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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-09

Franklin Roosevelt had his
Harry Hopkins. Dwight
Eisenhower his Sherman
Adams and John p. Kennedy
his Theodore Sorensen. Each
Hopkins, Adams, Sorensen
was the man-closest-to the
President Of his time.
President Lyndon johnson
will not precisely have a
Hopkins, an Adams, a Soren-
sen because while he will
take more advice from more
people and more kinds Of
people than any President
Of recent times, both ulti-
mate decision and ultimate
action will be his personal
products to a degree also not
seen in recent times. But
President johnson will have
the presently untitled-and
possibly never to be fully
titled-Walter jenkins.
When Mr.. johnson was
Senate Majority Leader and
later Vice President. Walter
Jenkins-the President often
thus calls him, as though his
Christian and family names
were compressed and sub
joined-was principal admin
istrative assistant.
The job covered every
thing: Keeping an eye on
johnson political interests
everywhere; assisting the
majority leader In every
form of problem in the
Senate and later every prob
lem in the Vice Presidency;
keeping in some touch with
the private property affairs
which the Johnsons have
now put in trust so that
there can be no suggestion Of
conflict interest.
Executive Minded
Mr.. jenkins was chief of
staff" to use a not very
descriptive term to denote an
indispensable man.
Now, this is what he Is to
Mr.. johnson as President
or, in the old colloquial
expression. he is chief cook
and-bottle washer. He at
tends the super-secret Ma
tional Security Council. He is
at the same time far from
inattentive to all domestic
political and legislative
problems.
Well, what manner of man
is Mr.. Jenkins2 The answer
coming first to mind is that
he is simply the kind Of man
who is-and in memory
seems always to have been
there. He is as quiet as Mr.,
Sorenson. He is as executive
minded as was Sherman
Adams but never gives the
impression he Is either run
ming things or trying to.
He works at a furious pace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-09

such important areas as the Potomac
Palisades. At the same time, there
is no question that property owners
are entitled to just compensation for
financial losses which they may suffer
as a result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-10

sure is sigogglin." Maybe next
time you write a dictionary
or when you revise this one
you can find space for this
favorite word Of mine.-Wm.
Miller, Chappaqua, N. Y.
Answer: Thanks for the sug-
gestion. "Sigogglin" is a regional
variation Of the somewhat bet
ter known "antigodlin" or AN
tigogglin." In fact there are a
couple Of other variant forms,
"siantigodlin" and "sigodlin. +"
They all mean, OF course, crook
ed, askew, awry or out Of plumb
just as your North Carolina
neighbors used IL.
Harold Wentworth's valuable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-10

American Dialect Dictionary
lists all these various forms and
examples Of their use. Interest
ingly enough. the earliest ex-
amples he gives-from around
the turn Of the century-are
listed as west or southwest
North Carolina. One example
Of its use is: you sawed that
log off a little sigodlin." From
Arkansas he reports the same
use that you heard as a boy:
THE line Of his barn roof is
antegodlin."
Just where the expression
originated-or, indeed, how II
got its meanings not clear
A clue may be found, however
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-10
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
JULIET JONES
Buzz SAWYER
Pogo
By WILLIAM MORRIS

Question: I have been read
ing with a great deal Of interest
the new Dictionary Of Word
and Phrase Origins which you
and your wife recently wrote,
You seem to be following SPLEEN
didly in the footsteps Of the
late H. L. Mencken. One item
looked for in vain, however.
It's a word I have known since
my boyhood in North Carolina:
"Sigogglin," pronounced SY-
gog-lin or sy-GOG-lin. In those
days, long before the do-it-
yourself craze, most farmers
built their own barns and sheds
simply because there was no
other way to get them built.
As a result, the lines weren't
always in plumb. When the
roof was too much on the skew
gee, the neighbors would re-
mark that THAT there barn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-10

in a secondary meaning given
by Wentworth: wv orking
against God" Possibly the
idea was that any departure
from the norm-such as a
slaunchways or skewgee roof
was somehow against Gods
plan for an orderly universe.
, 1963-12-14
ST. Croix

ST. CrolX ...
very high standards for its
operations, and had recruited
personnel Of the highest cali
Der, the facilities available for
the accommodation of mental
patients left quite a lot to be
desired, to say the very least.
Of specific concern to the
the association is the room
used for the confinement Of
patients at the Charles Har-
wood Hospital. The Associa-
ton feels that if its voice can
be heard on such matters, So
buttons might be more speedi-
~ forth coming.
, 1963-12-14
DEPT.

spokesman expressed the
hope that after the compile
ment Of the department is
brought up to strength, more
attention can be given to
these matters.
, 1963-12-14
" ]. GOING.

" /. Going.
itors are exposed to tht Virgin
Islands display it will be
cheap advertising for the is
lands.
Mr.. Moss also commended
Commissioners Of Commerce
Klmmelmen for his efforts in
behalf Of the Worlds Fair
venture.
, 1963-12-14

Te03AT85

Saturday, Dec. II
at AS and Bis pm.
Columbia Pictures presents
THE WILD WESTERNER"
starring
Guy Mitchell, James Philbrook,
Nancy Kovak
also.
Columbia presents
KILLER APE"
starring
Johnny Weismuller
Sun. Mon at S & 8:15
Tuesday at 5 only
Dec. Is, 16, IL
Paramount Pictures presents
The Pigeon That Took Rome"
starring
Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelh
Baccaloni, Gebriella Palotta and
larry GUARDING
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

Chrome Tenders, doUbIs-odvst-
cblo handlebors, 2-tons soddles
exfFa strong troining wheels.
White sidswolls. Red for boys,
blue for girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

Pink and blue swiri bells, white
Plastic fesfhins rails, on a full
size crib Of selected hordwoods
in lvstrovs white. HeoIthfvL firm
coil spring mattress included!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

Hardwood construction in lvs.
frous white or moplS finish, with
2 foet-eperoisd dropsides. Price
includes q qvolitY coil spring
crib mcttFess!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-01
Lively Gypsy Offered
BY Light Opera Troupe

Dixon and she really lets go
with Some People," Small
World" you'll Never Get
Away from Me" and Every
things Coming Up Roses"
Other lively musical mo-
mentS are Let Me Entertain
You" by Baby June and Baby
Louise Gypsy and her blond
sister as children, with LAM
RENEE and Candy Smith; the
youngsters skit, Baby June
and her Newsboys" with the
girls and Charles Martin, Ridge
Noel, Glenn Scimonelli and
Steve Tiller, and Rose, Gypsy's
and Herbie's Together Wher-
ever We Co." Billy Wall, as
Tulsa, is another winner with
his fancy softshoe and song,
"All / Need Is a Girl"
The show gets down to
serious business at the OPEN
ing of the second act with
the entrance of those three
strip teasers everyone has
been waiting to see. And it
can be reported here that Ray
Wasserman, Sylvia Kohrn and
Rosemary Plunket all disport
themselves with proper rever-
ence for their art.
Gypsy" continues at GAL
laudent Colleges air-condi-
toned theater through August
10. Second and final produc-
ton of the season is annie
Get Your Cum" opening Au-
gust 8 for three and a half
weeks.
BONNIE ALTMAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-01

That mammoth show bust
ness bug that hovers back
stage with the American
Light Opera Company has in
spired the youthful troupe to
enter its first summer season
this year. The result is a
spirited version of Gypsy" at
Gallaudet College Theater.
With less rehearsal time
than can be expended for its
fall shows, the company,
under the imaginative direc-
ton of Arch Lustberg, puts on
as fine a show as any Of its
past hits this year-"South
Pacific, "Pajama Came" etc.
Gypsy. of course, is the
Arthur Laurents julie Styne
hit from Gypsy Rose Lees me-
moirs. The story OF the in
dominatable mother who tried
to bulldoze her daughters to
a triumph in waning vaude-
vile is funny, tuneful and
sometimes very poignant.
ALOC's trio of lead players,
Charlotte Dixon as Mother
Rose (the Norman role), Lisa
Cannell as Gypsy and Ed
Meyer as Herbie, not only dis
play some fine singing but are
beginning to emerge as af-
fecting actors as well.
The songs with the most
gusto, naturally, go to Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-01
British Warned
On Race Friction

LONDON, Aug. / (AP).-Ar
official warning was sounded
yesterday about Simmerine
hostility between the British
public and immigrants, largely
colored.
The danger was stressed In 9
report by the Commonwealth
Immigrants Advisory Council
set up by the government to
explore the workings Of a Law
which last year restricted the
immigrant inflow.
The council urged govern
ment and municipal authorities
to reduce the misunderstand-
ings and hostility which un-
doubtedly exist on both sides to
a greater degree than appears
obvious on the surface"
Biggest of the immigrant
populations are Negroes from
the West Indies, who poured
to Britain in such numbers
during the 1950s as to give this
country its first domestic color
problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-01
Foreign Businesses
Fuce DC. Licensing

All non-profit foreign cor
porations conducting business
in the District must obtain q
certificate Of authority from the
office of the District Recorder
of Deeds by Tuesday. a District
official said yesterday.
Peter S. Ridley. Recorder OF
Deeds, said a new law which
became effective February 8
requires non-profit foreign cor
porations to obtain certification
from the District within six
months.
The chronicle., 1963-11-26
David Lawrence !. Y.
AFL-CIO Invitation To Dictatorship

a monopoly and the sale would
be barred.
Does the Constitution, which
says congress shall make no
laws which would undertake to
tell a newspaper publisher to
whom he can sell his property
or that he cannot discontinue
his paper and sell parts Of his
assets to one buyer and parts
to another? Many a newspaper
in the process Of going out of
business has sold its list of mail
subscribers, usually a Sma II
part of the total, and disposed
of portions Of its property
plant and equipment = to vari-
GUS purchasers.
Another phase Of the ALL
CLIO scheme which could inn
pair the market value of a
business is the requirement that
notice must be given in advance
of an intention to sell or suS-
pend a publication.
Newspapers are no different
from other businesses which are
merged or suspended due to eco
nomic conditions. The superior
efforts Of one competitor as
against another really determine
whether particular businesses
can continue on their own steam
or should be sold while there
Is still a chance to salvage
some Of the assets. In almost
every industry - for instance,
in the manufacture Of automo-
biles or in steel or in the corner
grocery - there has been a di-
minution in the number of BUSH
nesses but there has also been
an expansion in other directions
so that the total national out
put has risen steadily and en-
ployment has been substantially
augmented.
Labor leaders have at times
used their political and econom-
lie power - and particularly
their right to strike = to inter-
fere with the natural laws OF
business enterprise. The rail-
roads today are seeking mer-
gers because they cannot con-
tinue to pay the high wage
costs, especially for Feather
The chronicle., 1963-11-26
Who Stole Wheat?

few years, they have been snug
Cling it under the Iron Curtain
with the help of West European
friends and recipients of American
aid - notably Austria and West
Germany. A report in yesterdays
Herald Tribune disclosed that a
good part of the missing "a million
bushels of surplus grain bound for
Austria landed on the eastern side
of the curtain by way of the West
German ports of Hamburg and
Bremen.
"Some one has made a killing
and has made the American gov
eminent, Congress and the public
look like fools. We are entitled, at
least, to learn the identity of the
international gang which has been
taking us for a ride-and to dis
cover the extent of responsibility
by foreign governments. 1t would
also be useful to know why our
authorities failed to discover the
missing grain until after it had
been disappearing for three sue
cessive years.
"Now we know why the Rus
SLAMS decided to buy u wheat.
American sleuths finally caught
up with them, and they can't
smuggle it any more"
The chronicle., 1963-11-26
John Chamberlain
JFk Was No Halter

but a Roosevelt, a Truman, a
Kennedy, no. Suddenly, with the
news from Texas, you know
that the rules cannot be trust
ed. Mad men and haters can
set them aside. And your sor-
row takes a double dimension;
a young and intensely charming
leader has gone, and SO has
your trust, maintained through
out a long life of writing, that
the political wars in your
country will always be carried
out with a fundamental decen-
ey.
When q man dies, it is bad
enough. But when the vision OF
living people dies along with a
man, the sorrow is almost too
great to be borne.
What one feels like screaming
at this moment is a warning to
a nation that political controver-
Sy must not be conducted with
hate. As a commentator ! had
looked forward with great zest
to a 1864 contest for the presi-
dency between John r. Kennedy
and Barry Goldwater. You know
why? Because it would have
been, ii 1t had been destined to
come off, a battle between two
g~eod-humored and charming
men. The two liked each other,
even though they disagreed
about most things In the ideo-
logical spectrum. Goldwater Of
ten disconnected some OF his
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

Always, before, you had sup
posed that in America the
game would be played by the
rules. Assassination, as a means
of striking down a head OF
government, was something that
happened in benighted lands.
True, there were those things
that had happened before you
were born; the killing OF Nc
Kinley by an anarchist, the
tragic deaths of Lincoln and
Garfield at the hands of e q
whose minds were obviously UNI
hinged.
But anarchism, since the be-
ginning Of the century, had
dwindled to nothingness as a
philosophy of political action,
and one had assumed that mo-
dern presidents were somehow
proof against the evil intentions
Of the insane.
A Huey Long might be shot,
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

Two weeks ago we commented
on the disappearance of $32,OO0,000
worth of wheat, mislaid by the
u. S. Department of Agriculture
while en- route to Austria. We OBJ
served that no one seemed to be
upset, except Senator John j. Will
liams (R-Del.), who asked the Cen
eral Accounting Office to investi-
gate. GAG couldn't find the grain,
but it found that an additional
500, 000, 900 worth of wheat, feed
grains, edible oils and other sur
plus farm commodities had disap-
peared while en- route to South
Wet Nam, Colombia and Turkey.
Possibly casting some light on
this multi-million dollar mystery,
The New York Herald Tribune e
Gently asked the question "Who's
Been Stealing Our Wheat?" and
answered it in the following fash
ion:
"While the administration, the
Congress and the public engage in
debate whether to sell our surplus
wheat to Communist countries, we
are rudely jolted by the news that
they have been getting it all the
time.
unable to buy it directly from
the United States during the past
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

bedding" which is the name
given to payment made for work
not done. In the proposed law on
the merger of newspaper pro-
perties, would the buyer be re-
quired to give jobs to employees
he didn't need?
It is unrealistic to insist that
the government now should
become the dictator in the
transfer Of ownership Of those
businesses which are losing
money. Nor should businessmen
who are thinking of selling their
properties be compelled to tell
the world they are in danger
of bankruptcy If they continue
to operate. This kind Of law
is not likely to preserve thu
free-enterprise system but could
eventually bring instead a state
controlled system and legalized
monopoly.
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

al Trade COMMISSION is Snagged by tne
overlapping inquiry, admitted under
questioning that there was a great deal
of illegal phone monitoring going on in
Washington but that he knew of none
by the Justice Department.
In continuing to push their prelimi-
nary inquiry, the senators plan to sum-
mon Katzenbach and other topl evel
Justice and State Department officials.
They will be questioned about the
mentioning of Senate employe phone con-
versations with lower eschelon employees
of both departments as well as with
other private citizens.
The senators have asked the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee to turn
oyer its evidence of overlapping by State
Department Security officers, including
the admission by one official that he
recorded Il conversations unknown to
the persons involved in the calls.
BEHIND THE SCENES = Despite
those pious public statements that he is
reserving judgment in the case involv-
ing the dismissal of security officer Otto
Otepka, Secretary of State Rusk is max
ing his private views known throughout
the Department.
That's the closed-door report Robert
Berry, chief of the Division of Inves-
LEGATIONS, Office Of Security, gave a sec
ret meeting of special agents of the
State Department on November 10.
Berry told the agents that he had at
tended a conference with William Crock
EFT, deputy underseeretary for admins
t~ration, at which various division heads
and branch chiefs of the Office of Securi-
ty were present.
Berry said Crockett wanted them to
know that Secretary Rusk was very dis
turbed about the Otepka a S and its
related events, and that Otepka would
be punished.
According to Berry, Crockett made it
clear that Secretary Rusk was insist
ing on their loyalty to him. He report
ed that a second underground had
been discovered in the Department which
had been furnishing information to the
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee,
and that its members would be iden-
titled and dealt with in the near future.
Veteran security officer Otepka was
dismissed after being accused of turn
ing over confidential information to the
Senate committee about security risks"
In the State Department.
In concluding his briefing, Berry warm
ed all the participants in the meeting
that none of his comments were to be
disclosed outside the Office of Security.
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

overzealous and more huIror.
less followers by saying that
Kennedy had great charm. And
President Kennedy liked to rib
his old friend Barry in a good
natured way by saying that he
should stick to something ne
was good at - for example,
amateur photography. Goldwat-
er knew it was kidding, and
was warmed by it.
II these two had been fated
TO oppose each other, the seri-
GUS controversy of a preSiden-
tial campaign year would have
laced with fun. The cries ct
zealots would have been heard,
as they always are heard, but
the two principals in the contest
would certainly have disowned
those whose stock in trade is
the smear. We would have been
treated to a fair, clean and even
humorous battle of ideas, and
the zest, In following it, would
have been something to trea-
sure.
Now the future is clouded.
The Importance attached to ideo.
logical differences suddenly
dwindles. What one feels is that
the way in which the worlds
controversies are to be conduct
ed is far more important than
winning a victory for one idea or
another. The rules of decency
must be reeStabliShed; the re-
sort to violence must be abhor-
red no matter what great end
it may be supposed to bring
about.
John r. Kennedy liked to
win. But he was not q hater.
Somehow ! wish he had really
hated some foreign haters =
Castro, for instance. But this IS
an illogical demand. Kennedy's
hopes that he might get his way
even In the foreign field through
reason was part Of his colEte-
GUS nature, and it was good for
his own countrymen to have
such a man in the White
House.
The chronicle., 1963-11-26
Williom S. White
Death In The Family

erance, II a tolerance some
times hidden behind the brusque
mannerisms Of a master Of his
profession - politics = some
times impatient Of slower minds
and always impatient with
those of smaller motives than
his own.
have known no other nan
OF truer compassion - 10 the
poor and dispossessed, yes, but
also to those Of more favored
status who, too, sometimes weep
silently in the night from 3,
the anxieties, the pit'eer Dres-
sures and private despairs which
never wholly exempt any part
Of humankind.
have known no man Of more
true devotion to this country
all Of it, North and South,
East and West, black and white
and brown and yellow.
But precisely because he Is
a political genius, precisely be-
cause he has all his public Life
been too busy doing things :
and too proud - to explain
things about himself, this man
has had his tireless d~etractors
to a degree rarely seen In Arn-
erican politics.
] have said this is no time
for bitterness; accordingly this
is no time to go forward with
this theme. II is a time, how
ever, a desperately necessary
time, to appeal to them right
here In print to drop the little
animoSitieS of the past.
! have said that | have been
and have remained his friend
through the greater part Of the
life span Of us both; but l have
also on many occasions been a
critical friend on public issues,
and may no doubt be on many
occasions again. For among the
largenesses Of Lyndon Jc',nson
is that one form OF criticism,
and one alone, can move him
to swear like the combat naval
officer he once was - he who
can also weep for others like a
child. This is the criticism OF
malice based on motives that
are small and ugly.
This is a great political fig
ure, a great and natural lead
er. But this is also, first and
foremost and always o man,
MAN.
The chronicle., 1963-11-26

WASHINGTON. - When there
Is death La the family there Is
shock and horror and grief, and
then there Is = terribly and
Inevitably - the ha 5h aware
ness that Life must 90 on for
those who are left
When there Is death In the
national family. death removing
the very central arch of the
power and purposes Of the
Western world as brutal death
has removed John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, horror and grief are
inexpressibly multiplied. But one
thought, one emotion, must
master all others.
This Is that the Republic OF
the United States OF America
must go on, under the COM
mand now Of q new President,
Lyndon Baines Johnson. 1t Is
he upon whom the great burd-
en- has now fallen, and 1t does
not seem wrong to thank Provf
dence that the successor is
worthy of both the man who has
gone and OF the country they
have both always loved and
served, wryly, toughly, unsentt
mentally and CALAMITY well.
II ever In all our history
there was an hour when men
must put aside all that is small,
all that is angry and ugly and
pettily partisan In our national
life, this is, supremacy, tn a {
hour. For unless all the people,
the parties, the factions, tn
regions, the races, the clashing
private interests, can summon
up among themselves the sense
and honor to unite behind the
new President, the United States
of America will face perils Of
disunity 1t has not known before.
Who is this man, Lyndon
johnson, who must now have
the support, the help, and the
understanding Of all who are in
the United States and of all
they have and are?
What | am now about to say
/ should never in ordinary cir
cumstanceS have said, for In
ordinary circumstances it would
be housekeeping in its most
tasteless form. But because OF
the special circumstances, !
say it all the same. so that
readers may have some stand
ard to measure the worth of my
evidence.
For 30 years - since he was
a slim and eager young secre-
tary to q Texas Congressman
Il have intimately known Lyn-
don johnson as ! have never
known any other public - or
private - man. / have known
no other man OF more true toll