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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Italy Foyors Center

A wide sampling Of the italian
electorate has shown significant liking
for the middle way in politics. Casting
ballots for local administrative offices,
about three million voters-close to 10
per cent Of the national electorate
indicated declining popular support
for the Communists on the far left and
the combination of Monarchists and
Neo-FaSciSts on the extreme right.
While the Christian Democratic
Party, Italy's largest throughout the
postwar period, also suffered some losses,
the distribution of gains amounted to an
Endorsement Of the coalition government
headed by Christian Democratic Premier
Amintore Fanfani and its much-debated
experiment of parliamentary co-opera-
ton with the Left-wing Socialist Party
OF Pietro Nenni. Since this experiment
was undertaken several months ago. It
is noteworthy that the Nenni group
itself has moved closer toward the CEN
ter OF the political spectrum-both on
domestic and international policy cues
tions-and its candidates were under
particularly angry attack by the Com
munistS in the recent campaign.
Parliamentary elections are sched-
uled In italy next year. Meanwhile, the
local testing reflects no threat to the
Fanfani government and offers no en-
couragement to the country's political
extremists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Too Many Commuters

Your editorial, Attack on
Highways" prompts me to
ask, Where do you live and
do you have a personal in
terest in highways?
From a review Of state
ments on those who want
highways and those who do
not, it is clearly evident that
highways are in demand by
the special interest groups.
The American Automobile
Association, Keystone, tire
dealers. commuters and the
highway men have dis
played a sadistic indifference
to human values.
District citizens do not
want thousands Of cars
dumped into the city, our
roads torn up, parking in
front of our homes all day,
and the littering of our lawns
and neighborhoods with
debris. We feel all commuters
should go around, under, but
not through, our city.
Angela Kayruck,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Chonce to HeLp

The response Of the National Cap
ital Planning Commission must have
been less than satisfactory to those
members of the House District subcon-
mittee, headed by Representative
Whitener of North Carolina, who are
openly antagonistic to the District in
ner-loop freeway program.
In its letter to the planners the
other day, the subcommittee asked a
number Of questions dealing primarily
with the displacement Of families by
the freeway system, which certainly is
legitimate subject of inquiry. The
manner in which the questions were
fashioned, however, offered the NCPC
every opportunity to repudiate its clear
prior Endorsement Of the concept Of the
inner loop or to advocate a delay in
its construction. The NCPC did not
do so.
After several hours Of agonizing
debate, the planners whipped up a mas
terpiece Of gobbledygook which has,
however, the virtue Of setting the record
straight on past commission actions. 1t
specified, for example, that while the
commission intends further study of
some portions of the system, it has ac-
cepted the conclusion that "the east and
south legs Of the inner loop would be
needed whether the rest of the inner
loop was constructed or not. :" And
it is these latter segmentS, of course, for
which the District has sought its major
highway appropriations from Congress
this year.
Where does this leave the Whitener
subcommittee In our opinion, it is left
with specific responsibility For the
Commissioners have said that they need,
as quickly as possible, legislation to per-
NIT them to develop and to carry out
programs Of assistance to the families
to be displaced by these portions Of the
loop which the Planning Commission
has concluded would be essential in any
event. The question of whether con-
struction funds for these roads are pro-
vided this year is a matter that the
House Appropriations Committee must
handle. But the provision Of adequate
relocation machinery requires legisla-
tive, rather than appropriation, action,
and the proper body through which this
legislation should be obtained is the
Whitener subcommittee.
Their willingness or refusal to assist
the Commissioners in the formulation
OF such machinery will demonstrate
whether Mr.. Whitener and his subcom-
mittee are truly interested in finding a
solution which will permit the freeways
to proceed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17

The Continental Divide, the noun
famous watershed that crosses Western
United States from Canada to Mexico.
was preached, legislatively, on the floor
Of the House of Representatives this
week The action came with authorize
ton by voice vote Of the imaginative
Fryingpan Arkansas project in Colorado,
multi-purpose development keyed to
diverting surplus waters of the Colorado
river, by canal and tunnel, through the
great divide to the often water-thirsty
Arkansas River valley.
It Is project that has been under
study for more than thirty years, has
been pronounced economically and eng
ineeringly feasible, and has been in
dorsed by the administrations of Pres
ident Eisenhower and President Ken
nedy. Provision in the authorizing leg
islation safeguards interests of other
States drawing upon Colorado River
waters. Recently devised plans for dam
and reservoir facilities to assure ade-
quate water supplies on the Western
Slope Of the divide, which cuts Colorado
itself, brought united and bipartisan
support-private and public-within the
State. 1t is anticipated that Industrial,
agricultural and municipal needs in the
valley that contains % per cent of Colo
radios population, but currently has
only 7 per cent Of its available water
supply, will benefit.
On three occasions, in earlier Con-
crosses, the Senate has approved the
project, but without House concurrence.
Legislation matching the bill now APP
proved by the House awaits considera-
ton in the Senate Interior Committee.
Merits Of the project have been well
established, and there should be no
failure in this Congress to complete
the authorization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Mr.. Remnants CompIoint

In an unusual move, the State De-
partment has made public reports from
our Ambassadors to YugosIavia and
Poland which protest against the Sen
ate's action on the foreign aid bill. This
has all the earmarks of an attempt to
pressure Congress into dropping or
modifying the restrictions which the
Senate imposed on aid in general and
in particular on aid to the two countries
In question. This, to repeat, is an un-
usual tactic, but it would be justified If
the Ambassadors are right.
Let's take the case of Yugoslavia.
Ambassador KEENAN,, for whom we have
great respect, said in his message that
the actions in Congress were "a signal
demonstration Of ill-will toward an in
creasingly friendly people," In the case
OF. the Senate's action on the aid bill,
nothing could be farther from the truth
Mr.. KEENAN, would not have made such
statement had he been familiar with
the debate. For the record makes 1t per-
fectly clear that the Senate'S action, in
this instance, was aimed Squarely at
Marshal Tito, and was in no sense
demonstration Of ill-will toward the
Yugoslav people.
Senator Proxmire, no foe of foreign
aid, was the leading figure in the dis
cuSsion Of the case of Yugoslavia. Mr..
KEENAN, ought to read his statement.
For 1t is a careful, detailed and con-
vincing showing that, despite billions
in American Old MorchoI Tue 1ann 49,.
moving closer to the Kremlin and away
from the West. Mr.. KEENAN,, by impli-
cation at least, comedies this point. If
Senator Proxnire is right, and we think
ne Is, the time has come to stop using
American tax dollars to help SubSidize
an effort to undermine the free world
We are not at all impressed by
Mr.. Remnants unsupported statement,
echoed in substance by the President,
that the Senate'S action is "windfall"
for the Kremlin. This is typical of the
Kind OF generalization which has been
heard so often in the past that it has
lost its force. We do not think it is true.
But If 1t is, then the supporting evi-
oence should be produced. Perhaps it
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responsible members of the Senate
should be let in on the secret.
We are not unmindful of the fact
that Mr.. Kennedy, in criticizing the
senate action, appealed for greater free
dom OF action, particularly at a time
when there are so many things which
are encouraging in the world to U.S."
This may be cryptic reference to
developments which cannot be made
public hopeful developments which
would be prejudiced by the action on
the aid bill. If this is the case, however,
1T is obvious that Senator Proxmire
and numerous other pro-administration
Senators have not been kept informed.
The President, assuming that there is
some significance in his comment,
should take these Senators into his
confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Coast Guard Fan

There has too long been an
attitude Of superiority among
officers who are graduates of
the Naval Academy with re-
spect to men Of like rank in
the Coast Guard. The reverse
should be the case, because
the cadets who go to Annap-
oils go there because they
have congressional pull, while
the cadets who go to the
Coast Guard Academy at New
London go there only upon
merit, and as the result Of an
extremely stiff examination.
I have a high regard and
affection for the Navy, but
after all. their services are
brought into play only in
times Of war. The Coast
Guard is on the job S65 days
a year.
Frank G. Campbell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
FROM THE STAR FILES.. j..

couches of pew cushions.
We trust that the de-
linquent parties may be
smoked out" Such neglect
did not go unnoticed in Of
fetal circles. The next day
The Star reported this con-
versation between Secretary
of War Stanton and a Union
surgeon who was with the
trainload of sick and wound
ed. "Mr. Stanton: You are
charged with shamefully neg
lecting a detachment Of sick
and wounded soldiers sent to
this city under your care.
Are the facts as stated in
this paper true?' Surgeon:
Partly so, sir - Stanton:
Is it true that on your ar
rival you went to a hotel and
got your supper, leaving the
wounded men in the cars?"
Surgeon: 1T is, sir Stanton:
And that you afterwards
went to bed at the hotel,
leaving the soldiers yet un-
cared for in the cars?' Sur
geon: 1T is, sir Stanton:
Then. sir, you are dismissed
from the service The Secre-
tary added some further
words expressive of his detes-
tation of such acts of neglect.
The delinquent, crushed and
humbled. left the room, cry
ing like a child. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Blow to Merit System

II Fairfax County School officials
had good cause to fire Thomas G. Dodd,
school construction director, they owe
1t to Mr.. Dodd and to the public to state
that cause. Yet, at hearing called by
the County Civil Service Commission,
they refused to give any specific reason,
resting their case only on what the COM
mission properly termed vague gener-
alities." This is strange way to operate
a civil service merit system.
Mr.. Dodd told the commission that
his superiors disapproved of his direct
action approach in seeking to protect
the county from corner-cutting and
other shoddy practices by some con-
tractors on certain school projects. In
firing him last March, however, school
authorities declined to give explicit
reasons for their action. And the at
torney for Assistant Superintendent of
Schools James Woodbridge, under whom
Mr.. Dodd worked, would not allow his
client to testify before the commission,
on the ground that lit appears that this
is developing into an attack on Mr..
Woodbridge"
But Mr.. Woodbridge and other school
officials are asking for criticism by their
tactics We think Commissioner Robert
Rice was justified in commenting that
there had been exhibited at the hearing
"a great deal bordering on impertinence,
might even say contempt for the COM
mission, the county merit system and
good government" Under the circum-
stances, the commissions recommen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Screening Refugees

A recent attendance at
hearings of the House I'm
American Activities Commit
tee may lead one to hope that
the Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service has devel-
oped some new and more
effective methods for screen
ing prospective immigrants to
the United States.
During the short while I
was present for some of the
proceedings in which the
Committee was investigating
Communist agitation in and
around Cleveland, Ohio,
three naturalized American
citizens were called as wit
neSSes. When asked to affirm
or deny that they were active
members Of the Communist
Party, all Of them pleaded
the Fifth Amendment. OF the
three, one was born in Czech
oslovakia, another in Roma
MIA and the third in Scot
land.
With pressure now on to
admit great numbers of
Chinese refugees to this
country it would not be I'M
reasonable to expect that in
vestigations into their char
acter and political leanings
will be as thorough as pos
sible. Red Chinese authorities
would have little trouble
placing a refugee" in Hong
Kong as the first stop on a
greater mission.
Ronald H. Harner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Day to Remember

Following the Judeo-
Christian tradition upon
which is based our American
way Of life and which teaches
us to obey and to honor our
father and our mother, on
this Sunday we observe
Fathers Day. But to many
citizens, and to myself, who
have arrived in this land of
freedom from the Baltic
countries, this date is also
an anniversary of atrocities
which should not be wished
upon anyone.
Twenty-Five years ago on
this date, in accordance with
the agreement between the
Kremlin and the Nazis, the
Baltic States were occu-
pied by Communist forces.
In place of obedience and
honor towards parents, the
schools. the radio, the press,
and the Communist Youth
Organization. which is SINH
lar to Hitler's Youths, teach
disobedience towards fathers
and mothers who are not
Communists but believe in
God. Children are taught
that their duty Is to spy on
and betray their parents, and
in this way advance commu-
nism. This is followed by
mass arrests and deporta-
tons In which fathers are
separated from their families
forever thus breaking the
bond uniting them. Nikita
and Mao still are robbing in
Vulnerable families Of their
fathers and sending millions
to their deaths. The same
fate is promised to Ameri-
cans.
On Fathers Day, when we
honor our father or are
honored as a father, please
consider those for whom this
privilege is forbidden, and be
thankful to your forefathers
and to others who have given
you this heritage. Dedicate
yourselves to your country
and to freedom as your fore
fathers did. Only when all
the countries Of this world
are free and communism has
disappeared will peace and
prosperity be guaranteed to
all nations, and we will be
able to pass them on to our
future generations.
Tedis Zierins,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
SO Years Ago

Underpaid school teachers
had a champion so years ago
in Senator Duncan Fletcher,
Of Florida. The Star Of June
20, 1912, quoted him as tell
ing the graduating class of
Normal School teachers:
Teaching is the hottest and
the most dignified calling,
except perhaps the ministry.
1t is a crying shame that
the men and women who are
to train the minds of girls
and boys Of this country are
paid the small salary they
are today. I hope the time
will come when public senti-
ment and a sense of ircreas-i
ing justice will stir the Of
ficials. OF course, teachers
should not go into teaching
only as a matter of dollars
and cents, but they face the
cold fact that they must have
bread and butter. The dog
catcher Of this city gets
$500 per annum. The av-
erage school teacher in this
country gets $500. -
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ahead and had received an
answer that everything would
be prepared. The soldiers,
packed closely in the cars,
were suffering from want of
room, food and proper at
tention. The wants of the
sick and wounded aroused
the sympathies of the warm
hearted people Gin the neigh
borhood) and they set to
work to alleviate their pains
and miserieS. Alderman Lloyd
hunted up the keys of Ryland
Chapel and Potomac Hall
and took the responsibility of
opening them for the bene-
fit of the suffering soldiers.
-. Private citizens with a
generous hospitality threw
open their doors and provid-
ed for the brave men in dis
tress. Tea, coffee, meat,
bread, liquors, delicacies and
everything that was requisite
to satisfy the craving of hun
ger or thirst were quickly sup
piled. B a n d a g S were pro-
fusely provided, and each
wounded soldier had three or
four ministering angels about
him to bind up his wounds:
administer. the cup of cold
water; battle the feverish
brow. and administer kind
words and cheerful smiles.
Many of the noble ladies of
the island were the first upon
the ground, and never left
the scene of suffering until
the last soldier was conveyed
to the hospital. Rev. Mr..
Holmeade, rector of Grace
Church, FASTENED to throw
open the doors of that build
ing for the receipt of the I'M
fortunate soldiers, and being
in the immediate vicinity of
the train it afforded a con-
venient and hospitable re-
ceptacle for the badly wound
ed. as well as for a large
number Of sick and crippled,
who were tenderly assisted to
improvised comfortable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
100 Years Ago

AS Virginia became a vast
battle-ground in the Civil
War. and the casualty lists
in the public prints grew to
appalling lengths, the FEEDER
al City's hospitals overlooked
with military sick and
wounded. Form al facilities
being inadequate, the Gov
eminent was forced to i'm
provise. The Patent Office
became a hospital. Mansions.
including those once occu-
pied by Stephen Douglas and
John Breckenridge, became
wards. Sheds, rough but
clean, were erected near the
Smithsonian. uncomfortably
close to open sewers, and
were known as Armory
Square Hospital. Hillsides
surrounding the Capital were
studded with long, single
story, whitewashed frame
structures in which the vic
Tins of the fighting were
tended. Churches were trans
formed into hospitals. The
Star editorially recommend
ed such a move, and it was
not long before congrega-
tions Of loyal Unionists were
vying with one another in
offering their churches to the
War Department. For the
most part. the citizenry was
sympathetic and pitched in
to aid the suffering strangers
who had been thrown into
their midst by the bad for
tunes Of war. Inevitably,
there were mixups and cases
OF neglect or misconduct on
the part of those entrusted
or assigned to care for the
seemingly endless stream of
wounded. The Star Of Mon
day, June 16, 1862, said:
During Saturday night a
train Of 10 cars arrived here
bringing 1893 wounded from
Gen. Shields division. OF
this number almost 200 were
wounded at Port Republic.
They belong principally to
the Rhode Island Cavalry,
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania regiments. When they
arrived at Maryland avenue
at midnight, there was not a
surgeon. hospital steward or
official of any kind from the
hospitals of Washington to
meet them, Notwithstanding
the fact that the surgeon
with them had telegraphed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17

I have recently had an ex-
perience which I think is
germane to the present con-
sideration by the Congress of
a proposal to withhold in
come taxes on dividends and
interest, with the taxpayer
required subsequently to
claim reimbursement for
amount excessively deducted.
My 1858 income tax was
enormously computed. This I
discovered in 1861 when max
ing out my 1860 return. In
submitting this return, I
wrote a letter to the Bureau
of Internal Revenue setting
forth the error and request
ing reimbursement. Months
went by and I received no
reply. When a whole year had
elapsed and I had still heard
nothing I accompanied my
1861 return with a second
letter setting forth the first
verbatim. This was in March
Of this year. Having still had
no reply by June II, I
dropped by the Bureau. Mel
Their Of my letters could be
found. 1t was as If no request
for reimbursement had been
made. The official assigned
to me tried to save the Bu-
reau's face by contending I
should have submitted "a
claim on Form 843," but
when I maintained my view
that a letter constituted a
valid claim he receded from
his position. However, he
filled out and I signed a
claim on this form, making
the third claim I have filed
for this one reimbursement.
OF course, I am not yet paid.
The official stated I would
be reimbursed with interest.
The current proposal be-
fore Congress would involve
the taxpayers of this country
and the Bureau of Internal
Revenue in an endless deluge
Of claims and correspondence,
only a fraction of which
would ever be located and
processed, as well as an in
creased cost in administra-
ton and interest payments
by the Federal Government.
r. s. S.
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"nyet" virus as much as are
the Russians at so-called
conferences they agree to at
tend and where they then
habitually veto any meaning
full attempt at cooperation.
In the midst of the shouting
and tumult of this volcanic
day when prejudice and pas
sion furnish more heat than
light is it not high time to
emphasize that which the
ages make perfectly clear,
namely, that attack is not
half as effective as example
and that at last evil can
only be overcome by good?
Always affirmation is 10 times
stronger than denunciation.
To borrow the phrase of @
popular song in a time when
the seat Of the scornful is
overcrowded by those who
only add to the confusion by
loudly announcing what they
are against, this surely is q
time to "accentuate the pos
tive"
And the third rule for the
highest living is, Beware Of
the fallacy of the elsewhere"
Cultivate the plants of your
convictions and your ideals in
your own garden. The Bible
declares 1.-THE eyes of a wise
man are before him but the
eyes Of a foolish man are at
the ends Of the EARTH" This
means that the wise man
sees the glory, the beauty,
the opportunity of the place
where he is. But the foolish
man is always scanning the
horizon for some signs of O
splendor that somehow he
has missed at home. Yes, how
human it seems to assume
that the far fields are green
er! These fields of home are
gray and drab while the
peaks on the horizon are
ablaze with light!
A great English preacher
and author, Charles Kingsley,
came to his graduation day
at Cambridge with outstand-
ing personal endowment and
with highest academic hon.
ors. 1t was assumed in all
quarters that this graduate
was plainly marked for place
and preferment in the
church. When he went as rec
tor to the ugly little church
at Everslie where people were
ordinary and ignorant, the
question on many lips was,
why should he waste his
time there?" But there, for 80
years, he patterned his life
on the three rules-"Beware
of the tyranny of things;
Beware of the futility Of the
negative, and Beware Of
the fallacy Of the elsewhere"
At the end of his glorious
ministry he poured into one
verse the secret of his life
and left it as a signboard to
the highest service. Here 1t is
for graduates and others:
Do the 1Dork that's nearest.
Though it's dull at tDhiles,
Helping tDhen ne meet them
Lame dogs oUer stiles;
See in every hedgerotD
Marks of angels feet,
EpicS in each pebble
Underneath our feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-17
Pdmpered Pets

According to a popular
rhyme, "The King of France,
with 10000 men, marched up
the hill and then marched
down again" Our President,
with an inspiring transporta-
ton message, marched up
Capitol Hill and then
marched down again.
In this election year, Con-