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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
RossIyn's Bright Future

If the planners have their way-and
their proposals deserve serious con-
sideration-Rosslyn, for many years an
unsightly gateway to Northern Virginia,
will be transformed within few years
into an attractive and prosperous COM
munity that will be an asset to Greater
Washington.
RoSSlyn already is beginning to
emerge from its period of decay, period
marked by blighted housing, haphazard
industrial activities and cheap COM
mercialism. Contributing to the rebirth
was the extension of the George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway along the
RosSlyn shores. There has followed a
gradual stimulation of interest by in
vestorS and builders, with rising apart
ment houses, motels and restaurants.
Looking ahead to the 1970s, Airing
ton planners are working on proposals
which would complete the transforma-
ton. EnviSioned are tall office buildings
accommodating almost as many en-
ployeS as the Pentagon-and requiring
traffic facilities almost as extensive as
those needed to take care of the rush.
hour Defense Department throngs Sites
are being earmarked also for hotels,
apartments, restaurants and other
business enterprises.
Serving traffic needs of the area
would be such new facilities as the
Theodore Roosevelt and Three Sisters
bridges across the Potomac, greatly
Widened Lee Highway, the new Route IS
paralleling the Lee Highway and numer-
Gus approaches and grade separations.
All of these will cost lot of money, to
which the Federal Government will con-
tribute through highway funds and
bridge appropriations.
If the Rosslyn program is to be car
ried out in an orderly way, an overall
plan will have to be agreed upon-per-
haps under an urban renewal Setup.
Arlington has SHE'D away from urban
renewal in the past, but we do not see
how the land can be acquired and the
necessary controls on development
maintained unless some such agency is
given authority to undertake and over
see the job. Patchwork redevelopment
could result in irreparable mistakes that
would dim Rosslyn's otherwise bright
future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
The IMAGE of Timidity

Senator Margaret Chase Smith, the
outSpoken Republican from Maine, has
turned in good reporters job in her
accounting of an on-the-spot study of
the image of Uncle Sam in Latin America
and Of the prospects for the alliance
for-progress program. AS the ranking
minority member of the Senate Ap-
preparations Subcommittee on Foreign
Relations, Mrs. Smith visited South
America last fall. While there, she
talked not only to officials of a half
dozen of these neighboring governments
and to diplomatic and other representa-
tives OF our own who are stationed
there. She talked also to just plain
people, "the men and women in the
streets of South America" What she
heard in response was neither flattering
nor reasSuring for the future, and she
has done service in reporting it coldly
to her colleagues in the Senate.
To make 1t brief, Mrs. Smith says
that she found "a deeply ingrained
cynicism and growing lack of respect"
toward the United States, and disturb
ing view that the alliance for progress
is only an effort "by rich, flabby and
timid Uncle Sam to try to buy that
which he is not willing to fight for him
self" This charge of unwillingness to
fight is pinned precisely on our failure
to slap down Castro" either by guaran-
teeing success of last years defeated
Cuban invasion attempt or even by I'M
dertaking one of our own. In either
case, Mrs. Smith was told, the criticism
that would have fallen upon us would
have been of small moment compared
to the loss of respect we have suffered
by letting Castro give us an ignomini-
Gus licking when we did not have to-"
But Mrs. Smith did not confine her
reporting or her opinions to the short
comingS of our Cuban policy. 1t is her
thesis, and for that matter not hers
alone, that we have been counting
trouble in Latin America for years-by
neighborly talk but little action, while
freezing ourselves in middle -of-the-
road position between the pro-revolu-
tionary and often proc Communist intel
hgentsia and the status-quo landed
aristocracies." Today, she says, we have
some, but too few, ambassadors in South
America who recognize or are qualified
to cope with the hard and ruthless
realism Of aggressive communism on
that continent. And, forthrightly, she
makes the point that we have Jared
best in the countries where our aid pro-
gram has included the higher percent
ages of military assistance-with the re-
suit that the armed forces in those
countries have been the strongest centers
OF stability and inter-American unity.
She recommends greater attention to
this fact, and to the requirement that
we must rebuild IAN image of will and
determination" before we can hope for
meaningful friendship. Mrs. Smiths
prescription is one that is directed to
those who recognize that we cannot
lead, or even help, if we do not enjoy
respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27

tist-one possessed Of the engineering
skills to design and build the strange
vehicles, balloon with pressurized
aluminium gondola and a bathyscaphe
constructed to Withstand the tremen-
dous weight of the oceans, which he
piloted personally to new and unknown
regions. But DR.. Picard, a picturesque
character Of lanky frame and unruly
hair-do, was not merely stunt man."
His adventures had much greater pur-
pose, and they contributed materially
to the store Of knowledge that has been
expanded by others in more recent years.
He was pioneer, honored in his time
and assured of a respected place in the
archives of mankind's ceaseless urge to
make known the unknown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Dr.. Picard

The science fiction authors of an
earlier generation might wisely have
engaged Professor AuguSte Picard as a
story conSultant, an idea man or even
as a "test pilot" For surely it would have
been impossible during most of the past
half-century to find man more i'm
aginatiVe and more courageously deter
mined to do things that none had done
before in exploration of the skies above
us or in the dark depths of the sea.
In sense, DR.. Picard, now dead at
u, was versatile do-it-yourself scien-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
BroyhiH No Nero

Citing spectacular head
lines on International affairs
such as 80 More Slain as
Terriorists Roam Algeria"
"Gromyko Hits U. S. Tests
:" etc., Theda o. Henle'S
indignant wrath is directed
at Congressman Broyhill be-
cause he "fiddles while the
world burns"
The comparison with Nero
is unfounded. I doubt that
Broyhill could render Turkey
In the Straw"-even with a
Stradivarius.
What, one might ask the
lady, would she have the Con-
gresham do? Enforce the
Algerian cease-fire? Wag his
finger under Khrushchev's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Error in the House

1t is too bad that the House, through
hastily drafted amendment, has
crippled an otherwise commendable bill
designed to stimulate the growth and
development of educational television.
AS approved, the House bill would
extend Federal matching grants only to
schools or to purely public educational
agencies. This, according to the House
Commerce Committee, would pull the
rug from under about half of the 81
existing ETY. organizations-inclu
the Greater Washington Educational
Television Association, which includes
private as well as public-agency mem
bers.
The amendment was adopted, by a
Scant three-vote margin, out of fear
that perhaps such private organizations
as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and
the AFL-CIO might qualify for the
grants by setting up subsidiary TV
"educational' organizations. AS Repre-
sentative Moss of California pointed out,
there is effective control against such
an occurrence in the fact that ETY.
facilities must be licensed by the Federal
Communications Commission, and that
channel assignments would not be made
to special interest groups.
The irony of this House action is
that it is just such groups as GWETA in
WaShington-many of which have been
operating on shoe string-that the
bill was designed to assist At best, ETY.
has progressed at a Snail's pace Only
81 of the 273 channels set aside by the
FEC for educational use have been as
signed and pressure is mounting to re-
lease others for commercial use. The
effect of the amendment, as Repre-
sentative Harris of Arkansas put it, is
that "the organizations that must be
given the credit for the miserly progress
that we have made in this field now
would be the very ones that would be
disqualified"
Fortunately, no such restriction is
contained in similar bill passed by the
Senate. Conferees of the two houses
should see to it that the destructive
House language is removed from the
final version.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27

In asserting that a large
majority of Soviet peasants
accepted collectivization
Fundamentally, and implying
that they prefer it to private
ownership, Mr.. Nikiforoff
contradicts statements to the
contrary by Mr.. Khrushchev
and a number of other top
ranking Soviet communist
leaders, and a wealth of So
Wet press and periodical in
formation on the same sub
ject, to the effect that the
bourgeois spirit of private
ownership" plaques Soviet
collective farmers They neg
lect their duties to the state
and the collective enterprise,
for the benefit of the tiny in
dividual plots they are per-
mitted to cultivate (not to
OWN; they pilfer collective
property, raise - illegally -
their private cattle on collec-
tive land; feed-illegally-
their private cattle with COL
lective grain and other feeds.
In defiance of state regula-
tons and Communist prin-
cipleS, they organize COM
mercial marketing of their
products. They cheat the
state, deceive the state, rob
the State-and its collective
farms-not because they are
dishonest, but because they
despise collectivization.
This defiance of the state,
indeed this passive resistance
to collectivization, is so wide
spread, it is the subject of
worried deliberations at the
highest = level USSR Commu-
mist Party congresses and
conferences. N. de Rochefort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Neor-Mutiny in Ranks
Ralph McGill's column,

Ralph McGillS column,
Sacred Cows of the Mill
tary," is deeply disturbing be-
cause it is all too true.
The United States Army
has not had a mutiny since
the American Revolution.
The rotund Gen. Henry Knox
quelled that one with two
pistols and some fatherly adj
vice" But this shameful be-
havior of hundreds of men,
bers of the 49th Armored
Division Of the Texas Ma
tional Guard, as depicted by
Mr.. McGill, comes just about
as close to outright mutiny
as soldiers can get without
falling over the brink.
These National Guardsmen
marching around Fort Hood,
Tex, bowling complaints
against a harsh fate that has
cast them into uniform and
telling the world how badly
they want to go home is, to
take the most charitable view,
disgraceful. So far as any
good such soldiers can be to
this country, they might as
well be sent home to their
mothers. Maybe their home
folks will give them the huge
measure of sympathy-for
that's really what they are
bleating about-they feel the
more realistic Army has de-
MED them.
Are these the descendants
OF the men of Goliad, tn,
Alamo and San Jacinto? Are
these the great-grandsons of
the valiant men who formed
up Ho0d's Texas Brigade in
the Army Of Northern Virgin
Ia, an outfit that never let a
wounded comrade fall into
the hands of the Yankees and
who never left a battlefield,
from Manassas to Appomat-
tox, until all dead Texans
(sic) had been given a Chris
tan burial? 1t hardly seems
these mewling Guardsmen
could be the spawn of such
sires.
John M. Virden
Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Tennessee Votinq

Justice Potter Stewards concurring
opinion in the Tennessee apportionment
case, which appears elsewhere on this
page, is brief and authoritative state
ment of the Supreme Courts precise
holding.
AS delineated by Justice Stewart.
the ruling should not be deemed to
hold more than three things: ~ That
the Supreme Court has jurisdiction
of TenneSSee'S apportionment system,
(2) that justiciable cause of action is
stated, and (3) that the appellants have
standing to challenge the Tennessee
apportionment statutes.
This doubtless is an accurate de-
Scription of what the court said yester-
day. But surely the implications go far
beyond these narrow points. For If the
Federal courts have jurisdiction of such
a question as this, and if the Tennessee
case is to be tried in the Federal District
court, then it almost certainly follows
that the Federal judges, before they are
through, will in some degree impose
upon the States their concept of what
constitutes fair representation in the
State legislatures.
1t would be unWiSe, however, to
venture beyond this point. For it is
impossible to say or even guess how
far the court will go in seeking to
resolve what is essentially a political
struggle between rural and urban
voters. This, as the pending suit in
Maryland and the current complaints in
Virginia show, is both widespread and
complex problem. Justice Frankfurter
does not believe it can be solved by the
Federal judiciary, and he may be right.
AS to this, however, as we'll as to other
points, one must wait and see exactly
what the justices attempt to do, now
that they have taken jurisdiction of
the Tennessee case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Getting to Roots of Russio's Farm Dilemma

Perhaps C. c. Nikiforoff,
whose letter explained collec-
Invitation Of agriculture in
the Soviet Union, can explain
these facts:
Half the meat, milk, eggs
and vegetables produced in
the Soviet Union come from
the minuscule private plots"
a vestigal remnant of CAPT.
talism, allotted to peasants.
These private plots" consti-
tute a tiny fraction of the
4S0,000,000 acres farmed by
collectives.
Where collectivization has
been almost abandoned or
severely modified, as in Po-
land, it has been accom-
panied by rapid rise in pro-
ductivity. Is it not true that
Poland was the only Commu-
mist country last year to full
fill its agricultural plan?
Why does it take $4,000 900
people. or roughly half the
working force Of the Soviet
Union, to work on farms and
to produce for the people
only a low standard of diet
under the collectivist system,
whereas in this country only
100000 farm workers over
produce so abundantly that
the surplus has to be stock
piled or sent abroad?
Surely something must be
wrong with the collectivist
system, or that the people
"despise" it, as you said in
your recent editorial.
1t is all too evident that the
Soviet peasant would pro-
duce, and over-produce, too,
if he were allowed to work
for himself and his family
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Makes Sport

Now that the baseball sea-
son is getting under way, it Is
time to take a look at our
Frontier team and see how it
is shaping up.
Playing Manager Jack
Kennedy took a sophomore
squad south this year and.
as usual, there is much talk
of a first division finish. He
is being assisted by Manager
Emeritus Truman, who will
be coaching at third base
again.
The pitchers are reported
rounding into form. J. Ken
needy, our ace starter, has de-
veloped a good assortment of
hooks, sliders, and breaking
stuff, and is expected to pitch
the opening game. McCor-
mack, the latest staff addi-
ton, has fair control and
can work the corners. Hum
phrey mixes up a lot of junk
stuff but cannot locate the
plate. Johnson, dean of the
bull pen, is our number one
relief man.
We have two capable re-
ceivers. Bob Mcnamara,
mainstay of the squad, is
steady in the clutches. He
swings for the fences. r.
Kennedy, our all-around boy,
has had a long career as a
backstop. He has a strong
arm and is a take charge"
guy.
c. Kennedy, up from the
Little League, is a fixture at
first base. A dangerous hitter
when the ducks are on the
pond, she should reach peak
form in a few years. Ribicoff,
an old pro, has slowed down
and is slated for return to the
Connecticut League. He may
be replaced at second by r.
Weaver, who may make the
grade. Goldberg, a good glove
man at shortstop, looks at
too many strikes. Salinger, at
third. is quick on his feet,
but it more interested in re-
porters and cameramen than
in baseball.
Bowles and Williams are
being tested in left, but so
far have not shown big
league form. Udall covers
center like Willie Mays, but
is weak at the plate and must
correct his foot-in-mouth
stance. Freeman, up from the
Three Eye League, is in the
rightfield pasture. He has
trouble fielding the ball and
may be returned to the All
Club for further seasoning.
E. Kennedy, a bright bonus
prospect, is being groomed in
the Ivy League. Smith was
given a trial and shunted
back to the minors. Lawford
is still with a Hollywood semi
pro team, and Shriver has
been drafted for service with
the Peace Corps.
For better or worse, see
you at the knothole!
Angus Sinclair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27

Gas on his private plot") on
a large scale. But this would
absolutely confound all
Marxist principles. The Krem-
lin rulers would rather starve
the people than do that. This
is exactly what is happening
in Communist China today.
Jack Beall
Il Il Il
Mr.. Nikiforoff says Rus
sian, Ukrainian and Belorus-
sian peasants in areas occu-
pied by the Germans during
the war were free to break
up collective farms" at that
time; "yet not a single at
tempt was made. :" Ergo,
he concludes, they prefer col
lective farming.
This is untrue. The Soviet
peasants, who indeed despise
collectivization to the point
that hundreds of thousands
of them welcomed first the
Germans as liberators pre-
cisely in the hope that the
invasion would put an end to
collective farms, were not
free to divide the land"
erman administration
maintained the collective
farms and neither invited the
peasants nor allowed them to
divide these farms. The mo-
tive of the Germans, inciden-
tally, was an entirely prag-
matte one; in dire need Of
foodstu IS, requisitioning
them ruthlessly, the Germans
preferred to deal with a small
number of managers of large
collective farms, made re-
sponsible for the deliveries,
rather than with thousands
OF individual producers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
,se? Ride elephants il

nose? Ride elephants in
India?
For a person of obvious in
telligence, Miss Henle must
be aware that a Representa-
tive's primary obligation is to
represent the people in his
congressional district in local
and national affairs.
Harry Traub
~ II
1t is unfortunate that
Theda o. Henle was not
present at Constitution Hall
on March Is when Congress-
man Broyhill, with the as
sistance of the United States
Army Band. presented the
background for his resolution
Oh. ]. Res. 500 on the adop-
ton of a specific version of
the Star Spangled Banner.
Mr.. Broyhill pointed out
that there is at present no
official version of either words
or music. This causes con-
siderable embarrassment to
our Government when a
foreign nation requests an
official copy in order that
they may play our anthem
in honor of visiting American
dignitarieS.
With approximately ITO var
iationS of the music and at
least five variations in the
words in Francis Scott Keys
own handwriting, it is indeed
time for the Government to
select and make official one
version. Mr.. Broyhill is to be
commended for his effort in
offering to American poster
ity one such version.
If this is "super-patriot-
ism" let's have more of it!
Elizabeth B. Quigg
y 4 X
There have been miscon-
ceptions of the purpose of
Representative Broyhill's bill
pertaining to the Star-Span-
gled Banner. Mr.. Broyhill
desires to preserve the words
and music of the National
Anthem, not to change it,"
There is no intent to write
any of the various arrange
ments into law, as suggested
in some news stories. More
than 100 civic, fraternal and
patriotic groups co-operat-
ing with the American Coali-
ton of Patriotic Societies,
Inc, agree with the desir-
ability of recording the ira
ditional words and music of
the anthem into Federal law
so that they may be pre-
served for posterity.
Madalen Dingley Leetch,
Executive Secretary, Ameri-
can Coalition of Patriotic
Societies Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Analyses an Opinion
What the Supreme Court Really Said

In MacDougall v. Green,
1856 U. S. 281, the Court held
that the Equal Protection
Clause does not deny a State
the power to assure a proper
diffusion of political initia-
tive as between it's thinly
populated counties and those
having concentrated masses,
in view of the fact that the
latter have practical oppor-
tunities for exerting their po-
litical weight at the polls not
available to the former" 335
U. S., at 284. In case after
case arising under the Equal
Protection Clause the Court
has said what it said again
only last term - that "the
Fourteenth Amendment per-
mits the States a wide scope
of discretion in enacting laws
which affect some groups of
citizens differently than 9TH
ers." MCGOWAN v. Maryland,
366 U. S. 420, 425. In case
after case arising under that
Clause we have also said that
1.-The burden of establishing
the unconstitutionality of a
statute rests on him who as
sails it," Metropolitan Cas-
ualty InS. Co. v. Brownell,
294 U. S. $50, 584.
Today's decision does not
turn its back on these set
tied presidents. I repeat, the
Court today decides only: %
that the District Court pos
sessed jurisdiction of the sub
ject matter; CO that the
complaint presents a justici-
able controversy; 80 that
the appellants have standing.
My Brother Clark has made
a convincing ,prima facie
showing that Tennessee's
system of apportionment is
in fact utterly arbitrary -
without any possible justifi-
cation in nationality. My
Brother Harlan has, with
imagination and ingenuity,
hypothesized possible rational
bases for TenneSsee's system.
But the merits of this case
are not before us now. The
defendants have not yet had
an opportunity to be heard
in defense of the States sys-
TEN of apportionment; in
deed, they have not yet even
filed an answer to the COM
plant. AS in other cases, the
proper place for the trial is
in the trial court, not here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27

See Editorial: Tennessee Voting"
"(a) that the court possessed
jurisdiction of the subject
matter; (b) that a justiciable
cause of action is stated
upon which appellants would
be entitled to appropriate re-
lief; and Co that the
appellants have standing to
challenge the Tennessee ap-
portionment statutes"
The complaint in this case
asserts that Tennessee's sys-
tenn of apportionment is ut
terly arbitrary-without any
possible justification in ra-
tionality. The District Court
did not reach the merits of
that claim, and this Court
quite properly expresses no
view on the subject. Contrary
to the suggestion of my
Brother Harlan, the Court
does not say or imply that
state legislatures must be so
structured as to reflect with
approximate equality the
voice of every voter" The
Court does not say or i'm
ply that there is anything in
the Federal Constitution Ito
prevent a State, acting not
irrationally, from choosing
any electoral legislative
structure it thinks best suit
ed to the interests, temper.
and customs of its people"
And contrary to the sugges-
ton of my Brother Douglas,
the Court most assuredly
does not decide the question,
may a State weight the vote
of one county or one district
more heavily than it weights
the vote in another?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
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