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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
jim BISHOP

No one knows where she
came from. Or, for that mat
ter, who she was. The far
theSt back anyone can re-
member. Bessie Cullen
worked for Marty Knight on
his farm in PiScataway
Township. The farm set back
off the road between a cool
heavy woods and a railroad
crossing. There was an old
fashioned main house with
a big porch and a lot of
gingerbread on the caves. a
summer kitchen and down in
the lowland a red barn.
At night Bessie slept in the
hot attic. There were no
screens and she rubbed the
dark skin of her bony hands
and her forehead with citron-
ella to keep the mosquitoes
away. She retired at twilight
and was up working at dawn.
Bessie knew the lonely shrek
Of every freight train head
ing for Dunellen.
NOBODY EVER loved Bes-
sic. No one pretended to love
her. She was a work girl. Her
hair was Indian black and
she wore it in tight braids.
The forehead was high and
round and the eyes were
black. The edge Of the mouth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

Moscow, Schi, Tiflis,, Kiev. Len
ingrad and far-away Tashkent.
An estimated 10000 persons
heard the band and most Of
them applauded enthusiastic
ally. There were exceptions,
but many of these were older
people or Communist Party
members who deliberately sat
on their hands.
The rest frequently went to
great trouble to show their en-
thusiasm for the visitors from
America. Some had difficulty
with the police.
The applause would have
been even greater if the band
had not suffered from a certain
amount of internal dissension.
Mr.. Goodman preferred older
tunes, while the band wanted
hot, modern stuff.
Still, everyone connected with
the tour considered it a sue
cessful contribution to the i'm
Iprovement of Soviet-American
relations.
The United States embassy
also indicated it was satisfied
with the tour. The embassy's
cultural officer. Eugene Staples,
told yesterdays luncheon meet
ing: The success of the tour
has amply justified the choice
of Mr.. Goodman"
Mr.. Goodman and the band
were flying to the West today
Most members were going to
New York, but Mr.. Goodman
was planning a brief holiday
in England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

FAILURE: Portrait Painter
John Singer Sargent staged
a running battle with his
sitters, wealthy socialites who
wanted to be glamorized.
Sargent stubbornly resisted
their attempts to influence
his work.
One day. when a friend
was in Sargent'S studio, he
noticed that the artist was
making drastic changes in
the nearly finished portrait
of a society queen.
What are you doing?"
cried the friend.
1T won't do" growled the
painter.
Why? Has she told you
she doesn't like it?"
NO" said Sargent grimly.
"She told me she does"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

sister-in-law has a wild i'm
agination or else she is the
worlds biggest liar. Yester-
day she told me that her
9-week-old baby turned him.
self completely over in his
crib! She also said that her
212-year-old daughter could
do the twist. Have you or
any Of your readers ever
heard of such accomplish
ments from babies their age?
FROM MISSOURI
Are you really From Mis-
souri," or do you just want to
be shown? Your siSter-in-
law could be telling the truth
on both counts.
=
DEAR ABBY: Will you
kindly say a good word to
some dentists who will get a
child in their chair and say,
This won't hurt a bit"-and
then they go to work and the
kid almost goes into orbit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
Need of MuzzIe
indicated Here
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

No wonder children are
scared to death to go to a
dentist.
MOTHER
Any dentist who tells a
patient that it isn't going
to hurt, when it will, should
go back to school and study
(A) Ethics, tB) Psychology,
(C) Dentistry. P.S. Don't
overlook, however, that a
child often will protest more
out of fear than from pain.
DEAR ABBY: Could you
tell me how long a person has
to baby-sit before she is en-
titled to a paid vacation?
CURIOUS
Oh-say about 40 years.
For Abby'S booklet, "HotD to
Hare q Lovely Wedding"
send so cents to ABBY, Bor
1865. Beverly Hills. Calf.
HoU'S the Uorld treating
you? For a personal unpub-
hShed reply. send a Selt-dd-
dressed, stamped envelope to
Abby, care OF The Euening
Star.
McNaught Syndicate Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
Bessie Did More
Than the Chores

was trimmed with two half
moon wrinkles. The hands
had big blue veins.
Her life was simple. All she
had to do was exactly as she
was told. When the farm
work was done. Bessie worked
the hand pump in the kitch-
en- and washed the dishes in
cold well water. If the
weather was hot, someone
asked for iced tea and Bessie
Cullen stopped her work.
dried her hands on q blue
apron, and made the tea. No
one ever asked her If she
wanted some.
She could weed; she could
tie tomato vines high; she
took care Of beehives and ap-
pie trees and canned fruit
and fed the hired hands in
the summer house. She also
fed Reilly and Iced. the big
dogs. Her body was skinny
and flat-chested and she
wore the castoff dresses of
children who lived better
than she.
No one knew for sure
whether she was Is or so.
She never mentioned parents
or relatives. If the knights
gave her any more than her
room and food, and some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
STOP KILLING YOURSELF
Drugs, for Some,
Cause Reactions
By DR.. PETER J. STEINcRoHN

usually clear up the skin ir-
itation after a while. Some
times the doctor prescribes
treatment to help this along
- like wet dressings. special
local applications. antihista-
mines and, occasionally. cor
asteroids. Always be suspi-
cious Of drugs as a cause Of
skin inflammation which
seems to come from nowhere.
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I
have bumps on my finger
joints. I also have arthritis
of my hands. / am Sc and
otherwise we'll. Will you ex-
plain these bumps or enlarge
ments?-Mrs. w.
IF YOUR TROUBLE is
osteoarthritis, these swell
ings in your finger joints are
probably what we call Heb
erson's nodes.
-
Dear DR.. Steincrohn:
What is meant by an auricle
and a ventricle?-Mr. T.
THE HEART is divided
into four chambers. The
two upper ones are called
the right and left auricle;
the two lower, the right and
left ventricle. In a way, the
auricles are reservoirs for
the blood returning to the
heart from the rest of the
body; the blood flows into
the ventricles through inter-
connecting valves and with
vigorous contractions these
ventricles send the blood out
of the heart. (The left VEN
tricle, by way Of the aorta,
to the greater part of the
body; the right ventricle by
way Of the pulmonary artery,
to the lungs0
-
Dear DR.. Steincrohn: My
dentist told me I have a
malocclusion. I was too nerv-
Gus to understand what it
iS.-Mrs. D.
A CONDITION in which
the upper and lower teeth do
not meet properly.
(Bell Syndicate Featured
4 +
DR.. SteincrOhn'S leGtlet,
Hon to Manage Your Memo
pause" wiH be mailed on re-
ceipt of a stamped, Selt-Gd-
dressed envelope and 10 cents
in coin for handling. Address
DR.. Steincrohn in care OF
The Evening Star.
Tomorrow: conVuIsion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: We have a
friend who brings up a sub
ject which hurts and en-
harnesses us. You see, my
husbands brother served
time. It's all in the past now.
Joe is going straight. and we
are trying to forget it.
This friend is always using
expressions like, Jail bird"
did time in the pen" and
up the river" OF course it
bothers us. He knows about
Joe because he's lived in this
town all his life and it was
no secret. What can you do
with a person like that, and
how can we shut him up?
SENSITIVE
Real friends abide by the
old Chinese prOverb: Speak
not of a rope in the home
of a man who was hanged"
Your friend" should engage
his brain before he puts his
mouth in gear. Take him
aside and tell him.
4 4
DEAR ABBY: Either my
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

She was a first class baby
sitter; she scrubbed linoleum
and waxed it by hand. She
served the dinner and tea
when everyone was finished.
No man ever asked her out;
no one ever looked at her a
second time.
Wherever she worked, she
tried doubly hard to please
because, as she grew older,
she became afraid that she
was hardly worth the bed
and the food. When she
worked at our house, she
helped me with my home
work and she kept telling me
to practice my writing. When.
ever l wrote anything. she
clapped her hands with glee
and the eyes Sparkled like
chips Of sunlight in dark
pools.
SHE LEFT our house and
went somewhere else. One day
l heard my mother and Aunt
Eta say that Bessie Cullen
had cancer. The family for
whom she worked had to let
her go, so she was sent to
a State hospital.
There, for many months,
she suffered the pains in
silence. When the bad ones
came, she doubled over. In
time, she died.
Aunt Eta buried her. I
went to the wake and stood
beside the caSket studying the
dark little face. I was a man
now. In a way" I said to
her, II think 1 loved you.
Honest, Bessie"
Copyright, 1852, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

Russians into real cats who
might get out of control.
They had read about riots
caused by Rock n Roll. and I
don't think they wanted any Of
that" Mr.. Goodman said.
Strangely enough, I was in
accord with the Russians.
That was the last thing I
wanted. I wanted applause
from the audience-that was
all I wanted"
Speaking at a farewell lunch
con for Western correspond
ents, Mr.. Goodman disclosed
that both American and Soviet
authorities had been appre-
hensive about the tour which
was financed by the United
States Government as a good
will gesture.
The tour struck a snag that
delayed last nights final con-
cert 20 minutes when members
of the band demanded to be
paid off before going on. There
was no explanation for the
delay in handing out the pay
checks.
Negro trumpeter Joe Wilder
of New York sat out the con-
cert in protest against a deduc-
ton in his salary for what
Goodman aides says was excess
baggage he took along with
him to Moscow.
But a sell-out crowd turned
out at Lenin Sports Palace for
the wind-up and called the
band back for 20 minutes of
encores.
The history making tour
brought live American jazz to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: Every
once in a while my doctor
prescribes phenobarbital for
my tenseness. Lately I have
noticed that my skin breaks
out and itches after I have
taken a few tablets. They
never bothered me before. Is
it possible that these pills
are causing my skin trouble?
Mrs. M.
WHAT WE OFTEN over
look - doctors and patients
included-is that any drug
may cause an eruption.
Somewhere there is a sensi-
tive patient who Just can't
take it.
Think of the millions Of
people who take aspirin for
years without any trouble.
yet there are those who will
bleed or get other severe re-
actions after one or two pills.
Millions take penicillin
without reactions, yet there
is the minority who break out
all over, and in come cases.
even endanger their lives by
taking 1t.
But these are only two ex-
amples. AS I said, any drug
is liable to cause skin reac-
tions-anywhere from simple
itching to severe blotches,
blemishes and alterations.
If you are sensitive to GER
tain hormones you can get a
reaction from eating capons
which were fed these hor-
mones, from penicillin in
milk, from preservatives or
addititives found in various
kinds of food, medicines and
drink.
Common troublemakers in
addition to those I have
mentioned are sulfonamids,
phenolphthalein, barbiturates
and drugs which are COM
monty used to lower tenn
perature (antipyretics). You
may get skin reactions from
gold treatments in arthritis.
from griseovulvin in treating
fungus-from practically any
drug you can name that you
take for a headache, laxative,
tonic or other common rem
edy known to most house
holds.
If the patient has a skin
eruption of unknown origin
and he has been taking a
variety of drugs. the doctor
must go on the diagnostic
trail and determine which
drug-if any-is the cause.
Withdrawing the drug will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09

secondhand shoes, no one
ever saw it. If anyone wanted
to converse with Bessie, she
always sat properly, far for
ward on the chair. knees to-
gether. hands clasped on
knees.
Her eyes were always ex-
pectant with laughter. Bessie
was the greatest toy a child
ever had. She told all the
little girls that they were
beautiful; she fixed their
hair, told stories, giggled be-
hind her hand. and took
them on adventurous walks
through the woods. Little
boys we're all bound to be
great artists and great writ
erS-She told them so.
When 1 was nine, she read
a printed composition I had
written. oh" she said with
wonderment, you are going
to be a fine writer. You
write such beautiful stories.
1T was three paragraphs
long, You will be famous
and I will be there when
they give you prizes"
The knights died off. The
farm was sold. The barn was
empty except for the old
harness hanging on a peg and
the smell of straw and
manure. Nobody knew what
to do with Bessie. Some
relatives took her to the city.
She worked for one. Then
another. Then back again to
the first.
Bessie was good cheap
labor. She cost nothing, I'M
less someone wanted to give
her so cents now and then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
Newport,Jozz
Hits Sour Note

NEWPORT. R. l., July 9
(AP).-The Newport so jazz
festival is over but a few sour
notes linger for some $50 per-
sons who managed to get
involved with the law.
Most of them were charged
with reveling defined as being
festive in a riotous or noisy
manner. drinking in public
places and the like.
Police kept strict order be-
cause Of the beer can rioting
that brought an untimely end
to the 1860 festival.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-09
Goodman Halls Soviet
Tour sHuge Success

MOSCOW July (AP) Benny Goodman says he's salts
fled his six-week the Soviet Union success
despite some gumbng among the bandsmen that he played
it too cool.
Americas King of Swing" dropped hint why he kept
the swinging in low gear:
Soviet authorities afraid he'd turn the young
Evening star., 1962-04-22

a staple in the Brazilian diet
come from farms in surround
ing Goias State.
Evening star., 1962-04-22
DATELINE TOKYO
Business Boom
Is 'Overheoted'

TOKYO, April 81 CAP). Too
much boom
That. in the view Of many
japanese leaders, sums up the
trouble with this island nation
today. They feel the economy
really is sick. although out
wardly buoyant with health.
Government people and econ
omists use the popular term
"overheating" to cover what
they consider an excess Of pro-
duction and growth.
There is nearly full employ
ment. The standard of living is
rising. Stores are loaded with
goods. Prices are rising, how
ever, and the nations foreign
exchange reserves droppe d
drastically last year.
Japan's foreign exchange re-
serves have dwindled as dollars
were spent abroad for machines
and tools needed for industrial
expansion. Everyone has
wanted to get in on the ground
floor Of Prime Minister Hayatc
Ikeda's plan to double the gross
national product between 1861
and 1870.
This scheme called for
yearly advance of 10 per cent
Evening star., 1962-04-22
DATELINE BERLIN
Only 3 Prisoners
Live in Spondou

BERLIN, April 81 CAP).-
Rudolf Hess, once Adolf Hitler's
deputy, will be SO next Thurs
day. 1t will be his 2lst birthday
in the hands Of Hitler's enc
mics. He flew to Scotland in
May. 194l, and was taken
captive.
Hess is one Of the three
people in Berlin still living
under the joint rule Of the
United States, the Soviet Union,
Britain and France. The others
are Albert Speer, Hitler's NUM-
tions minister, and Baldur Won
Schirach. his youth leader.
All have been confined since
1946 in Spandau Prison, q
gloomy red brick structure on
Berlin's outskirts.
Hess is serving a life term
Inc OCner TWO were sentenced
to 20 years by the Nuremberg
war crimes tribunal.
Each of the four powers keeps
a small permanent staff at
Spandau. Every month, troops
belonging to one Of the four
assume the bulk Of the guard
duty. This is the American
month. The British take over
May /.
The three prisoners spend
their time reading and garden
ing. They are allowed one 30
minute visit a month, but Hess
does not receive visitors. At
least this was the situation six
years ago. Allied authorities
now refuse any information or
the prisoners.
1t costs more than 100000 g
year to maintain the prison.
Evening star., 1962-04-22
DATELlNE JAKARTA
Famine Increases
Sukorno's Problems

JAKARTA. April 81 CAP).-
1ndonesia's President Sukarno
has spent so much time and
money on his militant West
New Guinea campaign that
near-famine has crept across
his nation almost unobserved.
For months Mr.. Sukarno has
been telling his people that
the military campaign against
The Netherlands must have top
priority.
Indonesia'S 96 million people
are in no position to argue be-
cause Mr.. Sukarno rules by
decree with the armed forces
full backing.
1ndonesia today. however, is
hungry, and the full implica-
tons are just being brought
home to the president.
Reports earlier this year Of
terrible food shortages in some
parts Of the sprawling archi-
pelago were denied by local au-
thorities. Then in mid-April,
Mr.. Sukarno's health minister,
DR.. Satrio. visited the Indra-
maju district in West Java.
He discovered 60 persons had
died of starvation while 5000
had been treated at the one
hospital for malnutrition. Many
OF the sick, with distended bel
lies and spindly arms, were
found in empty rice ware
houses.
Authorities in Indramaju had
failed to report the famine to
the central government, ap-
parently for fear of being
blamed for poor administra-
ton. Officials in other areas
perhaps have done similar
cover-up jobs.
Authorities have established
soup kitchens and "anti-star-
vation commands" in some
areas.
Even the soldier, traditionally
well paid. we'll fed, and well
clothed, is taking pay and ra-
ton. Officials in other areas
public can be helped.
Evening star., 1962-04-22

ism, now beating at the gates
Of neighboring Rhodesia.
Prime Minister Henrik Ver-
woerd is riding high, however.
Whatever his Afro-Asian en-
emieS in the United Nations
may think of him, he has
gained strength in the two
years since an assassin struck
him down. His all-white gov
ernment rules with q peak mai
ority in parliament. His Ma
tional Party continues to gain,
right down to local govern
ment levels.
Take Bold Stand
After thus showing the
world that they are no push
over for any winds Of change,
Mr.. Verwoerd and his aides
have gone further. They say
a new arms budget, increased
by 10 per cent over last year, is
intended to beat back any Afro
Asian-C Communist invasion at
tempt and deal with any red
subversion from within.
In addition to being bold, Mr..
Verwoerd has been lucky. Con-
slider:
In March 1860 the shooting
Evening star., 1962-04-22
AP World Spotlight: The News and What's Behind 1t

Last year the rate shot up to
11.6.
Prices went up. too. Even the
fee for use Of a public bath
rose. from Is to 19 yen a to
5l4 cents. The consumer price
index rose 4 per cent in 1860,
5.3 per cent last year.
All this means political prob
lens for Mr.. Ikeda and his rul-
ing Liberal-Democratic Party.
At first the Prime Minister,
considered the architect OF
Japan's rapid economic growth,
blamed the public for the cost
Of living rise. This week, how
ever, he changed his tune and
said his government should be
held responsible.
Evening star., 1962-04-22
DATELINE LONDON
Mac Serene
Despite Attacks

LONDON. April 81 (AP).-A
bit battered at home, Harold
Macmillan rides forth next
week in his role as the good
o-American.
He is the realiSt who recog-
nizes the limits of Britain's
power and is anxious to pull
the Western Alliance together.
He is eager to check Communist
expansionism and to be the
complete, totally trusted ally.
These, at least, are parts Of
the image he is expected to in
vite as he goes to Washington
for talks with President Ken
nedy and to New York to ad-
dress the American Newspaper
Publishers Association.
1t is part Of his job to ad-
vance the cause of United
States-British friendship, and
he is deft at it.
Many Britons have a mar
rover picture of their patrician-
looking Prime Minister. To
them Mr.. Macmillan is a man
with a load of troubles and a
scarcity Of friends.
His Conservative Party, in Of
flee well over a decade, is going
through one of it's periodic
slumps. In several recent spe-
cial elections to fill vacant seats
in the House of Commons,
Macmillan's Tories have failed
to gain their expected quota of
votes.
A few voices inside the party
have openly expressed dislike Of
his leadership. One ConServa-
tive legislator, Sir Harry Legge-
Bourke. even called for Mr..
Macmillan's resignation. The
Prime Minister'S own son, Maui
rice, who also sits in Commons,
has berated some Of the gov
ernment's economic policies.
Businessmen are irked, too
especially by new budget pro-
poSals which include measures
to tax spectators in property
and shares.
Evening star., 1962-04-22

down Of several hundred dem
onstrating Americans at
Sharpeville and other racial
violence frightened the Ver-
woerd government into declar-
ing a national state of emer-
gency. 1t kept this clamped on
the country for five months
while 1t arrested thousands Of
suspected subversives. In April
1860 Mr.. Verwoerd was shot in
the face by a white opponent
Of his segregation policies.
The race riots caused a
flight of foreign capital that
brought a drastic drop in for
eign exchange reserves. The
government had to order re-
strictions on export Of capital
and import of luxury goods and
also ask for a loan from the In
ternational Monetary Fund and
other foreign sources. These
measures worked and the loan
was repaid before it was fully
drawn.
Strike Calls Futile
Attempted strikes called by
African leaders failed. Most Of
these leaders were jailed or
driven into exile. Two major
African organizations were
outlawed under DEGREES.
Then Mr.. Verwoerd launched
out boldly on the international
scene. He took South Africa
out of the Commonwealth. He
won a national referendum
that made South Africa a re-
public divorced from the Brit
ish crown. Last October an
election nearly wiped out the
vocal Progress Party which
advocates a multiracial govern
ment. (The Nations black ma
jority has no vote0
These Verwoerd successes
have dismayed most of his
political opponents. It seems
that a lot Of the English-de.
scended whites vote for him
even while they outwardlS
denounce his policies.
Evening star., 1962-04-22

Every year, when the city Of
West Berlin has to make up its
budget. there are complaints
about the cost of maintaining
this huge prison for three men.
So far. however. the big four
powers have not been able to
agree about doing anything else
with them.
Evening star., 1962-04-22

a staple in the Brazilian diet
come from farms in surround
ing Goias State.
Power Uncertain
Electric power comes from
generating stations nearly 300
miles away. The power fails
frequently. Brasina has one
hospital and few doctors. There
are two movie theaters, two
newspapers, three television
sta atoms, about 1000 retail
stores and shops and IS banks.
The 101 schools go from kin
dergarten to university.
Most Of the Federal Govern
ment's functions still are in the
old capital of Rio de Janeiro.
On Mondays and Fridays it's
hard to get a quorum to do busi-
ness in the senate and chamber
of deputies. The lawmakers and
other officials usually head for
Rio or other cities Thursday
afternoon and don't come back
until Monday or Tuesday.
Skeleton Embassy Staffs
The foreign office still is in
Rio. Foreign embassies con-
tinue their main operations
there. Most embassies have
sent skeleton staffs here. The
United States delegation is
headed by Political Counselor
Philip Raine.
Sites Of the future embassies
are located along picturesque
Avenue of the Nations, which
runs for miles along the shore
of a man-made lake.
Brasilia was carved out of
the wilderness, and a point in
its favor is that Brazil's leader.
are now familiar with vast sec.
tions Of the interior which few
. knew before.