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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
SIGNS of the Times

There is increasingly sinister EVIL
dence in Washington of fat and off,
ciouS bureaucracy bent on pushing little
citizens around.
We refer to the endless conglomera-
ton Of traffic signs that now deface our
streets The appearance Of these signs
is bad enough. They are ugly. Yet the
more dangerous effect is apt to be psy-
Geological. The impression they create
is one of total defeatism, a drum-like
accent on the negative. mo Parking"
mo Turns" mo Left Turn" "Yield
Right Of Way" STOP" do Not Enter"
Don't Walk" LEFT Lane Traffic Must
Turn Left" Turn on Green Only"
Members Of Congress" IRE
served for Jurors" mo Stopping or
Standing Any Time" Snow Emergency
Route-No Parking During Emergency"
mo Parking At Any Time" mo Parking
At Any Time-Bus Zone" ''No Parking
on School Days." "Entrance-No Park
ing" Is any one surprised that the State
Department has expunged the word
Victory" from the vocabulary of its
Speech-makers?
One finds no relief in the parks.
What one is apt to find is hideous,
vulgar, 7-foot high fiber glass monstros-
ity which its impudent creators have
named "Litterbug Pete" They move
these things around, from one location
in the parks to another. The schedule
Of movement calls for placing one soon
near the Lincoln Memorial. 1t is sup
posed to warn citizens against-of all
things spreading litter in the parks!
The Fine Arts Commission is obviously
asleep and the National Park Service is
obviously nuts. (See picture on this
page.)
We strongly advocate revolution.
Let the signs remain. But from every
sign, hang the bureaucrat who thought
it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
so Years Ago

Americas memorial to
Christopher Columbus, the
marble and granite monu-
ment and fountain at Union
Station Plaza, was unveiled so
years ago. Tens of thousands
of Knights of Columbus from
all parts of the country helped
swell the crowd that gathered.
to see the italian Ambassa-.
dor pull the cord that released
red, white and blue drapings
from the explorers statue.
The Star of June 8, 1912, said
the ceremony the day before
was attended by President
Taft, his Cabinet, and most
of official Washington. There
was a monster" parade, Sec
ond in size only to the presi-
Dental inaugural parade; a
banquet for 1900 guests at
Convention Hall, and a gala
fireworks demonstration on
the Monument Grounds, fea-
turing the Santa Maria
drawn In lines of golden fire,
sailing out upon a sea of dull
black smoke. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Interprets Farm Bill

The daily press has done
a uniformly poor job in re-
porting on the meaning of
the farm bill passed by the
Senate on May IS.
The Associated Press dis
patch published in your pa
per on May 26 says: 1.-THE
main feature of the bill is
substantially reduced
production quotas for wheat,
corn, grain sorghum and bar
ley. The bill would set
a minimum on wheat Of /
billion bushels instead of the
present program with a min
imum Of IS million acres"
If the reporter intended to
imply that farmers would be
held to / billion bushels,
which is what the language
seems to say. he is wrong.
What the bill actually pro-
vides for Is that farmers re-
ceive acreage allotments, with
no limitation on the amount
that they may produce on
the allotted acres, but that
the national acreage allot-
ment for all Of the United
States be derived by dividing
anticipated demand (but not
less than billion bushels) by
expected yields. Existing laws
provide for splitting up a
national marketing allotment
among farmers. For some
reason or other, the bill re-
fers to the anticipated de-
mand as a national market
ing quota" which may be the
source of the confusion.
In time Congress may give
up the technique of acreage
allotments, and give each
farmer a quota of so many
bushels. Last year, the ad-
ministration asked for this
type Of control. but Congress
declined to go along.
All of this is not to say
that the bill, If finally ap-
proved. will not reduce pro-
duction. which it will I'M
doubtedly do, but not even
the chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee who
sponsored the new provisions
could say exactly by how
much.
Leon J. Steck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
100 Years AGO

the South was deep in
gloom at this time a century
ago. The Army of the Poto-
mac seemed set for a final
assault on Richmond. Mem
phis was about to 60 the way
Of New Orleans, Nashville and
other Dixie cities being over
run by the Union Army. One
bright spot on the Confed-
eracy's dark war map was put
there by "Stonewall" Jack
son, whose reputation as a
military genius rests largely
on his brilliant maneuvering
in the Shenandoah Valley.
Jackson's brigade Of foot
cavalry" slogged some 675
miles in 4S days, an average
OF IA miles a day. In that
time they fought half a dozen
formal skirmishing actions
and five pitched battles. They
brushed with Union troops al
most every day for a month.
Jackson never had more than
1900 men in his valley CAM
paign, but he grouped and
used them so well that he
outnumbered the Federals
every time he attacked. This
despite the fact that there
were more than $4,000 Union
troops in the valley at the
time Jackson was on his ram
page. The Star of June 2,
1862. expressed disappoint-
ment that jackson had ap-
parently gotten away after
chasing Gen. Nathaniel Banks
up the valley and across the
Potomac: q. It Is plain that
jackson finds the region of
his recent filibustering too hot
to hold him, and he is ac-
cordingly popping around in
it like quicksilver on a hot
shovel. -. We regret to
say that notwithstanding the
strenuous exertions and thor
oughly effective measures
taken by the Government to
intercept the retreat Of jack
sons marauding army he has
been able to effect his es-
cape. -" But Jackson wasn't
through. He knew the VirS,
ginia valley country like the
palm Of his hand and his
knowledge of the terrain en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Food and the Soviets

Russia's long-suffering masses now
have been told by the Kremlin that they
will henceforth have to pay lot more
for meat and butter. Nor have they been
given any reason to hope that this sharp
new increase in living costs will last only
relatively short time; on the contrary,
the chances are that it will be more or
less permanent, and it may well go
higher.
In any case, the Soviet high COM
mand has decreed a 80 per cent boost
in the price Of pork and beef, which will
sell at around SO cents a pound. As for
butter, the increase has been fixed at
Is per cent to make the price S1.83 a
pound. This is bad news for the semi
skilled Russian worker, who is paid the
equivalent of only about $88 a month.
1t is bad news, too, for the USSR's semi
professional and professional personnel,
whose average monthly pay is in the
neighborhood Of 1922. These people,
who have been living on pretty bleak
diet for as long as they can remember,
now will have to tighten their belts some
more, and they will continue, of course,
to find household utensils and other
consumer goods, not to mention housing,
Unfortunately scarce and costly.
In explanation, the Kremlin has de-
clared that the latest hike in meat and
butter prices is needed to finance action
(the precise nature of the action is not
revealed) designed to improve the coun-
try'S woefully deficient farm production,
which has fallen far short of keeping
pace with the Soviet Unions population
growth and ever-expanding food re-
quirements. To be sure, comparatively
modest cut in Russia's enormous expen-
ditures on weapons and heavy industry
would have made the price rise unnec-
essary, but Moscow'S official announce
ment has fatty declared that the Khru-
shchev regime will not switch funds to
increasing the output of livestock at the
expense of the countrys defensive ca
pacity."
Further, in an obvious effort to shift
the onus from the Kremlin, the Moscow
announcement has blamed Russia's
farm woes in large part on our own
country. 1t has done so in these typically
truth-upending words: while imperial
ism exists, the danger of new wars will
remain. 1t is no secret that international
reaction, with the United States at the
head, now is engaged in saber rafting,
conducts feverish arms race and har-
bors plans for surprise rocket nuclear
attack on the USSR" The Kremlin
therefore argues that it cannot divert to
farming any percentage of its invest
ment in weapons, and hence the sorely
exploited Soviet masses must eat less
and pay more for 1t.
This is not an argument, however,
but fraud. For the truth is that So
Wet agricultural troubles stem primarily
from combination of such things as
bureaucratic inefficiency, managerial
corruption, and some innate blight that
has made communism fail wherever it
has tried to collectivize and till the soil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

abled him to set up an attack
when 1t looked like he was
running away. On June 8,
1852. Gen. Richard Ewell's
division of Jackson's army got
the best of Gen. John FIRE.
mont at Cross Keys, Va, and
the following day jackson
dealt Gen. James Shields a
blow at Port Republic, Va.
jackson, something of a fatal
iSt himself, was saddened by
the death at Gross Keys of
Turner Ashby, an aristo-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., who
worked at war like he had
contracted with Jeff Davis to
fight "a hours a day." The
Star Of June 10, 1862, re-
ported: ". Gen. Ashby, who
covered (Jackson's) retreat
with his whole cavalry force
and who exhibited admirable
skill and audacity, was among
the killed. :" Ashby, who
at times rode jet-black stall
lion, and others a milk-white
charger, had his mount shot
from under him. He was killed
leading an infantry charge.
The same day this paper said:
Gen. Fremont has overtaken
the enemy. Seven miles be-
yond Harrisonburg, on the
road leading to Port Republic,
his advance guard discovered
the enemy posted in the
woods. Jackson, having at
last been forced to make a
stand with his whole army,
had completely masked his
position in the woods and ra-
vines. The loss is heavy
on both sides. The enemy
was very advantageously
posted in the timber, having
chosen his own position, form
ing q smaller circle than our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Use for Old Stadium

I read your account of the
vandalism going on in old
Griffith Stadium. think
there would likely be much
less vandalism and destruc-
ton if the stadium were con-
verted into a recreational
park for the youth Of that
area. What better way is
there to keep potential de-
linquents off the streets than
by giving them a place to
go?
Judy Moreland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

Think. for instance, Of the
eternal chatter concerning
the sexes. Have men or
women done most for the
world? In the home, is the
husband or the wife most es-
sential? 1t will be quite time
enough to attempt to answer
such pointlesS questions when
the waitress in the reStau-
rant. when Strawberries are
on the menu, asks us whether
we will have strawberries or
cream!
Again, this wayward world
needs desperately a mixing Of
the So-called sacred and the
secular. Beautiful as are in
dividual peaks of sainthood
rising above the sordid
haunts of men, like Mount
Fujiyama saintliness is not so
much preparation for the
sanctuary as for the street;
goodness does not belong
alone in a heaven of haloes-
it is to be mixed with struggle,
suffering, poverty, want, woe
and sorrow. That Is always
the path to its own Mount of
TRANSPORTATION. -
And as we behold THE
MAN, shall we say that the
wonder of Christ's character 4
is its symmetry? In Him are
found united the virtues
which so often in others,
even worthwhile people, are
found standing alone. We say
of one "his gentlenesS makes
him great" We say Of an
other "he has the iron will to
back his convictions and he
can blaze with indignation"
OF still another, "he lives on
the heights of the lovely-his
life is a beautiful tapestry.
But of Jesus we find not the
isolation of any one dis
tinguishing element, but a
combination like the colors of
a rainbow. He was gentle,
and powerful, and beautiful.
All that makes for strength
and beauty meet and are
crowned in that One whom
Sidney Lanier calls, Good
paragon. Thou crystal
Christ"
And now as we turn again
to our topic, Strawberries and
Cream, and think Of what
happens when one good thing
is added to another, let L.
listen to st. Peter as he tells
us that If we are even to
approach the stature Of the
Master the virtues in our life
must be mixed to form some
thing none of them could be
alone. Here Is what he says:
ION your part add all dill
gence: in your faith supply
goodness, and in your good
ness knowledge, and In your d
knowledge self-control. and
in your self-control patience,
and in your patience godli-
ness, and in your goodness
brotherly kindness. and in
your brotherly kindnesSlove."
These are the ingredients of $
the balanced life from the
pen of this messenger of the :
Perfect Man who did not
hesitate to take the common :
bread and the wine on an
ordinary table as the en-
blems Of the highest which /,
mingled and met in Him.
Somehow we feel sure that
this discipline, with his galaxy
of Joined virtues, would not
think it amiss that as a I
mundane illustration, we
point to Strawberries and
Cream"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IL
letters carry iDrtters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used iDiH be
returned only tUhen accom-
panied By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

and when no change is forth
coming, the mont Communist
world can continue to won
der why it is that so many,
ruled by so few, love so much
misery.
The world has learned
that socialism" or "commu-
nism" does not mean friend
ship between peoples; 1t can
now see that it does not
mean even a better diet.
Observer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Laos Policy

A recent letter suggested
the John Birch Society be
sent as a military unit to
Laos. That may not be a
bad idea. although it would
require only a few. II that
organization were there, they
would fight the Communists
they would not try to per-
suade our pro-Western ally
to appoint Communists in its
cabinet. I hope our pro-
Western ally saves us from
our State Department.
George A. BirdsaL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Crime Study Group

George A. BirdsaIl.
Evening star., 1962-07-29
A WHITE ELEPHANT?
D. c. Stadium in Serious Financial
Situotion-But All Expected 1t
BY ROBERTA HORNIG
Star Staff Writer

Washington business, civic and po-
litical leaders labored nightly for 35
years to give the city a handsome,
well-designed, truly magnificent white
elephant.
The new District Stadium, at the
end of East Capitol street, is one of
the architectural and engineering
marvels Of the Nation.
Everything about it has been done
in the grand manner, and its single
flaw is appropriately colossal.
The flaw is money.
Not only was the stadium's cost
$198 million-more than three times
the original estimates, but its reve-
nues Ehave been far less than antic-
ipated. The result is an annual deficit
of 1927 900 for the foreseeable future.
District officials have yet to figure
out where to lay their hands on that
kind of money.
How did the District ever get into
such a bind? Were the staggering
cost and the deficit really unexpected?
The answer seems to be that they
were not. The new sports arena was
destined to become financial liability
for the District almost before it got
off the drawing board The liability
has Just turned out to be bigger than
expected-much bigger.
Evening star., 1962-07-29
Peru S Junto Rule Gets
Blessing of Hierarchy

Roman Catholic hierarchy pro-
ceeded to the neighboring presi-
dental palace after the mass,
they put the final stamp of ap-
proval on the regime.
The Roman Catholic Primate
was last of the main pillars of
Lima society to come forward
with recognition of the new
order. Since the disastrous
failure Of the badly conceived
general protest strike last Mon
day, all sections of society have
competed with one another in
congratulating the new gov
ernment.
The Supreme Court has said
it will abide by the military
seizure of all legislative and
executive powers for one year
while new elections are pre-
pared. The clique of powerful
families that control every-
thing from sugar production to
all the banking in the countrv
have left their visiting cards
outside the door of Gen. Perez
Godoy.
The measure of the junta's
confidence was the s1ldde,, ,.a-
toration last night Of civil
See PERU, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-07-29
War InteVened

AS The Star noted in an editorial
that year: Financial considerations
constitute the only remaining barrier
to realization of the project"
But before these considerations
could be worked out, World War II
intervened and the plan was shelved
"for the duration"
Planning went on despite the war.
In 1914 a National Stadium Commit
tee was formed, with Government en-
couragement, to promote a stadium
project as part of the city's postwar
building plans.
The committee, backed by the
Board of Trade and the District Com
miSsioners, proclaimed National Sta
dium Week" and staged a public rally.
Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney at
tended, and President Franklin D.
Roosevelt sent personal greeting.
Congress took note Of the enthusi-
asm and passed resolution setting
up a National Memorial Stadium
Commission. Three stadium bills were
introduced in Congress.
Then politics got into the act. The
late Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, who
became commission chairman in 1945,
suggested gigantic, 22O, ,0O0-seat "all-
weather" arena that would have cost
$25 million. The citizens committee
wanted a stadium that would seat
about 10000 persons and would be
privately financed.
The ensuing squabble killed the
whole project.
Evening star., 1962-07-29
By GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer

LIMA, Peru, July 28-The
mood in the capital today is a
cross between Christmas and
the Fourth of July.
With a combination of sub
dued religious fervor and devil
may-care fun, Peruvians are
celebrating the 141st anniver-
Sary of their independence from
Spain. During the past week, it
has become clear-at least to
Peruvians-that the new mill
tary junta in the presidential
palace is not a flash in the pan.
The climax of the consolida-
ton of power since President
Manuel Prado was overthrown
10 days ago came today with a
ceremonial Te Deum mass in
the stately Roman Catholic
Cathedral here. Juan Cardinal
Landazuri Ricketts, presided,
Provisional President Gen. Ri
cardo Perez Godoy and three
cohorts in the junta
attended, and the ceremony
went off with all the pomp and
circumstance of the annual
celebration. When the cardinal
and the august encourage of
Evening star., 1962-07-29
Proposed in 1925

When then Commissioner Robert E.
Mclaughlin turned over the first
shovelful of earth for the project in
July, 1860, he remarked that the sta
dium had been "a perennial will-o'-
the-wiSp =. always dancing beyond
our grasp"
A proposal for municipal arena
was first officially Endorsed in 1925.
1t was to cost SIS million.
Three years later the Washington
Board of Trade recommended a 10O,-
000-Seat stadium as a memorial to
Theodore Roosevelt. But the boards
drive to gain approval-and funds
was barely under way when the stock
market crash of 1929 Scuttled the sta
dunn dream along with a lot of Others
1t popped up again the next year,
however, this time in plans of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Fine Arts Com
mission for Identification of East
Capitol street. Stately Government
buildings were to line the boulevard,
leading to stadium at the edge OF
the Anacostia River.
In 1885, Interior Secretary Harold
Evening star., 1962-07-29
Interest Puyment

The 20-year bonds the District sold
to finance the stadium's construction
require interest payments of $415,S00
twice year, in June and December.
District officials, who had expected
the bond money to cover the first in
terest payment last June /, had to
rush to the Federal Treasury to bor-
row the money.
1t was at that time, also, after eight
months of operation, that the District
Armory Board realized the arena could
not support itself. The board came up
with the $627, 900 figure for an antic-
ipated annual deficit.
Stadium revenues have suffered
from two major ailments: Good park
ing and bad ball clubs.
Submitting to pressure from Con-
greSSmen and the public, the board
changed parking fees from flat 81
to a sliding scale ranging from 81 to
so cents. District Commissioner Wal
ter N. Tobriner. who opposed the re-
duction, estimates that it will cost the
District about $115,00O a year.
And the Stadium's tenants, the Red
skins and the new Senators, have
just not been playing the kind of foot
ball and baseball that brings out the
fans. It's hard to stay out of the red
with crowds of only 11,00O-an aver
age attendance for the Senators this
year in the stadium seating $4,000 for
baseball.
The stadium's present fiscal dilem-
ma is only the latest in a series OF
Illustrations stretching back through
the years.
Evening star., 1962-07-29
THANKS

Once again, our readers
generosity has made The
Evening Star Summer
Camp Fund a success.
Your response has sent
the campaign for $4,000
over the top, making it pos
Sible for more than $40
needy boys and girls to
have a wonderful vacation
at Camps Peasants and
Goodwill in Prince William
Forest Park near Guam
tico, Va.
The camps are run for
area children by the Sum-
mer Outings Committee of
Family and Child Services
of Washington, a United
Givers Fund agency.
Money raised beyond this
years requirements will be
set aside for next year.
The Star will continue to
accept and acknowledge
contributions.
Evening star., 1962-07-29
Revived Once More

1t was revived again in 1949, when
Representative Harris, Democrat of
Arkansas, introduced bill calling for
a stadium along the lines urged by
the citizens committee. But disagree
ment developed over the site, and
once more the project died.
The next-and final-reSurrection
came in 1856, at the hands of Mr..
Harris, whose enthusiasm had not
dimmed over the years.
Actually, the first move was made
by George Preston Marshall, owner
of the Redskins. He approached
William N. Mcleod, jr, clerk of the
House District Committee, with the
suggestion that professional study
be made of design, location and
financing of a stadium. With sensi-
BILE plan, he reasoned, Congress would
be willing to authorize construction.
Mr.. Mcleod put in telephone call
See STADIUM, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-07-29
It's Cheaper by Dozen,
Or Even by Eleven

stay, and the nine little Hurleys
are staying free.
The hotel put them up in a
suite-parlor and three bed
rooms-that normally rents for
$85 a night. Six regular twin
beds and five rollaways are dis
tributed among the bedrooms.
One child sleeps with the par
ents and the others sleep four
in a bedroom.
"It's the incest $12 hotel
room I've ever seen," said Mr..
Hurley cheerfully.
Actually, the HurleyS are let
ting the hotel off easy: they
left their two youngest children
home.
Maybe We'll bring them
along next time" said Mr.. Hur-
ley.
The Sheraton-Park people
can hardly wait.
Evening star., 1962-07-29

L. Ickes had a landscape architect
make study of the proposed stadium
site and soon afterward a National
Guard armory and an auditorium
were incorporated into the plans.
BY 1887. model Of the proposed
complex had been made, and the idea
had gained some Congressional sup
port. A stadium bill was introduced
in 1910 by Representative (now Sem
ator) Randolph of West Virginia.