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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02

1t has been said of Cleopatra that
"age cannot wither her nor custom stale
her infinite variety" We have a rather
firm conviction that no one will ever
write such a flattering line about us.
This unhappy prescience stems from
small item in the news announcing
that Ricky Nelson is engaged to be
married. Ricky was the attractive and
eternal juvenile Of the "Ozzie and
Harriet" TV show. That he should be
turning up now in an AP story as Mr..
Nelson, o." seems slightly incredible.
1t is a bit of a shock. But still this
is the kind Of thing that one over the
years had thought he had disciplined
himself to live with.
The real traumatic blow came when
the news story went on to report that
Ricky is engaged to Kristin Harmon, 49,
year-old daughter of Tom Harmon and
Actress Elyse Knox.
Without the slightest thought or
purpose Of being boorish, we can say that
we do not recall Actress Elyse Knox. But
we do remember Tom Harmon in the
days when he was engaged in All-Amer-
lean football heroics at the University
Of Michigan. Candor, however, compels
the confession that even then we were
bit old and slightly on the tired and
withered side. Cleopatra has nothing to
fear from this department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
Our Changing History

If one takes little breather for the
holidays, look what happens: (1) Those
restless Russians now have decided that
Columbus, good guy or bad, did no better
than place or show in the American Cup
Derby and (2) certain sources now con-
cede that Virginia, not Massachusetts,
roasted the first Thanksgiving turkeys.
Thus, in the quick dipping OF was
sail bowl, some of our most sacred beliefs
have been shattered or at least twisted,
out OF their textbook contexts.
II, as a Russian historian, one Sam
uel Varshavsky, insists, an Englishman
named Nicholas Lynn ran up Hudson
Bay in 1850, what becomes Of the we'll
remembered lyric, "In 1892, Columbus
sailed the ocean blue"
Now, II you will, try to set Mr.. Lynn's
alleged 1860 adventure to poeSy. Got
anything to 90 with SOP II just won't
work-so the Soviets are debunked again.
AS to the question OF Plymouth or
the Berkely Plantation for the first
Thanksgiving-well, that's an intramu-
raj squabble Please, Mr. Khrushchev,
Wen settle II ourselves The White
House, through Arthur Schlesinger, IT,,
now has notified former Virginia State
Senator John J. Wicker that the Old
Dominion nosed out the Pilgrims by a
couple OF years. Was this another leak,
Mr.. Kennedy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
Coupling the Carriers

The hard-presSed railroad industry,
particularly that part operating in the
Eastern portion of the United States,
has received year-end award of great
potential value not only to the carriers
but to the national interest. It was con-
tanned in the decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to authorize the
profit-making Chesapeake g. Ohio Rail-
way to acquire control of the Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad, giant system that
has been described by an ICC examiner
as financially and physically in very
bad shape"
In It's first step, the acquisition will
be accomplished through an exchange of
stock but it is the acknowledged intent
that full merger is to be proposed later.
Under the approved control plan, the
roads will continue to operate as sep
arate carriers but with the C8O in
position to make capital available for
needed Improvements in its partners
equipment and facilities. Actually, the
twolineS are more complementary than
competitive over routes that criSs-croSS
the heavily induStrialized area bounded
roughly by New York, Baltimore-Wash-
ington, st. Louis and Chicago. In his
original recommendation favoring the
stock exchange, ICC Examiner John L.
Bradford emphasized that under affil-
lated management the two roads should
retain all present routes and channels
Of trade, as well as providing adequate
protection for employees of both carriers.
For the longer terms, the ICC deci-
sion encourages a project that many
Eastern railroaderS feel is essential to
the future Of the industry in this region.
This is, in brief, the emergence of three
major systems, Of which the merged
C6SO-BSSO would be one. Nucleus of the
other two would be a combined Pennsyl-
vania and New York Central in one case,
and the Norfolk & Western and Nickel
Plate in the other. Applications for both
Of the latter combinations already are
before the ICC, but the commission
declined on the basis of need for ex-
pedited action" to hold up the C&O-B&O
case for action on all three proposals at
once. While the present ruling cannot
be taken as assurance of similar COM
mission favor on the others, 1t offers
reason to view the chances with opti-
miSm.
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Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE
A reader By mail 10 any ous,t., =, -. =
writing The star Information laet BY
D. G. Please Eef.addresS

Q, Recently. / read that
the last conflict OF the Rev.
olutionary War occurred the
day the British evacuated
New York Please explain.
z. A.
A. You probably refer to
the last conflict" OF the
Revolution which is described
In "Harper's Encyclopedia OF
United States History" This
battle" occurred between
Mrs, Day, the owner Of a
boarding house, and Cum
ningham, the British prov
vost-marshal, on November
IS, 1888, the day Of the Brit
ish evacuation Of New York
The British had the right
Of occupation until noon, and
because Mrs. Day flew the
American flag from her
house early IN the morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
THE PASSING SCENE
New Labor Legislation Needed
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

Coasts, and, second the
whole national economic In
terest. Such a strike is now
going on in New York CITY.
It has nine newspapers COW
ering a metropolitan area
where IS million Americans
are being shut off from the
world by a printers union
whose demands upon tne
publishers are demonstraDly
unreasonable by any stand
ard acceptable to reasonable
men.
And such a strike for weeks
has also closed the only two
newspapers in Cleveland
This one involves the odorous
Transfers Union and the
American Newspaper Guild
More Than Press Hurt
This columnist all his adult
life has been a member OF
what is called "the working
press" meaning the nom
owning, non-management
mart of the press. He owns
no newspaper stock. He
claims no detailed knowl-
edge of the issues in Cleve-
land, as distinguished from
those in New York.
He knows for a fact, as a
working newspaperman, how
ever, that to black out a
whole vast community is to
go far beyond a legitimate
economic struggle into some
thing which is destructive OF
more than the press itself. 1t
is to hit also at the very life
spirit of the people. There is
a darkness here that is more
than economic; there is a
paralysis here that is more
than a paralysis Of the
marketplace a paralysis Of
the mind, of the common
culture.
AS to the dock strike, the
deepest economic interests
and the highest foreign policy
designs of a whole Nation are
put to peril. After months Of
anxious debate this country
has at last been prepared leg
islatively to enter upon the
brave new world of expanded
trade which is being opened
by the European Common
Market. Unless the maritime
unions are brought under
some rational form Of check,
they can smash this brave
new world so far as we are
concerned.
And with this they can all
but destroy the very under
pinnings of the foreign policy
Of the United States of
America.
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
Three-R Man

Come January 7, things will be
different In the Golden State. Cali
fornia, Of course, with no concession
from New York, will still be claiming
more people than any other State.
But OF greater significance will be the
change Of command in the public school
system. DR.. Max Rafferty,, winner by
some 100000 votes in a hard-fought
election last year, will become superin-
tendent OF CALIFORNIA; public schools.
And he promises that there will be
much more emphasis on the Three RS
and much less on such things as basket
weaving and REIMBURSEMENT courses.
In short, progressive education, which
has had its day In California is about
TO yield TO an educational philosophy
which will put more stress on hard
work and on the fundamentals
DR., Rafferty, an experienced edu-
Gator and administrator, is not planning
10 go back TO the days of the Little
Red schoolhouse But he does strongly
advocate such things as use Of the
phonics system In teaching reading,
instruction in American history from
the first grade, encouraging school
age youngsters TO read the childrens
classics, abandonment OF group psyche
logical tests, abandonment OF such
meaningless terms as Language arts
and a return to the teaching OF specific
subjects-geography, history. the multi
plication tables, and one may hope a
little tough instruction In spelling and
simple grammatical construction.
In all fairness, California has made
q start In this direction. Nor does Dr.
Rafferty, expect to achieve miracles
overnight. AS he has put II, however,
the election indicated that 1.-The voters
had a gnawing feeling that some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
The Grand Vision

Since his return to power on his own
terms in 1858, Frances President de
Gaulle has demonstrated a remarkable
capacity to achieve bold and imaginative
detectives. In the year just ended, he
has recorded two more outstanding sue
cesSeS--both Of. which he had set up
publicly as goals and which he pursued
despite the most violent opposition, in
Guiding attempts on his life One was
the ending Of the long and costly AL
gerian war, the other an Endorsement by
the French electorate of his plans for
amending the constitution in a way to
strengthen the executive and provide for
presidential elections by popular vote.
In hfs own country, the soldier
president has no political rival deserving
mention today, and-with the end of
Chancellor Adenauer's long rule in West
Germany apparently approaching-it is
even more clear that the French leader
is the dominant figure in continental
Western Europe. Against this back
ground of power and of ability to &C
complish what he sets up as a target,
President de Gaulle'S year-end "fireSide
chat" takes on particular significance.
1t Is noteworthy that his top-priority
objective now is to press on toward
European union-a union in which Brit
ain Is welcome ION certain terms) and
with which even the countries of East
ern Europe may some day cooperate.
This objective, General de Gaulle
explained, concerns the economic, flor
eignl policy, defense and cultural union
OF Western Europe-thus establishing a
balance with the United States and in
this way reinforcing the alliance of the
free world. TT concerns] a union ready
In the future to welcome an England
which can and might wish to join it
definitely and without reservations
union looking forward to organizing the
peace and life of our entire continent
with the countries of Eastern Europe
II ever some day they come around to a
great relaxation OF tension"
Even in his own high self-confi-
dence, the French President is not say
ing that all this will be done in 1868.
The task Of finding agreement on Brit
iSh entry to the Common Market, the
foundation-ston for West European
unity, is complex and difficult, and not
yet assured Of success. Even within the
continental bloc itself, there are diff
ferences on the details Of political union
to follow the currently successful eco
nomic association. And as for meaning
full cooperation with or from Eastern
Europe, there are no promising signs.
With all this, as a new year begins, the
tall man OF France still has set up goals
that not only are desirable but that one
day may be achieved, and in the better
interests Of Europe and of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Political Humor of an Earlier Day
By DONALD MINTZ
THE ASSAULT OF LAUGH

THE ASSAULT OF LAUGH
TER: A Treasury of Ameri-
can Political HumOr. Edited
and with an introduction
by Arthur P. Dudden, 522
PIP. Thomas Yoseloff;
$7.50)
The trouble with THE As
sault of Laughter" is simple
enough. Even when taken in
small doses. it just isn't as
funny as you might expect.
And to be blunt, there are
long stretches that aren't
funny at all.
Most Of it was funny in its
time. But journalistic politi-
cal humor-and that is the
kind that occupies most of
the book-necessarily reflects
not its decade but its day.
Arthur P. Dudden, associate
professor in the history de-
partment Of Bryn Mawr Col
lege, has been most frugal
about annexation. The result
is that the modern reader
misses far too many minor
points and not a few that
were major.
Then there is the problem
Of dialect. Here is David Ross
Locke, better known in his
time (1833-188S) as Petro-
leum v. Nasty:
I'VE (Dimocrats) are elias
tic. like Injy rubber. The boy
who set a hen on a hundred
eggs acknowledged to his ma
ternal parent that she could
not kiver them; but he re-
marked he wanted to see the
old thing spread herself. We
have that spreadin capacity.
We kin accommodate the
prejudices Nv the people Nv
all the various localities. In
Connecticut we are singin'
John Browns body lies a
mouldrin in the grave, in a
modritly loud tone, and sup
porting a Ablishnist who
voted for dom away with
slavery in the District of
Columby and for the Con-
stitooshnel Amendment. In
Kentucky we are hangin
men Nv the John Brown style,
and mobbin all Nv the per-
suasion Nv the Connecticut
nominee. SIGH a variety NV
principle-a party NV SIGH
adaptibility-kin hev but one
great central idee. on wich
there is no diversity NV opln-
ion, and 10 which all other
ideas is subordinate. That
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
Medical MONOPOLY

1t is perhaps regrettable
that we live under a medical
monopoly. The profession has
become a sacred COW, its
sapience final, its opinions
direct from Olympus. Even
courts Of law accept its tes-
timony as the last word. Disa-
greement with its findings is
little short Of blaSphemy. Yet,
seeping through pronounce
ments Of its Spokesman are
statements so factually mis-
leading that they should be
challenged in the interest OF
public well being.
Writing in THIS WEEK
December % issue) about
household use of vinegar and
honey as aids to digestion,
DR.. George M. Fister. presi-
dent OF the American Medi-
cal Association. says, :" &.
honey is only sugar"
Honey is more than a sugar.
II is a special kind OF sugar.
levulose and dextrose. 1t is at
least partly predigested be-
fore the worker bee places It
In the comb. When eaten, II
enters the blood as an ener-
gy-producer with a minimum
OF digestion needed. II is the
nearest 10 a perfect food man
has found, II will not fer
ment, II does not spoil" No
disease or putrefactiye Or
Ranisms can survive in hon
ey. IL is the only food rec
commended In the Bible
Proverbs 24:l3. Or. Ban
ting, co-discoyerer OF the in
sulin treatment for diabetes,
said that II mankind would
substitute honey for beet and
cane sugars. diabetes would
disappear from the earth in
a single generation.
Why does the medical pro-
fession spend hundreds OF
millions Of dollars annually
TO find cures for cancer.
arthHtis, eoronary Ills and
other killer-diseases instead
Of investing at least a little
time and money To discover
preyentiyes7
Dan r. Van Gorder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02

the British provost-marshal
ordered her to remove n
When Mrs Day refused 10
obey the order, Cunningham
himself tried to pull the flag
down. Consequently, Mrs.
Day beat him with a broom
so that he fled powder fly
ing from his wig.
O Who invented calculus7
p. 3.
A This ingenious method
Of solving mathematical
problems was invented IN the
late nth century by two men
working Independently Of
each other The English SCI
enlist and mathematician, Sir
Isaac Newton tl642-i720,
and the German philosopher
and mathematician. Gott-
fried Leibnitz i646-17i6l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used DiH be
returned only when accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02

idea is POST OFFICE! and
eff Androo johnson could be
got rite on that question, we'd
care not wat else he required
. Nv u.s."
At least Locke seemed I'M
able to manufacture wild
spellings for complicated
words. But Finley Peter
Dunne's Mr.. Dooley had the
problem firmly in hand. His
material might be funny in
the hands of a master dialee-
tician. but on the printed
page it contains nearly as
many puzzles as jokes.
OF course, Prof. Dudden
has made happier choices in
other areas of political writ
ing. There is plenty Of Will
Rogers and there might we'll
have been more. Some of his
two : liners remain vivid.
August l, 1882. This is not
an election of partys or poll
cies this fall. It's an election
where both sides really need
the work"
Prof. Dudden admits to
feeling uncomfortable in the
company of some of the in
tellectual political humorists,
and with reason. II Is hard
to tell just where in the writ
ing OF H. L. Mencken. Mark
Twain and Westbrook Pegler
humor takes its leave and
illumination takes over
Very little space is devoted
to modern humor, which Prof.
Dudden dates from 1888 to
the present. All of it was
originally printed rather than
spoken so that everything
that belongs to the develop
ing American version of the
European political cabaret Is
excluded.
James Reston, Marya
Names (SEC) and Art Buch-
valid are the stars Of the Sec
ton. But Buchwald's brilliant
parody Of a Hagerty press
conference seems sharply cut.
Reston had to be represented
by a Uniquack column Of
course, but surely Prof. Dud-
den could have found one
better than "Uniquack Blows
Transistor in Wisconsin"
On the whole, THE Assault
OF Laughter" is something OF
a disappointment. II gives
every indication OF having
been assembled with the idea
that II ought TO be more
comical than historical. But
the sad fact is that the oppo-
site Is the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-01-02

However unpleasant the
subject may be in this gray
morning latter period of the
new year. the harsh and I'M
ieniable fact is that this
Government must face UP
now to the necessity of curb
ing the power of irresponsible
labor.
Few politicians, even among
the conservatives, really rel
ish the notion of reopening
the sweaty, immensely diff
cult and ill-rewarding field Of
labor legislation. There are
many reasons not to do So
the main one perhaps being
the violent and unreasoning
response which will inevitably
come from the great voting
blocs within organized labor.
But there is a single, COM
pelling reason to do so. This
is, simply, nothing less than
the preservation of basic ma
tional interest. 1t is the
greatest domestic issue before
this country.
Though it made some i'm
pro cement in 1860, Congress
has not enacted any general
labor legislation since the
Taft-Hartley Act of 1948.
This act went far toward re-
storing a fair balance be-
tween management and la
bcr. Labor for a decade under
the Wagner Act had passed
from its old position of I'M
due lack of power relative to
management to a position of
undue power, not only over
management, but also over
the interests of the general
public.
Response to Excuses
Taft-Hartley was a reason
able response to years of la
Dor union excuses, as the
Wagner Act earlier had be-
come an extreme response to
generations of management
excuses. But Taft Hartley is,
demonstrably, no longer ade-
quate. There must be a new
and fully effective weapon
against what might be called
the intolerable, the public
be-damned, strike.
The intolerable strike is
defined here as one in which
the fundamental rights and
necessities Of the people
themselves are denied by la
Dor Stoppages which menace
not merely some corporation
or other, but the general well
fare itself.
Such an intolerable strike
by the longshoremen is
now going on to paralyze,
first, the East and Gulf
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a cut Of this magnitude
would have to include kind
ergartens, increased class
sizes and some of the other
areas mentioned by DR..
Whittier. Since these new
members failed to study the
budget prior to their re-
quested cuts, one can only
conclude that the unfavor-
able publicity was their own
doing. Perhaps the publicity
could have been avoided had
the new members held pub
lie meetings on this list.
Inasmuch as the new
members directed DR.. Whittier
to prepare the list, they are
now in a position of criti-
cizing this list as a public
relations document. The
Montgomery County voters
now have the right to de-
mand that these new mem
bers make their position
known. They should prepare
a list of their own to coun-
ter DR.. Whittier's.
Augustine L. Copeland.
The Montgomery school
board labelling Of DR.. Whit
tiers list as a public rela-
tons document" designed to
"irritate the public" is ir-
responsible, bonehead nom
sense. Having studied the
budgets of previous years and
with the awareness of in
creased enrollments, larger
staff, etc. I consider this
years budget request to be
modest in the extreme. At
best it can be considered to
barely preserve the status
quo. OF course whacking off
SIS million must affect SAL
aries, but the elimination of
the kindergarten, increase in
class size, or any reduction
in the salary schedule would
represent an untenable step
backward. Yes, I am part OF
the irritated public. but not
as a result Of DR.. Whittier's
list. If the new school board
members feel their mandate
so keenly, let them be spe-
cific in their statements
about where TO cut the bud
get. Albert Verbits.
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