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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
All Optinists Are Dope Fiends'
By DONALD MINTZ

VERDICTS OUT OF COURT
by Clarence barrow. Ed
tied with an introduction by
Arthur and Lila Weinberg.
448 PIP. Quadrangle Books,
$685..
He is often called "the at
torney for the damned" It is
a melodramatic phrase, but
there is more truth in it than
in most such foundations.
"VerdictS Out Of Court"
however, is not concerned
with the legal career of Clar-
ence barrow (1857-19S8). This
genuine, home-g rown Mid
western radical, scoffer and
doubter was a tireleSs lee
turer, debater and writer.
The present book is an an
thOlogy of talks, essays, and
stories covering Darrow's ia
vorite topics arranged chro-
nOlOgically within each
subject heading.
ID arrow was OpiniOnated
(Which is not such a bad
thing, garrulous and naive.
Lawyers in his time were not
often the victims of vast
amounts Of higher education,
and he was no exception.
Nor is there any evidence
that he was widely or deeply
Self-educated.
His $ cienc e is primitive
Though his faith in it is
vaSt), his historical notions
are often childish, his con-
cepts of artistic history are
absurd, and his fiction is ex-
ecrable.
But he had a first-rate
mind and, when he took
pains, a first-rate pen. A few
of the pieces in "Verdicts
Out of Court" are terrible, a
few are superb, and the gen.
eral level is sufficiently high
to make the book well worth
the effort of reading it. Some
of the credit may be due the
editors who have condensed
some of the pieces and per-
haps made slight C h anges
here and there.
A Modern Philosopher
It is possible to distill
something of a philosophical
system from the varied writ
ings contained in "VerdictS
Out of Court" The system is
not complete Indeed, it fails
to bridge a major apparent
gap-but it is astoniShingly
contemporary.
A deeply felt essay on Walt
Whitman turns into a discus
sion of the morality of crime,
a discussion that sounds
much like some sort of
modern religious philosophy.
''What is the distance be-
tween hating your neighbor,
and wishing him dead?" asks
D arrow. ''How great a
chaSm between feeling relief
at his death, and killing him
yourself? So far as the man
is concerned, it is not the act
that is evil, but the heart
that is evil. There is no diff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22

ference between the commit
ted and the uncommitted
crime. Every fe cling that
makes every sort of crime is
in the heart Of each and
every one"
barrow was deeply pessi-
mistic. "All optimists are dope
fiends," he wrote. "And
everybody is encouraged to
take dope all through life."
This p e ssimis m took a
strongly antireligiOus turn.
Every religion in the
world" he said, ''is based on
the idea that death is not
death"
THE Christian is not a
stOic," he remarks a bit later.
He is only a uSurer. He
is like the miser who boards
up gold and loans it to some
body at ten per cent interest,
so that he can get it later.
He gets along without a
drink on earth because he is
going to have so much in
heaven. 1t is essentially SEN
Sual. ALI you need to do is to
postpone pleasure. It is a
plain bargain, with the odds
a million to one in your favor
if you believe, and not losing
much if you do not. But it has
no relation to Stoicism. It is a
plain matter of barter and
sale"
AgnOSticism Is Easier
None of this is for him.
1.-THE thought of death to one
who believes all life is sim
ply a manifestation of mat
ter" he writes, mot neces-
Sarily painful or pleasurabIe.
but a manifestation of matter
like the growing of a tree, is
nowhere near so hard as the
thought of death to the man
who is filled with these (reli-
giOuS) dreams and illusions"
What does this m odern.
"alienated" man suggest?
Hard work is good. It is
good because it brings a loss
of consciousness" And later:
"This is life and all there is
of life; to play the game. to
play the cards we get; play
t h e m uncomplainingly and
play them to the end. The
game may not be worth the
while. The stakes may not be
worth the winning. But the
playing of the game is the
forgetting of self. :"
This is amazingly like the
modern, non-religious exis-
tentialist engaged in "the
dialogue with the absurd"
The missing piece in the
specific case Of Clarence,
barrow is the link from this
point to his social crusading.
He hints at it only briefly
when he suggests that we
might as well make things as
decent for each other as DOS
Sible. But the suggestion is
slight and undeveloped. If
barrow ever went further, \,
the Weinbergs have left out
part of their anthology.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22
THE PASSING SCENE
Venom and the Federal Pay Raise
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

laration now Of ConKres'
fortitude and self-respect Is
so readily available a. the
pay raise bill-precisely be-
cause it is widely supposed
Congress will not have the
CUTS to pass It.
What Is proposed Is to
raise the salaries Of members
Of the House and Senate and
of Federal judges from
S22.500 to $32.500 q year,
with equivalent raises for
other Federal personnel. In
plain fact, this would be q
small enough increase for q
Congress which has had pre-
cisely four pay increases
since 1866 and only one
within the last 10 years.
In plain fact, present con-
gressional pay is demonstra-
bly, inadequate for all save
members with private In
come. In plain fact, men
holding the life Of the United
States in their hands are
being rewarded on q scale
that would be absurd In any
private enterprise involving
even remotely comparable
responsibilities.
In plain fact, so RESPONSE
BILE an organization as the
conservative American Bar
ASSociation-which Is rarely
accused of eagerness to toss
away public money on hare
Drained Schemes-is standing
stoutly for both the congress
sional and the judicial pay
bills as deeply needed steps
to improve the quality Of
public service.
Some Remain Silent
But a most melancholy
fact also is that other re-
sponsible organizations,
holding no less stake In Gov
eminent, are sitting this
thing out. What possible logic
can move the great corpora
tons and farm and trade and
labor associations to remain
silent here-not merely on
the symbolic issue Of the pay
raise but on the incompara-
bly, bigger issue Of defending
the constitutional independ-
ence Of the only truly rep
resentative body left in this
Nation?
There has rightly been
much talk in our recent past
about the evils of guilt-by-
association. But the elected
institution Of Congress itself
is, these days. a constant vic
tim of something even worse.
1t is guilt-by-innuendo based
on rumors and gossip so thin,
so venomous, so third-hand-
ed and even fifth handed as
to sicken and appall those
who can see how and why
this campaign of SANDER is
being developed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22
Ever Thus

The Bobby Baker probe
will get nowhere; too MANY
toes might be stepped on; too
many sacred cows are in the
line Of fire. 1t was ever thus.
Looking back over the
years I can recall but one
congressional Investigation
where the shots were not only
called but delivered straight
to the target. I refer to the
Teapot Dome scandal of the
early '20S-unearthed and
prosecuted by Senator Thom-
as Walsh Of Montana. A Sec
rotary of the Interior went
to prison and a millionaire
Gilman was fined heavily. It
was the case of the little
black bag" a bag that car
ried a bride of 100000 into
a cabinet officers private Of
flee. AS a young newspaper
man I interviewed both prin-
cipalS in the Far West.
But the Senate has no Tom
Walsh today nor will it have
tomorrow. His breed and cali
Der show up once in a
century. The term clean as a
hounds tooth" was really
exemplified in his makeup.
The poet who wrote God
give us men" must have had
Walsh in mind. P. E. Burke
North Las Vegas New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22
Federal PuY

Your editorial of November
II on Federal pay went to
astonishing extremes to show
your freedom to attempt to
Illustrate the valid economic
goals Of a majority Of your
readers.
The editorial spoke loftily
of principle and then defied
principle by striking below
the National Capital belt in
an attempt to demonstrate
that inadequate Federal sa-
laries are justified by a SUBJ
standard pay structure for
employees of the State of
Ohio.
There is no way of telling
when your industrial wage
statistics were secured but by
contrast with the announced
SCI weekly industrial aver
age, the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics Omitted States De-
partment of Labor shows
that in July, 1868, the in
duStrtal wages in Ohio's nine
leading cities averaged $l19
weekly.
Similarly, 1t is difficult to
agree that the average Fed
eral salary in Ohio is SIT
per week ($2 less than the
announced BIS industrial
average. Even If we assumed
that all of the postal en-
ployeS in Level 4-the most
populous pay level-were in
their top automatic steps, the
average during 1868 would be
only $1O6 weekly.
I think, in short, that con-
ditions (even in Ohio are
not currently advantageous
to the Federal employee, and
1t is disappointing that you
should grasp at isolate d
claims to support what I
earnestly believe to be your
mistaken concept of Federal
pay.
Paul A. Nagle.
Administrative Vice President
United Federation of Posta
Clerks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-22
Birth of q Nation

Theodore A. HuntIey
Evening star., 1963-05-12

of the egg cup. A dab Of
water color, or a tiny piece
Of modelling clay, will cor
rect this.
We also notice that the
depth of field is very shall
low, using the Portra lens
accessory, so we place our
stage "in plane" so that all
elements are practically the
same distance from the lens,
then we focus on a critical
area. Shoot at small aperture
to obtain maximum depth of
field.
For color prints or black
and-white snapshots one ex-
poSure should be adequate.
For color transparencies, If
we want to be positively sure
of getting an acceptable slide,
do as professional photog-
rapherS do bracket eX-
posures. This means taking
three exposures: One at the
indicated setting, one a half
stop or three-quarter-stop
more, another a half-stop or
three-quarter-stop less. One
Of the three is destined to
be ION the nose"
Evening star., 1963-05-12

FRANCE - A 0.50-franc
stamp picturing the Hotel des
PoStes and a postal coach,
designed and engraved by
Pierre Gandon, and printed
in dark brown, had its first
day on May 4 and went on
general sale May 6.
GREAT BRTTAIN-A g.
pence mauve and green de-
sign by Reynolds Stone, a
ribbon with the wording
1893 Paris Postal Confer
ence Centenary" in Victorian
lettering and the usual por-
trait of the Queen, issued
May 7.
GERMAN FEDERAL RE-
PUBLIC - Modern Germany
had not been formed at the
time of the conference but
both Prussia and the Han
seattle ports of Bremen, Ham,
burg and Lubbock were rep
resented. A 40-pfennig blue
stamp in a design by Prof.
Eduard Ege showing coats Of
arms Of all the conference
participants was issued May
Z. ....
TTALY-A commemorative
was scheduled for release to-
day. No details available.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
PHILATELIc NEWS
Paris Postal Meeting
Centenary Marked
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

The centenary Of the first
International Postal Confer
ence was marked last week
by ceremonies in Paris and
the release of commemora-
tive stamps by. most of the
nations represented at the
1858 meeting.
Postmaster G neral Day
flew to France for the CEN
tennial observance, sponsored
by the French Postal Admin
istration. One of his pred
ecessors, Montgomery Blair,
had suggested the original
conference, which led ulti-
mately to the formation of
the Universal Postal Union.
Stamps commemorating the
conference represent q small
but interesting group related
to the broad Universal Postal
Union topical subject. Here
are the issues by country:
AUSTRIA - A 3-schilling
stamp showing two postil-
lions and a postal clerk of
the 1853 period in a design
by Adalbert Pilch printed by
photogravure in dark brown
on a lemon background. Is
sued May 8 and valid for
postage May Z.
BELGIUM - A special g.
franc stamp picturing the
Evening star., 1963-05-12
CAMERA
CALENDAR

MOTION PICTURE AND TELE.
VISION COUNCIL, Monday, 2:3O
pm, Cleveland Park Library. 1910
Connecticut avenue NV. William
w. Friedman of Sidney Lust Thea
ters, "The Exhibitors Problems"
Charles Grimes, assistant rome man
ager, General Theater Operations
on q FIrst-Run, Road Show and
Subsequent Run Basis"
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC So
CIETY, Wednesday. 8 PM, Natural
History Building, Constitution ave-
nue. and Tenth street NV. DR..
John w. Frey. geologist and geogra-
pher. will discuss Seeing the Mean
illustrate the talk with slides. Wis
itors welcome.
SILVER SPRING CAMERA CLUB.
Thursday, s:15 Pm, Silver Spring
Library on Colesville road. Herb
berg will present the program: Bet
ter Pictures-Cameras TechniQues
and Composition. Monochrome
competition. subject open. Visitors
welcome.
WASHINGTON FILM SOCIETY,
Thursday and Friday. "Ugetsu Mo-
nogatari'' (AiiEoguchi, 1954) and
Journey Alone Michael and Philip
Burton, 1892, the latter . doLu-
mentary on the isolation OF an in
dividual in New York city. Thurs
day filmings at 2 and 9 pm. in
IBTU Auditorium at North Capitol
and Louisiana avenue NV. Friday
screening at S:45 pm. only at
AAUW center. 2401 Virginia ave-
nue. NV.
UsDA PHOTOGRAPHIC ROUND
TABLE, Friday, s pm. 1908 South
Building; judging Of members black
white prints and color slides for
the 18th annual salon.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
'Fuces' Contest
Entries Sought
ByFriduy

Information and entry
blanks are being distributed
in the current Family and
Child Services of Washing
ton Photographic contest,
which has been extended to
Friday. Both amateur and
professional work is invited
in the contest which is titled
THE Faces of Washington"
Deliver contest mounts to
929 L street NV, the ad-
dress of the sponsoring UGF
agency.
The contest Is sponsored
as a means of showing "the
beauty and uglineSs Of the
city and the needs and hopes
of people in the Metropolitan
Area"
The six top prize-winning
pictures will be shown in an
open house in June.
For information, telephone
232-6510.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
ART NOTES

Opening today at the Phil
lips is a major retrospective
exhibition OF paintings by the
leading Canadian artist,
Jean-Paul Riopelle. The show
is the one exhibited at the
Venice Biennale Of 1862.
Opening Thursday, with
tea from 4 TO 9 pm, Is an
exhibition Of dry brush and
pencil drawings by Andrew
Wyeth at the Corcoran Gal
lery Of Art.
On Tuesday night. by In
vitation, the Jewish Com
munity Center opens an ex-
hibition Of drawings by sculp-
tors, from the Joseph H.
Hirshhorn Collection, New
York. The Hirshhorn Col
lection OF sculpture was ex-
hibited last year at New
York's Guggenheim Museum
and is widely regarded as one
OF the finest collections OF
modern sculpture anywhere.
including museums.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
STAMP AND COIN
CLUB MEETINGS
MONDAY

Washington Numismatic
Society, 8 pm, parish hall,
st. Columba's Church, 4201
Albemarle street NV.
Hyattsville Riverdale
Stamp Club, 8 pm, Town
Hall, 47l8 Queensbury road,
Riverdale, Md.
WEDNESDAY,
Collectors Club of Wash
ingtOn, 8 pm, Odd Fellows
Temple, 4l9 Seventh street
NV. Auction.
Montgomery Coin Club, 8
pm, Perpetual Building As
ISOLATION, 8710 Georgia ave-
nue., Silver Spring, Md.
FRIDAY
Dominion Hills Stamp
Club, (juniors), home Of Col.
L. A. Brown, 5000 Wilson
boulevard, Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
Hobby, Photo
Show Stated

Entries are now being ac-
cepted for the District Of
Columbia Recreation Depart
ment photo salon and for
the annual adult hobby show.
both to be held in the lobby
Of the Department Of Com
merce May % to 26.
All persons living within
rs miles are eligible.
For the photo salon, four
items may be entered in
either or both Of two cate
gories, color slides or mount
ed monochrome prints 8 by
10 inches or larger.
In the hobby show, two
entries can be entered In
each Of five categories: Fine
arts, creative crafts, collec-
tions, needlecrafts and scien-
tific and mechanical crafts.
All photos must be mailed
or delivered to the Recrea-
ton Department. 3l49 Six
teenth street NV. by S pm.
May 20.
All hobby entries must be
delivered to the Commerce
Department, Fourteenth and
E streets NV. after 5 pm.
May % or between 9 am.
and 5 pm. May %. But an
entry card must be filed with
the Recreation Department
no later than May IS.
Photo salon judges are:
Frederick Levenson, instruc-
tor Of photographs at How
ard University; Lowell Ken
yon, photo services division
Of Smithsonian Institution:
and Volkmar Wentzel, for
eign editorial staff, National
Geographic Society.
Evening star., 1963-05-12

pages Of Woodville, Ohio. One
set, for United States stamps
and covers 1866 through 1860,
sells for $2.75; the other,
Worldwide Lincoln, 1887
through 1862, for $4. They
are available from Col.
Truett at 1922 North Har-
rison street, Arlington S. Va.
TOrrey Again Heads WPS
Gordon H. Torrey was re-
elected president Of the
Washington Philatelic So
ciety without opposition last
Wednesday night.
Others on the unopposed
slate were: First vice presi-
dent, Seymour B. Stiss; Sec
ond vice president, Leonard
Dulberg; secretary, Miss
Helen F. Demond; treasurer,
Robert s. Wagner; and men,
bers of the board of gover-
nors, Paul j. Plant, Miss
Charlotte s. Reinhart, George
T. Turner and Svend Yort.
- \ =
Burrus Missionaries
Fifteen Hawaiian Mis-
sionaries" from the collection
of the late Maurice Burrus Of
Lausanne, Switzerland, will
be sold in New York on May
81 in an unusual evening
auction starting at OILS pm.
The unique 2-cent unused has
an estimated market value OF
$25,000 to $50, 900. The cheap
est, o 13-cent heavily can
celed and with numerous
faults, is estimated at $3.50.
Issues of the 1853-1889 period
will be sold starting at 8
pm. A catalogue is avail
able from H. r. Harmer, 6
West Forty-eighth street, New
York 36, N. Y.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
DUPLICATE
BRIDGE
CALENDAR

TODAY
24O0 Duplicate Bridge Club, Hotel
2400 lcO. 6-7200l. 1880. Playfair,
143l Harvard CAD. 4-457S), 1:45.
sleepy Hollow, Falls Church (inVi-
rational, JE. 3-l725), 1880.
MONDAY
Andrews, Andrews AFB Officers
Club (invitationaD, 7:45. Arl-Fax'
1920 Arlington boulevard, Arlington,
7:45 MP. Fairfax, 11OS st. Andrews
drive, Fairfax reservations, CIR. B.
1924. 9:45. Fort Meade, Fort Meade
reation Center. Wisconsin avenue and
Calvert. 12:45. Northeast studio,
14l0 Franklin ola. 6-7405l, 7:30.
Silver Spring, 9405 Bruce drive. Sill
yer Spring reservations JU. o.
1910, 1880.
TUESDAY
Belair Duplicate, l27lO Keswiek
lane. Bowie (464-0O79), 7:4b. Falls
Church, 222 North Washington
street. Fails Church IKE. 6-6g94,
800 800, saf f5' TeSmot-ioar Gss tslu' chsmi SSsi
pionship. Federal Power Commission,
official dining room. GAO Building,
$3.50, GOren Duplicate, Suite lO2.
the Dupont EAST. 154b Eighteenth
reservations, 967-i34bl noon; In
dian spring Country Club unylo5
Norwood drive. Bethesda. 7:3b. 1000
Valley drive, Alexandria, e:4b.
WEDNESDAY
1000 Valley drive. Alexandria.
7:45, Open Pairs reservations, OV.
3-2SSSl. Belle Haven Country Club,
Chess Club, Hotel 24O0 Invitation
all, 7:45. Congressional Secretaries
cafeteria. New House Office Building.
7: FalErisaEE' INCA RoSts Sse; 80 :, raiT. s,,a.
Center, Wisconsin avenue and cai-
vert, 1880. Montgomery County Jew
ish Community Center, 3. NH, cafe
teria.. NH Building one Cinyita-
tlonaD, y, Silver sprtnE, bfOb 81 uee
drive Silver spring reservations
THURSDAY
Falls Church. 222 North wash
ington. street Fails Church IKE:
o.ogga' a,ga g5S. 5s...,o, Open Pairs, ,,.ad, lGst
Goren Dupliests, suite iO2, the Du-
pont East, lb45 Eighteenth treser-
vations, B07-l jfbl noon, Northern
virEinia Bridge Association, Park
Arlington Motel. Arlington, 7:ab,
MP, openlng events In Potomac
inaien bridge League, Sheraton
Park Hotel. masters pairs and sub
senior pairs, one-sesSion events,
1850.
FRIDAY
Potomac Valley Sectional Tourna-
ment continued, washington Bridge
League, Sheraton Park. WOmen's
pairs and Mems pairs, one-seSsion
events, 2. Mixed pairs, one session,
SATURDAY
Potomac Valley Sectional Tourna-
ment continued, Washington Bridge
League, BifeEaton- Park. Open Pairs,
two sessions. 2 and \. Junior pairs
t0-ie MPsl, one session. 2. Special
pairs, one session, y.
NEXT SUNDAY
Potomac Valley Sectional Tourna-
ment continued, Washington Bridge
LeaEue, bneraton-Park, Open teams
of-f0uf, two sessions, 1 and Z, Jun
lor pairs t0-1o MPsl, one session, 4.
Special pairs one session, z.
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
Federal Bridge LeaHue, Team.of-
four, May ID. 2DOO Valley Drive.
Open Pairs, reservations, OV, s.
5sSSl, May rs and May 22. Falls
Church, Open Pairs, reservations,
kE. B-6DD4), May 10 and May 20.
TOURNAMENTS
Northern virginia Bridge Associa-
tlon, Park Arlington Motel. two
session ACBL Charity Fund, open
pair sectional. May 30.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
CLOSE-UPS AND LONG SHOTS
Photo Shell Game
Can Be Real Fun

Turn q photographer loose
with O bunch of oddities such
as egg shells, water colors,
paint brushes, modelling clay,
pipe cleaners and other loose
paraphernalia and he
may produce q masterpiece.
The key element is neither
camera, film nor lens: 1t is
imagination.
Furthermore. outer space is
the limit. Yes, any camera
owner can take off on an ex-
cursion into fantasy, and
come back with a lot Of fun
filled results-if he will but
let himself go.
It is as much fun to photo
graph such q creation as 1t
is to show the final result.
Don't think you can't dc this
type Of photography; you
can.
Start with an idea. Any
idea. This one is, Of course,
similar to the concept Of the
Halloween pumpkin eyeing
q freshly baked pumpkin pie
or a banana peering
over q bowl top at q freshly
sliced banana atop the break
fast food. There are a dozen
variations.
Now that we have the idea,
let's gather the ingredients.
An egg cup. One breakfast
egg shell 1--WE were consum-
ing the contents, this morn
ing, when we got this idea).
A toy ladder-section from
Juniors fire chief game Cor
we could make q ladder with
bits of swizzle sticks, glue
and water colors). The wa
ter colors. A paint brush.
Closeup Accessory
In addition to those items
we will also need our camera
and gadget bag containing
film, lens tissue, exposure
guide or meter. clampod (or
table tripod and a closeup
lens accessory (called Portra
lens). For the latter we could
choose either a No. /, No. Q
or No. 8 size. Perhaps we
should discuss the difference
between these.
If we wish to photograph
an object with an outside
dimension of about 18x28
inches, with the camera po-
Sitioned approximately AZ
inches from the object Gus
ing q 33mm. camera and
50mm. lens), we choose a No.
/ size. For an area 91axl4
inches, with the camera
placed approximately 20
inches from the object, we use
a No. 2 size. For a setup not
larger than 6x9 inches, with
the lens brought to 13 inches,
choose the No. 3 size. Any
of the three is the same
Evening star., 1963-05-12
SPRING COIN SHOW
IN ALEXANDRIA

The spring show Of the
Alexandria Coin Club will be
held next week end at the
Recreation Center, corner of
Cameron and Harvard streets,
Alexandria, Va.
1t will be open from 10
am. to 10 p.m. Saturday and
from 10 am. to 8 pm. Sun
day.
In addition to extensive
exhibits there will be bourse
tables, an appraisal and in
formation booth and a vari-
ETY. of other attractions.