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Illinois Yates Lobors
To Make Self Known

the foreign aid bill. He tried
every trick he knew to sabo-
tage the drug safety bill.
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Congressional Race Locks Issues in
North corolino. Page BIO
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BERLIN

Continued From Page Al
should be If the Communist
East German regime under
takes to impose more formal
controls over civilian traffic
to Berlin.
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cratic candidate for the Senate,
was called on for a talk the
room with in genial tumult.
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FAMOUS FABLES
BY 4. E. EDGAR

MPLAINT: Tristan
Bernard, French playwright
and wit. never lost his temper,
relates Cornelia Otis Skinner
in Elegant Wits and
Horizontals."
"One day on a busy street,
he was accidentally hit and
knocked down by a grand
father clock which q work.
man was carrying on his
shoulders. Instead OF being
angry. he got to his feet,
brushed off the dust and said
10 the workman:
Why don't you wear a
wristwatch like everybody
else?'"
DECEPTION: French COM
poser Jules Massenet always
spoke kindly OF his fellow
composers, no matter what
his opinion OF their music.
Once. when he was prais-
Ing the work OF a rival. a
man Of little talent. a friend
said:
How can you speak so
highly Of him2 He always be-
Titles your work"
"So7" shrugged Massenet.
Does anyone ever say what
he really thinks2"
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STOP KILLING YOURSELF
Happy Vacation
Quiets the Ache
. BY DR.. PETER J. STEINcRoHN

office told me that It's a
horrible experience. She said
that the night sweats are I'M
bearable and that many
women get terribly depressed.
Has she been exaggeratingp
Mrs. O.
/ COULD dismiss this as
an "old wives tale" Never
theless. 1t is true that a small
percentage of women have
some trials during their men
opause. When the ovaries
stop functioning as they have
in the past, there may be
difficulty in attaining a nor
NAL balance between all the
glands Of the body: pituitary.
thyroid, etc.
The result can cause emo
tional changes, hot flashes,
tingling and numbness In the
hands and feet and other
discomforts. In the relatively
rare cases. the depression Is
so great Unconditional melan-
cholia) that the patient must
be protected by prescribing
hormones and electro-sleep
therapy.
But this is also true: Most
women come through their
menopause without any ma
jor discomforts at all. II they
should have some hot flash
es. these are easily controlled
by taking hormones. (Most
women don't need them
For many the menopause Is
a relief, They say they are
glad TO be through with
their periodic menses. Con-
trary 70 the belief that the
menopause reduces sexual de-
sire and compatibility, many
say that freedom from ankle
" about pregnancy enhances
their marital relationships.
AS you probably need lot
OF convincing I suggest that
you send for my leaflet How
10 Manage Your Menopause."
Write TO me In care Of The
Evening Star. inclosing 10
cents and a long, stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
Bell Syndicate Featured
Monday: Answers
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Do Writers Need
A Handy Bottle?

recurring headlines. coupled
with the task OF writing an
assortment Of facts within
the confines Of space pre-
ordained by the city desk, is
almost too much to bear.
Nice guys drink more than
faded ones.
The tough ones were
ascetic, or periodic drinkers.
They had hearts which, on
tender occasions. could swell
to the size Of french peas.
They needed no liquid seda-
ton. no pills and few friend
ships. Some treated their
families as adjuncts to their
profession, like so many
typewriter ribbons. When
they fell off the pedestal,
the crash was always public,
painful and protracted.
AS A WRITER, I have
tried 1t both ways. When I
was q rewrite man on New
York newspapers, I did my
drinking in my off-time. It
never worked for me. ! was
subject to wonderful ideas
while slipping booze. and used
TO jot them on a little pad.
When ] was sober. one OF
two things occurred: Either
I couldn't decipher what I
had written. or what ] had
written sickened me.
So, a good many years ago,
/ gave 1t UP. Completely. II is
so far behind that / have no
more longing for 1t than I
have 10 return 10 the use Of
bubble gum. Still. / main
tain that there are writers
whose work is benefited by
a few hookers. II loosens a
mind stiff with fear: II
makes q human being out
Of the man with no mercy.
up 10 a point, II can improve
the product. II also improves
the digestion OF facts.
Some OF the older report
ers have snapped their hang
overs for ulcers and warm
milk. Some OF the younger
ones eat candy bars and read
Proust.
Don't tell them they don't
know what they're missing
They do.
tKins Features Syndicate. Incl
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Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I have
had a tired feeling in my
back between the shoulders
for two years. Periodically I
get a catch in my neck also.
My arms also ache. The doc
tor has given me two kinds
Of pills for my arthritis. The
first gave me hives and the
second relieved me. But even
then i would have bad days.
Now I am getting relaxing
medicine for muscle spasm.
But this isn't what I'm
really writing about. What I
can't understand is that
while I was on vacation my
back didn't ache at all. But
as soon as I returned home.
/ got up the next morning
with backache. Can you ex-
plain2-Mrs. M.
SOME DOCTORS even 20
so far as to say that arthri-
tbs Is often caused by emo
tons like resentment, hatred,
envy. etc. Others won't agree,
but will say they believe that
such emotions can worsen an
arthritic condition II already
present.
Your experience on vaca-
ton, Mrs. M, is not at all
uncommon. / am sure many
readers have found less dis
comfort In illness when their
minds we're occupied with
other matters. especially II
they were interesting and alb
sorbing. Vacations come I'M
der this heading. I've known
ulcer patients. those with
heart disease. asthma and
other conditions. which we're
more bearable when the pa
tients we're on vacation.
It's the old, old story Of
mind over matter. A nagging
toothache hurts less after
one suffers a sudden. pain
full kick In the shins.
-
Dear Or. Steincrohn: Al
though I am only 80 / am
already beginning TO worry
about menopause. Yesterday.
q woman who works In my
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JIM BISHOP

We were sitting in a pop
ular restaurant talking about
writers and drinking - or
drinking versus writers -
and someone asked II 1t is
possible to divorce the two.
Frankly. I don't know. More.
writer's drink. I would guess.
than those who don't.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
was a Nobel Prize writer. He
clobbered himself pretty
good. and some Of his
friends used to speculate,
on reading his oral wander
ings, which parts were writ
ten while sober. Ernest
Hemingway tilted a glass,
too, and 1t may have oiled
the inhibitions TO the point
where the words assumed an
orderly flow.
George Bernard Shaw
didn't need q bottle, but
then he had something Just
as good: a massive ego. This
can sustain a writer as firm
ly as though he we're a nut.
II you want 10 be psyche
logical about 1t. drinking In
the writing fraternity is
caused by lack Of sufficient
ego plus the tension Of the
work.
At best. writing is an In
definite art. What you think
Is good. ! may feel is worth
less, and vice versa. All pro-
fessional writer's are aware
Of this, Just as all pros know
that every reader Is a critic
gifted with his own infalli-
BILE judgment. When a read
er says a work Of yours is
bad. you have lost q chip
OF the pedestal on which
you stand. Lose enough
chips. and you topple.
Newspaper editors are the
Caesars Of the news room
When they say a piece IL
bad. II isn't published. OF
course. like the writer's, they
make the chronic error OF
identifying themselves with
the average reader" which
Is akin TO q Judge trying 10
think like q crook.
This causes some drinking
among reporters, who, al
writers, are on trial five
days a week. The tension OF
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forest. Other boxes are spe-
cially designed for owls and for
bats, so that these creatures
may take over in the dark
hours the work of insect hunt
ing performed in daylight by
the small birds.
Through all these new, i'm
aginative, and creative ap-
proaches to the problem Of
sharing our earth with other
creatures there runs q con-
slant theme, the awareness
that we are dealing with life
with living populations and all
their preSsures and counter
pressures, their surges and re-
cesSions. Only by taking &C
count Of such life forces and
by cautiously seeking to guide
them into channels favorable
to ourselves can we hope to
achieve q reasonable accom-
mediation between the insect
hordes and ourselves.
The current vogue for poi
sons has failed utterly to take
into account these most fun
damental considerations. AS
crude a weapon as the cave
mans club, the chemical bar
rage has been hurled against
the fabric of life-a fabric on
the one hand delicate and de-
structible, on the other mirac-
ulously tough and resilient,
and capable of striking back in
unexpected ways. These ex-
traordinary capacities of life
have been ignored by the prac-
titioners of chemical control
who have brought to their task
no "high-minded orientation,"
no humility before the vast
forces with which they tamper.
The control of nature" is q
phrase conceived in arrogance,
born of the Neanderthal age of
biology and philosophy, when
it was supposed that nature ex-
lists for the convenience Of
man. The concepts and prac-
tees of applied entomology for
the most part date from that
Stone Age Of science. 1t is our
alarming misfortune that so
primitive a science has armed
itself with the most modern
and terrible weapons, and that
in turning them against the
insects it has also turned them
against the earth.
(Copyrieht, 1852, By Rachel Carson,
Published By Houghton Mifflin co..
The Stars I2-p0rt seiolizotion
Of Silent Spring" began Sunday,
November rs. Boek copies moy be
ordered by phoning the Circulation
Department, Lincoln $4,000.
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infestations in the Northeast
ern States, there were not
enough gypsy moths to provide
the material, and hand COL
lected female pupae had to be
imported from Europe, some
times at a cost Of half a dollar
per trip.
Progress at Lost
It was a tremendous break
through, therefore, when, after
years Of effort, chemists Of the
Agriculture Department re-
Gently succeeded in isolating
the attractant. Following upon
this discovery was the success
full preparation of a closely re-
lated synthetic material from a
constituent Of castor oil; this
not only >deceives the male
moths but is apparently fully
as attractive as the natural
substance. AS little as one mi
crogram 1-millionth gram in
a trap is an effective lure.
Insects have many natural
enemieS-not only microbes Of
many kinds but other insects.
The first suggestion that an
insect might be controlled by
encouraging its enemies is
generally credited to Erasmus
Darwin about 1900. Probably
because 1t was the first gener-
ally practiced method of biolog-
ical control, this setting of one
insect against another Is
widely but enormously thought
to be the only alternative to
chemicals.
Examples of successful bio
logical control Of serious pests
by importing their natural en-
emies are to be found In some
40 countries distributed over
much Of the world. The ad-
vantages Of such control over
chemicals are obvious: 1t is
relatively inexpensive, it is per-
manent, it leaves no poisonous
residues. Yet biological control
has suffered from lack of sup
port.
California is virtually alone
among the States in having a
formal program in biological
control, and many States have
not even one entomologist who
devotes full time to it. Perhaps
for want Of support biological
control through insect enemies
has not always been carried out
with the scientific thorough
ness it requires = exactine
studies Of its impact on the
populations Of insect prey have
seldom been made, and releases
have not always been made
with the precision that might
spell the difference between
success and failure.
U. S. Logs Behind
In the United States our
foresters seem to have thought
Of biological control chiefly in
terms of introducing insect
parasites and predators. The
Canadians take a broader view
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07
If Parcels Break,
Who's at Fault?
BY Pete Wymo
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

never been happier. I am not
beautiful, and don't run after
men, but I don't have any
trouble getting them. Now I
realize that / will never make
a good wife. I just don't want
any man forever. My friends
and family say 1t would be
a mistake to turn down the
man ! am dating now but I
think 1t would be unfair to
marry him. Do you think I
ought to have my head ex-
amined2 Everyone else does.
mo TIES"
II you are content with
your single life-and IL Is q
useful and happy one, don't
doodle with your noodle. A
person who Is not marriage
material and knows II should
stay single.
- -
DEAR ABBY: What do you
think of two mature people
"a couple in their twenties
Smoothing away like mad
in a subway train during
the rush hour with everyone
looking on?
NYC.
A performance Of this kind
Is In the poorest taste. Be-
sides, it's risky. They could
miss their stations.
What's on your mind? Fo'
a personal reply, send q self
addressed, stamped enUelope
to Abby In care of The EUe-
ming Star.
For Abby's booklet, Hon
To Haze A Lovely Wedding, -
send so cents to Abby, BOZ
1865. Beverly Hills. Calf.
distributed by McNausht syndicate)
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DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: Are you be-
ing paid by the Post Office
Department? What do you
mean, Packages properly
wrapped will be delivered in
good condition. Have you
ever looked in the back room
of q post office? Packages
marked FRAGILE and HAM
DIE WITH CARE are
pitched like footballs through
canvas chutes and then
heavy boxes are thrown on
top Of them. It's the care
less handling, not the wrap
ping" that accounts for most
damage.
GRIPED.
-
DEAR ABBY: I am a post
office employee who handles
packages and ! want to thank
you for putting in a good
word for us. If only more
people would realize the i'm
portance Of wrapping pack
ages! One woman raised the
roof because she sent a shoe
box filled with oatmeal cook
les to her son in Korea. And
he wrote her and asked what
was supposed to have been
in the box of "sawdust."
DISGUSTED MOTHER.
DEAR ABBY: I am rs. I
was married in church at ID.
1t lasted 8 months. I got q
civil annulment. A year later
I married q high school
sweetheart. That lasted 10
months. / got a divorce.
Then / married a man old
enough to be my father and
that didn't work, either. Now
I am single again and have
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U. S. Logs Behind

In the United States our
foresters seem to have thought
Of biological control chiefly in
terms of introducing insect
parasites and predators. The
Canadians take a broader view,
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small area. BY the time thu
program was considered com
plete at the end of II months
1875 billion artificially reared
sterilized flies had been re-
leased over Florida and sec
tons Of Georgia and Alabama
The last-known animal wount
infestation that could be at
tributed to screw-wormS oc
Cured in February, 1859. II
the next few weeks severa
adults were taken in traps
Thereafter no trace Of thu
screw-worm could be discov.
cred. Its extinction in thu
Southeast had been accom-.
plished - a triumphant dem,
onstration Of the worth of sci.
entific creativity. aided BY
thorough basic research, per.
sistence and determination.
New Ways Found
Some Of the most interesting
of the recent work is concerned
with still other ways of forg.
ing weapons from the insects
own life processes. Insects pro.
duce a variety Of venoms, at.
tractants, repellants. What 4
the chemical nature of thest
secretions2 Could we make ust
of them as, perhaps. very Sc.
lective insecticides?
Scientists at Cornell Univer.
sity and elsewhere are tryinl
to find answers to some Of
these questions. studying the
defense mechanisms by which
many insects protect them.
selves from attack by predators
working out the chemica
structure of insect secretions
Other scientists are working or
the so-called Juvenile hor.
none" q powerful substance
which prevents metamorphosi.
Of the larval insect until the
proper stage Of growth has
been reached.
Perhaps the most immedi.
ately useful result Of this ex.
ploration of insect secretion i.
the development of lures, Of
attractants. Here again, nature
has pointed the way.
The gypsy moth Is an es.
pecially intriguing example
The female moth Is too heavy
bodied to fly. She lives on O
near the ground, flutterin
about among low vegetation o
creeping UP tree trunks. TIL
male, on the contrary, is
strong flier and is attracte,
even from considerable dis
tances by q scent released b,
the female. from special glands
Entomologists have taken ad
vantage of this fact for a gNO,
many years, laboriously pre-
pairing this sex attractant from
the bodies Of the female moths
1t was then used in traps Sc
for the males In census opera
tons along the fringe of tn,
insects range. But this was al
extremely expensive procedure
Despite the much publicizet
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Dear Or. Steincrohn: Al
though I am only 80 I am
already beginning TO worry
about menopause. Yesterday,
q woman who works In my
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Monday: Answers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07

Although few persons hove token
issue with the foets os presented BY
Miss Carson in Silent Spring.
mony' hove criticized her eonelu-
sions and the tone Of her book
Beginning Sunday The Stor will
present some Of the opinions ol
persons. companies, Government
agencies and trode associations
thot see the pestieide problem Ia
substantially different light. Some
will point out the importance OI
pestieides to the economy and the
mony safeguards to protect public
health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-07
BY RACHEL CARSON

We stand now where two
roads diverge. But unlike the
roads in Robert Frost's familiar
poem, they are not equally fair.
The road we have long been
travelling is deceptively easy. a
smooth superhighway on which
we progress with great speed,
but at its end lies disaster. The
other fork of the road-the one
less travelled by"-offers our
last, our only chance to reach
a destination that assures the
preservation Of our earth.
The choice, after all, is ours
to make. If. having endured
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SILENT SPRING -a .-.-~r-,.. ,.A rH
Better Ways Seen to Fight Pests

and some Of the Europeans
have gone farthest Of all to de-
velop the science Of "forest
hygiene" to an amazing extent.
Birds, ants, forest spiders, and
soil bacteria are as much a
part of d forest as the trees.
in the view of European for
esters. who take care to inoc-
ulate a new forest with these
protective factors.
The encouragement Of birds
is one Of the first steps. In
the modern era Of intensive
forestry the old hollow trees
are gone and with them homes
for woodpeckers and other
tree-nesting birds. This lack is
met by nesting boxes, which
draw the birds back into the
The Nome nugget., 1962-02-02
State Board Would Be Budget Head of
 Dept. of Education

JUNEAU tR The House Health, Welfare and Education Committee today gave it's bless ings to a bill which would make the State Board of Education the administrative and budgetary head of the Department of Education.
 The bill was reported back to the House with signed recon- mendations by eight of the nine member bipartisan committee recommending passage. It was sent along to the Rules Commit tee to await placement on the calendar
 Only one member, Rep. Segun- do Llorente, D-Alakankuk), sign ed mo recommendation"
 Under terms of the measure, the Commissioner of Education would be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of the Board of Educa- tion. His appointment would be subject to approval of the gov ernor, and confirmation by the Legislature.
 The Board would confirm the programming actions of the Com missioner. It also would have full administrative, budgeting and fis- cal powers, but could delegate those powers to the Commissioner The Commissioner would pre- pare the initial departmenta budget and submit it to the Boarc 1 for it's review before the Boart transmits it to the Governor. l The bill was introduced earl in the session by two Democrat l--Rep. Bill Erwin and Gilber Jarvela.
 It is almost identical to meas ure introduced last year by two Republicans, Reps. Baggen ano Parsons.
 At that time the proposal touch ed off what was probably the bitterest battle of the session. Then, too, the Health, Welfare and Education Committee gave it unanimous endorsement.
The Nome nugget., 1962-02-02
Plant For Processing
 Fur Seal Skins Could Handle Other Alaska Furs

JUNEAU R - An Alaska plant TOT processing Pribilof Island seal skins could also handle other furs such as mink, otter and bea- yer, state Commissioner A. H. Ronick said yesterday.
 The establishment of a fur seal processing plant in Alaska has been under discussion since the Department of the Interior can celed the fur seal processing con- tract it had with Fouke Fur Co. of St. Louis.
 While Fouke has been the ex- elusive processor of Pribilof Island seal skins for many years under a contract with the Interior Department, Romick said, the pro- cess is not a secret one, as has been claimed.
 Rep. Art Harris of Nikolski Vil- lage, told the committee that dur ing the mid-40s, Sears Roebuck & Go. almost won the fur seal processing contract.
 "Fouke retained the contract, however, because their dye last ed for about 10 more washings, out of the some 800 washings to which the skins were subjected, than the Sears dye" Harris said.
 Dr. Fred Honsinger, state veter- marian, said fur breeders in the south 48 are running into an in creasing problem trying to obtain adequate feed, while in Alaska potential feed is being wasted.
 Honsinger said the waste ma teriaI from salmon canning opera 'tions would be good source Q feed for such fur-bearing animal. as mink.
 He also mentioned the carcasses of fur seals, waste from reindeer slaughtering operations and sea lions.
The Nome nugget., 1962-02-02
Pioneer Road Program Remains Firmly Fixed in State Affairs Committee

JUNEAU tR A bill which would place the pioneer access road program completely within the Department of Public Works remained firmly fixed in the State Affairs Committee today despite efforts of an lice Bloc" lawmaker to bring it out for action.
 But the move touched off an airing of pioneer road problems, and the recommendation that the Commissioner of Natural Re- sources appear before the House for further discussion.
 The action came after Rep. Bob Blodgett moved that his bill be removed from the State Affairs Committee. The motion lost on voice vote.
 Then taking the floor on a point of personal privilege, Blodgett said the people of the Northwest District were concerned over the lack of pioneer roads.
 If there is any place in the state where pioneer roads are justified, it is in the trackless northwest" Blodgett said. Chairman of the State Affairs Committee Morgan Reed of Skag- way, said there had been many requests for pioneer roads in Southeast Alaska, too, which had received "no allocation and nc consideration.'
 Even so I don't think we should use an axe on the administrator of this program" Reed said ssThey have access to knowledg
 on conditions throughout tn
 State-which we don't"