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

A bright spot appeared on the Wet
Nam horizon last week with the report
that the Kennedy administration had
concluded it had no acceptable choice
except to live with President Diem for
the time being. The reasoning was
that the use of force by us to topple
the Diem regime was out of the queS-
ton; that there appeared to be no
chance Of successful coup by the
V1etnameSe military, and that 1t was
not possible to drive a wedge between
President Diem and his brother, Ngo
Dinh Nhu. In these circumstances, &C
cording to the report, the decision was
made to stick with Diem as the only
alternative to throwing in the sponge
in the war against the Communist Wet
Cong. From the beginning, it has
seemed to us that under existing cir
cumstances this is the only policy that
makes sense.
Too many cooks, however, are try
ing to muscle into the act. Some Of
tenders are in the Senate. Take Sen
ator Carlson, Republican Of Kansas,
for example. He proclaimS that the
American people are fed up with being
tiled up with dictator" in Southeast
Asia. Matching or possibly overmatch-
ing this piece of nonsense is the contri-
button from Senator Church, Democrat
Of Idaho. Threatening to try to cut off
aid to South Wet Nam, he says we are
losing all perspective IF we don't re-
alize how shocked, indignant and
aroused the people of the world are" by
realized this, and the prospect doesn't
panic us. For this country Is not en-
gagged in world popularity contest in
Wet Nam. It is trying to win a dirty,
vicious war against communism. The
time to start worrying about how
shocked other people are will come
when they are willing to pitch in and
help fight the Wet Cong.
There are also some cooks in the
State Department. On the transparent
preteXt that conditions in Wet Nam
are unsettled" the State Department
is discouraging visits there by Ameri-
can officials and dependents. Even the
Secretary of the Army has been fright
ened off. Pursuant to the State De-
partment'S stand, Mr.. Vance on his
first official visit" to the Far East has
stricken Wet Nam from the list of
places he will visit.
Just what is this childish bust
ness supposed to accomplish? Are the
eager-beaver cooks, seemingly in a di-
vergence from administration policy,
trying to shame Diem? If so, they are
wasting their time and are also causing
this country to look ridiculous. They
promise to wind up making hash of any
rational policy in Wet Nam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
De GouIIe 'Tid-Bits'

Your editorial, DE Gaulle
on Wet Nam" is filled
with impassioned vitupera-
ton, conjuring up all the
past myths that you and Of
fetal experts" want TO be-
lieve.
Despite what you may
think OF French influence in
that region OF Southeast
Asia, the cultural roots are
deep. I have worked with
Vietnamese and Cambodian
people, have visited the sur
rounding area, and realize
that since the threat OF CO.
lonialism has passed into his
tory, many look almost nos
talgically on what was once
their only link with Western
civilization. Deny II II you
will, but the recently arrived
American represents material
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
TorontuIo MoIiuned

I feel sure your newspaper
would not knowingly serve
superstition to your subscrib-
ers, but unfortunately that
is exactly what occurred in
your recent article entitled,
"Teen-Agers With Deadly
Pets"
That articles tommyrot
that tarantulas are deadly
poisonous" to men was ex-
ploded long ago. It is too
bad to reSurrect it at this
late date with sad conSe-
quences to a part of our
beneficial wildlife. My hus-
band is a prominent natu-
ralist; I am a naturalist
writer. We know tarantulas
at firSt-hand, having them
often in our home. We have
taught hundreds of children
the value and harmlesSnesS
of tarantulas.
Our wildlife is being killed
off all too fast as 1t is, what
with human population in
creaSing out of bounds, and
with mans indiscriminate,
arrogant, know-it-all use of
pesticides, insecticides, weed
icides, fungicides, rodenti-
cides-all of which may one
day end in suicide for man
himself. The lust to kill wild
misunderstanding the lowly
friend Of man, the tarantulas
needs throttling, not en-
couragement under pretext
of harming man.
Marguerite A. Smelser.
San Bernardino, Calf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

In view OF the many IN
accuracieS and half truths
contained in your September
2 editorial entitled The
Syrian Issue" I feel duty
bound to offer the following
comments:
United States Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson in his state
ment before the Security
Council, as we'll as the
Anglo-American resolution,
went much farther than the
findings contained in the
UNTSO Chief of Staff's re-
port submitted to the Coun-
Gil, since those findings do
not lay responsibility for the
deaths of the two Israeli
farmers on Syrian citizens,
much less on Syrian soldiers.
The mere cooperation Of
the Israelis with the truce
machinery would greatly
contribute by itself to the
improvement Of that ma
chinery. 1t is a we'll known
fact. corroborated by the
United Nations, that the
Israelis, for many years,
have been boycotting the
meetings of the Syrian
Israeli Mixed Armistice
Commission and have ham,
pered the movement of the
UNTSO observers in the
area.
Syria does not follow Wis
Avis Israel, a policy Of har-
aSSment. including so-called
senSeleSS and brutal killings,
but one Of containment in
the face of Israeli continu-
Gus nibbling at Arab terri
tories, and Of Israeli expan-
Sionist aims. Actually, most
border incidents, If not all,
are the result of such Israeli
repeated violations Of the
General Armistice Agree
ment.
Syrians are certainly for
tunate to be on high ground
in certain areas bordering
Palestine, since the advanced
Israeli colonies are not in
nocent agricultural settle
mentS, but military strong
holds strategically located to
serve as springboards for
Israeli military incursions
into Syrian territory. or as
tools for Israeli expansion in
the demilitarized zones.
The best way to ease ten
sion and promote stability in
the area is to compel Israel
to carry out the resolutions
Of the United Nations and
respect the provisions Of the
General Armistice Agree
ment.
Finally, your editorial
would have done we'll in
scrutinizing the real motives
behind Israeli tanning Of a
border incident with which
the Mixed Armistice Com
mission could have dealt.
DR.. Jawdat Multi,
Minister. Embassy Of the
Syrian Arab Republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
School Prayers

I share Roy Torcaso's con-
Germ in a recent letter to The
Star about hool Board
President Wesley Williams
statement concerning holding
religious ceremonies In spite
OF the Supreme Courts rul-
ing. I disagreed personally
with a recent Supreme Court
decision. but I believe that as
an American 1t is my duty to
obey the rulings Of the court.
1t is time for all OF us to be
concerned when public Of
ficials defy the laws Of the
land.
Could 1t be that Mr.. Will
liams thinks that our homes
and churches are inadequate
to the point where they need
such small help as a school
exercise can give us?
Fred b, Jackson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

LOO muCA dCJe1ClOn is DeluS
fixed on the iffy matter Of
whether Senator Goldwater
will actively seek the Repub-
lican presidential nomination.
For in all this preoccupation
with the uncertain, the tend
ency is to obscure something
that is already both certain
and profoundly significant.
This is the great certainty:
No matter what his eventual
attitude may be toward ask
ing for the big prize, Senator
Goldwater has already the
final Northumberland the
undoubted capacity-to force
the Republican national con-
vention into a historic fight
for control of the mind and
purposes Of the party. 1t can
well be a struggle between
right and left of a severity
matched in this century only
by the bitter contentious Of
the William Howard Taft and
Theodore Roosevelt forces a
lifetime ago.
Senator Goldwater, as is
clear to those IN position to
watch him at close hand, is
painfully involved in a debate
within himself as to the wis
dom Of going about for the
nomination. One day the
balance tips toward Eyes"
Another day, it teeters down
toward no" But this in
decision on the point of his
personal ambition is accom-
panied by a totally fixed
decision on the point of what
policies the Republicans
should take to the country in
the next years presidential
election. no matter who the
standard bearer may be.
His UnShakable Resolve
Senator Goldwater has said
privately that his one I'M
shakable resolve is not to see
the G. o. P. leave next years
convention hall with a plat
form on the harsher domestic
isSueS-notably civil rights
that seeks in any way to
out promise" the Democrats.
He has added that If he
should seek and win the
nomination he would refuse
to run on any platform that
attempted to further divide
the American people"
Rather, he will insist on
a statement of unity that
would tend to bring America
together rather than to con-
ttnue to divide 1t for the
benefit of politics. This gen.
eralization means, among
other things, that Senator
Goldwater will not accept
any compulsory civil rights
plank that would be genu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

dollars, military and eco
nomic aid, and another for
eign language to tackle. You
cannot erase decades of
French civilization and Gull
ture in that area in a span
Of a few years, if ever, and
this seems to be the bone
Of contention on this side Of
the Atlantic. Beyond your
myopic view of Diem Bien
Phu lies an ineradicable and
great French contribution to
that Asian region.
The fact also remains that
since Dulles diplomacy, our
policy experts apparently
lust don't know how to do
the job" to borrow your
words. and to the tune of
SO billion, If that figure is
correct. So why all the hys-
terra? Far from being unreal
istic, President de Gaulle's
comment makes good sense
II only as a new orientation
to q vexing problem. Unfor-
tunately. it strikes at the ego
and pride Of self-conscious
and conscientious U. 8. ex-
pertise which is as sensitive
and exaggerated today as any
the French have ever display
ed in the past.
But then, September is
here again, so it's time for
the press and Government Of
ficialdom to take out all frus-
trations on the French. It
happens almost every year.
Perhaps If at least one WASH
ington newspaper would
print exactly what President
de Gaulle says, instead of
quoted tid-bits to fit tons Of
journalistic comment, Ameri-
cans could form a reasonable
opinion of their own.
Lloyd w. Burnham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

@. Is it true that the num-
mified body of a former
preacher is preserved in a
church ir Finland2-J. c.
A. Each year about 10000
tourists visit the old church
Of Kemi village, built in
1919, where the mummified
body Of Nicolaus Rungius is
lying buried under the floor
OF the church for which he
was clergyman from 1914 to
1929. The body was never
embalmed but is quite well
preserved. The reason for
this is not known, but ira
dition is that Rungius
prophesied: III my words
are true, my body will not
decompose, but II they are
not true, my body will de-
compose
Q. Has an extinct animal
ever been rebred by mani
K. Med.
A. Yes. DR.. Heinz Heck Of
the Hellabrunn Zoo in Mu-
Mich, Germany, rebred the
aurochs (also known as urus)
the bison-like ancestor Of do
nestle cattle, and the tarpan.
a European wild horse. The
last aurochs had died In Po-
land in 1927; the last tarpan,
in the 10th century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
THE PASSING SCENE
GoIdWoter Can Force Bio Fiuht
By WILLIAM S. VIII

1nely intolerable - as dis
tinguished from merely I'M
welcome - to the Southern
and border States.
1t means, too, that should
he himself not enter the race,
his immense power at the
convention - and it will be
a power among the regular
Republicans not exceeded
even by that of the m a n
actually nominated - will
still be exercised to veto
any platform proposal he
considers to be extremist in
tone.
Veto Power
1t is not merely on civil
rights that Senator Gold
water diSagreeS with nearly
all the other Republican
Presidential possibilities now
in sight - including Cover
nors Nelson Rockefeller of
New York, William Scranton
of Pennsylvania and George
Romney of Michigan. A SIM
liar disagreement, polite but
real, exists over nearly the
whole field of social welfar-
ism. All the others almost
certainly would want to COM
nit the G. o. P. to a strong
touch of urban welfarism.
With this, Goldwater simply
will not go along.
Where the others will see
this urban welfarism as only
a proper recognition of urban
interests, Goldwater will see
1t as unjustifiable pandering
to urban voting blocs.
He looks upon the Demo-
Gratis as already fatally lost
to a method of urban power
politics which, rightly or
wrongly, he believes to be in
creasingly disruptive of ma
tional unity. He is ready to
commit all his influence
against any Republican emu
lation of that model, any
Republican "me-tooism."
Thus, the pre-conditions
are already firmly establish
ed-and, again, regardless Of
whether Senator Goldwater
himself goes for the nomi-
nation-for an immense con-
test within the COP. Almost
beyond question, he can win,
or all but win, that contest
in the convention, so far as
its platform policies will be
concerned. For it is not easy
to see how a liberal Republi-
can can be nominated with
out at least his sufferance.
And it is even less easy to see
such a liberal marching from
the convention hall on a
platform not, at the end,
essentially cleared with
Barry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
Defends PORTUGAL


Secretary Of State Dean
Rusk is reported to have
taken sharp issue with FIRE.
mier Antonio de Oliveira Sal
azar Of Portugal. The latter
criticized United States policy
with respect to Portugal and
Africa.
Dean RuSk declared, Its
well known that people of
this country UNITED States
really do attach Importance
to the simple notion that
governments derive their Just
powers from the consent of
the governed, and that what
the people Of a particular ter
ritory think about their cir
cumStance or situation is an
imortant question"
In this criticism Dean Rusk
draws Judgment that the
Portuguese overseas prov
inces Of Angola. Mozambique
and Portuguese Guinea are
territories, mere area attach
ments, not integral parts of
the nation of Portugal, the
same as Hawaii and Alaska
are integral parts of the Uni
ted States.
Mr.. RuSk'S concern about
the just powers Of govern
ments being derived from the
consent Of the governed Is a
rather selective concern. Does
Mr.. Rusk believe that the gov
ernments Of the Soviet Union
and the captive nations of
Europe, and governments
such as we find in nearly all
the newly established African
nations as Ghana, Mali, GUM
ca, and the Sudan, and in
two of the Oldest independent
nations IN Africa, Liberia
and Ethiopia, have de-
rived their just powers from
the consent of the governed
or the people within these
countries?
There is a vicious campaign
against Portugal in this coun-
try TO force it to surrender
Angola and Mozambique to
so-called nationalist elements.
II Portugal were to do this,
men like Adlai Stevenson end
Dean Rusk would undoubt-
eddy applaud this action as
responsible. They would con-
slider such action as sound
and sanguinary submission to
the inevitable nationalist
yearnings for self determine
ton in Africa. Nothing could
be further from the truth for
the so-called nationalist ele-
ments involved do not repre-
sent the people OF these
areas. They are as a whole
outsiders, admitted terrorists
and racists. people who ad-
vocate the expulsion OF all
white or European influence
from Africa, except the Rus
sian kind tthe white Russian
is not considered white in the
present racist hinge in AZ
rica).
Martin T. CamachO
Chairman, Portuguese
American Committee on
Boston, Mass.
Foreign Affairs,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Winning Battle With Demon Rum
BY DONALD MINTZ

intrude upon even the
non-Specialst's mind. If
alcoholism is as simple in
principle as all that, why
does Mr.. Willis almost totally
ignore the periodic spree
If the dietary therapy is so
effective during and after
withdrawal, why is it not
used to reduce the need for
alcohol on the part Of those
who have not sworn off? AS
a matter Of fact, the hero
has a neighbor, also an alco-
holic, who is made to appear
as a man good-natured and
complaiSant enough to try
some Of the dietary devices
just to be a good fellow. Yet
Mr.. Willis insists that this
cannot be done, that the man
must hit bottom" before any
approach can be made.
There is another apparent
inconsistency. Mr.. Willis has
a physiological explanation
for the well-known inability
of the ex-alcoholic ever to
take a social drink. To a lay
man 1t seems to make sense.
But it does not begin to ex-
plain why some craving
should remain many years
after the alcoholic first be-
came completely dry. There
are, it Is true, some mutter-
ings about guilt feelings and
habit, but they hardly seem
adequate.
Under the circumstances,
Mr.. Willis glimpses into the
mind of the ex-alcoholic must
be authentic; yet they do not
explain the continued desire.
They are, nevertheless, fasci-
mating and enlightening.
Though as a novel The
Bottle Fighters" is unjusti-
fable, it is a compelling book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
THE BOTTLE 7

AuL DO1 LIE FlOHIEhS
by George w. Willis. $40
PIP. Random House, $4.95.,
Let's not put too fine a
point on it. AS a novel,
George w. Willis 1.-The Bot
tie Fighters" is bad by any
standards, even those of
readers who half-read and
half-sleep on a hot, late
summer day.
1t is essentially a non
novel, a tract with a faint
and poorly applied fiction
al finish, for which there is
not the slightest aesthetic
justification.
Yet there is probably q
good commercial reason for
the form Of the book. There
is an even better moral rea-
son: Mr.. Willis is an alco-
holic who developed his own,
partly new and unorthodox
cure, and he is eager to
bring the word to as many
as possible.
The publisher calls the
book 1.-The new and compel
ling story Of a mans fight
to control the deadly dis
ease Of alcoholism-by one
who has lived his story and
here relates his valuable dis
coveries to whom it may
concern" For once the jack
ct is right.
Mr.. Willis, we are told,
had turned out to be one
Of the twenty-five per cent
A. A. has found itself unable
to help, up to now. 1t took
him eleven years to find out
why they couldn't, and they
weren't the best years a man
could ask for"
Medical Control
Mr.. Willis starts with
medical studies of the
nutritional deficiencies of
advanced alcoholics: he even
gives the references. The
idea briefly is to cure
alcoholic pellagra and beri-
bert, which according to Mr.
Willis are the causes Of the
agonies Of withdrawal. The
methods appear to be mostly
standard in enlightened cir
cles, but Mr.. Willis has
added a technique Of his own
regarding control Of blood
sugar level which he claims
works.
He propounds the notion
that alcoholism not only
ends with but actually be-
gins with nutritional def
cheney. The alcoholic. he
says, has abnormal require
ments which not even the
best diet can furnish.
Alcoholism is therefore not
In the first instance a psy-
Geological or psychiatri c
problem. But 1t causes such
problems. most Of them con-
cerned with feelings OF guilt.
Mr.. Willis has worked out
a bit Of self-therapy for
these feelings. From the
outside 1t looks rather silly
Indeed the hero Of the book
objects rather strenuously al
first, and for good cause
Again, IT is said TO work. II
1t does. who can take any
account Of the appearance OF
harmless foolishiness?
The specialists Of all sorts
will no doubt have a good
deal to say about this, assum-
ing that they do not ignore
the book because it is cast as
q novel.
Periodic Sprees
A number OF questions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

Somehow, it seems unbe-
coming for the Kennedy ad-
ministration to complain
about South Wet Nam Presi-
dent Diem's appointment of
his brother as head Of his
country's secret police.
Perhaps a compromise
could be worked out, whereby
President Kennedy would fire
Bobby If President Diem fired
Mr.. Nhu. In that way tile
citizens of both countries
would benefit.
Macon Fry,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09

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

I was outraged by the story
In the Aug. 81 Star describ-
ing the brutal treatment Of
Joyce Barrett by police in
an Albany. Georgia, Jail.
This sort of thing happened
in Nazi concentration camps
How can 1t happen in Amer
lea? The fact that it did
would seem to be page-one
news. And yet the story was
put on the Women's page
under society Amuse. !"
Why?
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By THE HASKIN SERVICE

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

Macon Fry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-09
Brother Acts

Lloyd w. Burnhan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-25
Obstacles to Getting Measure Enacted
Are Cited After Criticism by Dr.. King

themselves are not united
and one set Of politicians
here is not sure which bill
will get them the most Negro
votes at the polls, while an
other set of Congressman sees
ways Of modifying votes Of
resentment. For a good deal
Of opposition has been Great
ed among businesses to be
affected by the proposed law.
There are fundamental
differences between what Is
being called a strong" bill
and a weak" bill. Thus, the
President would be content
with q bill which provided
safeguards for the right to
vote, the speed-up Of public
school desegregation, and the
banning of discrimination in
public accommodations and
in programs which the Fed
eral Government itself oper-
ates.
Extremists, on the other
hand, take the position that
the bill on public accommo-
dations should be aimed not
merely at hotels and motels,
restaurants, lunch counters,
retail stores, gasoline stations
and places Of entertainment,
but also at any business OPP
Grating under State or city
authorization, permission or
license"
1t was this sweeping provi-
sion which members Of the
House Committee Of the
Judiciary we're ready to
champion. 1t caused dismay
in the ranks Of the admin
istration because Of a fear
that such q clause would
arouse Nationwide opposi-
ton since it could be applied
to private schools, social
clubs, law firms, insurance
companies and apartment
houses.
The so-called strong bill
also included an authorize
ton for the Attorney General
to intervene by means Of an
injunction suit wherever
there was any claim of denial
Of rights, privileges or immu-
mites secured by the Consti-
tuition or laws Of the United
States. 1t has been felt by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-25
Panel to Discuss
Tactics on Rights

The effectiveness Of direct
action techniques in obtaining
civil rights will be discussed by
a four-man panel at 8 pm.
Tuesday in the Cedar Lane
Unitarian Church, 9601 Cedar
lane, Bethesda.
The meeting, sponsored by
the Unitarian Universalist Fell
lowships for Social Justice, will
be open to the public.
The fellowship group is spon-
sored by the Cedar Lane, River
Road, Rockville and Silver
Spring Unitarian Universaist
Churches.
Panel participants will in
clude: Marcellus Golf, chair
man of direct action for Wash
ington CORE; Walter Lewis,
deputy director of the Wash
ington Urban League; Frederick
Routh, executive director of
the National Association of
Intergroup Relations Officials,
and the Rev. Kenneth B. Went
eel, former chairman Of the
Montgomery County Commits
sion on Human Relations.