Reality
becomes blurred. "In tn e
place of the objective rep
reSentation has come a
panorama of images and
scenes. :"
The pervasive materiahsm
that poisons our lives comes
not from a multiplicity of
man-made objects but from
our attitude toward them.
"These (things) are not real
ly for use, nor even for pleas
ure and luxury in the old
sense of those words. They
are promises and assurances
Evening star., 1962-09-17
Soviet-StyIe Coop

The Associated Press on
August % reported from Mos
COW that the Soviet govern
ment had called "for an ex-
pansion Of consumer Coop
eratives. trade outlets which
operate Independently of
state-run stores"
The story is based on an
article in the Communist
daily, Pravda. and the word
ing indicates that so-called
consumer co-operatives" in
Soviet Russia are somewhat
different from other Soviet
state-run stores and enter
prises.
This is a misleading piece
OF typical. Soviet propaganda.
There are no genuine con-
sumer or other co-operatives
in Soviet Russia and there
are not any differences be-
tween so-called "co-opera-
tiveS" and other state-run
stores and enterprises. All
of them are controlled by the
Communist Party and state
organs. The Communists have
for propagan d a reasons
maintained the name Co
operative" but it is q fake.
The Communist "co-opera-
tives" have nothing in COM
mon with the democratic CO.
operative movement as it is
known in the free world.
The Communists misuse the
word cooperative as they de-
.liberately misuse and falsify
the meaning of words such
as democracy, freedom and
peace.
The late president of the
Cooperative League of the
United States of America, DR..
James P. Warbasse, summar-
lied his finding of what hap
pened to the cooperative
movement in Soviet Russia
in his book cooperative De-
mocracy":
THE Soviet government by
its edicts in 1919 and 1920
took over the cooperative So
cieties and made them a part
of the government. Their
freedom was destroyed, mem
bership was made compul-
sorry. and they were run as
adjuncts to the state. Gov
ernment a appointees were
placed in charge of cooper
ative societies instead of the
elected representatives of the
members; and the societies
became part of the political
machine. Cooperation was
destroyed. :"
VacIav Majer.
Evening star., 1962-09-17

4 AIMS
BY firmly ruling out mill
tary action against Cuba at
this time President Kennedy
has not only made a rational
and sane decision, he has also
very probably saved the
Western position in Berlin
for some time to come.
Here again, the parallel
and close relationship be-
tween Cuba and Berlin are
too striking to be ignored.
Since the Russian position
in Cuba and the Western
position in Berlin in many
ways mirror each other. any
decision taken in respect to
dealing with Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro must be meas
ured in terms Of the prob
able effect on the Vests
own "offshore island"
From the beginning the
most serious aspect Of the
Cuban uproar has been the
bland assumption that So
Wet Premier KhruShchev
was bluffing in his guaran-
tees to Mr.. Castro and his
threats of nuclear retalia-
ton against the United States
If we attacked him. This
assumption is basic for those
who argue in favor Of direct
Intervention against Cuba.
If it were indorsed by the
administration, the inevita-
BILE result would be to weak
en-, If not to destroy alto
gether the credibility Of the
American deterrent in Ber-
lin and Western Europe as
a whole.
This credibility - as every
observer in Europe has point
ed out-has already been Sc
riously eroded during the last
few months. Though all SEN
ior American officials pro-
fess to be utterly mystified
by the sudden loss Of con-
fidence in our determine
ton to defend Europe with
nuclear weapons, it is, never
theless, a fact. The reasons
for it are perhaps not so
mysterious after all.
There is, for example. the
strong emphasis in many re-
cent administration state
ments of the need for main
tanning the most firm and
centralized American control
over the basic decision on
the use Of nuclear weapons.
There has been the replace
ment Of Gen. Lauris Norstad
who favored an independ-
ent NATO nuclear force-and
Ambassador James M. Gavin,
who urged a more liberal at
titude toward Frances nu-
clear efforts.
There has been the pro-
motion Of Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, whose views about
the practicability Of a con-
ventional rather than nu-
clear - defense are widely
known. There has been per-
sistent talk Of the removal Of
tactical nuclear weapons
from front-line NATO units.
There has been o heavy pro-
motion of the idea Of build
ing up conventional forces in
Europe to provide the posi-
bility Of a variety Of choice"
in responding to q possible
attack.
All Of these measures may
Evening star., 1962-09-17

The Nations Capital has a
great deal to learn about
parks from London and Paris
where the whole park pro-
gram is aimed at giving
greater enjoyment to the peo-
pie who use the parks, from
infants to the aged.
The White House Fine Arts
Committee. having achieved
international attention by its
work with antiques, has now
turned to the White House
grounds. Using Jefferson's
notes, it will restore the 18th
century atmosphere to this
park and garden area.
A more challenging task,
and one worthy Of all Of us,
is centered on the Mall, where
temporary buildings and
roads, and hundreds Of
parked cars, give the aspect
Of a used-car lot.
Certainly If we can have
parked cars, temporary
buildings. and roads on the
Mall. as we have had for
many years, we can with
equal justice in the future
have seasonal flowers, shrub
berry. hedges, walks, benches,
lights, statuary. and other
embellishments-even a John
Philip Sousa concert shell
to make the Mall as beauti-
ful as the public parks Of
England and France in order
that this historic area can
be of maximum and lasting
benefit to all Of the people
Of this Nation.
The d. c. Highway De-
partment is to be commend
ed for placing the 18th street
artery under the Mall. Four
teenth and Seventeenth t h
streets should be treated the
same way. Since parking has
been provided for many years
on the Mall. surely parking
could be justified under the
Mall-and the blighting ef-
feet would be reduced to zero
Since private industry has
been called on to help de-
velop Telstar, we could call
on the private parking in
dustry to help develop ade-
quate parking under tht
Mall, and a modest charge
could pay for such parking
facilities just as toll charges
are paying for highways and
bridges.
This is the background oi
a new joint resolution I have
introduced directing the Sec
retary Of the Interior to pre-
pare and present to the Con.
gress early next year a CON-
prehensive plan to make the
Mall beautiful and useful. AT
the present time it is de.
serted after Government Of
fices close in the early after
noon.
Carroll ID. Kearns.
Member of Congress,
from Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condensa-
tion. Those not used piH be
returned only Iphen accom- =
panied by self : addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-09-17

Since that time, some peo-
pie have been extolling Mr.,
Broyhill as the new cham
pion of civil rights
This is only the most re-
cent in a long series of hyp-
ocritical actions which have
characterized the dismal rec
ord Of the Republican incum-
bent.
Frank M. McDermott,
Evening star., 1962-09-17

controversy. This need not, Of course, be
the case. We hope that the additional
problems which are of concern to the
District Committee will be handled in
such way as not to ieopardize the vital
and essential basic purpose of the bill.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
Kid Glove Diplomacy

The automatic reflex ac-
ton Of the striped pants
shock troops" in our State
Department, which causes
them to go into a tizzy Of
appeasement, accommodation
and painfully exaggerated
politeneSs whenever Chair
man Khrushchev "tells the
world" what he is going to
do to Uncle Sam, brings to
mind an incident which oc-
CURED here some 20 years
ago and from which we may
draw some comfort.
A boxing contest" was
scheduled between Joe Louis,
then champion, and Lou
Nova, whose press agent had
gotten considerable mileage
from Nova's alleged devotion
to the esoteric art Of yoga. It
was claimed that yoga would
enable Nova to demonstrate
with utmost finality the tri-
umph Of mind over matter;
that what was left Of Louis
would not be worth carting
out Of the ball park.
Sports writer's, in their zeal
to generate q "grudge fight"
interviewed the Champ and
proceeded to tell him, in all
Of its CORY detail, the fight
plan which Nova land his
press agent) had set forth to
them.
Louis listened patiently to
the account Of his pending
obliteration. Then with his
customary dead pan" ex-
preston, he said, Gould be.
But while Mr.. Nova Is doing
all them things to me, I
amt gonna be reading no
book"
Nova land his yoga) were
carried out Of the ring on q
shutter!
Would 1t not be an act Of
Christian charity to inform
Mr.. K land the boys In the
State Department. that we
have no intention Of reading
a book while he is busy with
all those things he is forever
promising to do to US? I am
sure our intellectual develop
ment would not suffer irrep-
arabic damage If we post
poned our book reading until
we had cleaned up the mess
in Cuba.
Ben MOreell.
Why do we abjectly apollo
gize to the Russians because
one Of our U-2's was off
course accidentally over the
Soviet's Sakhalin Island?
The Russians fly over our
installations and those Of our
allies with monotonous
regularity.
We seem to be afraid of
taking any decent sort Of
action because the Soviets
might just "do something in
return" They do it, anyway.
They shoot down our U-2's.
They shoot down our RB-
ATS. They shoot down our
Navy patrol planes. And we
apologize.
Today'S "history-making
decisions" certainly turn pale
in comparison to those ! read
in the history books Of
yesteryear.
A few more apologetic re-
actions and we won't have
any more history to record
just a big hole in the middle
Of a burnt-out continent.
d. e. knight.
Evening star., 1962-09-17
BeuutifY the Mall

Frank NJ. McDermOtt
Evening star., 1962-03-31

IMMACULATE STONE AND FRAME COLONIAL in delightful
p9deq @ oo setting % wn,st7e BEDROOMS baths
garage Near schools and transportation
EGelen value in upper COS Mr. Ripley premises
DIRECTIoNS Out Mass past tehouse left on Mohica
Pl to " wv " $1,000
Evening star., 1962-03-31

DO YOU HAVE LARGE FAMILY? like lots of spacep
o S x spacious home is vacant in ptop condition and
and schools at all levels upper
OPEN 1-6. ' ~ = --''
DIRECTIONS: Out Conn. left Jentter; Or out Wis
Auep right Jentter to ~ "
Evening star., 1962-03-31
81 Loans
Show Gain

Home loan activity report
ed by the Veterans Admin
istration in February was up
in all categories reported by
the agency compared with
February, 1861.
Sharp gains were noted by
VA in requests for appraisal
of existing homes and appli-
cations for home loan guar
antee. The appraisal requests
were 1854 this February
against 5,875 a year earlier.
Loan guaranty applications
were 1926 compared with
1888 in February a year
ago.
Appraisal requests on pro-
posed units and housing
starts under the VA program
scored smaller gains. Re-
quests for appraisal on pro-
posed homes were 1904 this
February compared with H.
983 a year earlier. VA starts
were 1892 against 4,87O in
February, 1861.
Evening star., 1962-03-31

THE yILLAGE-6 BEDROOMS Spacious center hail Colonial
large kitchen bedrooms
floor; Walk Blessed
Mrs Buchey on premises. Ewes, VIII 2-9315. OPEN
DIRECTIONS; Out Conn. Ape around to
Grafton right open sign. ~ ' ~ ~ ~
Evening star., 1962-03-31

Dodge vice president and
chief economist, said the to-
tai of contract awards this
year should approach SAL
billion. The figure would be
an all time annual record, he
added.
He explained that the in
crease in the forecast was
based not only on much in
creased contract awards in
the first two months of this
year, but also on increased
orders for structural steel and
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Outlook for Construction in 1862 Revised Upward

A national firm of con-
struction news and market
ing specialists has revised it's
1862 construction forecast
upwards, it announced this
week.
The F. w. Dodge Corp.
which in November predicted
a seven per cent rise in con-
struction contract wards
this year, has raised the es-
innate to ten per cent this
week.
DR.. Gordon w. Mckinley,
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Pridemork Opens
PIonnine Center

Pridemark Homes today
opened what it describes as
a one-stop Home-Planning
Center for lot owners in the
Queens Chapel Shopping
Center, Hyattsville.
The center is a service IA
cility for customers of the
firm, which offers 16 home
designs that it will either
build completely, sell to the
do-it-yourselfer in panelized
Evening star., 1962-03-31

construction machinery In
January, Commerce Depart
ment surveys or business
plans for plant and equip
Evening star., 1962-03-31

sections or erect the major
elements of, and let the
oo-it-yourselfer finish.
Evening star., 1962-03-31

chosen to design a $2.5 mil
lion Senior Citizens Apart
ment in Miami Beach, Fla,
the firm announced this
week.
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Competition Set
For Apprentices

The annual bricklaying Ap-
prentice Contest sponsored by
the Mason Contractors Asso-
citation of the District will be
held next Saturday at the
West Brothers Brick Plant,
$500 Sheriff road NE.
Contest judges this year
Evening star., 1962-03-31

will be Earl v. Gauger, pres
ident of the Washington
Metropolitan Chapter of the
American Institute of Archi-
tects; Robert Meyer, presi-
dent of the Master Builders
Association, and Raymond
Jackson, administrator of the
Bricklayers Welfare and Pen
sion Fund of the District.
The winning apprentice
will compete in national fl
nails at Portland, Greg, May
25 through 80.
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Pine Association
Meets Next Week

The 47th annual conven-
ton of the Southern Pine
Association will be held Mon
day through Wednesday in
New Orleans.
The meeting will take up
accelerated development of
new lumber markets through
research, product improve
ment, new building systems,
expanded promotion and dis
tribution,
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Builders Report
ABC Plans Dinner Meetinq

The Metropolitan Wash
ington Chapter Of the Asso-
ciated Builders & Contrac-
tors, Inc, will hold a dinner
meeting beginning at 6 pm.
Tuesday in Captain Gerry's,
908 Thayer avenue, Silver
Spring.
Speaker for the evening
will be Thomas F. Bryant,
recount executive with
Charles H. Herget, the asso-
ciation's insurance counselor.
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Grohom to Design
For Senior Citizens

John Hans Graham & As
sociates, a Washington ar
chitectural firm, has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04

/ It's most potent weapon is the
cludes there is a willful over
fraud penalty. If an agent con-
statement of travel and enter
tainment deductions, he can
impose the so per cent fraud
penalty.
Another weapon the Treasury
is using is warning to account
ants and otheres who prepare
tax returns that they are max
ing themselves a party to a
fraud if they approve a return
containing deliberately over
stated deductions in order to
come out even" after the tax
agent finishes his diSallowances.
You may expect a more search
ing inquiry into your claims by
your own accountant and some
who prepare returns may hesi-
tate to prepare return for you
containing an estimated blanket
amount of expense deductions
If you haven't any proof.
Even If the accountant does
not know that an expense &C
count is padded, Mr.. CapIin
has suggested" he may be in
for trouble if he is aware there
is no proof at all. Preparing a
return with completely unsub-
stantiated expense account de-