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Evening star., 1962-08-07

that carried her closer and closer to
psychiatrists and hospitals.
Finally, when friends believed Mar
ilyn was fighting back, was determined
to finish her long-delayed comeback
picture Something Gave. At the age
Of 36, when many others were just find
ing success, her own bright star had
burned out. Her epitaph is being written
by scores Of respected show people, who
like Sophia Loren, said: "Marilyn was
a marvellous actress with a distinctive
personality. Her life was not an easy
one, but she always managed to appear
happy and serene"
To this may be added that a major
disappointment in Miss Monroe's life
was her inability to measure up to the
dramatic roles that were her dearest de-
sire. While making others happy, un-
derneath she was, in a way, another
Pagliacci.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Juvenile Judqes

When the hard fight for law add
ing two judges to the Juvenile Court had
been won, the overriding hope was that
the President would choose nominees
who would be able to convert the court
into an effective instrument in curbing
juvenile crime. Whether Mr.. Kennedy
has done so remains to be seen.
This in no sense questions the in
dividual competency of Morris Miller
and Mrs. Marjorie Mckenzie Lawson.
They seem to be possessed of talents
well above the average.
1t has been reported, however, that
Mrs. Lawson has been at odds with
Juvenile Court Judge Ketcham, and that
she was not interested in being ap-
pointed to the court unless she got the
chief judgeship or unless that post went
to someone whose views on running the
court were in harmony with hers. In
other wordS-Someone other than Judge
Ketcham.
To say the least, it is unusual for a
judicial appointment to be made under
these circumstances, and, assuming that
these reports have not been exaggerated,
it is necessary to face the possibility
that disagreement and friction among
the judges may hamper the court in its
work
However, we hope for the best. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Miller, assuming
favorable Senate action on the nomina-
tions, will become chief judge. He is
personal friend Of Judge Ketcham and
has served as chairman of the Juvenile
Court Advisory Committee Thus, while
his position is hardly an enviable one,
he may be able to keep the judicial
wheels turning smoothly.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Toqetherness in California

News filters eastward from Cali
fornia so irregularly that there is risk of
forgetting the gubernatorial campaign
going on out there. And If by chance
the explanation is that it is a dull cam
paign, there is still reason back here
for interest in how Republican Richard
Nixon and Democrat Pat Brown are
getting along-though not with each
other, of course.
One of the questions from way back
around pre-primary time was how Mr.
Nixon would get along with other Re-
publicanS. A weekend story indicates
lot Of G. o. P. togetherness. At rally
Of the Republican State Central Com
mittee, for example, the man whom Mr.
Nixon defeated in the party primary,
Assemblyman Joseph C.. Shell, took the
platform to pledge support most thor
oughly and whole heartedly" and added
that his friends all over the State were
agreed on the same course. Then an
other unsuccessful Republican, State
Senator John F. Mccarthy, who lost
the nomination for Lieutenant Cover
nor to Mayor George Christopher of
that Mr.. Christopher would win in No
vember. "It's pleasure not to run
against him." Mr.. Mccarthy added.
"This man is tough"
Mr.. Nixon apparently was the star
of the happily noisy" show, with organ
music in the background, promising to
make California "the first State in op-
portunity." Under Governor Browns
administration, the former Vice Presi-
dent said the Golden State had been
first only in a lot of less desirable re-
poets.
Mr.. Nixon will need lot more votes,
Of course, than can be cast by the al
ready defeated Republicans who at
tended the rally And we wonder where
"Goody" Knight and Bill Knowland
were when the G. o. P. boys were whoop-
ing it up in Sacramento few evenings
ago.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Something Gave

Perhaps nothing sums up more
poignantly the tragic death of Marilyn
Monroe than the title of the last picture
she would not, or could not, complete:
Something's Got to Give"
Only her intimate friends knew
there were two Marilyns-the one whose
very presence lifted the spirits of an
entire auditorium of people, and the
other who battled against the neuroses
that ever threatened to engulf her.
1t was fight she waged through
out a tawdry, unloved childhood,
shunted from home to home as an un-
wanted waif, yet still blossoming into
the kind of striking woman Hollywood
could not ignore. Even then she paid
for every moment of boxoffice fame
with personal tragedy-three unsucess-
full marriages, the loss of three babies,
an unshakeable recurrent dependency
Evening star., 1962-08-07
MARYLAND 'Ox TroiF

How can one help but cry
out over the revolving state
Of Highway q. s. 40 in
Western Maryland? Despite
the many years our roads
commission has had to i'm
prove on this veritable OK
trail, a nearby region which
could be a prosperous vaca-
tion area is all but inacces-
ible to us who live in the
States lowlands. The tenn
per-bursting strangulation of
traffic through the village
paths and winding trails is in
horrible contrast to enlight-
ened attitudes of the high
way authorities of Utah,
Nevada and California who
on this same Highway 40
have produced a safe and
truly peautlful Superhighway
abounding in wayside parks
through staggering noun
tains Of twice the height.
This hideous example Of
Maryland's lethargic attitude
toward progress must be cor
rected. If it's sheer ignorance
of modern highway design,
I say let's hire some wide
awake engineers from the
West who can think big! If
it's political preoccupation
with Eastern Shore affairs
let's throw the rascals out"
in November. T. v. Ryan.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Lower D. c. Taxes?

I notice some comment in
the papers about a possible
increase in the District Of
Columbia tax rate.
The population in the Dis
trict from 1850 to 1860 de-
clined approximately 10000
and presumably Is still
slowly declining, yet there
has been q tremendous surge
in new construction. particu-
larly apartment houses and
office buildings.
With the increased reve-
nue. from new construction,
and assuming normal ex-
penditures for work on
streets, welfare. etc., it seems
to me that the tax rate
should be lowered and not
raised. L. c. Collins
Evening star., 1962-08-07
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Tropical Disease Study Intensified
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

Pills to protect men
against biting insects, such
as disease carrying mosqui-
toes. are part Of the tropical
disease program Of the Army's
Walter Reed Medical Re-
search Institute. Bugs
threaten to be worse foes
than human enemies in any
jungle war in which the
country may become involved.
There are q few leads
towards o protective medi-
cine Of some sort which will
make human blood in some
way q less attractive diet
for the bugs. For example,
heavy doses Of vitamin B1
have produced some reduc-
ton In insect attacks in chill
dren. This Is far from any
real answer to the problem
but 1t affords a stepping-off
point for further research. It
is an indication that the
goal is not unattainable.
In the jungles of south
east Asia a handful of WAL
ter Reed scientists are work.
ing daily to conquer the trop-
ical medicine problems that
continue to plague Americas
fighting men. The Army
Medical Research Unit in
Malaga, In cooperation with
that country's Institute Of
Medical Research in the cap
ital, Kuala Lumpur, is out
fitting and dispatching med
ical teams into the dense
jungles.
New Drugs Studied
The work Of the Malaga
unit is concerned primarily
with studies of new drugs and
antibioticS, virus and rick
ettsial diseases common to
tropical climates and preven-
ton and treatment of infec-
tious and intestinal diseases.
The Army scientists have de-
veloped the first specific
treatment of scrub typhus
and typhoid fever, using the
drug chloromycetin, and also
terramycin and aureomycin
against scrub typhus. They
have successfully demon
strated use of certain in
secticides against scrub ty-
phus mites in the jungles Of
Borneo and they have point
ed out the significance of
leptospirosis as a military
and civilian disease in
Malaga.
Tropical diseases, however,
remain one Of the great, in
adequately explored areas of
medicine which. in the past,
has been Of relatively minor
Evening star., 1962-08-07

significance to the United
States.
Striking halluciations may
result from long sleep loss
from 80 to 100 hours. One
sees, hears and feels things
which are not there. Ability
to check against reality is
considerably lessened.
This has been demon
strated In Walter Reed Army
Hospital experiments with
volunteers - Medical Corps
enlisted men and q group
Of concientious religious OBJ
jectors to military service. A
report has Just been made
by DR.. Harold L. Williams of
the Walter Reed staff and
his associates.
Perhaps the most con-
sistent phenomenon OBJ
served" says this report,
was an increasing uneven
ness Of mental functioning
as sleep loss progressed. The
onset Of a major lapse was
marked Subjectively with a
feeling Of overwhelming las
situde. Subsequently there
was a progressive loss of
awareness Of both time and
surroundings. Subjective i'm
ages and obtrusive thought
became confused with exter-
nal events. Still later motor
activity would slow and stop.
Many Had Hallucinations
Twelve out Of 26 who
were sleep-deprived had hal
lucinations. The increase
during sleep loss was signif-
icant. There was a charac-
teristic progression Of visual
complaints as hours of wake
fulness increased. After about
20 hours of sleep loss most
subjects reported itching or
burning sensations around
their eyes and felt an in
tense desire to close them.
During this phase most sub
Jects also complained of the
effort involved in seeing and
OF periods of blurred vision
and double seeing. Double
images were particularly no.
ticeable when the subject
had to focus his eyes on a
small target for a brief
period.
"By 80 to so hours of sleep
loss several reported brief
periods of gross visual dis
tortion in which depth per-
ception. size, shape and posi-
ton seemed to be impaired.
For some stationary objects
appeared to move suddenly,
spots on the floor seemed to
move about, or a complex
form such as a nurses cap
would undulate and twist"
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Balance of Power

On the west portico Of the
Senate Building are engraved
the words: THE Senate Is
the Living Symbol Of Our
Union of States" Why? Be-
cause in the Senate, the So
called Upper Chamber"
California and Rhode Island,
for example. are exactly
equal, regardless Of size or
population.
But more: Such q Senate
and such a Federal union Of
States not only symbolic.
but in fact are, essential
features in the separation
and balance Of powers.
The idea Of two legislative
bodies, differently consti-
tuted, representing the people
Of a democracy, was brought
over by our ancestors from
England in 1907, 1920 and
1884.
The idea or principle Of
this dual form was practiced
for ITS years before the
adoption Of the Constitution.
There were some differences
in various Colonies, as there
had been in England. where,
indeed, the second" or up
per Chamber" was composed
only Of lords of the realm.
Neither geography nor
population played any great
er part with respect to mem
ship Of the House Of Lords
than they do today with re-
spect to the equality Of
standing Of New York and
Delaware in the United States
Senate.
The venerable Maryland
State Capitol Building at
Annapolis is another living
symbol" Of our Union, and
the doctrine of the separa-
ton and balance Of powers.
The physical size Of the SEN
ate chamber. as compared
with the House chamber,
bears witness to the time
honored principle Of limita-
ton upon, and selection Of
membership of the Senate
without regard to population
or geography-except only as
incidental for purposes of
reference and sound admin
iStration.
So intent were the Found
ing Fathers on perfecting
and protecting liberty that
they wrote the dual structure
of the legislative branch into
the Constitution; they CHS
eled in the structure creating
the separation and balance
Of powers.
The principle and the
system Of separation and
balance of powers, both Fed
orally. and by the States,
are actually the heart and
soul, the muscle. bone and
sinew, the permanence and
perpetuity of our political
being, as a people, and as a
Nation.
The unique character of
the second. or Upper
Chamber" in the States is an
indispensable sector Of this
principle and Of this system
of separation and balance of
powers.
There is no "invidious dis
elimination" in the constitu-
ton or composition Of the
Maryland Senate.
John r.. CIaReft-
Evening star., 1962-08-07
New Men for the Acc

In naming John G. Palfrey and
James T. Ramey to fill the two vacancies
now existing on the Atomic Energy
Commission, President Kennedy has put
an end to what has been described in
some quarters as "feud" between his
administration and the powerful joint
Senate-House committee on nuclear
energy.
"Feud," however, would seem to be
too strong word for the kind of polite
controversy that has gone on behind
the scenes as a prelude to these appoint
mentS. At any rate, the Democratic
members OF the joint committee, which
is headed by the able and temperate
Representative Chet Holifield, have
been unanimously in favor Of Mr..
Ramey, and their recommendation to
that effect has resulted, without much
fuss or feathers, in the Presidents de-
cision to name him. Although there
has been clash Of personalities, and
even basic ideas, between him and the
Acc membership (notably the distin-
guished DR.. Robert E. Wilson,, the thing
can hardly be equated with a decimat-
McCoys.
Anyhow, even though he may have
acutely and perhaps unwisely irritated
some Of the commissioners on occasion
as the agent of the watchdog joint COM
mittee, Mr.. Ramey-who has been the
committees executive director for sew
eral years, and who before that was long
associated with the Acc itself-is un-
queStionably very well qualified to do
an effective job on the commission.
AS for Mr.. Palfrey, who in recent years
has been dean of New York's Columbia
College, he also has been associated in
the past, though to much lesser extent,
with our countryS nuclear effort, and
there is ample reason to feel that he will
perform creditably in his prospective
new post.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Pomp for President

I watched the President
return from his usual week.
end vacation saluting a flock
of Army officers as he de-
planed. Then. he walked
briskly to his helicopter
flanked by two officers with
several more behind. Now if
we in America are living un-
der a military dictatorship
let's complete the picture by
putting the President in uni
form. Otherwise, I respect
fully suggest that these Off
GERS stay in the Pentagon, on
the golf course, or in their
plush homes, and let the
President go and come with
the dignity his office should
demand with the Secret
Service protection required,
free from this senseless mill
tary display.
r.. E. Murphy
Evening star., 1962-08-07

pletely disregarded. Under
that principle. population
has no place In the deci-
sion. Each State is given two
Senators. New York and
California, the most popu-
lous States, have two Sena-
tors each, and so do Alaska
and Nevada. although their
populations are the least
among the so States Of the
Union. In round numbers,
New York's population b Is
million plus. California's is
million plus, while Alaska's
is 226, 900 and Nevada's 1885,
900, both plus. The Found
ing Fathers had good rea-
sons for giving each State
equal representation in the
Senate, no matter what their
size. Carried into the States,
the same principle. which
gives protection to the small,
may be necessary. Certainly,
it is not expected that the
Supreme Court will start
tampering with the Consti-
tutional provision that each
State is to have equal rep
resentation in the Senate Of
the United States. although
it is difficult to predict what
the court will do in the fu-
ture.
Representative Republic
In some Of the States. the
urban centers are today
strongly Democratic; the
rural areas, strongly Repub-
lican. The De ocr ats in
Michigan are fuming be-
cause, although they have
held the governorship for
nearly II years. they have
not been able to control the
State legislature. particular
ly the State Senate. In the
past. there have been Demo-
cratic Presidents when the
Congress was controlled by
the Republicans, and vice
versa. And on some occa-
sions. the Republicans have
controlled the Senate while
the Democrats controlled the
House-and again, vice ver-
sa. The United States has
managed to get along despite
these separate controls, per-
haps the better for them on
numerous issues. In fact, this
is the operation Of q repre-
sentative republic. And this
is what the United States
was intended to be by the
trainers Of the Constitution
not o representative de-
mocracy as many of the So
called liberals would have it.
The individual States are
better off with q republican
form Of government, too, de-
spite the clamor for q demo-
cratic form.
The Supreme Court opened
the way for the present con-
tests over the constitution
ality of State systems Of
apportioning membership in
their legislative bodies in a
Tennessee suit. The court,
however, merely held the
Tennessee apportionment un-
constitutional. It has not
yet set standards or guide
lines. Presumably 1t will have
to deal with other cases. At
present % States are seek
ing to revamp legislative ap-
portionments-some directed
to do so by courts. Among
them are New York. Wiscon-
sin. Maryland. Florida. Geor-
Ria and Alabama.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
'Somber Episode

The Kremhn'S long-expected new
series of atmospheric nuclear tests has
begun with very big and quite depreS-
sing bang-a high-altitude explosion in
the 30-megaton range, roughly equiva-
lent to 80 million tons Of TINT.
OF course, according to Nikita
KhruShchev, this development-which
undoubtedly has been in the planning
stage for a long time and which almost
certainly would have been ordered re-
gardless Of American action or inaction
is taking place only because our own
country has been setting off a number
of detonations in the Pacific. But what
the Soviet Premier has not and will not
tell his people (indeed, they have yet to
hear Of the Kremlin's resumed testing)
is that our latest experimentation,
which is now nearing an end, has been
undertaken as an imperative security
measure dictated by his governments
sudden Shattering, last September, of
the three-year moratorium on all such
atomic-hydrogen pyrotechnicS.
Against this background, the State
Department certainly has not exagger-
ated in declaring that "the Soviet
Unions initiation Of yet another series
of atmospheric teStS-the second such
series in less than a year-can only
be regarded as somber episode" Even
so, highly diScouraging though the out
look is, the department, taking note of
the resumed 17-nation disarmament
talks in Geneva, has ventured to hope
(no matter how forlornly) that the Rus
slams will match our American efforts
to negotiate an effective treaty to ban
nuclear testing. And 1t has made a
point OF emphasizing that the United
States, despite the Kremlin's seeming
indifference and obdurateness, "haS
announced new and promising avenues
OF exploration in its search" for a gen.
timely trustworthy test-ban agreement.
These avenues" include proposals
that would modify-but by no means
eliminate - our Governments long
standing insiStence upon establishing a
system Of international supervision and
on-site inspection designed to guard
against the danger Of clandestine treaty
violations or evasionS. Arthur n. Dean,
our chief negotiator at Geneva, has
already discussed this matter with his
Soviet counterpart, Valerian Zorin. I'm
fortunately, however, Mr.. Zortn-acting,
OF course, on MoScow's instructions
has been quick to indicate that the
men Of the Kremlin see nothing es-
sentially new in our modified position
and are likely to reject it flatly and
completely.
In these circumstances, the new
Soviet tests may well mean that the
United States will have to stage another
series, too. AS to that, President Ken
nedy has left little room for doubt that
such series will be undertaken If our
experts find that the current Russian
detonations are threatful to our Nations
security. Certainly, appalling as this
prospect may be, we must live with it,
and we must do all that needs to be
done-and do 1t on time and on the
proper scale-to keep our country safe,
or as safe as it is possible to be, in a
world that could hardly be more
dangerous.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDill be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied by self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-08-07
Jumps on Jones

Thoroughly 1rr1tated Dy the
lofty tone Of Jenkin Lloyd
Jones' first column, may
I say that I am not o female
reformer from New England,
nor do I consciously either
twitter or chirp. ] am, how
ever, a women in her mid
sixties, a Virginian, who for
the past II years has, along
with myriads Of my fellow
Americans, disciplined my
mind to the study and analy-
sis Of the requirements for
establishing q system Of en-
forceable world statute law,
adequate to the maintenance
of peace at the world level.
The first thing such study
teaches is the necessity for
a supranational authority,
which clearly means a merg-
ing Of sovereignties on the
part Of the individual states
or nations involved. This re-
quirement has remained un-
altered since the day, in 1888,
when Alexander Hamilton
said, HE who expects two
sovereignties long to remain
at peace in a contiguous area
expects what never was and
never will be-" The COW hand
says the same thing, less ele-
gantly. TOP saddle don't
carry double" To say that
such q supranational sover-
eighty must, perforce, be a
dictatorship, seems to me to
show an appalling lack of
faith in free institutions.
Your Mr.. Jones. obvi-
ously innocent of any pre-
else knowledge Of the sub
ject matter in the literature
which "the little lady" be-
tween chirps and twitters de-
posted on his desk, attempt
ed to show the little lady
up" Hoist by his own petard
what emerged is his own ig-
norance of a complex subject.
However superficial may have
been the little lady's presen-
tation, his rebuttal is un-
believably naive. Every point
which he brings up as an
insuperable obstacle has long
since been given detailed
analysis and tentative solu-
ton by many keen minds,
the major opus the book,
World Peace Through World
Law" by Grenville Clark and
Louis B. Sohn, (Harvard
Press.) I think I may say
without fear Of contra
diction, that Mr.. Jones has
not read this book. nor any
of a dozen others in the
same field, or if he has he
has not understood what he
has read. Had he done so,
regardless of whether or not
he accepted the proposals
as valid, he would not have
posed his problems in so ele-
mentary and unsophisticated
a way.
For myself, I can only say
that those of us who are at
tempting to find an answer
to the anarchy which your
columnist seems willing to
continue to accept, find our
selves in good company.
There may be bird-brains
among us, but where are
there not? A more astute
columnist might have ar
ranged to have his "anti-
one-world" effort appear on
some day other than that
on which Telstar made yet
more explicit, that, like it or
not, the world Is one!
Mary-Stuart Chamberlain.