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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Mobile Radio telephone for Army
By THOMAS r. HENRY

which permit the pilot to
regulate the rate of descent
and land accurately at a
predetermined point.
Collapsible, alright tubes
form the heel and landing
edge members of the flexi-
wing vehicle and the wing is
covered with a flexible mem
brane. A gas cartridge in
flates the tubes to deploy the
wing which, when fully
opened, has an area of about
300 square feet.
The tests are being con-
Quoted at the Army's Yuma,
Ariz., test station. Full-scale
dummies will be used to re-
cord drop and ground impact
forces. Descent and landings
of the test vehicles will be
controlled by radio command
from the ground.
Such a system, according
to an Army report, would
prove invaluable for para
troop forces by greatly i'm
proving the accuracy of drops
as well as cutting down acci-
dents and injuries. Aircraft
will be able to remain well
away from the actual drop
zone, since a soldier could
drop from 5000 feet and be
able to choose a landing site
as much as four miles away,
according to the designers.
So So
A pocket rocket" with
which one soldier can knock
out a tank has been de-
veloped by the Army's Ord
nance Missile Command.
This weapon now has
reached the point where 1t
can be turned out in mass
quantities. Tests have proved
it highly effective against
tanks, concrete bunkers and
sand-bagged trenches. 1t
weighs little more than a few
loaves of bread. A soldier
can carry it slung over his
shoulder and not be burdened.
Safety Feature
A notable feature is that
it is so safe that a soldier
without protective clothing
can fire 1t with confidence
whether he Is in the uniform
of the day in the Tropics or
in the deep Arctic.
1t is the M72, nicknamed
Law" by soldiers. Cost of
production has been cut
down so that the price is
only about that of a good
transistor radio.
The pocket rocket" soon
will be ready to be issued to
troops everywhere and is ex-
pected greatly to increase the
efficacy, especially of infan-
try units in the face Of tank
attacks, against which now
they often are defenselesS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
And the Wall Gets Higher!
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only when accom-
panied By self addressed,
STAMPED enUelopeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
THE POLITICAL MILL
Red Issue Firmly in Campaign
By GOULD LINCOLN

The Red issue, highlighted
by Premier Khrushchev's
Communist base in Cuba, 80
miles off our shores, has been
thrust firmly into the political
campaign of 1862 by leaders
Of the Republican Party.
President Kennedy is charged
with having bungled the Bay
of Pigs invasion by Cuba's
Freedom Fighters. He is crit
icized for not having acted
forcibly when the wall" was
erected by the East German
Communists in Berlin. And
also for the arrangement in
Laos, where a so-called neu-
trail government has been set
up, a government in which the
Communists may engineer a
takeover - and will certain
ly try. The Kennedy admins
tration and its adherents, on
the defensive, are charging
that their opponents, on this
gravest of issues, are I'M
thinking warmongers, capable
of bringing about a nuclear
war. In addition, the admin
istration is pushing a new
Berlin crisis" into the fore
ground, with all kinds Of
promises that this govern
ment will not yield a jot to
Communist demands for con-
session in the German issue.
A Rare Issue
Except in rare cases, for
eign policy has not entered
into congressional and guber-
material campaigns. One of
these exceptions was in 1850,
used against some Democrats
with emphasis particularly on
Red activities in the United
States. The Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee of the
House and the late Senator
Joe Mccarthy of Wisconsin
had stirred this issue with a
big spoon. The Republicans
in the 1850 election made a
net gain of five Senate seats
and 80 House seats. Among
the new Republican Senators
elected were Richard M.
Nixon Of California, Everett
M. Dirksen of Illinois and
John M. Butler of Maryland.
The Democrats were not
charged with being Commu-
nists, but with being soft on
Communists and not grasping
firmly the Communist thistle
and crushing it. No one is
charging the Democrats or
the Kennedy administration
with being pro-Communist
today. But the charge is
again that their policies have
not been aggressive enough
in the cold war against inter-
national communism - and
particularly not forceful
enough against Castro in
Cuba.
The Republicans have
quickly seized upon the well
come given by President Ken
nedy to Algeria's new leader,
Ben Bella, who left here to
go to Havana where he de-
clared his support Of Castro
and signed a joint commune
que with the Cuban demand
ing that the United States
give up its Guantanamo naval
base. They are demanding
that the country be told how
much money, if any, was
promised to Ben Bella by the
administration from our for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

eign AID 1undS. Iney also
charge that the United States
was "diSgraced and mortified
because President Kennedy
had given Ben Bella 2l-gun
salute on the White House
grounds and then the Alger-
ian went his way to throw his
arms around Castro. The Re-
publican contention is that it's
time for this country to stop
giving red carpet treatment
and money to nations which
are patiently not on our side
in this cold war with Red
Russia and Red China, and
never intend to be.
In its Battle Line" publi-
cation, the G. o. P. charges
that the Kennedy administra-
ton wooed a neutral" and
won an enemy in President
Sukarno's Indonesia. 1t called
attention to Attorney Cen
eral Robert F. Kennedy's
goodwill visit to Indonesia
last February, at a time
when Mr.. Sukarno had &C
cepted Soviet military aid and
was seeking more arms to be
used in a campaign to dis
lodge our old friend, the
Netherlands, from Dutch New
Guinea. And now Mr.. Sukarno
has Joined Communist Ro-
mania in a demand that the
world, including the United
States, accept two Germanies,
one Communist and the other
free, with West Berlin trans
formed into a neutral demil-
itarized city," and the with
drawal of military bases from
foreign territories. In other
words, that we give up our
bases all over the world, East
and West.
The Issue Drawn
The issue Is definitely
drawn between those who be-
lieve we should pursue a
course to win" the cold war,
and those who believe In CO.
existence with the Commu-
nists in the hope of their be-
coming good neighbors in the
end. Neither side wants a nu-
clear war. Those who stand
for winning the cold war" in
sist their kind of policy would
prevent such a war, while the
others believe in a firm stand
against Communist encroach-
ments but avoid talk of
winning" Not all the Demo-
Gratis take the latter position.
Democratic Senators Dodd of
Connecticut, Douglas of Illi-
nois and Proxmire of Wiscon-
sin, for example, strongly
urge we go all out to win"
The Republicans are attack
ing because, they say, the
policy of the Kennedy admin
istration has not succeeded in
preventing Communist ad-
vances. And again they men
ton Cuba as a prize example.
The Democrats fire back that
the Republicans, under Pres
ident Eisenhower, did Moth
ing to halt Castro at the time
of his rise to power. In re-
ply, the G. o. P. goes again
to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The
people are aroused by the
Communist threat and what
to do about it. In the mean
time, Mr.. Khrushchev has
said he will wait until after
our elections to do some
thing about Berlin. He hasn't
said why he waits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
A Crack in a 7OO-Yeur Precedent

I'VE come, finally to the
ultimate inquiry whether our
presidents as to what con-
stitutes a non ] u ticiable
political question bring the
case before us under the UNI
brella Of that doctrine :.
1.-THE question here Is the
consistency of State action
with the Federal Constitution.
We have no question decided,
or to be decided, by a political
branch Of Government CO.
equal with this court"
But there certainly is, with
reference to the ratification
of the Fourteenth Amend
ment, a question of the con-
Sistency of state action"
taken under duress. For,
otherwise, if Congress is
immune from judicial re-
Straint, 1t could, by means
Of the alibi known as poll
tical questions" someday by
a majority vote abolish the
so States and set up 6 or IL
regional authorities. Would
there be no way of aSsailing
this in the courts, because
the Supreme Court could rule
that this involved a political
question" by a co-equal
branch Of the Government
and hence beyond the courts
Jurisdiction?
So, while the break in the
clouds at this time is per-
haps slight, the fact is that
the Supreme Court has be-
gun to narrow the field of
what it regards as a "poli-
tical question" This may
eventually mean that the
validity Of the ratification"
Of the Fourteenth Amend
ment will itself be ruled upon
and the amendment be de-
clared to have been illegally
and fraudulently inserted in
the Constitution.
The ratification Of a new
Fourteenth Amendment is
needed really to validate its
doctrines.
The whole controversy
points up the fact that a
constitutional am e n dment
would seem to be needed
also to empower the Supreme
Court to decide whether
amendments have been le-
gally ratified. For if this
isn't done, Congress could
someday arbitrarily unseat
those members who did not
go along with the majority
and get a two-thirds vote in
that manner, and rely on the
Supreme Court to rule that
1t was just a political
question"
Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29

public. It lends itself well to
the situation Of the public
wife.
Article I protects religious
belief, free speech, free as
semblage and the right of
petition. Suggested Article I:
The public wife has the right
to be herself.
Article II allows the people
to bear arms. Simple: The
public wife has a right to
speak up and even talk back.
Article III forbids the quar-
tering of soldiers in our
homes in time of peace and
only under prescribed rules
in time Of war. Could this be
translated into rules that the
public wife is entitled to rea-
Sonable limitations on the
public hospitality and politi-
cal travel she is obliged to
assume?
Article " secures the
people against unreasonable
search and seizure. Easy:
There shall be harsh penal
ties levied against shoppers
into the private life of the
public wife.
Comes now the famous
fifth, which insures against
double jeopardy, self-incrimi-
nation and being deprived
of life. liberty and property
without due process of law.
Should not the public wife
enjoy safeguards Of her good
repute?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

White House nursery rhyme Jacqueline Jacqueline
where have been I've been to lunch with the
Queen Jacqueline Jacquelne, why did you go2 To win
Daddy votes as rush to and fro
Big fight foreign trade Proposed compromise
Well cut tariffSf the Common Market will promise to
give green stamps.
An official says camouaged" package labels fool house.
wives Pity the female surrounded by decetfu
with no defense but her wig false eyeashes mascara lip
stick, powder and girde
George Romney wants to become Republican leader
1t was natural STEP After all those selling little cars
he's bound prefer the party compact membership
The trouble with President Kennedy is too many half
way measures He brought back the rocking chair-whout
the front porch
One thing about Americans We're not cutters We've
spent 500 billion last 20 years irving to disprov the
old theory that you can't buy friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
HAMILTON BILL
QUICKLY REVIVED
BY SENATORS

The Senate lost no time
yesterday in reviving the
Alexander Hamilton me-
mortal. which it killed
Tuesday night in order to
provide a vehicle for pass
age of the poll tax consti-
tutional amendment.
Because the poll tax has
never come out of COM
mittee, the Senate had to
use an unrelated resolu-
ton for that purpose. So
it struck out of the
Hamilton resolution all
reference to the preserva-
ton of his New York home
as a monument.
The Senate leaders
co-operated in putting
through a new resolution
to take care of the Hamil-
ton memorial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
DORIS FLEESON
Comments First Issued in 1860 in Behalf
Of Another First Lady Are Reviewed

Public life is an accidental
business at best and the pub
lie wife is decidedly under
privileged in it.
She Is discussed by the
public ad infinitum and Of
ten ad nauSeam, but she is
denied the right to talk back.
Man Is, according to Pascal,
a reed, but a thinking reed.
The public man may even
think aloud, his wife must
be content to be just a reed,
but never a broken one, of
course. Just let her try dodg-
ing the constituents because
she has a headache.
The uncroWned queen of
public wives is, of course, the
wife of the President. She
has hit the jackpot, all
right, but has found it to be
only a bigger goldfish bowl
than she has known before.
This Nation has had all
kinds of First Ladies, very
different from one another,
but one thing all have in
common: The great American
public has assumed the right
to tear them to bits. Surely
a bill of rights for public
wives is in order.
The original Bill Of Rights
arose out of the keen appre-
hension of the founding
fathers that something very
specific needed to be said in
the Constitution about hu-
man rights in the infant re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
Chances for q Summit Meetino

lie for some kind OF direct
negotiations with Moscow,
Gen. de Gaulle Is convinced
that nothing of the sort will
happen until he gives Bonn
the green light. For the ties
between Germany and Paris
are stronger than ever and
political personalities who
favor direct discussions with
Moscow will hesitate to throw
their weight in favor Of such
talks at the risk of losing
France.
The German politicians as
well as the general public
believe firmly in the power
of a united. federated Europe
which will be able to take
care Of itself regardless of
the blusterings of the Soviet
Union. And the Germans will
do nothing to upset this pol
icy which is the main goal Of
Chancellor Adenauer and
Gen. de Gaulle.
1t Is more than intelligent
speculation to say that If
President Kennedy does de-
eide to meet Mr.. Khrushchev,
he will accomplish nothing
worthwhile unless Gen. de
Gaulle associates self
with the venture. And the
chances are greatly in favor
of the general saying once
more: MANY thanks, but I
am not going" He does not
believe in bad politics and,
also, he believes it Is undig-
nified for a head Of state to
be traipsing around the world
for no other purpose than to
shoot the breeze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Swiss Reported Betting on Session
Between u. S., Britain and Russia

the Anglo-Saxons. They do
not understand why the
United States, despite its
crushing power vis-a-vis the
Soviet Union, continues to
remain so weak in its deal
ingS with the Soviets. 1t is
true that President Kennedy
continues to make strong
speeches and statements, but
these are never translated
into policy. He ought to
know by now that the Rus
slams despise weakness.
To illustrate this point of
view, my Swiss sources
pointed out the difference in
tone Of the notes sent by the
Kremlin boss to the United
States and Britain and those
he is sending to President de
Gaulle. The French head of
state has adopted a line
which can be summed up:
Il don't care what you say;
l care even less what you do
or threaten to do. I will have
no truck with you unless YOU
come forward with a mean
ingful proposal to settle a
crisis of your own making"
AS a result of this stern
attitude, the Kremlin notes
to Paris are courteous in con-
trast to the arrogant COM
munications we are receiv-
ing. Mr.. Khrushchev, after
being received courteously
but frigidly by Gen. de Gaulle
in France two years ago, is
said to suspect that the
French leader would not
hesitate to chart his own
firm course. The Russian
leader knows that he can
play Washington against
London with fruitful results.
He also knows that nobody
can influence Gen. de Gaulle.
In spite of all the efforts
by NATO to convince Gen.
de Gaulle to participate in
the Geneva arms conference,
he remained adamant. This
conference, he told his allies,
is nothing but a sham. It
could not produce tangible
results - only propaganda
because the Russians are UNI
willing to make even token
concessions.
Despite certain currents in
the German Federal Repub-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
7 ourists Prepared
For White House
BY the Associated Press

Tourists may now see a pic
torial history of the White
House as they start their sight
seeing trip through the Execu-
tive Mansion.
The exhibit has been set up
on the ground floor corridor of
the East Wing, where thou
sands Of visitors start their
guided tours of the White
House.
The Smithsonian Institution
and National Park Service pre-
pared the display. It consists
of six panels entitled why the
White House Exists, The Presi-
dents House, Furnishing the
White House, Architectural
Changes in the White House,
Home Life in the White House
and Official Life in the White
House"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
RALPH McGILL
Seal ps Were Lifted at Pea Ridoe

committed at Pea Ridge al
most certainly were exagger-
ated. But there is no queS-
ton but that the Indian
troops did take Scalps. When
the Federal Army had pos
session of the field and saw
its mutilated dead and
wounded, some of it's more
angered members also took
scalps.
Gen. Van Dorm later man
aged to rally and regroup
some of his army, but the
Confederate government soon
ordered him to Mississippi.
Arkansas was left virtually
undefended. The Confeder-
ate threat to the West was
ended.
Gen. Van Dorm was a luck
less man. His associates in
sisted he was a competent
officer. Destiny never let
him prove it. A little more
than a year after the shat
tering defeat at Pea Ridge,
he was gunned down in his
tent at Springhill, Tenn, by
a man who believed he had
lost his wife's affections to
the dashing, handsome gen.
eral.
In addition to its feature
OF large numbers Of Indians
engaged in battle, with the
subsequent Scalping Of dead
and wounded, Pea Ridges
fighting found a number of
the Arkansans engaged &C
tually fighting on their land.
At least two men were
wounded on their own farms,
taken to their own farm
houses, and attended by their
own families.
Somehow. the scalping and
the grapeshot Of 1862 seem
almost humane in COMPARE
son with the potential of the
nuclear warheads in 1862.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
Redistricting Ruling Said to Point Way
To Decision on Fourteenth Amendment
DAVID LAWRENCE

One feels like giving a
cheer for the Supreme Court
OF the United States for its
temerity in cracking, even
slightly, a precedent Of nearly
100 years on which it has
hitherto based q refusal to
decide case after case involv-
ing so-called political ques-
tions."
The Supreme Court, for
example. has declined to pass
upon the validity Of the
method used by Congress to
compel a so-called "ratifica-
ton" Of the Four ee n t h
Amendment. Yet this amend
ment is the original basis of
the whole civil rights contro-
versy and of the several exec
utive orders promulgated from
time to time by the President.
The court has Steadfastly
maintained that the way the
Fourteenth Amendment got
into the Constitution, whether
legal or illegal. was a "polit-
ical question" Historians are
all agreed that the legisla-
lures Of the Southern States
had been accepted as legally
constituted when, after the
Civil War. they duly ratified
the Thirteenth Amendment
abolishing slavery. Later these
States were ruled by Congress
not to be members of the
Union, however, when the
same legislatures rejected the
Fourteenth Amendment. This
inconsistency has never been
justified from a constitutional
viewpoint.
When the States of the
South failed to ratify the
Fourteenth Amendment, Con-
greSS refused to seat in either
the House or the Senate the
chose representatives of
those States. A law was then
passed by Congress, known as
the Reconstruction Act, which
demanded that, unless these
States a dopted the Four
teenth Amendment, they
could not recover their repre-
sentation in the Congress or
become members of the
Union. President Andrew
johnson vetoed the bill, de-
claring it unconstitutional.
He cited the expressed view
point of President Abraham
Lincoln that the Southern
States had never legally left
the Union and that there was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29
Chess Tournament
Will BEGIN SATURDAY.

The District Of Columbia
Chess League will hold it's 3lst
annual championship tourna-
ment beginning at 7::30 pm.
Saturday through April IS at
the Washington Chess Divan,
1915 Twentieth street NV.
Prizes will be awarded to
first, second and third place
winners, and to top players in
Glasses A, B and C and also to
unrated and junior players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29

ZURICH.-In this center Of
Inside world news" the bet
ting is that before midsum-
mer there will be a summit
conference-possibly in Swift
zerland - bringing together
President Kennedy, Prime
Minister Macmillan and Pre-
mler KhruShchev, regardless
of the outcome of the present
Geneva arms conference.
Mr.. Khrushchev appears to
want it. Mr.. Macmillan in
sists on having it because he
is faced by a falling electoral
popularity caused by the de-
crepit economic position of
Britain. He is reported to be
using the same argument
former Prime Minister An
thony Eden used on President
Eisenhower and Secretary
Dulles when he forced the
1855 Geneva summit on us.
Mr.. Eden's argument then
was: IF you don't help me
by going to the meeting with
khrushchev and Bulganin,
my party will be defeated at
the polls-then you'll have to
deal with Aneurin Bevan who
will become foreign minister"
Mr.. Bevan is now dead, but
the Specter of the Laborites
coming to office still worries
many of our policy makers,
despite the greater similari-
ties between our New From
tierSmen and the Laborites.
But, say my Swiss sources,
the impact of these summit
meetings is bound to lessen,
since they are taking place
more frequently and the
world has become accustom-
ed to their being failures
concealed under bromide
communicates.
What really matters in
this new Europe today is no
longer who meets whom and
where but the stern front
which is put up to the ar
rogant attitude of the Krem-
lin. The Russians, from the
very top to the bottom, res
pect only force and strength
OF character. And our Euro
pean friends are dismayed,
for their own and our sakes.
at the weakness displayed by
what is euphemistically called