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Genocide Pact

Howell Bell, in a letter
opposing the Genocide Con-
vention, is a forceful spokes-
man for isolationism, con-
servativism, and extreme ma
tionalism.
Mr.. Bell says: This great
est of all governmental doc
umentS (the Constitution,
has protected the innocent
and condemned the guilty
for almost 200 years" He
seems to overlook our entire
Federal structure, which has
likewise been in existence for
200 years. Under this Federal
system. the police powers;
i.e., "the powers to protect
the innocent and condemn
the guilty" and to insure
the health. safety, and NOR
ais of the populace, have
been reserved to the States.
Thus it is obvious that "our
great Constitution" has real
ly very little to do with this
issue. The problem of pre-
venting and controlling gen.
ocide has historically been
laid in the laps of the States.
CGenocide, as used above,
encompasses a broader area
than the acts committed by
the Nazis) But have these
States been negligent in their
duty? The obvious complac-
ency in enforcing civil rights
sufficiently answers this ques-
ton.
Mr.. Bell is opposed to "giv-
ing up one iota of the SOW
ereignty of this Nation. "
which he implies would be
an inevitable outcome of the
ratification of the Genocide
Convention. I call attention
to Article vi of the Conven-
ton: Persons charged with
genocide or any of the other
acts enumerated in Article
III shall be tried by a COM
petent tribunal Of the State
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thing II it is set off simply
by some interference with
our personal comforts, plans,
or rights.
Christ was utterly unruffled
no matter what men did to
Him. Even when reviled He
reviled not again. 1t was only
when others were concerned,
and when arrogant selfish
strength set out to strangle
or exploit weakness. that the
hot flame Of His anger
leaped up.
What a conflagration Of
wrath lights up the sky Of
the centuries in a sentence
like this" Whose shall cause
one of these little ones to
stumble, it were better for
him that a great milestone
should be hanged about his
neck and that he should be
sunk in the depth OF the
sea-" There is no namby-
PANTY suggestion there that
perhaps if we knew all, and
put a psychiatrist on the
stand, there might be found
something in the offenders
background to explain his
crime.
When our ruling passion Is
a great cause which Is high
as the heavens above our
personal interests we are sure
to develop some colossal
hates. 1t is said that Lord
Macaulay came to have a
terrific anger against dande-
lions after he took UP
gardening, and realized what
weeds did to his flowers. His
hatred for one grew out OF
his love for the other. The
acid test is, what makes you
angry? There are those who
will go off into a spasm OF
wrath over a collar button
which rolls under the bed,
but who remain calm as the
summer dawn at the slavery
and slaughter of innocents.
The only hope that the pol
luted stream of modern life
may be cleansed is an cpl
demic of anger that will
sweep the world and show
up neutralism for what it is.
Supine indifference to wrong
doing is always a sign Of
moral deterioration. Criminals
become brazen, wrong -doers
strut insolently, rascals take
possession of high places I'M
til good, aflame with in
dignation, arises and sweeps
them from the seats of power.
Wanted: Millions of Ameri-
cans whose anger flames
against villainy wherever en-
trenched!
Wanted everywhere: A large
capacity for moral indigna-
ton!
To be saved from weak
resignation to the blatant
and rampant evils we de-
plore, we need to offer daily
as a fervent prayer, a petit
ton first framed by none
other than William Shake
,speare Touch me with no
BILE anger"
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tables were loaded with prod
ucts of his genius. (These in
cluded) a war device, a sugar
helmet, supported by figures
and with waving plumes of
spun sugar; a temple sur
mounted by the Goddess OF
Liberty; Chinese pagodas,
Roman temples. cornucopias,
fountains with spray Of
spun sugar; the Amer
lean frigate Union with
guns, sails, flags, smokestack
and all, complete in sugar,
and the whole supported by
star and stripe draped cher
ubs. Fort Pickens doomed up
in sugar, surrounded. how
ever, by something more eat
able than guns. in the shape
of deliciously prepared birds
and similar chicken fixin's'.
There were pateS. topped by
birds, and there were bee
hives loaded with Char
lotte Russo instead Of honey.
There was a superb pate de
fol gras inviting the respect
full attention of gourmands,
and other delicacies and lux
uries. in such profusion that
the joint attack of the thou
sand or more guests failed to
deplete the array. Champagne
and other costly wines and
liquors flowed freely. The i'm
mense Japanese punch bowl
had been filled with a con-
coction of champagne. arrack
and rum, in proportions to
furnish a substantial founda-
ton. -. The Marine Band. in
full force under Prof. Scala,
performed in admirable
style " At a time when
the Federal Government
needed every dollar it could
beg or borrow to finance the
war, this sort Of official belt
loosening behavior was not
popular with people in gen-
eral. 1t appeared that the
Union forces in action were
acting pretty much on their
own. getting small help or
guidance from their Com
mander-in- Chief. But the
Navy at Fort Henry got along
without aid from Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Noble Anger
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate

1uCiC 10 WIdJll WHICH
Is noble. There is an anger
which is ignoble. The anger
which is noble marches with
out reckoning the cost
against the wrong which is
attempting to crush truth to
earth. The anger which is
ignoble is a blaze often fed
by personal resentment and
a passion for vengeance.
There is an indignation
which flames against iniquity
half a world away but which
is not ignited by fragrant
evil within sight of ones own
doorstep. There are hosts of
Americans who are vehement
in their castigation of the
crucifixion of human dignity
and of individual rights be-
hind iron and bamboo cur
tains. But too often these
same volcanic protesters of
blatant evil abroad are calm
and complacent at the fate
full inroads of moral termites
which are gnawing away at
the very life of our Republic.
Debauching books which
are cesspools of immoral
filth corrupt teenagers, alco-
hol which is threatening the
health and moral fiber of
our people like an inSidious
plague now reckons among
its casualties over a million
women, parental and juvenile
delinquency are the harvest
of secularized homes, materi-
alism which is as goddess as
any foreign brand blasphemes
our national spiritual birth
right. These and other
ominous symptoms ignored
in many glowing national
health reports. raise not the
ire or blood pressure of those
seemingly oblivious to these
portents of the future.
The trouble Is there are
not enough angry Americans.
Referring to the terrible in
roads which organized crime
is now making in our So
called way of life a news
paper columnist recently
said, ANY group Of honest
men, when they get mad
enough, can drive out crime
and make an awful lot of
trouble for criminals"
Something is sure to hap
pen when determined men,
facing evils which degrade
and defile human life. get as
angry as was William Lloyd
Garrison when he cried out
to those who tried to silence
his potent voice. Il will not
equivocate, I will not excuse
1 will not retreat a single
inch, and I will be heard. "
An old proverb declares You
can always tell the size OF
a man by the size of the
things that make him mad"
Jesus never branded anger
as something heinous and
bad in itself. Anger, He
taught, is a fire and like
all fire is dangerous-it must
be kept within control. Out
bursts of petulant wrath con-
stitute a serious defect OF
deformity in character. But
righteous anger is an in
evitable ingredient Of a truly
noble life. 1t is impossible
to write the record Of the
One Perfect Life without in
Guiding in the narrative Of
the Gentle Jesus Meek anc
Mild" the scenes when the
blast of His scorn was sc
hot that it frightened ano
scorched those upon whom il
fell. The Man of Galilee is
both tender and terrible. But
as we behold The Man it is
made perfectly plain that
explosive wrath is an ignoble
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Role of Military

No public speeches Of any
kind by officers Of the armed
forces should be permitted.
Nor should they be allowed
to indoctrinate military per-
sonnet. All this must remain
the privilege and the function
of the politicians and civilian
officials and of the nonmil-
itary citizens.
The reason for this rule Is
very simple and convincing.
All we have to do is look
around us and see the omi-
nous conditions in France,
where the underground secret
army and army officers have
been trying to overthrow the
government for many years.
Similar conditions of army
control exist in many South
American countries, where
military juntas try to take
over civilian governments any
time they disagree with them.
Right now generals In Ar
gentina object to the par
ticular role fright or wrong)
their government maintained
at the GAS meeting in Uru-
quay and they want Presi-
dent FrondiZi to resign. There
fore, we cannot permit such
intolerable and DANCE r o u S
conditions to become FREEDOM
inant in the United States
of America. Otherwise any
time our generals disagree
with decisions of Congress
or the President tn cir
armored cars and tanks would
ramble down Pennsylvania
avenue and they would die
tate to the people what to do
and take over the Govern
ment.
w. o. Schrader.
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in the territory of which the
act was committed. :" Thus
if an American citizen were
charged with causing men,
tai harm to members of a
national, clinical, racial, or
religious group" he would,
and should under this treaty,
be tried within the United
States. An international
penal tribunal" is merely a
second alternative, which
does not necessarily impose
itself.
RaPuch En1InpP
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry 1DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used Dill be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
FROM THE STAR FILES.
so Years AGO

The mast of the battle
ship Maine, recovered from
its watery grave In Havana
harbor, was brought here so
years ago for erection as a
monument in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. The Star Of
February 10, 1912, reported
the collier LeonidaS had ar
rived at the Navy Yard with
the Names mast and flight
ing top" which were lifted
ashore by cranes. ready to
be taken to Arlington. I'm
the hold of the Leonidas,"
this paper said, ARE an esti-
mated 300 tons of relics re-
covered from the Maine. They
include buttons, belt buckles.
arms, cups, mugs. and per-
sonal belongings of the crew.
They are expected to be taken
to Philadelphia, where they
will be distributed among
survivors of the men who
once owned them providing
Identification is possible"
Federal laws to protect
Americas migratory birds,
some of which were being
wiped out altogether. was the
goal of the American Game
Protective and Propagation
Association so years ago. The
Star of FEBRUARY /, 1912, re-
ported Congress was inter-
ested. Chairman Mclean of
the Senate Committee on
Forest Reservations and
Protection of Game prepared
a bill which would make it
unlawful for any person to
kill or capture any wild
goose, wild swan. wild pelican,
wild crane, wild duck, Snipe,
plover, woodcock or rail from
January 10 to August Is Of
each year."
Washington's chief of
police, Major Richard Syl-
vester. complained so years
ago that his department was
being bypassed by progress.
The fire department was
being motorized, but the
police department had a
single automobiles patrol
wagon. The Star Of February
/. 1912. said each Of the
II precincts should have at
least one piece o. motorized
equipment, and that the chief
rated a car and driver for
hurry calls" On occasions.
at big fires or other events
demanding special police at
tention. the major had had
to bum" a ride in a privsto
automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Fine Free Concert

Oakton, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
BIZARRE ESCAPE
ATTEMPT FAILS

SAN QUENTIN, Calf, June
ID (AP) james P. Winton is
back in his San Quentin Prison
cell today after a bizarre escape
attempt.
He didn't get outside. In
stead, the 23-year-old Fresno
burglar buried himself alive for
five days 80 feet inside the
prison wall. He intended to
go over early yesterday morn
ing.
Winton came out of his hole
carrying a 25-foot garden hose
and a graphing hook for wall
scaling. A guard on the wall
spotted him in the moonlight
and marched him back into the
maximum security area.
For a hiding place, the pris-
oner had dug a Seven-foot
trench two feet wide and one
foot deep and covered it with
old boards, newspapers and
dirt.
Winton took with him a
bottle of water and six candy
bars. He was holed up under
shrubbery just outside a voca-
tional shop. Searchers walked
around his hiding place many
times.
Winton escaped from San
Quentin last November but the
FBI recaptured him January 6
in Mariana, Fla. He was
awaiting trial for this escape
when he fled Tuesday.
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Agriculture Secretary says the Government
hasn't lost thin dime Billie Sol Estes In fact the
only thing Mr.. Freeman has lost is sleep.
Jackie Kennedy stars Government color film of her
overseas travels About the only communications media
the Kennedys haven't monopozed the prehistoric
drawings Senator Goldwater has exclusive on those
The Administration is willing to compromise the medi-
ssueand let the elderly Republicans
take of themselves.
Change of name The blue chips are now known as the
blacks blue chips
Space lawyers ode: Twinkle twinkle little star how
wonder whose Are red white and blue
merely Russias crimson hue?
Billie Sol Estes lists $40 million in liabilities $40 million
in assets With that record they're whether to de-
clare him bankrupt-or Secretary of the Treasury.
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DAVID LAWRENCE
New Ideas From the Thrties

Democrat Of Virginia. chair
man Of the Senate Finance
Committee. what he thought
of the capital budget"
scheme? Senator Byrd said:
II am opposed to it. I
think it's fantastic to try to
take all the capital outlay and
outright investments by the
Government in buildings and
construction and appropria-
tions for defense equipment
and not charge them to regu-
lar expenditures. You would
never know where you stood.
It's Just a way to cover up
real deficits. We must not
try to fool the people"
It would be hard. for in
stance, the Senator added. to
classify q Polaris-bearing
submarine or q missile base
as an investment" and to
figure out what the "depre-
citation" would be, especially
since the Government spends
so much on a big military
machine that isn't compar-
able to the plant and equip
ment of private business
which yields an annual earn
ing. Also, the Treasury has
a host of contingent liabilities
and guarantees" running
into the billions. Trust funds
would be subjected constantly
to the temptations of back
door" borrowing and spending
for unrelated purposes.
The President and three
high administration officials
nevertheless delivered last
week a total of four public
speeches designed to prepare
the country to accept the
theory of a capital budget"
All this brings to mind the
quip that Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan, head Of
the Conservative Party in
Great Britain. made in 1859
during his campaign against
the Socialist Labor Party.
He said:
THE opposition has some
sound and original ideas, but
the trouble is that some of
the original ideas are not
sound and some of the sound
ideas are not original"
The idea of a capital
budget" is not original with
Mr.. Kennedy, and it has
been proved unsound every
time it has been publicly de-
bated from the days Of FDR
through the years of the Eli
senhower administration.
tcopyright, 1892
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Business Situation Next October Moy
Affect Outcome of November Elections
S. WHITE

To the usual ifs and may
bes of any Congressional
election year has now been
added a large. uncomfortable
query which few politicians
had thought ONLY three
months ago coulu be present
this time:
What will be the state of
American business come late
October?
All hifalutin lore to the
contrary, Congressional cam
paigns are usually fought not
on great issues applying hor-
izontally across the country.
On most occasions there is no
single, merged nationwide
campaign; rather there are
hundreds of little campaigns,
often quite separate in ma
ture and tone.
This year, however, there is
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Poluris Sub Fleet
Due for Pacific

PEARL HARBOR, June IS
tAP).-The United States may
place from 5 to 10 Polaris mis-
Sile submarines in Pacific waters
in the next two years, says
Rear Admiral Roy S. Benson,
Pacific submarine force CON-
mander.
He told newsmen the subs
would be spaced across the Pa
cific within Polaris range of
selected targets. They would
stay submerged except for trips
to Pearl Harbor every two
months for repairs and to
change crews, the admiral said
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tories under construction since
the start of 1861 than the COM
bined total of the two States
ranking next on the list.
New York State had I'll per
cent of all the reported new
plant construction in the en-
tire free world" during the Pc
Rod. Gov. Rockefeller added.
He made the comments in
a speech prepared for delivery
at a luncheon of the directors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
of the Empire State Chamber
of Commerce here.

PITTSBURGH, June Is (AP)
Senator Goldwater, Republi-
can Of Arizona, asserted today
the Kennedy administration has
created the worst possible cli-
mate for increased business &C.
tivity.
Through large Government
spending and by being anti
business, or at least giving
the impression Of being anti
business, Senator GoldwateT
said. the Democrats have "ag-
gravated a situation marked
by continued unemployment.
declining stock prices. a dis
appearing gold supply and a
high rate Of business failures
and slow starts"
The conservative voice OF
the Republican Party made the
attack on the administration in
remarks prepared for delivery
at the 45th anniversary con-
vention Of the National Coal
Association.
They have committed the
sin Of believing that the enter
prise system can function bet
ter If Government replaces the
natural law of supply and de-
mand with administrative edicts
in the name of public inter-
est" Senator Goldwater said.
He said 1t was a lack of con-
fidence in the administration
that brought about what he
called the Kennedy crash" on
the stock market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

President Kennedy may not
have realized it. but some Of
the new" and sophisticated"
ideas he expounded in his
address last week at Yale
University are throwbaeks to
proposals made and rejected
in the 1930s.
The President perhaps de-
cided anyway to advocate the
changes in the system of
auditing the Governments
expense and income which
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt and his Brain Trust"
sponsored. The scheme is to
list only a part of the
Governments annual outlay
as expenses" and to set UP a
lot Of inventories and proper
ties as investments" or CAPT.
tai assets. The purpose, of
course, is to show less of a
deficit, if not a surplus, in the
principal statement of fl
nances that gets public at
tention. Such a change, it is
argued, would be more like
the methods of private
business.
Daniel w. Bell who was
director Of the budget for
several years, beginning in
1885, and who now is head
of the American Security &
Trust Company here, fought
vigorously against the idea
as unsound and Congress
didn't warm up to it either.
Again, in the early days Of
the Eisenhower administra-
ton, the plan received a big
boost from Beardsley Ruml.
who was finance chairman of
Adlai StevenSon's presiden-
tial campaign in 1852 and
who had gained fame in
championing the present
"pay-as-you-go" system of
paying income taxes. But even
Mr.. Ruml didn't claim that
the capital budget" idea was
original. He said to the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee on August IL, 1858:
This change hasN been
recommended for years by
students, organizations, and
Government agencies"
President Kennedy in his
speech at Yale denounced
the present method of pre-
senting the annual budget to
the country as a myth"
He said:
For the great enemy of
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Rockefeller Cites Stote
As Fiscal Policy Proof

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y,
June 18 (AP) Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller said today that
booming factory construction
in New York State is proof that
fiscal integrity-despite what
President Kennedy says-is of
prime Importance in attracting
new industry"
Thanks to our program for
economic growth" he said,
the State had more new fac
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some prospect of something
approaching a national ref
erendum, as distinguished
from the customary series of
essentially local political en-
counters. on the general issue
of the country's economic
condition.
This is now a probability
because the economic state Of
the union is not a Invisible
thing. What is true of it
in Kansas will always be
roughly true Of it in New Jer-
sey. The question thus be-
comes larger and more COM
plicated than whether the
voters like and trust old Bill
Jones better than old Tom
johnson.
Bread-and-butter Issues
when, rarely. they are APP
plicable on an approximately
uniform and national scale
are intimate enough in one
sense. But they tend to de-
perSonalize candidates in ia
vor of the issue itself.
Republican strategy for this
years Congressional cam
paign is plainly centering on
two assumptions of a nation
al nature. The first is that
economic anxieties will be
greater in October than now.
The second is that "the
Democrats" as a kind of
corporate body, can be in
dicted as to blame.
In all this. the G. o. P. is
taking calculated risks. There
Is always the danger that
Republican viewing with-
alarm may turn out to have
been wrong or may be seen
as unjustified defeatism -
gloom and doom stuff. But
these are also unavoidable
risks. because there is no
other general issue the Re-
publicans can usefully raise.
They are largely forecloSed
from attack on foreign policy
since their own Congressional
leaders have supported the
Kennedy Administration, if
with some muttering, on the
biggest Of foreign questions
Berlin, resumption Of nu-
clear testing and so on.
The Democrats. for their