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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Sticky EnIistments

Some days it is hard to tell who
is shifting the most glue, the kids or
the adults. Take that Navy officer who
is objecting to a District proposal to
control the sale Of the sticky stuff.
He reasons that II kids don't get
glue, they won't build model airplaneS,
and If they don't build models, they
won't enlist in the aviation services.
Apparently 1t doesn't matter about
the boys who buy the glue for kicks
and, in the process, often suffer serious
health injury.
Perhaps the theory is that, given
ample glue to sniff, young man will
be Woody enough to walk into the
nearest recruiting office and give him
self up. But any recruiter who would
depend on glue to make his quotas must
have been shifting the stuff himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
The Art of Taxes

1t is good that the House Ways and
Means Committee proposes to ease by a
little the tax lot of the author, actor and
athlete. In those professions and in
others, the road to solvency is not, as it
is for most of us, slow and steady
uphill climb comparable to the grade
schedules of the Civil Service. Quite
often, in entertainment, sport and the
arts, Solvency is achieved only by kind
of financial "overkill." One year the
actor is starving; the next he's mil
lionaire.
Until now our tax law has ignored
this difference in pattern. When an
artist or entertainer has made it big"
he is taxed in his new bracket just like
the top business executive who has been
in the bracket for years.
To most thoughtful people, this has
not been fair, nor has it represented ra-
tional treatment of the talent that is a
natural resource we all benefit from.
Under the new proposals, the taxpayer
making more than third more than
his average income of the previous four
years will be permitted to pay taxes as
if the high income had been earned over
five years.
The committee is to be especially
congratulated because the taxpayers
affected are notably without political
power, being the most highly individ-
ualistic and unorganized group on the
rolls of Internal Revenue. The new ar
rangement will be more in accord not
only with the financial facts Of an
athletes or an authors life, but also
with the nature of the work itself.
The celebrated reply of the Amer
lean painter, James Whistler, applies as
we'll to the writing of book or the per-
lection of talent for sinking long puts.
Asked how long 1t had taken him to
paint a picture, Whistler answered in
simple truth, "All my life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-
law of South Wet Mans President Diem,
is a remarkable woman. Petite, very
pretty, highly intelligent and articulate,
she is political power in her own right
but an exceedingly controversial one,
with an exceptionally sharp and rest
less tongue. Indeed, she seems congenit-
ally disposed to say the sort Of extrava-
CANT and outrageous things that tend
to increase, rather than abate, her coun-
try'S internal tensions.
Thus, wholly apart from her efforts
to impose an abSurdly unrealiStic super
puritanical code of morals on South
Wet Nam, Madame Nhu, devout Ro-
man Catholic, has recently given voice
to tasteless and unjustifiably harsh at
tackS on the country'S BuddhiStS. These
attacks have been so extreme, in fact,
that her father, who is himself Budd-
hist and Ambassador to the United
States, has issued a statement-in be-
half of the Diem OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing her remarks as irresponsible and
showing "lack of respect" for sincere
believers in Buddhism.
And now, on top Of all this, the
irrepreSsible and ever-loquaciouS Ma
dame Nhu has got herself into hot water
with our State Department. She has
done so by declaring in an interview
with the New York Times that the
United States Embassy in Saigon has
threatened and blackmailed" the Diem
government in an effort to shut me
up" Wisely enough, however, the de-
partment has played it cool. Speaking
through Press Officer Richard I. Phil
lips, it has brushed her off with these
words: 1--WE don't wish to comment on
Madame Mus utteranceS, especially in
view of the fact that she does not have
any official position in the Vietnamese
administration"
This is the proper way to deal with
this Strong-willed woman, who never
fights shy of publicity. Actually, in his
own relationship with her as his hostess,
bachelor President Diem may sometimes
have in mind, in wry sense, the words
of Samuel Johnson: 81 am very fond
of the company of ladies. like their
beauty, like their delicacy, like their
vivacity, and I like their silence" Or
he may occasionally recall the Old
Testament proverb: cit is better to dwell
in a corner of the houSe-top than with
a brawling woman in wide house"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

A review by Star Staff
Writer Robert K. Walsh of
Prof. Kenneth Kofmehl's re-
cent book, professional
Stats Of Congress-" was read
into the Congressional Rec
ord on July %, so comment
seems pertinent. Prof. Kof-
mehl has indeed performed
an interesting task by study
ing in detail the operation Of
the congressional committee
stating system in its forma-
tive years, after the Legis-
lative Reorganization Act Of
1916. However, both he and
your reviewer seem to have
ignored several important
problems in the area of
minority stating.
Prof. Kofmehl assume S
that the main function of
congressman is to act as
intimate agencies for their
constituents. and that, there
fore, the principal danger is
excessive stating which will
lead to the Unconstitutional
ization Of members Of Con-
gresS.
However, since Congress-
men are delegates to a ma
tional legislature, their func-
ton is to deal with national
problems in the national
interest as seen from their
districts, not to be mere
errand boys for those dis
tricts. 1t is true that histor-
ically Congress has often
served in the latter capacity,
but now, in the mid-20th
century, with national prob
lens growing more and
more complex, our Nation
can no longer afford this
luxury, and the realization
is growing among Congress-
men that II Congress is to
retain its constitutional role
in our governmental system.
1t must equip itself to deal
more effectively with ma
tional problems. This has
initiated a fresh interest by
Congress In congressional
reform. 1t is scarcely be-
lievable that a political SCI
enlist would wish to dis
courage this attempt at re-
form and reconsign Congress
TO a role 1t wrongly acquired
and is attempting to discard.
Minority stating is only a
single facet, though an i'm
portant one, OF the entire
problem Of increased con-
gressional stating to equip
Congress to better fill its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Reds and RuciuIism

An editorial in The Star a
few days ago speculated
about possible Communist in
fluence in the racial equal
ity movement.
There are probably many
people who have privately
concluded that Communists
may be promoting and in
spring the Negro activity to
some extent.
But, If this is true, isn't it
all the more reason for
speeding up efforts to abol-
ish discrimination?
And wouldn't it be wiser
quietly to take whatever
steps can be taken to elimi-
nate, or reduce Communist
influence. rather than adj
vertise to the world that it
is Communists who are lead
ing the campaign to obtain
justice for Negroes in the
USA?
BY the way, why are some
people bemoaning the fact
that the Negroes seem to have
a number Of leaders, presum-
ably representing different
viewpoints and attitudes
among them? Let's not start
clamoring for one strong
leader who speaks for all
Negroes. After all, we might
get one.
Florence Allen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Phony Civil Riqhts

Very few members on the Repub-
lican side Of the House can take pride
in their performance on the vocational
education bill. For the antidiscrimina-
ton amendment which they offered was
politically motivated and threatened
the life of a much-needed piece of
legislation.
The amendment oStenSibly was in
tended to guarantee that Negroes, hard
est hit in the present unemployment
pattern, would not be denied vocational
training in schools aided by Federal
funds. But there could not have been
a legislator in the House so naive as to
believe that this was the real purpose
Actually, it was transparent at
tempt to booby-trap the bill with a
condition the Senate would never buy
The upShot was the strange spectacle
OF liberal Democrats joining a Negro
member in arguing against civil rights
proposal.
Before he voted against 1t, Rep
reSentative Hawkins, Negro freshman
member from California, said "the real
danger Of this amendment is that it
will defeat the bill and deprive more
Negroes Of needed training than even
whites" That was because in the Deep
South and elsewhere, he said, white
people could go to private schools
Negroes could not afford.
- AS finally passed and sent unen-
numbered to the Senate, the bill prom
ises to strengthen job training by au-
thorizing $3.50 million in Federal grants
over the next four years, in addition to
$57 million already available annually.
More adults and young people, such
as school dropouts, would be reached
through more schools teaching latest
job methods. 1t is good bill. And
as to those sincerely concerned about
its fair application, they will have a
chance-at the proper time-to show
how they really stand on civil rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS
Civilizations Never Stand Still
By RALPH McGILL

As all but the more par
tisanly obtuse members of
the Senate have seen in con-
Sidering the nuclear test ban,
there is no evasion of the
central issue of our time.
The waters and the soil of
earth and the atmosphere
we breathe already are
poisoned. The degree of it
varies with geographic To-
cation, the passing Of time
the blowing of winds, the
teaching effect Of rains, and
the oxidation of materials.
All this has happened be-
cause nuclear weapons have
been tested across much of
the past 10 years. These wea-
pons quite literally can des-
troy all life on earth.
The historian Toynbee
thought in the days of the
first atom bombs that in the
event of a war, perhaps the
central area of the African
jungle, where the pygmies
dwell, might be left relatively
untouched. But now we know
that Strontium-90 is. in some
measure in the leaves of the
plants, the waters, and the
bones Of the animals and the
people even there.
Test Ban a Symbol
This is why the modest
little test ban, which will
find the Soviets and the
United States agreeing not
TO explode nuclear devices in
the atmosphere, Is develop
ing so much hope. 1t is, to
be sure, but a small life raft
flung into troubled and
dreadful waters. But 1t is a
symbol. General de Gaulle
will, in time, agree to ac-
cept the symbolism Of it with
his signature. But how long
1t will endure, or whether II
will expand or disintegrate
into war. none may say.
1t was in August that the
the great powers went TO war
in 1914. The Goth Century
was then but IA years old
an infant. Millions died in
that war, the first to be
mechanical with tanks, air
craft, new and terrible ma
chineguns, flame throwers,
and poison gas. We proceed
ed on, with the coming OF
dictators TO the second world
war. II introduced still more
marvellous .mechanization -
huge bombers, fast fighters,
flying BIS, monstrous
tanks. and landing craft for
amphibious war. There also
was a new element - gas
chambers. And into them
went millions Of men, women
and children whose only sin
was that one OF the dictators
thought they should be de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Mass Transit

Glib Crockett is one Of the
greatest. I have admired him
for years, particularly in view
of the fact that he usually
stays with the facts and
adroitly castigates deceit and
untruths.
So it is difficult to under
stand why he reversed this
formula 100 per cent in his
cartoon on July 81, in which
he pictures the so-called
highway lobby" rolling over
the mass transit plan"
Not one member Of any in
dustry connected even re-
motely with highways has
ever said a word against a
mass transit plan" In fact,
every member of the high
way-oriented industries have
gone on record as definitely
favoring a mass transit
plan"
There are several types Of
mass transit plans" and
there is much controversy as
to which is the best mass
transit plan" for the people
of the National Capital area.
The Meta, in order to fur
ther its recommendations for
a railroad mass transit plan,
has endeavored to "sink the
highways" 1t has asked the
taxpayers Of our Metropoli-
tan Area to give up over 5000
million of highways and free
ways for which we have paid
and for which we are con-
tinuing to pay under the Fed
eral Highway Act whether we
get these freeways or not.
Furthermore, Meta has asked
us to dig down into our over
burdened taxpockets to fl
nance an additional 50 billion
railroad mass transit" sys-
tenn. Isl billion for cost; 81
billion for interest.)
Everyone in the mass trans
portation field knows that
rail mass transit was obso-
leted in the teens and the
twenties from the point of
view Of normal good business
economies. 1t Just simply
cannot pay its way.
Conversely, bus m a S S
transit not only does pay its
way but puts back into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

proper, and in this age neces-
Sary, role.
Increased congressional
stating, and especially mi
nority presently Republican,
stating. is imperative today
to correct a situation in COM
parison with which the dam
ger of "overinstitutionaliza-
ton" Of Congressman pales
into insignificance. The exec
utive branch today Is this
country's largest pressure
group. Every Federal depart
ment and agency is a lobby
with a vested interest in sue
cessfully acquiring new APP
preparations, continuing old
and initiating new programs.
Administrative staffs I'M
avoidably reflect this bias.
Especially when the Presi-
dent and both branches Of
Congress are controlled by
the same party; that is.
when the same party con-
trolls both the congress
sional and also the vast
resources Of the administra-
tive staff, 1t becomes impera-
tive for the minority party in
Congress NOW the Repub-
licans) to have adequate staff
resources responsible to it, in
order to fulfill the obliga-
tons Of a responsible minor
ity party to the Nation-to be
informed, to criticize con-
structively, to check the
Executive, and to propose
soundly-researched alterna-
tive legislation.
To imply, as Prof. Kofmehl
does, that congressional
stats can be nonpartisan,
simply ignores political reality
Obviously staff members will
have an allegiance to those
members Of a committee (the
now Democratic majority
who hire and fire. promote
and denote them. and have
first claim on their time.
Is not the proper function
Of committees, as servants OF
their House. to expose issues
for full floor debate2 II so
partisanship is desirable a:
an aid TO full debate. Can
the minority perform any
constructive functions II 1t IL
denied staff resources either
through partisan abuse Of
through congressional I'M
derstaffing In general2 II
not, the minority, and the
committees in general, should
be provided with enough
staff TO deal with the COM
pick issues Of our times and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
In Defense of Con gressionoI Stating

to act as a genuine check on
the executive branch. The
most disappointing aspect Of
Prof. Kofmehl's book is that
he does not answer these
questions. He does not even
ask them, He simply as
sumes them away.
We in the Congress who
have to operate the existing
system cannot do this. how
ever. We have to work with
a situation in the House and
Senate where Democrats
outnumber Republicans 3 to 2
and 3 to /, yet staff respon-
sible to the Democrats
outnumbers staff responsible
to the Republicans 10 to l
and II to l respectively. We
see first-hand that this stu
alton Injuries both Congress
and the people, whom it rep
resents. To deal with the
problem we have formed the
House Republican Confer
ence Committee on Increased
Minority Stating. whose
members are Congressman
Thoma Curtis (Mo.),
Charles Goodell IN. ",
Robert Griffin (MichO, John
Lindsay IN. ", John Rhodes
(Ariz.), Paul Schenck (Ohio),
John Anderson (IllO, James
Cleveland IN. H., Catherine
May (Wash), Robert Nc
Glory Qll). Albert Quie
Mimi, and myself as
chairman; and the Joint Ad
Hoe Committee on Increased
Minority Stating including
Senator Hugh Scott pa,
chairman Congressman
Thomas Curtis (Mo.). vice.
chairman: Senators Carl
Curtis (Nebr.), Winston
Prouty (Vt). Congressman
Glen Lipscomb (Calif), and
myself. These committees
belle Prof. Kofmehl's con-
tention Of intra-party cleav-
ages. Their members come
from every part Of the
country and represent the
full liberal-conservative spec
trum. But they are all Re-
publicans.
Minority stating is not a
partisan issue. Republicans
will not always be the minor
ity and Democrats the ma
jority. It is. therefore,
strange that Democrats, who
claim to speak for all the
minorities, neglect so sadly
the cause Of the minority in
Congress.
Fred Schwengel,
Representative from Iowa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

1868. In their opinion the
Governor would be through.
The other move on the part
Of the Republican liberals is
the recent creation Of q 'Re-
publican Critical Issues Coun-
ell" - an offspring Of the
Republican Citizens group or
ganized at a meeting at
Hershey, Pa, with the bless
ing Of former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower. This
Republican Citizens group, it
was announced, would help
organize the grass roots vot-
ers, particularly independents
and disgruntled Democrats. It
would keep It's hands off party
policies and the contest for
the presidential nomination.
Now comes the RCIC, whose
chairman is DR.. Milton Eisen-
hover, the former Presidents
brother, and membership of
which includes several for
mer cabinet officers in the
Eisenhower administration.
And 1t plans to write about
political issues of the day.
What it writes will scarcely
be along conservative Re-
publican lines, along lines
that Senator Goldwater be-
lieves sound.
Council as an Irritant
Issues m a Ike themselves.
They are not made by a Re-
publican Critical Issues Coun-
Gil, any more than they were
made by the now defunct
Democratic Advisory Council,
which functioned from No
vember, 1856, until Presi-
dent Kennedy was nominated
in 1860. The Democratic Ad-
visory Council was authorized
by the Executive Committee
Of the Democratic National
Committee and appointed by
the then Democratic ma
tional chairman, the late
Paul Butler. If it had any in
fluence on the Democratic
leadership in Congress and the
votes cast in the Senate and
House, it was not visible to
the naked eye. This new Re-
publican Council has no con-
nection with the party's ma
tional organization. 1t is not
received with cheers by the
Republican leadership in Con-
gress. But it can be an irri-
tant to the national commit
tee and to the Republicans
in Congress, who may think
that the money it uses could
be put to better campaign
purposes.
AS for G. o. P. presidential
possibilities. some of the OPP
ponents of Senator Goldwater
have no love for Gov. Rookie
Teller as a nominee. If neither
is the final selection, it could
be a Romney, a Scranton or
a Morton. There has been
talk of the G. o. p, in des-
peration, turning to former
President Eisenhower, or to
former Vice President Nixon.
Gen. Eisenhower, under the
Twenty-second Amendment to
the Constitution, cannot be
elected President. That the
party will turn again to Mr..
Nixon, defeated for President
in 1860 and for Governor of
California in 1862, is just a
part of the midsummer
madness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Fate of Fort Miles

The Rambler notes that,
despite a great deal of inter-
est in Washington in the
fate of Assateague Island,
there has been much less
publicity in the Nations
Capital about a much nearer
ocean-front property that is
available for recreational
purposes.
His reference is to Fort
Miles, now declared surplus
to the needs of the Depart
ment Of the Army. Fort
Miles, about 1000 acres, is
just to the north of Reno
both Beach in Delaware, and
would be about 80 or 40 miles
closer to Washington and
other population centers than
Assateague Island. The 900
surplus acres seem to include
almost three miles of ocean
beach and almost two miles
Of bay front.
The Rambler is correct
about lack of publicity. In
the long battle over owner
ship of Assateague Island, /
do not recall mention of the
Fort Miles situation.
Unless C 20 m polling and
non-evldent reasons exist, it
would seem nonsensical for
one agency of the Federal
Government Department Of
the Interior) to attempt the
costly process of condemning
property belonging to 5000
property owners for public
recreation purposes, when
another agency of the same
Federal Government (De-
partment of the Army owns
comparable and surplus
property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry Ipriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condensG-
ton. Those not used will be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Use for Union Stotior
John G. Irwin,

The Star pictures of Union
Station - to-day and 81
years ago" - indicate a
need for a wider use Of this
colossal building.
/ suggest that it be made
q transportation depot for
both train and airline traf-
fic, where helicopters, buses
and limousineS can carry
passengers to and from near
by airportS. X. ID. VaSs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

stroyed so he could build a
super race Of his own kind.
Now the Goth century is
SO years old, and we have
nuclear weapons and mis-
siles that orbit the earth.
The testing of them is, as
aforesaid, registered in the
bones of mankind, in ami
mails, in the grasses, the
seas, rivers, earth and air.
Nor is that all. Already SCI
entists talk of the possibility
Of creating a vast. thick ra-
diocative blanket that could,
and would, hover over a
whole continent. destroying
all beneath 1t.
As the goth century began,
the Krag rifle, the cumber-
some Calling gun, and horse
drawn field artillery were the
most deadly weapons. Now
the century is Just past three
score years. 1t is grazing a
bit, but in the ability to kill
it is much more sophisti-
Gated.
What Weapons in 1000?
The century has a mere 81
years to go before reaching
the year 1000. If the pro-
erosion in science and
weapons continues as 1t has
since 1900. more especially In
the past 20 years, what will
we have-and know how to
do-in 1000?
Presently it seems obvious
that we shall have worked
to develop test bans or will
have gone to war. In the abb
sence of war, new political
alignment on a worldwide
scale will grow out of treaty
negotiations.
II we look back we see
that history never stays still.
The political treaties In 1914
died with the war. Kings and
czars fell. New nations were
born. The second world war
came. Out Of 1t came various
treaty organizations -
NATO, SEATO, the Warsaw
Pact, and so on. AS the Chi
nese-Soviet gulf widens there
will be treaty changes In Eu-
rope and Asia. DeGaulle weak
ems NATO.
Civilizations never stand
still. They 60 forward or
backward.
(An rights reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

q. When during the day
is humidity highest and low
est2-R. d.
A. Relative humidity in any
locality tends to be at It's
maximum about sunrise and
at its minimum In the aft
ernoon. The same Is gener-
ally true OF fogs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10

tax Golfers Of our community
thousands upon thousands Of
dollars which we would other
wise have to dig up addition
ally ourselves.
Your own incontrovertible
proof Of this statement lies
in the two pictures (and
article you published in the
same July 81 issue of The
Star entitled Union Station
Yawns as Traffic Fades"
Harold e. Wirfh.