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Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31
County Affairs
COP RadicaIism

The radicalisn of the Republicans on the
new County Council is beginning to emerge.
There is already a pattern of subversion of
our Charter; government in secrecy; erosion
of the career service; flouted campaign pledg-
es; and abdication of responsibility.
In their platform and campaigning, they
piously promised to hold public hearings on
appointments of public officials; to keep plan
ming out of politics; and to administer in the
interest of all the people and not the interest
of a few politicians. After election at one of
their first meetings, with little or no advance
notice, without public hearing, they appointed
one member of their Central Committee to
the Planning Board and another member to
the Personnel Board. This cynical breach OF
promises is change for Montgomery County.
The threat to the career and merit system is
ominous
BY themselves these events might be
thought to be innocent But they must be
weighed in the backdrop of the gyrations in
the selection, retention, elevation and opera
tions of the so-called consultant Mr. Briggs.
Apparently recruited through subterranean
channels Of the Republican Party, this man,
without any prior administrative experience.
has become one Of the highest paid persons
In our public service. He is now, on a regular
and continuing basis, making recorhnenda.
tons on what jobs are to be created or abol-
ished, and in some cases, who should fill
them. These are managerial functions. He
does not have the minimum qualifications
for a manager set forth in the County
Charter.
The tax money being paid to him was
made available without following the supple
mental appropriation procedure of the Char.
ter. This salutaTy provision requires that
there be public hearing when it is proposed
to spend money for new purpose not bud
geted. The Republicans on the Council must
have had their tongues in cheek when they
asked the legislature to limit the Board of
Education in transferring sunds.
So far as can be publicly determined,
the work product of this aide-de-camp has
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31
by David Cahoon

been a rehash of older surveys - (same con-
clusions) - costly delays of needed projects,
- tine trash Will pile up on schedule) - and
tabulations Of unspent moneys (regularly
presented in the past by the regular staff.
What he has presented in the cIandestine
meetings with the Republican Council mem.
bers is unknown to the taxpayers. If he is
their advisor, the Republican Central Com.
mittee ought to pay for his services
The Democratic Council conducted it's
business in the open. When it felt the need
for outside consulting advice it budgeted for
it, solicited proposals widely. and selected
solely on the basis of independence and com.
petence. When it needed a manager. it adver-
used nationally, screened all applicants. and
selected the best qualified man. a registered
Republican For them, the taxpayers were en-
titled to the best and a nonpolitical admins.
tration.
They are not getting it now. What thev
are getting is questionable. Even the Council
men aren't sure. One evening the President
Protein told group that the Consultant
had already saved money. The President. a
Few days later. said, no one has said he had
saved money (1f the President PROTEIN Is no
one. they are going to have quorum problems
on the Council)
Behind this double talk Is one hard fact
filling jobs Is TO become a Council func.
ton. Thus, the Central Committee member
on the Personnel Board becomes significant.
1t becomes more pointed when 1t Is realized
that, although the COnsuItant is behind the
rate Of saving Of a year ago. he has identi.
fled jobs to be filled
Montgomery County has gone long way
in keeping politics out of public employment.
AS result we have attracted competent and
hard working career people This serves best.
both the taxpayer and his pocketbook.
If the Council would attend to its own
knitting of deciding what programs are to be
carried out and those that are not, we could
have some confidence in the integrity of our
government. It is now clouded and to date
decisive program of the Council is missing
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31

l cannot help but voice an
opinion on the recent actions
of our newly elected County
Council and School Board.
Our Council deems it neces-
sary to reduce expenses, this
would seem to be a step in the
right direction. However, to
do so, they hire an expert at
a salary, that is second only
to that of our County Manager,
who in the opinion of all has
been doing an excellent job.
Is that reducing the county
expense?
Our new School Board also
deems it necessary to reduce
expenses in the Board of Edu-
cation by reducing the budget
proposed by Mr.. Whittier.
Under Mr.. Whittier's guild
ance, Montgomery County has
had one of the finest education
al systems in the nation.
Are we to set back this fine
standard of education?
Just recently, our money
saving School Board tabled the
proposed Junior College. is
THIS WISE?
One of the known facts
throughout our nation is that
colleges are becoming more
congested. Our president has
urged our youth to continue
on through higher education,
but our School Board sees fit
to put off plans for a medium
of higher education.
I am sure that expenses can
be reduced in the educational
system, but let's not do any
thing to hamper advancement.
Let our wise School Board look
further and deeper into the
budget.
This, l assure you is not a
political letter or grippe, it is
just an opinion and voice Of
a proud citizen of Montgomery
County.
James j. Duffy
Rockville
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31
From This Angle
TeIevision Essay

Speaking from limited experience in view
ing television programs, l believe that
new form of television communication has
been developed on the Monday night program
(NBC-10 p.m.), David Brinkley's Journal"
David Brinkley, well known member of the
Huntley-B y-Brinkley news team, has taken a tele-
vision camera, an inquiring mind a sense Of
humor and varied choice of subjects to
produce a program which ranges from the
amusing and enlightening and penetrating
and arousing
believe that Mr.. Brinkley's informal but
searching look at the world through tele-
vision lens can best be compared to the essay
in the best sense of that term. Although his
comments flavor the program. like all good
essayists, he never intrudes himself between
the observer and the subject. There is no
flare of Oratory, no blare Of trumpets and no
high-pressured ballyhoo of any kind. His quiet
comments, occasionally interspersed with low
mood music sometimes seem to be under.
statements but they can be devastating.
The journal" usually spends half hour
on one or two subjects and occasionally a
whole hour is devoted to one subject In an
hour program some weeks ago the journal"
examined the Federal and state road pro-
grams. In Florida the camera picked up
crumblng concrete roads, crumbling because
salt or brackish water was used to mix the
concrete.
Out West the camera picked up an access
road to new highway with the name of a
town posted on directional sign. The access
road went nowhere, just ending in the desert
and there was no town of that name. AS
remember it, Mr.. Brinkleys comment went
something like this, "If you were planning to
build town by the name of --, here
is an access road already built, name sign
already up and lots of empty space to put the
town on" On this program, Maryland was
mentioned as one of the states that hire com.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31
Time to Knock Heads
BY state Senator Gilbert Guide

the Silver Spring area. AS matter of fact
there is substantial evidence that both are
needed. In either case, we need the facts SO
the proper agencies can adjust their programs
accordingly.
AS far as the Meta recommendations
are concerned, / was dismayed to note the
agencys failure to include major freeways
while talking about highways through some
of our parks. This is completely inconsistent,
not only with the Mass Transit Survey Of
1859 but with the thinking of park officials in
the District Of Columbia
One of the proposals, for example, talks
about using Little Falls Branch Parkway as a
major artery between 70-S and Macarthur
Boulevard. I can just imagine the reaction of
the homeowners in that area land I am one
of them) to having a high-speed highway
through that little, narrow stretch of parkland
behind their homes.
If the Meta thinks it is good thing to
route highspeed traffic through one of our
Maryland parks, it should be willing to do the
same thing through Rock Creek Park in the
District-and this has been suggested by many
Marylanders.
Nearly $4,000 new people move into Mont
gomery County each year-almost all of them
in automobiles. Add this to our already over
crowded highways and you can see what will
happen if we have to wait at least 10 years
for the first rail line to come poxing into Mont
gomery County. That is not my estimate
that's the NCTA's estimate of the time it will
take to extend mass transit to the District
line.
I am happy to see that the State Roads
Commission is speeding up its work on the
Capital Beltway. The new completion date
and a firm one, hOpe-is June, 1864. This
will help distribute the traffic around the
county, but we still need more radials, and
fast II the Meta wants Maryland money
for its rail lines, it had better awaken to the
just as vital need for highways and change
its plans to accommodate them.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31
Tremulous Feurs

In your edition of January
"a you carry a front page story
and an editorial concerning the
postponement of the second
junior college of the county.
However regretable this might
be, there is an item on page 3
Of the same edition which
seems to me to represent a
situation just as serious, The
article reports Mr.. Coyle and
Mr.. Woodward of the school
board as being upset because
the high school students Of
Montgomery County are voic-
ing opinions on a student
sponsored resolution concern.
ing the boycotting of segregat-
ed businesses.
These gentlemen have been
quite insistent that our schools
concentrate on teaching the
Three RS" / am sure that
they would also insist that the
principles Of democracy, but
they seem to object to the stu
dents putting one of the most
basic Of these principles-the
right (nay, duty) to air opin-
ions - into practice. Would
Messrs. Coyle and Woodward
recommend science courses
without laboratory work? I
think not. But wouldn't lee
lures on democracy without an
opportunity for practical ex-
perience amount to the same
thing?
Mr.. Coyle says the issue is
too volatile. This may be the
correct adjective for the issue
in Mississippi but hardly for
Montgomery County. But, vol
atile or not, If we are going to
suppress the expression of
opinion by our young people,
we can look forward to a gen.
Grafton of non-think citizens,
and we have too many of these
now.
The students who carefully
considered this issue and took
a definite stand one way or
the other are to be congratulate
ed on their maturity. The pro-
spects of their becoming use
full citizens of the future is
good. Let's hope that the stu
dents who stood aside from the
issue won't be the citizens of
tomorrow who, when asked to
take an active part in public
affairs, will say, let George
do it." But even more so, let's
hope that the tremulous fears
of some members of the school
board will not deter our teach
ers from permitting their stu
dents to discuss and take
stands on controversial issues.
Our society cannot remain vi
able If we become a nation of
fence.sitters.
Harold Quayle, Jr.
Wheaton
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31

In their religious education,
our children are taught to
Love thy neighbor as thy
self" and do unto others as
you would have them do unto
YOU"
In their weekday schooling,
they are taught the principles
of democracy, and then given
student councils of similar
forms of self-government with
which to put into practice
what they have learned in
theory.
What, then, are they to
make of the recently reported
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31

think the time has come to knock some
heads together to get an agreement on the
best and fastest methods of improving trans
portation facilities between Montgomery Coun.
ty and the District of Columbia.
This rather violent thought has occurred
to me because Of
/. The National Capital Transportation
Agency report which contains some good rail
transit proposals but ignores the urgent need
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31

for better highway
connections.
2. The delay of al
most a year in get
ting the State Roads
Commissions con-
sultants started on
their promised sur
vey of possible new
freeway routes into
Wash i n G t o n from
western and central
Montgomery County.
I am in a position,
as a member of the
Senate Finance Com
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-01-31

Elated by what I read, and
n e din 6 a good used car, l
rushed to the lot of Joe the
Continued on Page A5)
Evening star., 1963-12-30
Oceans of Paper

Once there was an ancient Egyptian
who got sick and tired of conveying his
thoughts to other people and to poster
ity by chipping hieroglyphs on stone. So,
he cast about for handler way of doing
1t. The result was a dried mish-mash
OF papyrus reeds that he could write on,
carry around, file in handy box and
even send to other people to look at
The reed he used has given It's name
to what we call paper"
That Egyptian scored one of the
great breakthroughs of history. But
little did he know, nor could he have
known as he contemplated his handi-
work, that in common with so many
other great inventions his new product
would prove not only blessing but also
a bane to humanity.
The blessing that paper has be-
slowed must be accounted greater than
the bane. (Newsprint, for instance.)
But the bane remains, in the form of
office 'paperwork." And, according to
Everett S. Calhoun, of Stamford Busi-
ness Institute, in a article prepared for
O-AS OU0AAACoc G4u1puIClI MdIluIdCGur-
ers Association, this country spends 81
billion annually just to maintain its
files. What is more, Mr.. Calhoun esti-
mates that so million file drawers cur
rently are in use, not including dead
storage; also that it costs about $75 a
file drawer annually to maintain cur
rent office files
Statistics like these came as no
special shock to Washingtonians. It has
been well known for years that the
Capital is in danger Of being utterly
crushed by the sheer weight Of paper
work involved in the conduct of gov
ernment. The Hoover Commission esti-
mated eight years ago, for instance,
that government paperwork could reach
the moon 13 times over.
There can be no panacea in dealing
with such a problem. But obviously a
start must be made somewhere.
Perhaps one good way to start
would be for each of us to think twice
before he commits anything to paper;
then, having committed 1t, to ponder
even more deeply the eventual con-
sequences Of filing it.
Evening star., 1963-12-30
SIeight of Hand?

Once again, for the umpteenth time,
foreign aid is to be subjected to search
ing study and review. The job is to be
done between now and January Is by
President Johnson's newly appointed
committee of "freSh minds" headed by
Undersecretary of State George Ball.
These fresh minds" most of whom
have been dealing with a wide variety
of wearying problems for long time,
have their work cut out for them. What
the President has asked of them is ''to
examine recent changes, to anticipate
the needs and demands Of the future
and to recommend measures and meth
DDS that will assure the most efficient
and most effective use Of all our foreign
assistance resources" This is directive
sweeping and broad enough to invite
recommendations that could lead to a
drastic overhauling Of the entire pro-
gram.
In fact, certain anonymous but
'well-informed officials" are already
predicting that the fresh minds" will
advocate Structural" changes designed
to give foreign aid a completely new
image. If the prediction is right, then
the Agency for International Develop
ment may we'll become a very small op-
Grafton compared to what it is now. To
that end according to the prognoStica-
tors, the President is likely to call for
the following steps, among others: (1)
The establishment Of the Alliance for
Progress as separate project entirely
removed from AIDS authority. And (2)
the transfer Of AIDS outlays on military
assistance to the regular budget of the
Defense Department.
Measures like these undoubtedly
would reduce AID to a relatively mex
pensive enterprise. This presumably
would please Congress, and practically
everybody else, by making the great bulk
OF the foreign aid program seem to have
vanished into thin air. In fact, of course,
the business Of dividing up these ex-
penditureS and hiding them in the
budgets Of other departments does not
in itself change anything but the sur
face appearance Of the program.
Mere budgetary sleight of hand is
not going to answer President john
sons questions. The fresh minds" have
their work cut out for them.
Evening star., 1963-12-30
Unsung Hero

Arlington County Traffic
Engineer Henry S. Hulme,
ir., is the unknown, unsung
hero of several hundred
Arlingtonians, residents Of
Dorchester Towers on Co.
lumbia Pike.
Recently steel plates left
over excavations in the street
caused loud, annoying re-
ports (not unlike shotgun
fire. every time a vehicle ran
over them, a constant annoy
ance since Columbia pike Is q
major traffic artery.
Complaints to the police
brought no action, only
Illustration. Well never know
how many lraCe residents
slept poorly or not at all on
account of the continuing
racket. Were a private party
of one of these residents to
keep an entire neighborhood
awake. can you imagine how
vigorously the police would
have acted?)
Finally. through a stroke
Of luck Mr.. Hume was con-
tacted. With a commendable
sense Of public responsibility
and humane understanding,
Evening star., 1963-12-30
With Asphalt?

A recent news item noted extern
Sive damage to the fine old stone lions.
sculptured by Roland Hinton Perry in
the early 19O0s, which flank the Taft
Bridge on Connecticut avenue. The
item mentioned that the city Highway
Department intends to patch em up.
Why, in heavens name, the High
way Department? What does it know
about restoring Statuary? We venture
no opinion on the value of the lions
as art. But surely their years Of sentry
duty on the Taft Bridge during the
last half century have given these
statues more stature than this.
Fine Arts Commission, where are
you?
Evening star., 1963-12-30
Aid 'Undermininq'

To defend further foreign
aid appropriations as protec-
tive Of American security or
as a defense against COM
munism Is q delusion and q
fraud.
If foreign aid were really
winning great victories for
freedom, or at least effective
ly strengthening the defenses
against communism. enter
prising Americans would
gladly pay the bill for their
own security. as in a war.
But a mountain Of evidence
now shows that foreign aid is
winning no victories and
strengthening no defenses.
AS an illustration: Laos, the
country which received the
largest amount of foreign aid
per capita Of any on earth, is
already virtually lost to the
enemy; Brazil, which re-
ceived some 50 billion, is on
the verge Of falling to the
Com munists; Venezuela,
which received some $640
million, has deteriorated
economically with subversion
and chaos rampant today.
AL of this evidence proves
something is vitality wrong
with the very idea Of foreign
aid programs which are not
only wasting our substance
but are undermining our
money system and bankrupt
ing our economy. The steady
drain in the gold backing Of
the dollar, known as the
balance Of payments prob
lem," is a direct result Of
foreign aid. The drain occurs
because we spend more
money abroad than we take
in from other countries.
The values that have
inspired our heritage are the
only lasting foreign aid"
which can possibly help
other nations. These are the
freedom of opportunity
which built this Nation into
the generous giant which has
fed and clothed and other
wise helped other nations
everywhere.
Geraldine BerryhiIl.
Evening star., 1963-12-30
A BOOK FOR. TODAY
By DONALD MINTZ
The Essence Is Serious

Prof. Werner's well supported
view, the strains Of being
Christian and Jewish at once,
the ambiguous position Of
"assimilated Jews" and the
thoroughly documented In
stances of Mendelssohn's
clashes with anti-Semitism
had profound effects on his
personality.
Second is the matter of the
composers relationship with
his father. Here Prof. Werner
is not particularly successful,
for he tends to substitute
erudite terminology for a
living portrait. Indeed, this
tendency appears frequently
throughout the book in many
different contexts; analysis is
too often d substitute for life.
On His Music
In the extended discussion
Of Mendelssohn's music, Prof.
Werner has tried to avoid
both highly technical discus
sions and the meaningless
verbalization of essentially
technical subjects that so
frequently passes for dis
course about music. The task
is impossible. Relative sue
cess is the best that can be
had, and Prof. Werner does
as well as anyone.
He emphasizes those works
that well informed musicians
would agree are important,
which is not always the same
thing as emphasizing those
that have remained popular.
Though he has clearly not
studied all of the vast number
of unpublished compositions,
he knows many of them. This
is important, for a few are
among MendelsSohn's genu-
inely superior works.
Unfortunately, there are a
number of clear musical
errors of considerable magni-
tude. For example. Prof.
Werner's notions of what a
quartet or symphony first
movement ought to be are a
priori, and, more important,
demonStrably not Mendels-
sohn's, and there is a crucial
mistake in the general view of
the "Songs Without Words"
Dixie Newlin's translation is
execrable. She has produced
not English, but Anglo
Deutsch. "StiIl" and cal
ready" are wild words that
can be introduced anywhere
to mean anything or nothing;
there is no more elementary
deficiency than this.
Prof. Werner'S book Is not
definitive; much remains to
be done. But it is important
and ought be widely read by
the music-loving public. Re
grettably, a good part Of that
public will not put up with
Miss Newlin's Pseudo Eng
lish.
Evening star., 1963-12-30
Treatise on Treaties

One can arrive at any
conclusions one wishes to
arrive at If one is so minded.
Paul A. Fisher in his letter
Of December % reaches the
conclusion that the Treaty Of
Tripoli. concluded under the
administration Of President
Washington and submitted
to the U. S. Senate by Presi-
dent John Adams, was later
virtually repudiated" under
the administration of Presi-
dent jefferson.
Mr.. Fisher reasons that
because a later treaty did not
repeat a previously esta-
blished statement, the con-
clusion to be drawn would be
that the earlier statement
was repudiated. To make
things obvious: If we should
make q treaty with another
country and state that our
country Is a democracy,
would 1t be necessary to
continuously repeat that
statement in future treaties
with that country? Would
the omission of such a state
ment be a reputation Of the
fact that this country is a
democracy?
When President Washing
ton had the clause under
Article II of the Treaty with
the Barbary Powers read "As
the Government Of the
United States is not, in any
sense. founded on the Chris
tain religion" would Presi-
dent Jefferson at a later date
and a later treaty find 1t
necessary to repeat that
clause? The Barbary Powers
were aware of the earlier
treaty and did not find 1t
necessary to have further
assurances on this matter.
The Treaty with the Bar
barry Powers was submitted
by President Adams to the
Senate on May 26. 1897. This
submission came after Presi-
dent Adams inaugural ad-
dress of March 4. 1897. The
treaty and its content, as
submitted, represented the
official expressions Of both
our first President, George
Washington, and Of our
second President, John
Adams.
A r. Tnmkin.