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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Our Trees

One week out of the year is not too
often to contemplate something which
is as much a part of our daily lives as
an inanimate object can be. So con-
slider natures masterpiece, the tree.
President Kennedy has in declaring this
National Forest Products Week.
In lonely majesty, the tree is all
joyce Kilmer said it vast stirS the
poet inside all of us. Arrayed alongside
the babbling brook, it is the artists
dream. Amassed in eye-filling Splendor,
it is the multiple-uSe forest, without
which we would be poor beyond COM
prehension.
Consider a few wooden statistics:
Our third largest industry, the forests
employ II million workers who turn out
SGT billion worth of goods annually.
Wages and salaries total $5.7 billion a
year. The more than 5000 wood prod
ucts create and affect other industries
reaching into the billions of dollars. Of
paper products alone, the average
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Reluctant General

Is the Republican P arty
going to allow q repeat Of
Gen. Eisenhower's 1860 per-
formance to cost us the
White House again2 Mr.. Nix
on came within q fraction of
winning in 1860 and II Gen.
Eisenhower had stirred him
self even a few weeks earlier
there is little doubt there
would have been sufficient
votes to elect Nixon!
At the m o nj nt the So
called leaders Of the Republi-
can Party are allowing them
selves to become befuddled
by a repetition of the indeci-
sion exhibited by Gen. Eisen-
hover in 1860. This must not
happen. We must unite in
our determination to rid our
country Of the Kennedy dy-
nasty.
Senator Goldwater rep
resentS many Of the dust
covered ideals Of this coun-
try. 1t is time someone like
him busted off such terms as
integrity, fiscal responsible
ty, solvency, moral RESPONSE
bility and patriotism.
Margaret w. Gary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Park in Korea

In what is generally acknowledged
to have been as fair and as honest an
election as any ever held there, General
Chung Hee Park has come out Of a very
close neck and neck race with more
than enough votes to make him PreSi-
dent Of South Korea for the next four
years. What remains to be seen, though,
is whether he will have the parliament
tary support he needs to carry out his
somewhat vaguely articulated proposals
for social, economic and political re-
forms.
His position in that respect will not
become clear until the returns are in
from next months vote-November
26-for new free Korean National As
sembly. If his Democratic Republican
Party (such designations are not para
doxical in ASia) wins majority of the
seats, then General Park will be In a
good spot to carry out what he obScurely
calls his revolutionary" program. 9th
erwise, before he takes over the powers
of the presidency in December, he will
have to go wooing among the opposition
to try to organize workable coalition
government.
According to those who know him
best, the relatively young President
elect Park is rather dour and austere
mans feet inches tall-who conceiv-
ably may have Korean-style Napoleonic
ambitions. There are those, too, who
say that he must be looked upon with
reserve, and some suspicion, because his
past filtration with communism (back
in the 1940s) may have sinister impli-
cations today-despite his present
strong anti-Red discourSes. This GER
tainly needs to be kept in mind.
Also to be kept in mind, however,
is the fact that General Park, whose
military junta seized power in May Of
1861, has now been Endorsed by the
Korean electorate. South Korea, under
his leadership, may really begin to
move on to better times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Science

In his address to the Centennial
Celebration of the National Academy Of
Sciences, DR.. Jerome B. WieSner, scien-
tific assistant to the President, said:
THE next century Of service to the
Nation by the Academy could begin on
no more important note than its con-
tribution to a broader comprehension by
all sectors of our Society-the scientific
community-of the emerging implica-
tons and opportunities of science in our
affluent society"
He is right. There is great confusion
about both the implications and the
opportunities.
- One recent source Of confusion has
been the transatlantic debate over the
scientiSt-novelist C. P. Shows thesis of
our two cultures"-one based on tradi-
tional humane letters, the other rig
orously scientific, even chronological
Many share the authors horror that
modern, educated man does not grasp
the Second Law of thermodynamics
The concern seems to us misplaced.
The academicians amply demonstrated,
during their three-day meeting which
ended here Thursday, that they are any
thing but locked in the laboratory intel
lectually. They have wide knowledge,
lively interest and strong opinions in
politics, literature and the arts.
AS to the Second Law, need it really
be part of every mans intellectual bag
gage? To a great degree, men are iden-
titled by their work and their pleasures.
For most non-scientistS, science is Meth
er. Politics and the arts, in contrast,
address themselves to the whole man
and to all men in literate democracy.
Some of the results Of modern
science, notably those Of nuclear phys
ics and astronomy, have caused an I'M
easy feeling that the whole basis Of our
life may have been altered while we
were looking the other way. But this
sort of anxiety is nothing new. When 1t
comes to displacing man from the center
Of creation, recent discoveries have
nothing of the shock Of CopernicuS
showing that the earth revolves around
the sun. In the 10Th century, Dostoyev-
sky wrote Of a young intellectual who
said, God is dead, therefore everything
is lawful"
But God is not dead. He was no
more killed by the news that E=mc2
than He was by the voyage Of the
Beagle. Nor have the truths associated
with Gods name been made obsolete
by present science. On the contrary.
:, Greek philosophers, Hebrew proph-
cts and Christian teachers have always
urged us to adhere to righteousness and
love in our dealings with one another as
men and nations. In the latter case,
'today's science may well have closed all
other options. Thanks to science, we
are in the process Of losing the alterna-
tive of violence. This is no mean
, achievement for the values Of the hu-
name tradition.
u In the broadest sense, there is only
one culture. We are fortunate to have
Somany excellent scientists contributing
to 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26

prevail from the Baltic to
the Boring Sea-"
This paragraph rings IA
miliarly in the ear because it
is. a duplication, almost word
for word, of those being made
today when Mr.. Khrushchev,
not the Gear, is in the
Kremlin.
Despite congressional de-
feat. a vast quantity Of food
was sent. Cassius MarcelluS
Clay, the fiery Kentuckian
(perhaps the most neglected
figure in American history,
who had been Ambassador to
Russia, urged relief. He sug-
gested sending it all in spe-
cially ground corn meal, with
a recipe, which he prepared,
for pone bread to be baked
on q gridiron or a plank. 81
eat it every day." he said, in
proposing that a few South
ern cooks be sent along to
teach the Russians.
Campaign Snowballed
1t was w. G. Edgar, editor
Of the Northwestern Miller,
who made the c a mpaign
SNOWFALL. All America partici-
pated. Railroads transported
flour and grain free. Western
Union sent kilograms without
cost. Shipowners donated YES
sells, six in all, and paid the
expenses Of the crews for the
long journey to Russia. The
farmers of Nebraska contrib
uted two trainloadS of corn
meal. Instructions, prepared
in Chicago and printed in
Russian, were sewed to the
sacks.
In Russia the Car discov-
cred that wealthy SPECTATORS
were exporting grain while
several million persons suf-
fered from hunger. He him.
self was suspect because he
did not order such rapacious
practices halted until they
were exposed by Americans.
There was a great fervor
of friendship for America
as there was to be in 1922
when the Hoover Relief Com
mission again took relief to
Russia. The Communist gov
eminent has never made ref
erenees to these two episodes
in history. That Of 1892, in
deed, is not well known, even
to Americans. But now in
1868 all Russians will know
they are eating American
bread.
tAll Rights Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Stand BY Doctor

we arc COIlCcEIlcu ONcE tIIc
allegations that our family
physician DR.. Bennett A.
Robin, submitted false test
reports on five new drugs.
That man has not only been
our family doctor, but a
friend, a source of strength
when my wife was slowly
dying in front of my eyes,
when twice I was near
deaths door and needed
heart surgery and didn't
know where to turn.
We called on him for help
time and time again, days,
nights-all hours. He never
rejected us although much
of the time we didn't have
the funds to pay him. To my
remarks Doctor, we can't
pay now" his answer was
Don't worry friend, we have
to get you feeling better
now" This was always a
way Of treatment for the
worried mind and beaten
spirit.
Is this the attitude Of a
man who has forgotten his
"Hippocratic Oath?
We know what DR.. Robin
has done for us and we are
ready to tell it to anyone
who is ready to listen, in
formally or in court under
oath.
Joseph Jacobs.
Evelyn Jacobs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry iDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied BY self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
This Is ProcticobIe?'

I greatly appreciated your
editorial. This Is Practical
ble?" My only quarrel with
this editorial is that 1t does
not 60 far enough in expos
ing the unsoundness and
outright Stiffness Of Mr..
Brewers proposal for a free
way down the Potomac PAIL
sades In Montgomery Coun-
ty. Not only would this g.
lane highway run closely
parallel to the almost COM
pleted 4-lane George WASH
ington parkway and the
existing 2-lane Macarthur
boulevard, but it would
also be close and parallel to
the completed 4-lane truck
route of River road. Con-
struction Of the proposed
freeway would thus result in
having Is lanes Of through
traffic running along the riv-
er within approximately a
mile and a half of each
other-only six of which,
George Washington parkway
and Macarthur boulevard, are
assured Of a proper connec-
ton in the District.
Mr.. Brewer reasons that
the Palisades route would in
jure fewer homes than any
other route. This may be
true, but 1t is unquestionably
true that such a freeway
would forever destroy the
scenic beauty Of the greatest
natural assets of the WASH
ington Metropolitan Area, the
Potomac Valley and the C. g.
o. Canal. Not Just thu
homeowners in the area but
all residents of the Washing
ton community will be losers
If Mr.. Brewers plan goes
through.
1t might be assumed that
only the most serious traffic
emergency would lead Mr..
Brewer to consider the de-
struction Of the natural beau
ty of the Potion &C Valley
area with q road that leads
nowhere. Such is not the
case, however. Mr.. Brewer
reasons tn It well-to-do
Montgomery Countians will
not condescend to ride rapid
transit when it becom S
availa BILE and that they
therefore must be provided
with a highSpeed, limite d
access freeway. This does not
follow at all. Those that pre-
fer to travel by car to pre-
serve their status should be
given every opportunity to
enjoy that status at length in
their slowly moving automo-
bileS. This solution is emf
nently fairer and more suit
able than the proposal to de-
prive some of us Of our homes
and all Of us of the enjoy
ment Of the scenic beauty of
the Potomac Valley and the
C. & o. Canal.
AnaStaSia T. Dunau
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Penalty for Rape

Truly, 1t has been written
that whom the gods destroy,
they first m axe mad. If
members Of the Supreme
Court are anxious to make
fodder for those opponents
who have claimed that the
court has often decided cases
from a sociological point Of
view rather than its inherent
legal aspect, they may now
relax. They have done so no
bly,.
Justice Goldberg. Joined by
Justices Douglas and Bren-
nan, dissented from the
courts rejection Of appeals
in two separate rape cases. 1t
would appear that these
three gentlemen feel that the
death pen atty in cases Of
rape constitutes "unneces-
sary cruelty"
Seventeen States and the
District of Columbia punish
this crime by the extre m e
penalty. Therefore 1t be-
comes the duty Of the Su-
preme Court to uphold the
law of. these States and not
to weaken it.
A citizen is required to state
his possible reluctance to
vote for the death penalty to
a Judge at the time he is
being examined for possible
jury duty. The members of
our highest court can do no
less. II they cannot, in good
conscience, uphold the death
penalty in such cases where
1t is called for by the various
States, then they should re-
sign.
No other step could pacify
their conscience.
M. W. Gordon.
We have q oted Supreme
Court Justice Goldberg's
statement with respect to re-
ducing punishment for rape.
Every surviving victim OF
rape should Immediately be
advised that she has under
gone her ordeal pursuant to
Justice Goldberg's view as to
the evolving standards of
decency that mark the pro-
gress of our maturing socie-
ty" making capital punish
ment prohibitive. 1t should
be a real source Of solace to
the survivors to know that
rape is not so serious under
the liberal, progressive, and
mature principles advocated
by Justice Goldberg.
r. H. Harrison.
= = 4 =
News item reporting opin-
ions of the Supreme Court
Death Penalty by Rape
Questioned by Justices"
King Lear (insane): Wher
I do stare, see how thu
subject quakes.
I pardon that mans life
What was thy cause?
Adultery
Thou shalt not die: die
for adultery? No:
The wren goes tot, anc
the small gilded fly
Does lecher In my sight.
Let population thrive.
AnachrOniSm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
'Troffic-Mokers'

A judge who compromises
justice Is unfit. A government
which compromises justice
abdicates its basic function.
It betrays the people upon
whom its authority rests.
Your recent editorial
Compromise, deplores the
public discussion of highway
versus transit. You urge COM
promise between public
transit and highway interests
which have used their power
to stymie Washington's sub
way. You say that those
agencies whose primary
concern is with esthetics or
with the social impact on
low-income Negro families
will have to accept the fact
that damage will be DONE"
At the present stage of
development, those who plead
human values in preference
to profits for the auto, oil
and highway interests have
justice on their side. Unfor-
tunately, however, they have
little else on their side.
For many years transit
policy has been set by the
vehicular traffic-makers
Their prime object has not
been public service, but only
profit for the corporate
giants. In all of this the peo-
pies representatives have
played a passive role VISA
Wis justice.
Scandal it Is, but scandal
is hardly an adequate word.
Perhaps the sell-out can
better be explained in another
way. In the land of the bland,
the compromiser is king.
Mark A. LiIlis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS
Two Instances of Aid to Russia
BY RALPH McGHL

Sale Of wheat to Russia
recalled an old story and a
reporter went back to the
Fish Room in the White
House to refresh his memory.
On the wall are two paint
ings. One Of them shows a
troika, the horses at a dead
run, entering a Russian viii
lage. A bearded smock-clad
man is driving. Standing
behind him, on sacks Of
grain, is a younger man,
wearing a red smock. He is
holding high aloft a large
American flag. On each side
of the village street are
cheering peasants. 1t is titled
Distributing Supplies"
The second painting is
less dramatic. 1t depicts a
ship entering a Russian har-
Dor. the American flag flying
from her mast. It is titled
THE Relief Ship"
A brass plate states the
paintings are by Ivan Con-
statinovitch Aivasovsky,
1817-1900, and that they
were presented by the Cor
coran Gallery of Art.
A Happy Era
Obviously, these paintings,
with an American flag being
cheered in Russia, were evil
dence of an earlier, happier
relationship. The Corcoran
Gallery confirmed this. The
paintings, they said, were
presented in 1898 by the
Russian artist Aivasovsky "to
express the hearty apprecia-
ton Of my country for the
assistance rendered during
the recent famine in Russia. T"
In 1892 aid to Russia was
not popular on Capitol Hill.
A proposal to appropriate
100000 for aid to the
famine victims passed the
Senate but was defeated in
the House. A congressman
from West Virginia, speak
ing in opposition, said:
Can we have friendship
between tyranny and liberty;
between Asiatic despotism
and modern civilization. :?
There is no friendship be-
tween such opposing forces. I
hope the hour will come
when we can clasp the
Russian hand in friendship,
but that day will not come
until the Tarta has mended
his ways. until con-
stitutional government shall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
Birth Control

The Senate District Com
mittee should support the
decisive action of the House
District Committee in strik-
ing out of the D. C.. budget
the ill-advised request to
Congress to authorize the use
Of Federal funds to buy con-
traceptive devices for unfor-
tunate D. C. welfare reci-
pientS. The honor and pres
tige Of the United States is
peculiarly involved in this
particular m a tier. The re-
quest for D. C. funds is tradi-
tionally sent to Congress by
the President, and his re-
quest is in turn considered
and acted upon by the House
and Senate. To even think Of
approving such a request
would constitute a pitifully
weak admission to the world,
from our highest official
sources, Of a woeful lack Of
confidence and faith in our
selves and our system. The
official use of Government
employees and money to help
underprivileged citizens pre-
vent new life from having to
face the conditions their par
ents live under in our country
constitutes a weakling's rem
edy and is unworthy of the
power and prestig e Of our
Nation.
The Russians scorned a
similar proposal recently at
the United Nations with the
vigorous and proud assertion
that under their system new
life had only a hopeful and
promising future to face, and
that their official efforts to
help the poor we're being de-
voted to confident construc-
tive purposes-eradicati ting
the social and economic con-
ditions causing the poverty
of the people and their chill
dren.
The real problem In this
country is not the increase in
population in the first place,
We have increased from a
few thousand and a mini
mum standard of living to
10000 people with the
standard of living corre-
Spondingly growing ever
higher. The real way to help
these unfortunate people is
to correct the social and eco
monte injustices that are
causing the plight Of SC
many Of our colored and 9TH
er minority groups. The con-
traceptive deal is a weak sor
we are throwing to the un-
derprivileged as an excuse
for our lack Of constructive
action.
This weakling and pres
tig ed estroying request
should never have been al
lowed in the first place to
creep into a proposal going
to Congress over the Presi-
dents signature. The House
Committee acted laudably in
protecting the h onor ano
good name Of our Nation BY
its decisive action.
Anthony M. Madden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-26
THE ECONOMIST
GIoboI Politics on RuciuI Lines
On Todoy's World

Senator Goldwater's and
President Kennedy's. Yet his
Is a voice likely to be listened
to in Washington. He is good
on what matters most to
Washington right now
keeping up the momentum
Of negotiations with the Rus
sians-but nobody could call
him soft towards Russia or
towards communism. And
he can be relied on not to
confuse matters with sepa-
rate initiatives Of his own.
But If Washington respects
Lord Homes opinions land
his loyalty when it comes
to dealing with the Commu-
mist world, then it might also
feel compelled to lend a
sympathetic ear to his views
on Africa and South Asia:
and these, up to now, have
been reactionary more often
than not.
This picture is, Of course,
not absolute. The Russian
Communists and the western
world will continue to COM
pete for the allegiance of
the poor, underdeveloped,
Laafa world with its multi
plying non-white popula-
tons. But the element. in
that competition previously
most easily exploited bysthe
Laafas is likely to be harder
to come by as the nature Of
the competition changes into
a more peaceful. less urgent,
operation. And the joker lies
in Picking. Until now the
Chinese Communists have
rarely provided aid military
or other to the governments
they consider "bourgeois"-
that is. to most governments
in the world. To qualify for
Chinese aid, in other words,
you have to be someone like
ly to deliver the goods. in
terms Of revolutionary So
cialism in your home coun-
try. That is quite a different
thing, in most Laafa eyes,
from playing the Russians
and Americans off against
each other with the object
Of remaining independent.
ct was Castro's original aim,
but he got 1t wrong)
Element Of Tragedy
There is = an element Of
deep tragedy in this general
picture, since 1t looks like
three rich white regions
Russia, the rest Of Europe,
and Misunderstanding arms
against the poor at the gate.
Since the poor peoples of
the world are. generally
speaking, also not white, this
implies a danger that, once
the Cold War ends. world
politics may polarize along
racial lines. The worst result
Of this complex situation
would be a world race con-
flict.
But the worst may never
happen. Just to make sure
that it does not, the Ameri-
cans land the Russians)
would do well, at this point,
to re-examine the basis of
their policies in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. For, if
aid is not to be given out
Of motives Of rivalry, then
some other dominant motives
generosity, awareness Of the
possibility Of race conflict)
will have to be found. The
alternative, in the long run,
might be to arrive at a situa-
ton in which DR.. Verwoerd
and Governor Ross Barnett
would laugh and laugh and
laugh.
JOE ROGALY.
"a The Economist
Intelligence Unit Lmited)